9.30am- 11.00 Session I: Teaching Local History: Inservice for practitioners* 
An tOllamh RV Comerford, Head of Department, NUIM: Fáilte; overview of Local History staff / student handbooks  

Dr Jacinta Prunty NUIM: Workshop on teaching the NUI Certificate in Local History: ideas and reflections 

Mícheál Ó Dubhshláine: An Ghaeilge agus an stair áitiúil: lessons from Dingle. Beidh an seisiún seo dhá theangach.   
*The first part of the programme (9-11am) is designed for Local history / local studies lecturers and administrators on the NUI Certificate in Local History and modular BA (Local and Community Studies) courses offered by the Department of Modern History in conjunction with the Department of Adult and Community Education, NUIM, both on-campus (Maynooth and Kilkenny) and off-campus (throughout the country). However, all are most welcome to attend the full day.  
11.00-11.30am Coffee & main registration session  
Session II The village in Ireland   
11.30 am: Dr. Raymond Gillespie NUIM, Introduction to the village in local history research 

11.45 am; Liam Clare, The Kill and the Grange of medieval Clonkeen, county Dublin 

12.15 pm: Maeve Mulryan Moloney, Kilnalag to Williamstown, 1820-60: the village that moved 
 
12.45-2pm:  Lunch, Pugin Hall 
2.00 pm: Mealla C Gibbons, Ballycastle: a village on the north Mayo coast 
2.30 pm: Brian Ó Dálaigh, The village of Sixmilebridge, county Clare 
3.00 pm: Karina Holton, Carbury, County Kildare: a Protestant village? 
3.30 pm: Conclusion and reflection 
  
CONFERENCE ORGANISERS: J. PRUNTY & DENIS CRONIN .  BEIDH FÁILTE ROIMH GACH UILE DHUINE. 

Booking: Cost £12 (to include lunch); all welcome but advance booking essential, by Wednesday 5 September 2001. Please pay on the day; there is no need to send money in advance.  To book your place please Email: localhistory@may.ie 
or contact Dr. Jacinta Prunty, Department of Modern History, NUI Maynooth, Co. Kildare 
telephone (with answerphone): (01) 708 3485 Fax: (01) 708 3314.   

The proceedings of this conference will be part of an essay collection on the Irish village, under the aegis of the Maynooth Local History Group. 
  

16-17 November 2001, The Border Counties History Collective, Blacklion, Co. Monaghan, in conjunction with the Federation for Ulster Local Studies and Queen's University Belfast will host a major cross-border / all Ireland local history conference, in the Hillgrove Hotel, Monaghan. Staff from NUI Maynooth will be among the speakers at the weekend. The published report of the research project funded by the Centre for Cross Border Studies, and undertaken by NUI Maynooth titled The Local History project: co-operating North and South will be launched at this conference. Final arrangements are being put in place, and further details will be posted on this web page and circulated to on and off-campus NUIM local history course centres as soon as they become available. All will be welcome to attend. 

Would your group like to advertise its forthcoming local history event here? If so, please send the details to <localhistory@may.ie> 
Graphic: St Patrick's College and Maynooth Castle, c. 1800, courtesy of Irish Historic Towns Atlas, Royal Irish Academy.