Year | Date | Title | Presenter |
2017 |
16 January
20 February 20 March 10 April 18 Sept 16 October 11 December |
History of the Down Recorder
Meeting House and Chapel Shipwrecks of County Down Wellington's Dearest Georgy (later Baroness de Ros) Irish Tower Houses Strangford's Southern Shore Down Through the Years |
Marcus Crighton
Dr Finbar McCormick Ian Wilson Alice Crossland Professor Terry Barry Janes Elliott Berkley Farr |
2016 |
18 January
15 February 14 March 18 April 19 Sept 17 October 12 December |
Richard Hayward: Romancing Ireland
Travels of an Ulsterman St Patrick around the World The Whimsical lady Anne(1718-1789) Pilson's Notable Inhabitants of Downparick The Legacy of 1916 Folk and Fairy Tales of County Down |
Paul Clements
Alan Johnston Dr Tim Campbell Nicholas Ward Colm Rooney Dr Feargal McGarry Steve Lally |
2015 |
19 January
16 February 16 March 20 April 21 Sept 19 October 8 December |
Francis Hutcheson
The Anglo-Irish Negotiations of 1921 St Patrick's Cross: Rediscovery and Reconstruction Transport and Industy in County Down In Search of El Dorado Heros, Shapeshifters and the Other World: Aspets of Irish Myths & Folk tradition Down from Every Angle |
Philip Orr
Patrick Cross Mike King Dr Mark Kennedy Dr Greer Ramsey Róise Ni Bhaoill Mike Hartwell |
2014 |
20 January
17 February 10 March 21 April 15 Sept 20 October 8 December |
Wedding Dresses in the Museum Collection
A Forgotten Soldier A Decade of Centeraries 1912 - 1922 Down in the Archices From Powdered Dandy to Old Bear Audleystown: Researching a Townland History Down From Every Angle |
Madeline McAllister
Jim Fitzsimons Dr Eamonn Phoenix Walter Love MBE Peter Carr Dr Brian Turner Mike Hartwell |
2013 |
21 January
18 February 11 March 15 April 16 Sept 21 October 9 December |
Looking after precious objects
The decade that defined a century Subduing the light - Irish stained glass The Second Survey of Northern Ireland The Annesleys and the development of Newcastle, Castlewellan and Mount Panther Elections in County Down 1800 - 1921 Christmas Past |
Madeline McAllister
John Killen Colin Hatrick Alastair Coey Terence Reeves-Smyth Prof. Brian Walker Madeline McAllister |
2012 |
16 January
20 February 12 March 16 April 17 Sept 15 October 10 December |
Knowing our Place
Parks Gardens and Demensed of Lecale St Patrick's Staff of Jesus Downpatrick'd Sisters of Mercy Strangford, Portrait of a Village Four thousand lives lost - the Enquiries of Lord Mersey A life in Songs and Stories |
Dr Brian Turner
Terence Reeves-Smyth Sarah Erskine Sr. Marie Duddy Colm Rooney Dr Alaister Walker The Percy French Society |
2011 |
17 January
21 February 14 March 18 April 19 Sept 17 October |
125 years of the GAA
Local herring fishing in the 19th and 20th centuries The Treasures of Post-Patrician Ireland The DeRos Family St Patrick's Town Keep the Home Fires Burning |
Marice Hayes
Vivan Pollock Dr Michael F. Ryan Colm Rooney Anthony Wilson Philip Orr |
2010 |
18 January
15 February 15 March 19 April 20 Sept 18 October 13 December |
The Importance of being Wilde
Archibald Hamilton Rowand and Killyleagh Castle Lecale Sites associated with St Patrick The Neilsons Sir Hans Sloan 1660-1735 The Ancient Gold of County Down Advance of Gold |
Maurice Cassidy
Philip Orr Dr Finbar McCormick Dr Roger Blaney Dr Stanley Hawkins Richard Warner Peter Cavan |
2009 |
19 January
16 February 16 March 20 April 21 September 19 October 14 December |
Roads of County Down
