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Festival Concert: ‘Thus She Shall Go To The Stars’

Panel Discussion: The Bandon Valley Killings

Professor Brian Walker: The Bandon Valley Massacre

Dr Andy Bielenberg: ‘100 years on; The Dunmanway Massacre Revisited’

Don Wood: 1922 and the Protestant Community in West Cork

Dr Gemma Clark: “Sectarianism” as an Interpretative Framework

Black ’47 Panel Discussion

John Kelly: Artistic Response to An Gorta Mór

Dr Charles Read – Famine and the Financial Crisis of 1847

Professor Melissa Fegan: Literature and the Famine

Professor Breandán Mac Suibhne: Black ’47 in Skibbereen

An Taoiseach Micheál Martin Introduces the West Cork History Festival 2022

Panel Discussion: Reflecting on the challenges which lie ahead in the Decade of Centenaries.

Panel Discussion: Reflecting on the triangular relationship between Ireland, Britain & Continental Europe.

Brian Walker: ‘Southern Protestant Voices during the War of Independence and Civil War’

Brendan Simms: ‘From back door to back stop. Britain, Ireland and Europe in historical perspective’.

Eunan O’Halpin – ‘Policing and politics: the RIC and the War of Independence, 1919-21’

Miriam O’Donovan: ‘James Goodman’s Song Manuscript of 1857 in its Context’

Thomas O’Connor: ‘Strangers to Citizens: the Irish in Europe before the French Revolution’

Gerald O’Brien in Conversation with William Casey: ‘Daniel O’Connell and the Monster Repeal Meeting, Skibbereen, June 1843’

Orla Murphy: ‘The Life and Work of Seamus Murphy’

Mary Murphy: ‘Europe and the British-Irish Relationship: Past, Present and Future’

Dan Mulhall: Declaring Independence – America 1776, Ireland 1919

Sylvie Kleinman – ‘Framing the Irish Republic 1796-2016’ A revisit of Tone’s exile in France for the Decade of Commemorations

Liam Kennedy: ‘The IRA and Irish Protestants, 1919-23 and 1969-98’

John Horne: ‘At the Crossroads: Ireland, Britain and the International Context, 1919-1923’

Jim Herlihy: The Royal Irish Constabulary ‘A Forgotten Force – The Case for a Memorial.’

Daisy Goodwin – Writing Victoria

Ruth Dudley Edwards – Reflecting on Attitudes in Southern Ireland to Northern Ireland

Ida Milne and Ian d’Alton – ‘Protestant and Irish: Opening a different sort of conversation?’

Stephen Collins – ‘Why the State Should Commemorate the RIC/DMP – A Personal Perspective’

John Dorney: ‘Florence McCarthy and his Spanish Connections’

Clare Connolly: Subject Waves

Brian Coghlan: ‘An exploration of the life of Percy Ludgate’

John Bruton: In Conversation with Carl Dinnen

Guy Warner: Three First World War Airmen with Cork Connection

Louise Ryan: The Suffrage Movement and the Irish Citizen Newspaper

Michael Robinson: Disabled Great War Veterans during the Irish Revolution

Niamh O’Sullivan: Art & the Great Hunger

Eunan O’Halpin: A Catalogue of Errors – the British Government and Ireland in 1918

Peter Murray: The Victorian Painter George Victor du Noyer

Ida Milne – Stacking the Coffins, the 1918-19 Influenza Pandemic and Irish Society

Mary McGilicuddy: Women in the Fishing Industry in South West Ireland in the Late 18th & Early 19th Centuries

Niamh MacNally: Artist Margaret Clarke

Connie Kelleher: The 1627 Wreck of the Spanish Treasure Galleon Santa Ana Maria

Lar Joye – Weapons of the War of Independence

Alvin Jackson – Edward Carson and John Redmond

Irons Jeremy: Reading of Irish First World War and Revolutionary Era Poetry

Cal Hyland: The Situation of Protestants in West Cork

Brian Hughes: Gossip, Rumour & Propaganda – Deceptions and Perceptions of Irish

Colum Hourihane: Gothic Art in Ireland

John Horne – The War to End All Wars, International Perspectives 1918-23

Susan Flavin: Food, Drink & Society in 16th Century Ireland

Finola Finlay – From Skibbereen to the Moon, Agnes Clerke and 19th Century Astronomy

David Edwards: Gaelic Politics in the Latter Middle Ages

Linda Connolly: The Violence Suffered by Women During the Irish Revolution

Kieran Connolly – The Life of Sam Maguire

Katie Childs: The Imperial War Museum, Remembering Women’s Roles in WW1

William Casey – Cillíní in West Cork

Andy Bielenberg: Disappearances in County Cork 1920-22 and the Case of Mrs Lindsay

Panel Discussion: The War of Independence

Panel Discussion – WW1 and Ireland: Participation

Panel Discussion – WW1 and Ireland: Commemoration

Kevin Vickers: Irish Born Canadian Soldiers in the First World War

William Sheehan – Lessons in Counter-insurgency from Ireland

Dominic Selwood: The Knights Templar and Ireland

Eunan O’Halpin: Commemoration 1919-23

Dan Mulhall: War and Peace: Two Irish Writers in 1917

Patrick Little: The Second Earl of Cork and his Children

Connie Kelleher: Piracy off the West Cork Coast

Lar Joye: Duelling in Ireland

Roy Foster – Antagonism and Conflict in Irish History

David Fitzpatrick: Protestant Depopulation and the Irish Revolution

Marianne Elliott: Sectarianism in Ireland

Michael Dobbs: Life, Lust and Liquor: How House of Cards Wrote Itself

Pat Crowley: The O’Donovan Family of Muintervara, Durrus

William Casey: Early Fenianism in Skibbereen

Richard Butler: The Architecture of Bishop Lucey’s Churches

Andy Bielenberg: Spies and informers in Cork in the War of Independence

Terry Barry: Tower Houses in Ireland

Sean Boyne: The Execution of Bridget Noble

David Reynolds: English Memory & Amnesia about Empire

Cauvery Madhavan & Ida Milne – The Tainted

Nigel Biggar: Ethics & remembering Empire

Claire Warrior: the Irish in polar exploration

Donal Lowry: Everything that Touches Ireland….

Patricia O’Sullivan: Irish Police in Hong Kong

Lar Joye: Irish soldiers in the British Army during empire

Robert Harris: Echoes of the Zulu Wars

Aoife Bhreatnach: 19th century military & imperial culture

Flor MacCarthy: A family on both sides

Roy Foster: Staying On or Staying Put

Partition: Panel Discussion

Mary Kenny: Ireland after 1921 – Why the Free State had to be a Catholic State

Jane Ohlmeyer: Ireland, Empire and the Early Modern World

Let’s talk about the Black and Tans: Panel Discussion

Fergal Keane: What we choose to remember & how

Irish & British historians on the imperial past: Panel Discussion

David Edwards: The Great Earl of Cork

Dan Mulhall to speak

Professor Eunan O’Halpin to speak

Professor Terry Barry to speak

Dr Andy Bielenberg to speak

Professor David Fitzpatrick to speak

Professor Marianne Elliott to speak

John Spearman to Chair WCHF Patrons

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