TITLE - Visit in April – FULLY BOOKED
Leader -
Thu, 18/04/2024 from 12:30 - 13:30 in
TITLE - William J Moylan: Irish Newsman, Film-maker and Adventurer in India & Pakistan, 1920s-1950s
Leader - Isolde Moylan, Bray Heads U3A Team member
Thu, 11/04/2024 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Bray Golf Club
TITLE - Slavery and the Origins of the American Civil War
Leader - Dr Ciarán Brady, Emeritus Professor of Early Modern History, TCD
Thu, 28/03/2024 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Bray Golf Club
TITLE - Human Rights and the Rule of Law
Leader - Mary Whelan, Former Ambassador of Ireland
Thu, 14/03/2024 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Bray Golf Club
TITLE - Chester Beatty, Dublin – Guided tours, Thursday, 7th March, 11am TOURS FULLY BOOKED
Leader - ADVANCE NOTICE
Thu, 07/03/2024 from 11:00 - 12:00 in
TITLE - CEOL DÚCHASACH NA hÉIREANN - IRELAND'S MUSICAL HERITAGE: ITS ORIGINS, DEVELOPMENT AND PRACTICE TODAY
Leader - Des Geraghty
Thu, 29/02/2024 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Bray Golf Club
TITLE - Humanitarian Aid in War Zones
Leader - Ray Taylor, Humanitarian Aid Worker
Thu, 15/02/2024 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Bray Golf Club
TITLE - Andy Pollak: My father's journey from a strange land
Leader - Andy Pollak
Thu, 01/02/2024 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Bray Golf Club
TITLE - "Texts and Textiles": An Illustrated Talk and Display of Original Work
Leader - Textile Artist Ann Fleeton
Thu, 18/01/2024 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Bray Golf Club
TITLE - Lady Gregory - A Life
Leader - Bray Heads U3A Member, Eamon Darcy
Thu, 04/01/2024 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Bray Golf Club
TITLE - Christmas Cheer Celebration and Festive Lunch
Leader - Members of Good Cheer
Thu, 14/12/2023 from 11:30 - 12:30 in Bray Golf Club
TITLE - Who Put the Ball in the English Net? - The Irish Revival that Mattered
Leader - Fergus Finlay, journalist and commentator
Thu, 30/11/2023 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Bray Golf Club
TITLE - Hello Delia Murphy - the story of the singer's life and music, with her songs, recorded and live
Leader - Carmen Cullen with Accompanist, Gerry Anderson
Thu, 16/11/2023 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Bray Golf Club
TITLE - Guided tour of 14 Henrietta Street, Dublin on Thursday, 9th November at 11.30 and 12.00. Both tours FULLY BOOKED
Leader -
Thu, 09/11/2023 from 11:30 - 12:45 in
TITLE - Statues of Dublin
Leader - Neal Doherty
Thu, 02/11/2023 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Bray Golf Club
TITLE - Fifth Annual General Meeting of The Bray Heads U3A Group
Leader -
Thu, 19/10/2023 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Bray Golf Club
TITLE - Visit to Eurofound - The European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, Loughlinstown
Leader -
Thu, 12/10/2023 from 10:30 - 12:15 in
TITLE - The Search for God in Contemporary Art: What have Henri Matisse, Mark Rothko and Sean Scully got in common?
Leader - Paddy Moran - Paddy Moran is an eclectic collector of small things from textiles to works of art. His specialist area of study is religious art and is a past president of Art and Spirituality Ireland.
Thu, 05/10/2023 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Bray Golf Club
TITLE - Profiling Terrorists
Leader - Prof. Paul Gill, Professor of Security & Crime Science, University College London
Thu, 21/09/2023 from 10:30 - 12:30 in
TITLE - The Red Rose: Hazel Lavery - Her Life and Loves
Leader - Artist Áine Andrews
Thu, 07/09/2023 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Bray Golf Club
TITLE - A visit to Trinity College Dublin
Leader -
Tue, 13/06/2023 from 11:00 - 12:00 in
TITLE - SUMMER BREAK TO NEXT MEETING ON THURSDAY 7 SEPTEMBER
Leader -
Fri, 09/06/2023 from 10:30 - 12:30 in
TITLE - THE BRAY HEADS U3A SUMMER BREAK, 9 JUNE - 6 SEPTEMBER. FIRST AUTUMN MEETING ON THURSDAY 7 SEPTEMBER
Leader -
Fri, 09/06/2023 from 00:00 - 00:00 in
TITLE - Finding My Grandparents in Assam, India
Leader - Liz McManus, Writer - and much more!