The Belfast and Co. Down Railway Down Cathedral The Coastal Archaeology of Strangford Lough Migration in Lecale History 1607-2007 Stone Circles and Monuments More Images of Downe |
Berkley Farr
Michael Collins Fred Rankin Sinead McCartan Dr Brian Lambkin Malachy Conway Leslie Simpson |
2008 |
21 January
18 February 10 March 21 April 15 September 20 October 15 December |
Painting Lecale
Valuing the Past - Protecting our Historic Monuments Aodh MacAingil 1576-1626 - Scholar, Poet Bishop Monasteries of the North A Century of Photographs FJ Biggar - Ireland's Cultural Crusader Sights Gone and Going in Co. Down |
Richard Croft
Rhonda Robinson Christopher Napier Tony Fleck Leslie Simpson Roger Dixon Alan Johnston |
2007 |
15 January
19 February 12 March 16 April 17 September 15 October 17 December |
Artists in County Down
Presbyterians and the Irish language St. Patrick in the context of a 5th century Bishop Richard Rowley, Poet of Mourne Strangford - A Historic Village The Flight of the Earls Amanda McKittrick Ross Revisited |
Brian Kennedy
Dr Roger Blaney Mons. Raymond Murray Victor Price Eamon McMullan Eamon O' Huallachan Mrs Maxwell and Peter Cavan |
2006 | 16 January
20 February 13 March 24 April 18 September 16 October 12 December |
Artists in County Down
County Down Farming Families St. Patrick and the fall of Ulster Songs of County Down Dawn of the Ulster Scots Ardglass - an illustrated history. Blue Plaques in County Down |
Sean Nolan
Jonathan Bell Richard Warner Jackie Boyce Mark Thompson George Rice Sean Nolan |
2005 | 17 January
21 February 14 March 18 April 19 September 17 October |
History and music of the uilleann pipes
Ireland's Eye: The Photographs of RJ Welch Saint Patrick and Saint Columba: comparisons and contrasts Landlord Response to the Famine in Co. Down - the Londonderry Estate Strangford - a filmmaker's view Down in Dundrum - an illustrated history. |
Robbie Hughes
Dr Brian Turner Cormac Bourke Trevor Parkhill Brian Black Brownlow McClean |
2004 | 19 January
16 February 15 March 19 April 20 September 18 October 13 December |
Bishops and Churches of Lecale
"The Placenames of Roman Britain and Ireland" Language as a key to history Churches - House of God: House of the People Rambles round Lecale Workhouses in Co. Down Killough in the 19th century Irish Christmases |
Mgr. Ambrose Macaulay
Christopher Napier Rev. Hugh Kennedy DD Colm Rooney Dr Ian Maxwell Dr. Finbar McCormick John Killen |
2003 | 20 January
17 February 6 March 15 September 20 October 15 December |
Marriage Customs
Bagenal's Castle Recent Writings on St. Patrick A Portrait of Lecale Our Townlands Down From The Air |
Dr. Maura Crozier
Noreen Cunningham Most Revd. Joseph Duffy Prof. Ronnie Buchanan Dr. Brian S. Turner Dr. Noel Mitchel |
2002 | 21 January
18 February 18 March 16 September 21 October 11 November 16 December |
Family Names in Lecale
Joseph Campbell 1879- 1944: The Mountainy Singer Images of St Patrick down the years (rescheduled to October) Vikings in the North of Ireland Images of St. Patrick down the Years Charter Schools The History of Ardglass and its Golf Club |
Brian Turner
Sean Nolan Prof. Peter Harbison Dr. Cormac Bourke Prof. Petr Harbison Dr. Kenneth Milne George Rice |
2001 | 15 January
19 February 12 March 15 October 19 November 10 December |
The Ulster-Scots and Irish languages
Down County Sources in PRONI St Patricks Festival Lecture: Architecture of Downpatrick Early Christian Symbolism and Irish Art Killough: The Early years Roads of County Down |
Brian MacLochlin
Dr Ann McVeigh Dick Oram Mike King Finbar McCormick Barkley Farr |
