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The long-standing annual Éigse Sliabh Rua November conference on local history is due to open this coming Friday November 11 at 8pm in the Rhu Glen Hotel Slieverue.

Lady Morgan refers to Richard Kirwan (1733-1812) in several of her books, but her fullest portrait is found in The Book of the Boudoir (1829). She became acquainted with him during the last years of his life. She had by then published her most famous novel, The Wild Irish Girl (1806), and was the toast of Dublin and London literary society.

She was a vivacious, witty young woman, intelligent, interested in everything, passionate about her country, and determined to make her own way in a man’s world. He was an elderly, brilliant, and very eccentric scientist. Yet these two became friends, and she has left us a vivid and very funny account of their late-blooming friendship.

On March 2 in Castlebar Library at 8pm there will be a talk by Richard Kirwan entitled If Maps Could Speak, which is an engaging combination of memoir, history, and stories about people and places

This unique property is known as the Teacher’s House and was built by the then landlord Richard Kirwan in 1867 and, as the name suggests, was built for the teachers of the local school. The property is a cut stone residence with an additional extended area.