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Andy Bielenberg: Spies and informers in Cork in the War of Independence
Terry Barry: Tower Houses in Ireland
Sir Henry Wilson, 19th century prison hulks, a “drunken man of genius” & medical staff in the Troubles
Feargal Keane at the 2021 Festival
Kilmichael: the Life and Afterlife of an Ambush
James Kingston
The Bandon Valley murders 100 years on
Monuments to our past: Understanding commemoration & the revolutionary period in Cork 1914-23
Our 2022 Festival
Shackleton, Northern Ireland’s governors & Maud Gonne in Skibbereen
It’s been a while…
50 years since Bloody Sunday & the centenary of an important Irish art exhibition in Paris
The Anglo-Zulu War, Palestine & the RIC and Agatha Christie & the Lusitania
Dublin Castle, Ulysses & apartheid South Africa
Happy New Year – and plans for 2022
In between Christmas and New Year …
A very Happy Christmas & best wishes for 2022
John Lavery, some remarkable women & the sinking of RMS Leinster
There’s no escaping…
Mother Jones, the Anglo-Irish Treaty & an Irish poet on the London Underground
Eithne Coyle, Eileen Gray & Knockdrum Stone Fort
Black History Month & Tissot’s Irish muse
Rockall, Alaska and West Cork
The Anglo-Irish Treaty
The Battle of Jadotville & the Battle of Britain
Back to the regular posts: Dublin Festival of History, Eisenhower in Belfast & Arthur Griffith
Press coverage of our 2021 Festival
Our 2021 digital Festival has started
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
Our 2021 Programme is here
David Edwards: The Great Earl of Cork
Saturday: the 2019 West Cork History Festival
Friday: the 2019 West Cork History Festival
Festival contributor Daisy Goodwin on The Ryan Tubridy Show this week
West Cork History Festival featured in this week’s Southern Star
Brendan Simms on Ireland and Brexit
Saturday at our Festival
Final preparations underway ….
As we prepare for WCHF 2019, a look back at 2018 …
Keepers of the Flame
Festival Food & Drink
West Cork History Festival Concert 2019
Digital History Quest for 8 year olds and up
WCHF, the Ludgate Hub & the mysterious Percy Ludgate!
2019 speaker Professor Brendan Simms in Irish Times this week
Closing speaker announced for 2019 Festival !
12th July
Dan Mulhall returns to WCHF
Treaty of Versailles 100 years ago
Festival Field Trips
Only 8 weeks to go !
Review of Protestant and Irish, edited by two of this year’s Festival contributors
West Cork connections to D-Day
Tickets for our 2019 Festival are now on sale !
Festival volunteers wanted
Professor Claire Connolly
2019 Programme
The books that created Dracula …..
The Lusitania camisole
Baltimore and Fethard
The importance of teaching history in schools
The sisterhood at The Royal Irish Academy
On this day in 1509….
It’s been a beautiful few days in West Cork…..
100 years since the Amritsar Massacre
Mary Swanzy at the Crawford Art Gallery
The Great Famine on BBC Radio 4’s In Our Time programme
Recasting Canova at the Crawford Art Gallery
St Patrick’s Day
Irish Association of Professional Historians
Festival featured in Southern Star
Become a Friend of the West Cork History Festival
Irish women in mid-20th century Britain
Death of Professor David Fitzpatrick
The ‘Fish Palaces’ of West Cork
Six months until WCHF 2019 …
The Dublin Apocalypse goes online
Dromdiah, County Cork from The Irish Aesthete
Sexual violence in the War of Independence & the Civil War
1919 – War and Peace
Soloheadbeg centenary
Killarney Economic Conference 17-18 January 2019
We are the Dark Night Ocean
Ronan McGreevy on the centenaries ahead
Audio of the 2018 Festival available now
Happy Christmas!
A 15th century Christmas gift
Harry Clarke at Christmas
Final days of autumn
Should history be optional for Junior Cert ?
Dublin Munitions Workers
Two Festival contributors feature in the Irish Times today
West Cork in autumn
Brian Lalor and the West Cork History Festival
Animating the West Cork History Festival
Dates announced for 2019 Festival
The West Cork History Festival Trifle !
Dublin Festival of History now on!
Ronan McGreevy’s film shortlisted for important award
More photos from our 2018 Festival
Press coverage of the 2018 Festival
Photos from our 2018 Festival
Tickets still available for all events at the Festival
Jeremy Irons will be our closing act
RAF 100
Oh! What A Lovely War
Two pioneering women at the West Cork History Festival
The Wreck of the Santa Ana Maria comes to life….
History as mediated through art
Coverage of the West Cork History Festival in West Cork People
1918 centenary
Jeremy Irons to give poetry reading at West Cork History Festival
West Cork History Festival Concert
‘Stories of the Revolution’
The War to End All Wars ?
Oh! What A Lovely War
Carson & Redmond
Francis Ledwidge
Edward ‘Mick’ Mannock
Citizen Lane
Lady Mary Carbery’s West Cork Diaries, 1898-1901 – A Musical Narrative by Jessie Kennedy and Lady Patsy Puttnam
WCHF features in Irish Times and Irish Examiner today
Volunteers wanted for WCHF 2018
Coming Home at Uilinn: West Cork Arts Centre
Diocese of Cork, Cloyne & Ross Diocesan News
Sam Maguire at the West Cork History Festival
Early bird prices end on Sunday 17 June
2018 Festival Dinner
Tickets for the 2018 West Cork History Festival on sale now !
West Cork History Festival mailing list
The West Cork History Festival is now on Instagram
Full details of West Cork History Festival field trips
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