Lunch Series: Celtic Conversations with Rachel Naughton
This regular lunch series will feature insights and an engaging presentation from a special guest speaker in our community, over a delicious catered set lunch and the opportunity to connect with fellow club members in a welcoming setting.
This month we welcome Rachel Naughton, Archivist & Museum Manager, Melbourne Diocesan Historical Commission.
Your ticket price includes presentation and insights from our guest speaker and a catered two course set lunch prepared by Chef Dargan and the Wild Geese team.
Rachel Naughton is the granddaughter of Thomas Slattery of Ballyporeen, Tipperary. She married into the Naughton family of the John Naughtons of Limerick. Rachel herself was born and reared at Hay NSW. She has been the Archivist for the Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne since 1996.
Rachel will speak about why Archbishop Daniel Mannix would make a black and white silent film in 1920, called Ireland Will Be Free. Black and white and silent was the only kind of film you could make in 1920. The Club will show the film on Wednesday 7 May with an introduction by Val Noone.
Like many of the educated Irish, Mannix was not overly political until after 1916. But like many Irish, educated or otherwise, Mannix was horrified at the extreme English response to the Easter Rebellion of 1916. Ireland Will Be Free came out of that reaction.