Dunhill History Lectures with Julian Walton - Series 2022
Dunhill History Lectures with Julian Walton - Series 2022
Thursday 3rd February to Thursday 7th April at 7pm
The list of 10 lectures is as follows:
3rd February Julian Walton
“Clonegam: its church, monuments and graveyard.”
10th February William Fraher
“'The Bad Times': Waterford country houses during the revolutionary period”.
17th February Eugene Broderick
“Robert Daly, Bishop of Cashel & Waterford, 1843-1872: Ireland’s ‘Protestant Pope’”.
24th February Ray McGrath
“Tracking Thomas Francis Meagher across Panama.”
3rd March Pat McCarthy
“The Civil War: the first phase, June to August 1922”.
10th March Christina Knight O’Connor
“Rebel Women: The Cumann na mBan in Waterford City and County.”
16th March (Wednesday) John Bergin
“Walshes and Fitzgeralds: A Waterford merchant dynasty in 17th and 18th century Tenerife”.
24th March Julian Walton
St Carthage’s Cathedral, Lismore, Co.Waterford.
31st March William Fraher
A most magnificent place' - A history of the garden and demesne of Curraghmore House.”
7th April Julian Walton
“Carl Gottlob Kűttner: A German observer of Georgian Ireland.”
Lectures are held in the Dunhill Multi Education Centre every Thursday at 7pm and are followed by a question-and-answer session light refreshments.
We look forward to meeting old friends and new.
Saturday Supervised Study for Junior and Leaving Cert students
We are delighted to once again invite all Junior Cert and Leaving Cert students to join us for Saturday Supervised Study. Our centre offers a warm, safe, and quiet environment for those looking to catch up on their revision before the Christmas Holidays!
Students are welcome to join us for a full day from 9am to 3.30pm, or a half-day session if this suits better.
Due to Covid restrictions, we ask that all bookings be made and paid for in advance as minimum numbers will apply. Unfortunately, we are unable to accommodate walk-ins at this time and apologise for the inconvenience.
For more information, or to confirm your booking now, please call us on 051-396934.
Tourism Trails Open Evening
Join us Monday the 11th of October at 18h00 at Dunhill Multi-Education Centre for an Open Informational Evening.
Meet us, hear more about the course, talk to former students and staff, see the centre's facilities!
Tourism Trails course COVID19 update
Regional Tour Guide Programme Commencing Waterford 24th February 2020
We are pleased to announce we are taking bookings for our new Regional Tour Guide Programme commencing on February 24th, 2020.
This QQI Level 6 30 credit Special Purpose Award (6S20233) will entail a 7 week full time intensive course held in Dunhill Multi-Education Centre.
The Regional Tour Guide programme at Dunhill MEC will provide participants with the skills, knowledge and competencies to deliver and manage a wide-ranging tourist guiding service for international and domestic tourists travelling in Ireland.
For more information, please click here.
Waterford Rural Tourism Network
Are you involved in Tourism in Rural Waterford?
Have you joined your Local Tourism Network?
Come join us at the following meetings!
An Gaeltacht Thursday 6th January 11am
Blackwater Valley Monday 10th January 7pm
Comeragh Uplands on Tuesday 11th January 11am
Waterford Estuary Thursday 13th January 11am
All meetings are being held remotely
For more information on the Tourism Networks in your area, please call on (051) 396934 or email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Special Purpose Award Training and Development - QQI Level 6
Special Purpose Award Training and Development 6S3372
The purpose of this award is to enable the learner to acquire the knowledge, skill and competence to identify training and development needs and to deliver and evaluate a training intervention within a range of training and development contexts.
This QQI Level 6 programme comprises of two modules:
Training Needs Identification and Design 6N3325 (15 credits).
Training Delivery and Evaluation code 6N3326 (15 credits).
Resulting in the achievement of a Special Purpose Certificate, Training & Development, code 6S3372 (30 credits).
Duration:
The two modules will be delivered over 9 Fridays during November 2021 and January and February 2022.
Start Date: Friday 5th November 2021.
Cost: €350.00 per module. €700.00 in total.
Possibility of funding.
CONTACT US NOW ON (051) 396934 or email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.for more information
Tourism Trails with Smart Media 2021/2022
Register now for the 2021/2022 edition of the Tourism Trails with Smart Media, starting late October. With the easing of restrictions, the course will once again take it's focus on the Trails component while being fully compliant with all Health and Safety recommendations. The course now adds content relevant to the post-COVID tourism panorama equipping learners with the knowledge and skills necessary to tackle the new challenges. Register now, call us on 051 396934. This course is funded by the WWETB and learners may be eligible for a training allowance.
Dunhill launch a new blended learning offering for their popular heritage tourism course with smart media
Dunhill Multi-Education Centre, in conjunction with Waterford Wexford ETB are offering free training in Tourism Trails with Smart Media. The yearlong course provides training to meet the demands of the tourism and heritage businesses that support the Waterford/Wexford trails network. This year the course, although delivered “live” in the training centre in Dunhill, County Waterford, will facilitate learners working from home with streamed training sessions should learners be required to stay at home due to Covid 19 restrictions.
Call us today on 051693934 for more information
Saturday Supervised Study Waterford
Dunhill Multi-Education Centre is delighted to offer Saturday Supervised Study in our County Waterford facility to all Junior and Leaving Certificate Students.
For just €5 per session, we offer a safe and comfortable environment conducive to learning, where students are assisted and encouraged to make the most effective use of their time.
Deposits now being taken, so please call our office today on 051 396934 for more information.
Alternatively, please feel free to pop into our Open Day on Saturday, 2nd October between 9.00am and 12.30pm to check the facilities out for yourself.