Thu, 08/06/2023 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Bray Golf Club
TITLE - THE BRAY HEADS U3A SUMMER BREAK, 9 JUNE - 6 SEPTEMBER. NEXT MEETING ON THURSDAY & SEPTEMBER
Leader -
Wed, 07/06/2023 from 00:00 - 00:00 in
TITLE - Visit to Altidore Castle, Kilpedder, Co.Wicklow on Thursday, 1st June at 1pm. BOTH TOURS FULLY BOOKED
Leader -
Thu, 01/06/2023 from 13:00 - 13:45 in
TITLE - De-mystifying Artificial Intelligence
Leader - Dr Owen Conlan, Professor in Computer Science, TCD
Thu, 25/05/2023 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Bray Golf Club
TITLE - The Kennedys of Mount Kennedy
Leader - Therese Hicks
Thu, 11/05/2023 from 10:30 - 12:30 in
TITLE - Guided tour of the Freemasons’ Hall, 17 Molesworth Street, Dublin 2 on Thursday, 4th May 2023 at 12.00. FULLY BOOKED
Leader -
Thu, 04/05/2023 from 12:00 - 13:00 in
TITLE - A Passion for Craft
Leader - Mary Gallagher, patron, exhibitor and collector of Irish crafts and former owner of the Blue Egg Gallery, Wexford
Thu, 27/04/2023 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Bray Golf Club
TITLE - Guided tour of Casino Marino, Malahide Road, Dublin 3 on Thursday, 20th April at 11am.
Leader -
Thu, 20/04/2023 from 11:00 - 12:10 in
TITLE - The Sources of Modern Russian Nationalism
Leader - Professor Emerita - and Bray Heads U3A Member - Judith Devlin
Thu, 13/04/2023 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Bray Golf Club
TITLE - The Beatles
Leader - William Hennigan
Thu, 30/03/2023 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Bray Golf Club
TITLE - Enjoying Claret in Georgian Ireland
Leader - Dr Patricia McCarthy
Thu, 16/03/2023 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Bray Golf Club
TITLE - Irish State-Building in the early 1920s
Leader - Frank Sheridan, Former Ambassador, Researcher & Bray Heads U3A Member
Thu, 02/03/2023 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Bray Golf Club
TITLE - Guided tour of the Irish Jewish Museum, 3 Walworth Road, off Sth Circular Road, near Portobello, Dublin 8 FULLY BOOKED
Leader - Irish Jewish Museum guide
Thu, 23/02/2023 from 11:30 - 12:45 in
TITLE - How We Can Secure Ireland’s Energy Future
Leader - Don Moore, Former Head of ESB International
Thu, 16/02/2023 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Bray Golf Club
TITLE - Charles Lamb (1893-1964) RHA RUA: Capturing the West of Ireland in Paint
Leader - Dr Marie Bourke, Cultural Historian & Author, Former Keeper & Head of Education at the National Gallery of Ireland
Thu, 02/02/2023 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Bray Golf Club
TITLE - Tour of the Custom House, Dublin NOW FULLY BOOKED
Leader - OPW Guide
Thu, 26/01/2023 from 11:00 - 12:00 in
TITLE - Robert Emmet ...
Leader - Dr Patrick Geoghegan
Thu, 19/01/2023 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Bray Golf Club
TITLE - 50 Years of Ireland in Europe - A Golden Jubilee?
