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Exhibitions both online & in real life

The O’Conor Don & the ‘Irish Giant’ Charles Byrne

A very Happy Christmas & best wishes for 2023

Stamps, ports and Scythian gold

1798, the Famine & 1922

‘Thus she shall go to the stars…’

A West Cork botanist, a Dublin psychiatric hospital, mythical creatures of Cashel & the Irish founder of the SAS

Decade of Centenaries but more too – Irish Georgian interiors & a rebellion in Jamaica

Our Festival Concert is going on tour!

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

Bob Geldof for WCHF 2022

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

West Cork, Dublin & Offaly histories

Press coverage for our 2022 Festival

2022 Festival Images

Something for after the Festival…

Festival back catalogue…

Our 2022 speakers

Booking

The Book of St Albans, the Tailteann Games, the Civil War & a fantastic resource on the Diaspora

Women’s experiences in the revolutionary period & beyond

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

Why Here?

West Cork History Festival

West Cork

John Spearman to Chair WCHF Patrons

Professor Marianne Elliott to speak

Professor David Fitzpatrick to speak

Dr Andy Bielenberg to speak

Professor Terry Barry to speak

Professor Eunan O’Halpin to speak

Dan Mulhall to speak

Plan Your Visit

About the Festival

Skibbereen Arts Festival

The Time Traveller Magazine

The Time Traveller Magazine ii

Some of our speakers in the news …

West Cork views

Skibbereen Arts Festival – tickets on sale

Ireland & the First World War – Participation

West Cork History Festival featured in Irish Times today

Ireland & the First World War – Commemoration

Historical guided tours in and around Skibbereen

West Cork History Festival again featured in the Irish Times

West Cork in the 1600s

One week to go…

Festival tickets available via Skibbereen Arts Festival Box Office

West Cork History Festival starts tonight

History Festival Dinner – Saturday 29th July

Day One – West Cork History Festival on film

Day Two – West Cork History Festival on film

Day Three – West Cork History Festival

Press coverage of the West Cork History Festival

Further press coverage of WCHF

Press coverage of the Festival continues …

West Cork History Festival

Previous Festivals

The debate continues ….

History Ireland

Dr David Edwards joins Festival Committee

WCHF 2018 programme update

Audio of 2017 WCHF

In the press ….

WCHF programme update – the 1918 influenza epidemic

Audio of 2017 Festival

Roaringwater Journal

Finally, spring ….

Irish Times 1918 supplement

Jessie Kennedy and Lady Patsy Puttnam to perform at 2018 WCHF

Field trips added to programme for 2018 Festival

Full details of West Cork History Festival field trips

The West Cork History Festival is now on Instagram

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Tickets for the 2018 West Cork History Festival on sale now !

2018 Festival Dinner

Early bird prices end on Sunday 17 June

Sam Maguire at the West Cork History Festival

Diocese of Cork, Cloyne & Ross Diocesan News

Coming Home at Uilinn: West Cork Arts Centre

Volunteers wanted for WCHF 2018

WCHF features in Irish Times and Irish Examiner today

Lady Mary Carbery’s West Cork Diaries, 1898-1901 – A Musical Narrative by Jessie Kennedy and Lady Patsy Puttnam

Citizen Lane

Edward ‘Mick’ Mannock

Francis Ledwidge

Carson & Redmond

Oh! What A Lovely War

The War to End All Wars ?

‘Stories of the Revolution’

West Cork History Festival Concert

Jeremy Irons to give poetry reading at West Cork History Festival

1918 centenary

Coverage of the West Cork History Festival in West Cork People

History as mediated through art

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