The last of the 19th series of Winter History Lectures with Julian Walton will be held on the 27th of March at 7.30pm

Alfred Aylward, a native of New Ross, played a key role in the major activities of the Fenian Brotherhood and was deported to South Africa, where he organised a miners’ rebellion and was adviser to the victorious Boer army during the war of 1880-81, then migrated to America, where he took part in the North-Western Rebellion.  Or so he claimed – but how much was true?  Come along, join this last lecture of the series and find out!