Leader - Noelle O'Connell, CEO of the European Movement Ireland & Vice President of the European Movement International
Thu, 05/01/2023 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Bray Golf Club
TITLE - THE BRAY HEADS U3A CHRISTMAS CELEBRATION
Leader - Many Bray Heads Members
Thu, 15/12/2022 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Bray Golf Club
TITLE - Bray Through The Lens
Leader - Brian White
Thu, 01/12/2022 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Bray Golf Club
TITLE - TRIP: Gold and Treasures, National Museum of Ireland, Archaeology, Kildare Street, Dublin 2
Leader - Dr Matthew Seaver
Thu, 24/11/2022 from 11:00 - 12:00 in
TITLE - Life in the Hills: The Flora & Fauna of Wicklow Mountains National Park
Leader - Gillian Stewart
Thu, 17/11/2022 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Bray Golf Club
TITLE - THE 4TH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF OUR BRAY HEADS UNIVERSITY OF THE THIRD AGE (U3A) GROUP
Leader -
Thu, 03/11/2022 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Bray Golf Club
TITLE - Guided tour of the Museum of Literature of Ireland, 86 St Stephen’s Green, Dublin
Leader -
Thu, 27/10/2022 from 00:00 - 12:00 in
TITLE - Wexford Opera- One of the Great Miracles
Leader - Randall Shannon, Executive Director of Wexford Festival Opera, previously Opera Advisor to the Irish Arts Council
Thu, 20/10/2022 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Bray Golf Club
TITLE - In the wake of the Vikings
Leader - Professor Chris Stillman
Thu, 06/10/2022 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Bray Golf Club
TITLE - Walk with Margaret Merne from Shankill to Rathmichael Church (about 6 kms).
Leader - Margaret Merne
Thu, 29/09/2022 from 10:30 - 13:30 in
TITLE - Revolution or Rebellion? The American Declaration of Independence 1776
Leader - Professor Ciaran Brady
Thu, 22/09/2022 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Bray Golf Club
TITLE - My Ocean-Racing Adventures: LegenDerry Crew on the Clipper Round The World Yacht Races of 2013-14 and 2015-16
Leader - Clodagh Whelan
Thu, 08/09/2022 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Bray Golf Club
TITLE - Creating evidence-based policy to address the climate and biodiversity crisis
Leader - Dr Cara Augustenborg, Environmental Scientist, Assistant Professor UCD, Member of the President's Council of State and of the Climate Change Council and Newstalk Presenter
Thu, 23/06/2022 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Bray Golf Club
TITLE - James Joyce's ‘After the Race’ story in 'Dubliners': A Reading & An Exploration
Leader - Dr Séamus Cannon.
Thu, 09/06/2022 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Bray Golf Club
TITLE - Visit to Charleville House and Gardens
Leader -
Thu, 26/05/2022 from 13:00 - 17:00 in
TITLE - Time, place, and action in three plays by Brian Friel: Philadelphia, Here I Come!, Aristocrats, and Faith Healer
Leader - Christopher Murray, Emeritus Professor of Drama and Theatre, UCD
Thu, 26/05/2022 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Bray Golf Club
TITLE - Visit to Charleville House and Gardens
Leader -
Wed, 25/05/2022 from 13:00 - 00:00 in
TITLE - Nature is in crisis – what can we do about it?
Leader - Professor Jane Stout
Thu, 12/05/2022 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Bray Golf Club
TITLE - Jazz - The Story & Recordings of the Music
Leader - Musician Frank Gallagher
Thu, 28/04/2022 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Bray Golf Club
TITLE - AN ABRIDGED HISTORY OF THE INCAS OF PERU: PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS MEETING WILL TAKE PLACE IN PERSON AT BRAY GOLF CLUB
Leader - Bray Heads U3A Member, Dr Eamonn Darcy
Thu, 14/04/2022 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Bray Golf Club
TITLE - The Phoenix Park
Leader - Dr John McCullen, Former Chief Park Superintendent
Wed, 06/04/2022 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Zoom Online
TITLE - From Sorcery, Alchemy, Science, Prayer, Art and Evolution to Mystery
Leader - Dr Jim Malone, Robert Boyle Professor of Medical Physics (Emeritus), TCD
Thu, 24/03/2022 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Zoom Online
TITLE - SPECIAL ADDITION TO OUR PROGRAMME ON WEDNESDAY, 16 MARCH: RUSSIA & UKRAINE: THE RETURN TO WAR IN EUROPE
