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Cobh Library Events for August

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Thursday 13th August at 11:00am.

Make & Do Reptiles Workshop for Kids (5-9 years)

Crocodiles, frogs and snakes! Make and do with a tropical theme. Cutting, sticking and colouring to make your own amphibians and reptiles to bring home.

Places are limited so please book early to avoid disappointment.
Saturday 15th August at 12:00pm
‘D -Day: the Allied Invasion of Normandy in World War Two’ – a Historical Lecture by Paul MacDonald
The lecture provides a historical overview of Operation Overlord, the airborne and amphibious Allied landing operations on 6th June 1944 in Normandy, France. The D-Day landings were the largest seaborne invasion in history and and the resulting Battle of Normandy between the Allied Armies and the German Wehrmacht was a key battle during World War Two. The Allied military landings paved the way for the liberation of Western Europe from Nazi occupation and heralded the beginning of the end of the Second World War.

Wednesday 19th August at 2:30pm
Make & Do Mask Making for Kids (5-9 years)

This promises to be a great fun, messy mask making workshop for kids with lots of cutting, sticking and painting.
These masks can be made to suit all personalities and all sorts of weird and wonderful creatures will be leaving the library after this workshop!

Places are limited so please book early to avoid disappointment.
Satuday 22nd – 29th August (9:30am – 5:30pm)

The Verolme Cork Dockyard in Photographs

To celebrate National Heritage Week 2015 with its theme of Industrial Heritage & Design, Cobh Library is delighted to host an exhibition of diverse photographs taken at the Verolme Cork Dockyard during the height of its industrial prominence.
Friday 28th August at 3:00pm

‘The Spike Island Convict Prison’ – a lecture by Dr. Barra O’Donnabháin, Dept. of Archaeology, UCC.

A talk on the formation, operation and eventual closure of the Spike Island Convict Prison between 1847 and 1883. The prison was the biggest correctional facility that has ever existed in Ireland. A National Heritage Week event.

Places are limited so please book early to avoid disappointment.
Saturday 29th August at 2:30pm

‘The Yard: Memories of the Verolme Cork Dockyard’- a National Heritage Week event.

The history of the Verolme Cork Dockyard in living memory. Join us in Cobh Library to remember the Dockyard and listen to stories told by those who worked there up to its closure in 1984.

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