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

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Panel Discussion: The Bandon Valley Killings

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Professor Brian Walker: The Bandon Valley Massacre

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

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Don Wood: 1922 and the Protestant Community in West Cork

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Dr Gemma Clark: “Sectarianism” as an Interpretative Framework

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Black ’47 Panel Discussion

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John Kelly: Artistic Response to An Gorta Mór

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Dr Charles Read – Famine and the Financial Crisis of 1847

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Professor Melissa Fegan: Literature and the Famine

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Professor Breandán Mac Suibhne: Black ’47 in Skibbereen

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An Taoiseach Micheál Martin Introduces the West Cork History Festival 2022

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Dan Mulhall: Declaring Independence – America 1776, Ireland 1919

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

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

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

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

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Daisy Goodwin – Writing Victoria

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

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

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

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John Dorney: ‘Florence McCarthy and his Spanish Connections’

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Clare Connolly: Subject Waves

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

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John Bruton: In Conversation with Carl Dinnen

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Guy Warner: Three First World War Airmen with Cork Connection

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Louise Ryan: The Suffrage Movement and the Irish Citizen Newspaper

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Michael Robinson: Disabled Great War Veterans during the Irish Revolution

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Niamh O’Sullivan: Art & the Great Hunger

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

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Peter Murray: The Victorian Painter George Victor du Noyer

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

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

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Niamh MacNally: Artist Margaret Clarke

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

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Lar Joye – Weapons of the War of Independence

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Alvin Jackson – Edward Carson and John Redmond

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

Cal Hyland: The Situation of Protestants in West Cork

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

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Colum Hourihane: Gothic Art in Ireland

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

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

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

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David Edwards: Gaelic Politics in the Latter Middle Ages

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

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Kieran Connolly – The Life of Sam Maguire

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

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William Casey – Cillíní in West Cork

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

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Panel Discussion: The War of Independence

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Panel Discussion – WW1 and Ireland: Participation

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Panel Discussion – WW1 and Ireland: Commemoration

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

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William Sheehan – Lessons in Counter-insurgency from Ireland

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Dominic Selwood: The Knights Templar and Ireland

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Eunan O’Halpin: Commemoration 1919-23

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

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Patrick Little: The Second Earl of Cork and his Children

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Connie Kelleher: Piracy off the West Cork Coast

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Lar Joye: Duelling in Ireland

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Roy Foster – Antagonism and Conflict in Irish History

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David Fitzpatrick: Protestant Depopulation and the Irish Revolution

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Marianne Elliott: Sectarianism in Ireland

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

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

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William Casey: Early Fenianism in Skibbereen

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Richard Butler: The Architecture of Bishop Lucey’s Churches

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

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Terry Barry: Tower Houses in Ireland

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Sean Boyne: The Execution of Bridget Noble

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David Reynolds: English Memory & Amnesia about Empire

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Cauvery Madhavan & Ida Milne – The Tainted

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Nigel Biggar: Ethics & remembering Empire

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Claire Warrior: the Irish in polar exploration

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Donal Lowry: Everything that Touches Ireland….

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Patricia O’Sullivan: Irish Police in Hong Kong

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Lar Joye: Irish soldiers in the British Army during empire

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Robert Harris: Echoes of the Zulu Wars

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Aoife Bhreatnach: 19th century military & imperial culture

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Flor MacCarthy: A family on both sides

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Roy Foster: Staying On or Staying Put

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Partition: Panel Discussion

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

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Jane Ohlmeyer: Ireland, Empire and the Early Modern World

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

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Fergal Keane: What we choose to remember & how

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Irish & British historians on the imperial past: Panel Discussion

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David Edwards: The Great Earl of Cork

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Dan Mulhall to speak

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Professor Eunan O’Halpin to speak

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Professor Terry Barry to speak

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Dr Andy Bielenberg to speak

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Professor David Fitzpatrick to speak

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Professor Marianne Elliott to speak

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John Spearman to Chair WCHF Patrons

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