Leader - Pádraig Murphy, Former Ambassador of Ireland
Wed, 16/03/2022 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Zoom Online
TITLE - Fake News - Those Yelling It Loudest Are Usually the Fakers
Leader - Michael Roddy, Former Reuters Correspondent
Thu, 10/03/2022 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Zoom Online
TITLE - An Introduction to the Camino de Santiago
Leader - Jim McNicholas, Chairperson of the Camino Society Ireland
Thu, 03/03/2022 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Zoom Online
TITLE - President John F Kennedy and the Summer of 1963: Civil Rights, Cold War Politics and an Irish Homecoming
Leader - Cecelia Hartsell
Thu, 17/02/2022 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Zoom Online
TITLE - COP26 - The UN Climate Change Conference, Glasgow, October-November 2021: The Issues, the Hopes and the Outcomes
Leader - Ian Lumley, An Taisce
Thu, 03/02/2022 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Zoom Online
TITLE - Daniel O'Connell
Leader - Dr Patrick Geoghegan, Professor of Modern History, TCD
Thu, 20/01/2022 from 11:00 - 13:00 in Zoom Online
TITLE - Zoom Talk by Professor Rose Ann Kenny "Age Proof" on Thursday, January 6th at 10:30 am
Leader - Professor Rose Ann Kenny
Thu, 06/01/2022 from 10:30 - 12:30 in
TITLE - Our Group's Fourth Christmas Celebration
Leader - Group Members, led by Léonie
Thu, 16/12/2021 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Zoom Online
TITLE - THE THIRD ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING (AGM) OF THE BRAY HEADS U3A GROUP
Leader -
Thu, 09/12/2021 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Zoom Online
TITLE - ADDITION TO PROGRAMME: 'Home' - An Exhibition of Drawings by Brigid O'Brien & a Panel Discussion Linked to It
Leader - Local Artist & Bray Heads U3A Member Brigid O'Brien; Prof. PJ Drudy, TCD; Hugh Brennan, O Cualann Cohousing Alliance, etc
Thu, 02/12/2021 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Zoom Online
TITLE - Addressing agricultural emissions in Ireland’s carbon budget
Leader - Professor Alan Matthews, Emeritus Professor of Agricultural Policy
Thu, 25/11/2021 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Zoom Online
TITLE - Riotous Assembly or Mature Parliament? A Personal Perspective on the European Parliament
Leader - Francis Jacobs, Former European Parliament Senior Official
Thu, 11/11/2021 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Zoom Online
TITLE - Wicklow Public Participation Network
Leader - Helen Howes
Wed, 03/11/2021 from 10:30 - 12:30 in
TITLE - Abstract Art and the Philosophy of Seeing
Leader - Oliver Sears, Art Dealer & Gallery Owner
Thu, 28/10/2021 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Zoom Online
TITLE - An Unexpected Journey into Poetry
Leader - Poet, Moya Cannon
Thu, 14/10/2021 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Zoom Online
TITLE - Elizabeth I and the Perils of Being an Unmarried Monarch
Leader - Dr Ciaran Brady, Emeritus Professor of History, TCD
Thu, 30/09/2021 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Zoom Online
TITLE - Evolution: It hasn't gone away you know! Evidence in front of our eyes
Leader - Professor David McConnell
Thu, 16/09/2021 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Zoom Online
TITLE - I Live a New Life: Frederick Douglass in Ireland
Leader - Cecelia Hartsell
Thu, 02/09/2021 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Zoom Online
TITLE - 25 JUNE - 1 SEPTEMBER: SUMMER BREAK
Leader -
Fri, 25/06/2021 from 00:00 - 00:00 in
TITLE - COVID19: update on vaccines and therapeutics
Leader - Professor Luke O'Neill, TCD
Thu, 24/06/2021 from 11:00 - 12:30 in Zoom Online
TITLE - The Middle East: An Introduction to its Lands, People, History and Complexities
Leader - Former Ambassador, Isolde Moylan
Thu, 10/06/2021 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Zoom Online
TITLE - The Ancestral Stomping Grounds 3
Leader - The Ancestral Stomping Grounds 3
Wed, 02/06/2021 from 10:30 - 12:30 in
TITLE - 'The Devil's Chaplain': The Life and Times of Charles Darwin
Leader - Dr Peter Boyle, Fellow Emeritus, TCD
Thu, 27/05/2021 from 10:30 - 12:00 in Zoom Online
TITLE - The Wood Wide Web: how trees communicate
Leader - Professor Carla Harper
Wed, 26/05/2021 from 10:30 - 12:30 in
TITLE - Visions and Strategies for Regional Planning in Ireland.
