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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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