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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

Bob Geldof reads N.M. Cummins’ Letter to the London Times

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

David Edwards: The Great Earl of Cork

Gerald O’Brien on the Monster Repeal Meeting

Brendan Simms: Britain, Ireland and Europe

Ireland, Empire and the Sea

Kieran Doyle: Memorials of the revolution in Cork

Dr Eve Morrison: The Kilmichael Ambush

Professor Brian Walker: Cork & Ulster in 1920

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