Leader - Jim Walsh, Emeritus Professor of Geography at Maynooth University
Thu, 13/05/2021 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Zoom Online
TITLE - Drawing Class on Zoom with the Intriguing Title of 'Drawing and Sex' to celebrate National Drawing Day
Leader - Brigid O'Brien, Artist & Bray Heads U3A Member
Wed, 12/05/2021 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Zoom Online
TITLE - The role of the oceans in Earth's climate: natural cycles and anthropogenic change
Leader - Professor Peter Croot
Wed, 05/05/2021 from 10:30 - 12:30 in
TITLE - Notre Dame de Paris. Triumph and Disaster
Leader - Professor Roger Stalley, Emeritus Fellow, Trinity College Dublin
Thu, 29/04/2021 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Zoom Online
TITLE - Interesting Women in the Life of Frederick William Burton - Artist, Antiquary and Director
Leader - Dr Marie Bourke, former Keeper and Head of Education at the National Gallery of Ireland
Thu, 15/04/2021 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Zoom Online
TITLE - The Ancestral Stomping Ground – Our second visit!
Leader -
Wed, 07/04/2021 from 10:30 - 12:30 in
TITLE - Integrative COVID Medicine - Lifestyle Approaches To Staying Well During A COVID Pandemic
Leader - Dr Ceppie Merry, Integrative Infectious Diseases Consultant, St James's Hospital
Wed, 31/03/2021 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Zoom Online
TITLE - Recovering the Sacred Music of Medieval Ireland
Leader - Dr Ann Buckley, Medieval History Research Centre, Dept of History, TCD
Thu, 18/03/2021 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Zoom Online
TITLE - The Ancestral Stomping Ground is visited by the Historical and Archaeological Sub-group.
Leader - OPEN TO ALL MEMBERS
Wed, 10/03/2021 from 10:30 - 12:30 in
TITLE - St Patrick in the Digital Age
Leader - Dr Anthony Harvey, Royal Irish Academy
Thu, 04/03/2021 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Zoom Online
TITLE - The Housing Crisis; Towards a new Philosophy and Affordable Homes for All
Leader - PJ Drudy, Professor Emeritus of Economics, TCD
Thu, 18/02/2021 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Zoom Online
TITLE - The water beneath our feet: Groundwater and our future
Leader - Bruce Misstear
Wed, 10/02/2021 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Zoom Online
TITLE - Using Complementary approaches to health maintenance in a global pandemic
Leader - Professor Helen Sheridan, TCD
Thu, 04/02/2021 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Zoom Online
TITLE - Robots: Past, Present and a Shared Future
Leader - Prof Kevin Kelly
Thu, 21/01/2021 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Zoom Online
TITLE - Henry Grattan of the Irish Parliament & His North Wicklow Connections
Leader - Local Historian & Bray Heads U3A member, Brian White
Thu, 07/01/2021 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Zoom Online
TITLE - WISHING ALL OUR BRAY HEADS U3A MEMBERS, THOSE ON OUR WAITING LIST AND ALL IN OUR COMMUNITY IN BRAY A HAPPY & SAFE CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR
Leader -
Wed, 06/01/2021 from 00:00 - 00:00 in
TITLE - TBC: The Future of Farming in Ireland
Leader - TBC: Dr Alan Matthews, Emeritus Professor, TCD
Wed, 06/01/2021 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Zoom Online
TITLE - The Group's Third Christmas Celebration
Leader - Bray Heads U3A Members
Thu, 17/12/2020 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Zoom Online
TITLE - NOTE - 2PM Start-Time: The American Election and its Aftermath: An Irish Perspective
Leader - Dan Mulhall, Ambassador of Ireland to the United States
Thu, 10/12/2020 from 14:00 - 15:30 in Zoom Online
TITLE - The Bray Heads U3A Second Annual General Meeting (AGM)
Leader -
Thu, 03/12/2020 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Zoom Online
TITLE - Is zero COVID-19 possible?- testing, treatments, vaccines and population immunity
Leader - Professor Kingston Mills
Wed, 02/12/2020 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Zoom Online
TITLE - Infrastructure required for a Zero-Carbon Economy - Gaining Public Support
Leader - Don Moore
Wed, 25/11/2020 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Zoom Online
TITLE - Surviving 'the Group of Death': The winning by Ireland of a seat on the UN Security Council”
Leader - Ambassador Brendan Rogers, Deputy Secretary General of the Department of Foreign Affairs
Thu, 19/11/2020 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Zoom Online
