The Library is open on Wednesday’s and Saturday’s between 2pm and 4pm.
The Society now has a group on Facebook which anyone can join. Group members will post updates on the people they are interested in contacting and information will also be published in the journal.
Meetings held usually on the third Friday of the month at Union Mills Methodist Chapel at 7:30pm. Non-members welcome
January 16- Marion Keelan – ‘T Moore & Sons- The story of a Peel family’
January 25 (Sunday) – Festive lunch – Peel Golf Club
February 20 – Niarbyl Folklore with James Franklin – Fairies, mermen, ghostly women, lucky pigs, spirit projections and more. A tour around Niarbyl and some of its fascinating stories of traditional Manx folklore. Around the accounts of fairy changelings, giant pearls and fairy tunes, a picture of traditional Manx life and belief slowly builds up to present a new way of understanding a place so well-known to so many.
March 20 – Stella Fletcher – ‘The writing of Arthur Keates Brown’ at iMusuem
March 20, 21 and 22 (Friday 2pm, Saturday and Sunday) – Exhibition: ‘Schools and Education’ Held at the iMuseum
April 17 – Jill Quirk – ‘Eric Cleator: A life with wood’
May 15 – Barbara Greenwood – ‘Who am I today: The many aliases of Phoebe E Mylchreest’
June 21 (Sunday) – Excursion to Maughold Church
July 6 (Monday) – Tynwald Day stall
July 17 – Carys Owen – ‘Photographs of a political prisoner: James Brown of the IOM Times’
July 25th & 26th (Saturday and Sunday) – Southern Show stall
August 21 at 6.30 – Excursion to Malew Church
September 18- Dean Johnson- ‘Mann of War: The Island’s contribution to WWI’
October 16 – AGM and members evening
November 20 – Sarah Kerruish – ‘John Llewellyn of Milntown’