We have decided to try something different with the West Cork History Festival in 2025. We feel we have successfully re-established the Festival post-COVID, with the help of our friends, volunteers and supporters, and we had a great Festival weekend in August. However, we think a slimmed down and slightly different version of the Festival would be worth trying in 2025 before returning to running a full strength Festival again in 2026. In fact, we have already booked Inish Beg for the second weekend in August 2026!
We are working on plans for an evening event in West Cork during the second weekend in August 2025 which is traditionally when the Festival is held, as well as an event in Dublin in the summer. We'll update here on the website as these plans develop. We'll also be posting films of our 2024 Festival on our website regularly in the next few months, so do keep checking in to see our amazing range of speakers, including Margaret Macmillan and Roy Foster, Caroline Campbell, Conor Gearty, Martin Doyle, Ida Milne, Anna Reid and many more.