TITLE - The Medieval Bray Project – Five Years of Exploration 2015–2020
Leader - David McIlreavy
Wed, 11/11/2020 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Zoom Online
TITLE - Zoom Online Talk: Swift and his world
Leader - Professor Andrew Carpenter
Thu, 05/11/2020 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Zoom Online
TITLE - Zoom Online Talk: COVID19: update
Leader - Professor Luke O'Neill
Thu, 29/10/2020 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Zoom Online
TITLE - Zoom Online Talk: The Fossil Fuel Divestment Movement: History, Successes and Lessons for Future Action
Leader - Louise Fitzgerald
Thu, 15/10/2020 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Zoom Online
TITLE - Zoom Online Talk: A book and a Bell: Glendalough on the morning of the 15th May, 1106
Leader - Mary Kelly
Wed, 14/10/2020 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Zoom Online
TITLE - Zoom Online Talk: Wicklow’s Traditional Farmhouses: Rediscovering some of Wicklow’s hidden treasures
Leader - Christiaan Corlett
Thu, 08/10/2020 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Zoom Online
TITLE - Zoom Online Talk: Biodiversity and the Programme for Government Targets
Leader - Steven Matthews, TD
Fri, 02/10/2020 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Zoom Online
TITLE - Zoom Online Talk: Observing and Conserving our Native Wildflowers
Leader - Finola Finlay
Thu, 24/09/2020 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Zoom Online
TITLE - Zoom Online Talk: Building a Just Transition to a Zero-Carbon Economy
Leader - Sinéad Mercier
Wed, 16/09/2020 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Zoom Online
TITLE - Zoom Online Talk & Performance: An Illustrated Introduction to the Blues
Leader - Musician Frank Gallagher
Thu, 10/09/2020 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Zoom Online
TITLE - NO GROUP MEETINGS IN AUGUST. NEXT ONE ON 10 SEPTEMBER
Leader -
Sat, 01/08/2020 from 10:30 - 12:30 in
TITLE - Zoom Online Talk: The Georgians: from country house to the ‘season’ in Dublin
Leader - Dr Patricia McCarthy
Thu, 30/07/2020 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Zoom Online
TITLE - Zoom Online Talk: The EU, the Pandemic, the Challenges that the Union Faces - and Ireland
Leader - Former Ambassador, Marie Cross
Thu, 16/07/2020 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Zoom Online
TITLE - Zoom Online Talk: Margaret Thatcher and Ireland
Leader - Former Ambassador Frank Sheridan
Thu, 02/07/2020 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Zoom Online
TITLE - Zoom Online Talk: The Leslie Family in Love and War
Leader - Mark Leslie of the Castle Leslie family, Co. Monaghan, Architect and ''Exhibitionist'
Thu, 18/06/2020 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Zoom Online
TITLE - Zoom Online Talk: Kipling's Kim and "The Great Game"
Leader - Professor Peter Lynch
Thu, 11/06/2020 from 10:30 - 12:00 in Zoom Online
TITLE - Zoom Online Talk: "Who do we think we are?": Ancient DNA and Irish Origins
Leader - Dr Dan Bradley, Trinity College Dublin
Thu, 28/05/2020 from 10:30 - 12:00 in Zoom Online
TITLE - Zoom Online Talk: Communism, Sex and all that Jazz - Popular Anxieties in 1930s Ireland
Leader - Professor Fearghal McGarry, Professor of Modern Irish History at Queen's University, Belfast.
Thu, 14/05/2020 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Zoom Online
TITLE -
Leader - TBC
Mon, 11/05/2020 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Bray Golf Club
TITLE - Zoom Online Event: Everyone Has a Story To Tell: A Guide to Creative Writing
Leader - Writer Liz McManus
Thu, 30/04/2020 from 10:30 - 12:30 in
TITLE - Really Tackling Climate Change
Leader - Professor John Fitzgerald, TCD, and Chairperson of the Climate Action Advisory Council
Thu, 05/03/2020 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Bray Golf Club
TITLE - Universal Design: A transformative agent for a better future
Leader - Dr Gerald Craddock, Chief Officer at the Centre For Excellence in Universal Design
Thu, 20/02/2020 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Bray Golf Club
TITLE -
Leader - Visit to the Seamus Heaney Exhibition 'Listen Now Again' & Workshop
Thu, 13/02/2020 from 10:30 - 12:30 in
TITLE - Elderhood ... Finding a Place in Time
Leader - Brian Keenan
Thu, 06/02/2020 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Bray Golf Club
TITLE - The Brontës: Genius, Talent ... or Failure?
