Dublin Tramways
by
John Kelleher
by
John Kelleher
(c) 2016 Mount Merrion Historical Society
8.00pm, Thursday 7th November, 2024
Fitzwilliam Rooms
Mount Merrion Community Centre
Fitzwilliam Rooms
Mount Merrion Community Centre
Presented by
Leo Enright
Leo Enright
De Valera: the man who put Ireland
on the Moon
on the Moon
In the past half-century, Ireland has been to the Moon and Mars, landed on a comet and provided the biggest space experiment ever flown by America’s Space Shuttle. Twelve Irish citizens have flown in space, and an Irish citizen was head of NASA’s Space Shuttle programme for ten years.
Leo Enright is one of a handful of journalists in the world who has covered the Space Shuttle programme from start to finish. Leo is the author, with Prof. Carl Sagan, Sir Bernard Lovell and others of the “Encyclopaedia of Space Travel and Astronomy”. He is a former Head of Radio News at RTÉ, and continues to broadcast regularly on RTÉ, BBC and Al Jazeera. He was elected Fellow of the British Interplanetary Society in 1978 and is a recognised expert on the exploration of the planet Mars.
Much of this is because of one man, who lived most of his life on Cross Avenue. Leo will explore Eamon De Valera’s legacy and its roots in 5,000 years of Irish astronomy.