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The aim of the Kilmacud Stillorgan Local History Society is to promote and sustain an interest in our culture, heritage and history, particularly with regard to Kilmacud Stillorgan and the adjoining areas

Obelisk 2021

The fifteenth edition of the Society’s annual journal, Obelisk, will be launched in November. However, this year we are planning a virtual launch as due to Covid-19 we are currently unable to meet in Glenalbyn. We know this is a big disappointment to our authors and supporters. Hopefully, what we are proposing for the virtual launch will help to make up for this.

As always we pay a special thanks to our contributors for their very enthusiastic response with material and without whose stories there would be no Obelisk. Over the years Obelisk has accumulated a rich trove of articles that help to give us a fuller picture of daily life and the streetscape of times past.

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Obelisk 2021 will be available from our usual outlets at €7 a copy and through our new Online Shop. We hope you will find the online shop easy to use. Purchases to local addresses in Kilmacud, Stillorgan and surrounding areas will continue to be delivered free of charge, ie any postage paid will be refunded.

If you prefer to pay by cash or cheque please send €11 (Overseas €13 or currency equivalent), to cover purchase price (€7), postage and packing to :

Kilmacud Stillorgan Local History Society, .. 9 Marsham Court, Stillorgan, Co. Dublin.

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Obelisk 2021 will be available at the South Dublin Credit Union, Lower Kilmacud Road, The Village Café, Glenalbyn House, Kilmacud Crokes, Stillorgan and Lakeland Stores ("Today's"), 5 Lakelands Road. Purchase price €7. Circumstances permitting, we will be selling Obelisk from our stall in the Stillorgan Shopping Centre for a number of days in December. Contactless payments will be accepted. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Online Shopping

Copies of Obelisk No.14 2020 are available at €7 each (postage extra). Obelisk No.13 2019, Obelisk No.12 2018, Obelisk No.11 2017 and Obelisk No.10 2016, are available at €5 each (postage extra).

Copies of Obelisk No.8 2014, and Obelisk No.7 2013 are available at €3 each (postage extra).

To purchase our journals on a secure website please click Online Shop. In the shop, there are two prices listed for each Obelisk – the difference relates to Postage & Packing charges. Please make sure to include the relevant charges - Ireland or Overseas - when you are selecting an Obelisk for purchase. Please note that for local deliveries the postage will be refunded.

During the Covid-19 crisis, please check what international destinations An Post is dispatching mail to.

If you need any assistance or have any questions on the above or our other publications, please contact us.

Future Planning

The committee continues to examine available options for our autumn talks.

Like everyone, we are dependent on updated guidance from the government.

. ........................ ........ ....................... ......... UPDATE ... 20/10/20

Following on from last month’s successful YouTube presentation we have prepared another virtual presentation for October, namely:

The Story of Josephine Heffernan a WW1 Nurse from Bray

This story begins in 2002 when an eight year old French boy found an army bracelet from WW1 in a field near his home in Rimaucourt. He brought the bracelet to his primary school teacher who spent many years trying to find out who the bracelet belonged to. In 2017, the teacher heard about an American historian who, with French television, made a documentary about American nurses in France during WW1. She contacted the television station and through their collaboration discovered that Josephine Heffernan was an Irish woman from Bray.

The French television company contacted the Bray Cualann Historical Society to see if they could find any members of Josephine’s family. Our speaker, Brian White, describes the full life Josephine Heffernan led as a US army nurse and the research undertaken to find Josephine’s family. Brian is Chairperson of Bray Cualann Historical Society and author of The Little Book of Bray & Enniskerry (2016).

Details have been circulated to our email list.

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