Leader - Anne Johnston & Valerie Hand
Thu, 23/01/2020 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Bray Golf Club
TITLE - Pencils to the Back - the Many Lives of a Foreign Correspondent
Leader - Journalist Conor O'Clery
Thu, 09/01/2020 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Bray Golf Club
TITLE - The Bray Heads U3A Group Second Christmas Celebration
Leader - Group Members
Thu, 12/12/2019 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Bray Golf Club
TITLE - A Century of Irish International Diplomacy 1919-2019
Leader - Dr Michael Kennedy, Royal Irish Academy
Thu, 28/11/2019 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Bray Golf Club
TITLE - Sustainable Energy Technology for our Country & our Homes: Some Practical Advice
Leader -
Thu, 21/11/2019 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Bray Golf Club
TITLE - The Art of Falconry and Why we Should all Love Birds of Prey
Leader - Dr Maurice Nicholson
Thu, 14/11/2019 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Bray Golf Club
TITLE - The EU/ US Relationship: Still Close but Increasingly Complicated
Leader - Anne Anderson, former Irish Ambassador to France, the EU, the UN (Geneva and New York) and, most recently, the USA
Thu, 31/10/2019 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Bray Golf Club
TITLE - Keeping Safe at Home and Beyond
Leader - Bray Community Garda, Suzanne Byrne & Greystones Fire Brigade Station Officer, Ciaran Hayden
Thu, 24/10/2019 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Bray Golf Club
TITLE - William Trevor - The Writer and his Work
Leader - Dr Dolores MacKenna, author of a critical biography of William Trevor
Thu, 17/10/2019 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Bray Golf Club
TITLE - Courage to Move
Leader - Sister Orla Treacy, IBVM
Thu, 03/10/2019 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Bray Golf Club
TITLE - Guided Tour of the Joyce Tower Sandycove
Leader - Dr Seamus Cannon
Thu, 26/09/2019 from 11:00 - 12:00 in
TITLE - First Annual General Meeting (AGM) of The Bray Heads U3A Group & Membership Registration for the Year Ahead
Leader - Members of Bray Heads U3A Group
Thu, 19/09/2019 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Bray Golf Club
TITLE - The Search for Josephine Heffernan - and the Bray Connection
Leader - Brian White, Bray Historian & Bray Heads U3A Member
Thu, 05/09/2019 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Bray Golf Club
TITLE - GROUP SUMMER BREAK JULY & AUGUST, RETURNING 5 SEPTEMBER
Leader -
Mon, 01/07/2019 from 10:30 - 12:30 in
TITLE - Brian Maguire - A Contrary Viewpoint
Leader - Artist Brian Maguire
Thu, 27/06/2019 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Bray Golf Club
TITLE - Visit to Alfred Cochrane's Woodland Garden at Corke Lodge
Leader -
Thu, 20/06/2019 from 10:30 - 11:30 in
TITLE - The extraordinary world of plants
Leader - Dr Matthew Jebb, Director of the National Botanic Gardens
Thu, 13/06/2019 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Bray Golf Club
TITLE - A 400 million year history of climate change revealed from fossil plants
Leader - Prof. Jennifer McElwain, currently the 1711 Chair of Botany at School of Natural Sciences, Trinity College Dublin and Head of Botany within the School
Thu, 30/05/2019 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Bray Golf Club
TITLE - Tour of Glendalough's Historic Monastic Site: Starting at the Visitor Centre there at 10 a.m.
