Past Events

2022 Annual Lecture

8 May 2022 Professor Kate Retford, Birkbeck College, London delivered a lecture on ‘Kinship and Connections: Portraiture and the Family in the Eighteenth Century’ in the Hunting Room to mark the recent acquisition of some of the Leinster portraits at Castletown House

Castletown 300

18 June 2023 Castletown 300: A Day of Lectures and Music to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the building of Castletown. Speakers included Dr John Goodall (Country Life), Dr Patrick Walsh (Castletown Foundation and TCD History), Cora McDonagh (Maynooth University) and Deirdre Cullen (UCD)

18 June 2023 Launch of Ruth Thorpe (ed.) Portrait of a Family: The Conollys of Castletown (Wordwell, 2023) by Dr Anthony Malcomson