{"id":1639,"date":"2026-05-11T21:10:32","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T20:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.history-armagh.org\/?p=1639"},"modified":"2026-05-11T21:13:03","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T20:13:03","slug":"may-meeting-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.history-armagh.org\/?p=1639","title":{"rendered":"May Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Our next meeting will be on Wednesday, 13th May at 7:00 pm in the Armagh Observatory Library.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our speaker this month is <strong>Uel Wright<\/strong> and his talk is entitled:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"> <strong>The Brontes in Ireland<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Uel was born into a farming family in the rolling Drumlins of South Down, between Rathfriland and Newry. He attended Newry Grammar School before studying Horticulture and Landscape Design in York. A keen genealogist Uel has published four family histories and several papers on his ancestor Dr William Wright author of &#8216;The Brontes in Ireland.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.history-armagh.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"809\" height=\"896\" src=\"https:\/\/www.history-armagh.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1640\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.history-armagh.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image.png 809w, http:\/\/www.history-armagh.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image-271x300.png 271w, http:\/\/www.history-armagh.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image-768x851.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 809px) 100vw, 809px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Uel\u2019s talk will examine reasons why the Irish part of the Bronte story remains largely ignored and provide fresh insights into William Wright, who he was and why his contribution to the Bronte in Ireland story has been gaining traction in recent years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Click on the link below to view the location of the Observatory Library.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-armagh-and-district-history-group wp-block-embed-armagh-and-district-history-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"Un6qMl7AV6\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.history-armagh.org\/?page_id=1429\">Where we meet &#8211; the Observatory Library<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Where we meet &#8211; the Observatory Library&#8221; &#8212; Armagh and  District History Group\" src=\"https:\/\/www.history-armagh.org\/?page_id=1429&#038;embed=true#?secret=FNfiPAMX1p#?secret=Un6qMl7AV6\" data-secret=\"Un6qMl7AV6\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our next meeting will be on Wednesday, 13th May at 7:00 pm in the Armagh Observatory Library. Our speaker this month is Uel Wright and his talk is entitled: The Brontes in Ireland. Uel was born into a farming family in the rolling Drumlins of South Down, between Rathfriland and Newry. He attended Newry Grammar &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.history-armagh.org\/?p=1639\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">May Meeting<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.history-armagh.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.history-armagh.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.history-armagh.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.history-armagh.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.history-armagh.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1639"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.history-armagh.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1644,"href":"http:\/\/www.history-armagh.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639\/revisions\/1644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.history-armagh.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.history-armagh.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.history-armagh.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}