Leader - Group Member, Mary Kelly
Thu, 23/05/2019 from 10:00 - 12:30 in Glendalough Visitor Centre
TITLE - The Cochranes of Woodbrook House and Beirut
Leader - Alfred Cochrane
Thu, 16/05/2019 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Bray Golf Club
TITLE - Visit to 1 Martello Terrace - Childhood Home of James Joyce, 1887-1891
Leader - Liz McManus
Thu, 09/05/2019 from 10:30 - 12:30 in
TITLE - Beyond Harry Clarke: The Story of Stained Glass in Ireland
Leader - Finola Finlay
Thu, 02/05/2019 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Bray Golf Club
TITLE - Climate Change - Background, Consequences and What We Can Do
Leader - A Bray Heads U3A Group Discussion led by members Richard Webb, Jane Grimson & Siobhán Quigley
Thu, 25/04/2019 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Bray Golf Club
TITLE - What Happened to the Palestinians in 1948: Myth and Reality
Leader - Dr Conor McCarthy
Thu, 18/04/2019 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Bray Golf Club
TITLE - Exhibition Tour & Workshop: 'Seamus Heaney: Listen Now Again', Bank of Ireland Cultural & Heritage Centre, Westmoreland Street, Dublin
Leader -
Thu, 11/04/2019 from 10:30 - 12:30 in
TITLE - The Confidence Trick/Bridges to the Future
Leader - Professor Ian Robertson
Thu, 04/04/2019 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Bray Golf Club
TITLE - The Origin of Our World: Where Do We Fit In?
Leader - Christopher Stillman, Fellow and Professor Emeritus of Geology, Trinity College, Dublin, Volcanologist and Environmental Scientist
Thu, 21/03/2019 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Bray Golf Club
TITLE - An Inevitable Failure? Russia's experiment with Democracy and the Rise of Vladimir Putin
Leader - Judith Devlin, Professor Emeritus of Russian History, University College Dublin
Thu, 07/03/2019 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Bray Golf Club
TITLE - Antarctica, Alaska and the Arctic: the amazing worlds of higher latitudes
Leader - Bray Heads U3A Members Jane & Bill Grimson
Thu, 21/02/2019 from 10:30 - 12:30 in
TITLE - Brigid's 'I Love Drawing' Class
Leader - Brigid O'Brien
Thu, 14/02/2019 from 10:30 - 12:30 in
TITLE - J.S.Bach and His Music
Leader - Tim Thurston, writer, broadcaster and lecturer, best known for his wonderful Lyric FM programme "Gloria"
Thu, 07/02/2019 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Bray Golf Club
TITLE - The Holocaust - a Second-Generation Perspective
Leader - Oliver Sears
Thu, 24/01/2019 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Bray Golf Club
TITLE - The GAA in Irish Society - Past to Present
Leader - Mark Duncan
Thu, 10/01/2019 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Bray Golf Club
TITLE - The Bray Heads U3A First Christmas Celebration
Leader - TBD
Thu, 13/12/2018 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Bray Golf Club
TITLE - The Good Friday Agreement 20 Years On
Leader - David Donoghue
Thu, 29/11/2018 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Bray Golf Club
TITLE - Tracing Our Ancestors: An Overview of Online Geneaology Records for Ireland
Leader - Tony O'Hara
Thu, 15/11/2018 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Bray Golf Club
TITLE - The EU, Brexit and Beyond
Leader - Catherine Day
Thu, 01/11/2018 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Bray Golf Club
TITLE - Windows on Interesting Times: A Half-Century in the Turbulent Middle East - Discussion & Book-Signing
Leader - Michael Jansen, Middle East Analyst & Correspondent for The Irish Times; author of 'Windows on Interesting Times'
Thu, 25/10/2018 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Bray Golf Club
TITLE - Who in their Right Mind would want to Read Joyce's Ulysses?
Leader - Dr Séamus Cannon is an educator who in retirement indulges his interests in Joyce, Local History and furniture making. Former Director of the Blackrock Education Centre, Dublin.
Thu, 18/10/2018 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Bray Golf Club
TITLE - Women and Politics in Ireland Since 1918
Leader - Prof Yvonne Galligan
Thu, 04/10/2018 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Bray Golf Club
TITLE - Plants, Potions and Snails - The Central Role of Nature's Pharmacy in Modern Medicine
Leader - Dr Helen Sheridan, Associate Professor Pharmacy, TCD
Thu, 20/09/2018 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Bray Golf Club
TITLE - Inaugural Meeting of The Bray Heads U3A Group & Talk on 400 Years of Kilruddery as the Home of the Brabazons
Leader - Fionnuala Ardee of Killruddery House
Thu, 06/09/2018 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Bray Golf Club
TITLE - Open Preview of The Bray Heads U3A Group
Leader -
Thu, 21/06/2018 from 10:30 - 12:30 in Bray Golf Club
Print Date: 25 Apr 2024