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Exhibitions both online & in real life
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The O’Conor Don & the ‘Irish Giant’ Charles Byrne
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A very Happy Christmas & best wishes for 2023
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Stamps, ports and Scythian gold
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1798, the Famine & 1922
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‘Thus she shall go to the stars…’
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A West Cork botanist, a Dublin psychiatric hospital, mythical creatures of Cashel & the Irish founder of the SAS
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Decade of Centenaries but more too – Irish Georgian interiors & a rebellion in Jamaica
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Our Festival Concert is going on tour!
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Festival Concert: ‘Thus She Shall Go To The Stars’
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Bob Geldof for WCHF 2022
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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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Bob Geldof reads N.M. Cummins’ Letter to the London Times
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West Cork, Dublin & Offaly histories
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Press coverage for our 2022 Festival
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2022 Festival Images
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Something for after the Festival…
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Festival back catalogue…
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Our 2022 speakers
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Booking
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The Book of St Albans, the Tailteann Games, the Civil War & a fantastic resource on the Diaspora
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Women’s experiences in the revolutionary period & beyond
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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
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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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Why Here?
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West Cork History Festival
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West Cork
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John Spearman to Chair WCHF Patrons
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Professor Marianne Elliott to speak
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Professor David Fitzpatrick to speak
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Dr Andy Bielenberg to speak
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Professor Terry Barry to speak
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Professor Eunan O’Halpin to speak
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Dan Mulhall to speak
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Plan Your Visit
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About the Festival
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Skibbereen Arts Festival
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The Time Traveller Magazine
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The Time Traveller Magazine ii
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Some of our speakers in the news …
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West Cork views
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Skibbereen Arts Festival – tickets on sale
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Ireland & the First World War – Participation
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West Cork History Festival featured in Irish Times today
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Ireland & the First World War – Commemoration
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Historical guided tours in and around Skibbereen
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West Cork History Festival again featured in the Irish Times
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West Cork in the 1600s
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One week to go…
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Festival tickets available via Skibbereen Arts Festival Box Office
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West Cork History Festival starts tonight
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History Festival Dinner – Saturday 29th July
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Day One – West Cork History Festival on film
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Day Two – West Cork History Festival on film
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Day Three – West Cork History Festival
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Press coverage of the West Cork History Festival
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Further press coverage of WCHF
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Press coverage of the Festival continues …
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West Cork History Festival
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Previous Festivals
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The debate continues ….
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History Ireland
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Dr David Edwards joins Festival Committee
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WCHF 2018 programme update
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Audio of 2017 WCHF
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In the press ….
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WCHF programme update – the 1918 influenza epidemic
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Audio of 2017 Festival
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Roaringwater Journal
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Finally, spring ….
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Irish Times 1918 supplement
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Jessie Kennedy and Lady Patsy Puttnam to perform at 2018 WCHF
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Field trips added to programme for 2018 Festival
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Full details of West Cork History Festival field trips
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The West Cork History Festival is now on Instagram
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Tickets for the 2018 West Cork History Festival on sale now !
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2018 Festival Dinner
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Early bird prices end on Sunday 17 June
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Sam Maguire at the West Cork History Festival
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Diocese of Cork, Cloyne & Ross Diocesan News
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Coming Home at Uilinn: West Cork Arts Centre
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Volunteers wanted for WCHF 2018
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WCHF features in Irish Times and Irish Examiner today
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Lady Mary Carbery’s West Cork Diaries, 1898-1901 – A Musical Narrative by Jessie Kennedy and Lady Patsy Puttnam
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Citizen Lane
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Edward ‘Mick’ Mannock
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Francis Ledwidge
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Carson & Redmond
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Oh! What A Lovely War
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The War to End All Wars ?
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‘Stories of the Revolution’
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West Cork History Festival Concert
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Jeremy Irons to give poetry reading at West Cork History Festival
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1918 centenary
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Coverage of the West Cork History Festival in West Cork People
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History as mediated through art
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