2000 | 17 January
21 February 20 March 16 October 20 November 11 December |
William Crolly, Bishop of Down and Connor,Archbishop of Armagh
The Down Line (BCDR) St. Malachi An alternative Cromwell Homage to Jack Magee: A journey in photographs through Lecale Tracing ancestors and the work of the Ulster Historical Society |
Mons. Ambrose Macaulay
B. McClean and Peter Davey Mons. Ambrose Macaulay Tom Reilly Tony Wilson Shane McAteer |
1999 | 18 October
15 November 6 December |
The Defence heritage Project focussing on Bishopscourt
The Tower Houses of Lecale Farming in ireland 1000 years ago |
Michael Coulter
Marion Meek Finbar McCormick |
1997 | 20 January
17 February 24 March 21 April 19 May |
The Intertidal archeology of the Quoile Estuary
Michael McLaverty - Ulster Author Marriage Customs in Ulster Educational Records in PRONI - the Southwell Schools Oram's Travels - Slide Show and Talk |
Tom McErlean
Dr. Sophie King Mrs Linda Ballard Miss Valerie Adams Dick Oram |
1996 | 15 January
19 February 25 March 15 April 21 October 18 November 16 December |
The de Ros family of Strangford
Farming in the past in Co. Down The Linen Hall Library and its relevance to Downpatrick Memorials for the dead in Lecale and beyond More Ulster Women Writers The Rise and Fall of Marcus Ward Ltd Downpatrick during the War |
David Maxwell
Dr Jonathan Bell John Killen Dr Finbarr McCormick Brother Albert Trainor Roger Dixon Dr. Maurice Hayes |
1995 | 16 January
20 February 20 March 16 May 16 October 20 November |
The Ulster Plantation
Underwater Archaeology Women in Irish Society Historic Gardens in N. Ireland Four Ulster Women Artists Place names in the Barony of Iveagh |
Dr Philip Robinson
Miss Claire Foley Dr Myrtle Hill Mrs Belinda Jupp Brother Albert Trainor Dr Kay Muhr |
1994 | 17 January
21 February 21 March 18 April 16 May 20 June 17 October 21 November |
The Forde Family and Estates
The Titanic and some Ulster Families Old Downpatrick Buildings County Down in the Seventeenth Century Field Trip to Ballance House, Glenavy and the Middle Church, Ballinderry Walkabout in Portaferry and District The Magennis Family Antique Silver |
Mr Patrick Forde
Mr Douglas Carson Miss Marion Meek Dr Raymond Gillespie Mr Trevor Neill Professor R.H. Buchanan Mr Harold O'Sullivan Mr Mark Donnelly |
1993 | 18 January 15 February 15 March 19 April 17 May 18 October 15 November |
The Battle of Ballynihinch The Archaeology of Co. Down from the air Garibaldi Nelson - Romantic Adventurer and Opthalmic Surgeon Rev. E. Hincks - Egyptologist and Assyriologist Some aspects of Irish Bardic poetry The Story of the Dead Sea Scrolls The Highest Call - Ulster and the American Presidency |
Trevor Neill Noel Mitchel QUB Jack Magee Dr. W.D. Baillie Canon J. Maguire Brother Albert Trainor Mr R. Hanna |
1992 | 21 September
19 October 16 November |
The evolution of Ulster towns
Down with cars The language and place names of Lecale |
Dr WH Crawford (Ulster Folk and Transport Museum)
J. Moore (Ulster Folk and Transport Museum) Brothe Albert Trainor |
1985 | 21 January
18 February |
Education in Lecale
Yesterday in Down |
George Rice
Jack Magee |
1984 | 16 April
21 May 17 September 18 November |
Architectural History
Local Birds My three churches B.C. Down Railway |
Hugh Dixon
Ian Forsythe Q.U.B. Rev. W.E. Kennedy R.J.A.Pue |
1982 | 18 January
15 February 19 April |
A Talk on birds
The History and pre history of Lough Neagh and Lower Bann Folk Lore of the Mournes |
Dinah Browne
N. Mitchel Dr Haughton Crowe |