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After the official opening by La Touche Legacy chairman
First up at the podium was author Rosemary Cullen Owens, talking on Irish Votes For Women, whilst the National Museum of Ireland’s Noel Campbell presented The
Sing is you’re swingin’…
t was a packed house, as usual, for the last Festival 
Of History, the first of the two-day event getting off to a flying start at the Greystones Golf Club.
After the official opening by La Touche Legacy chairman 
George Jones, students from St Kevin’s National School got proceedings off to a colourful and musical start with a special performance.
First up at the podium was author Rosemary Cullen Owens, talking on Irish Votes For Women, whilst the National Museum of Ireland’s Noel Campbell presented The 
Enemy Within: The Spanish Flu in County Wicklow 1918-19.
The evening was completed by Dr Martin O’Donoghue from NUI Galway, and his talk, The Legacy Of The Irish Parliamentary Party In The Irish Free State.
Tomorrow’s line-up is just as full, and you can check it out here.
Big thanks to John McGowan for capturing today’s historical love-in.
