Archive - West Cork History Festival

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Bob Geldof reads N.M. Cummins’ Letter to the London Times

A slight hiatus…

2019 Speakers

Censorship, port history and Cork in 1920

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

The Interregnum, Alice Stopford Green & the Great Parchment Book of Waterford

Shackleton’s sisters, First World War brides & Home School Histories

Partition, Harry Clarke, U-Boats & the 17th century beef trade

Partition, Helen Hooker O’Malley & Edith Somerville

The American Civil War, the sinking of HMS Wasp & the Ulster Museum’s extraordinary collections

A post-Easter post including the Belfast Blitz, the 1918-19 flu pandemic & the history of emotion

Skibbereen Heritage Centre, St Patrick’s Day & wartime rugby

‘Mr Yeats & the Beastly Coins’, old photos of Cork & the Benin Bronzes

International Women’s Day & Limerick 100 years ago

The Cricket Bat that Died for Ireland (and some other things)

Creative Centenaries website, the Anglo-Zulu War and Medieval pilgrimage

India, Dublin, Cork City & Drimoleague

Legacies of slavery from Bristol via Belfast & intelligence in the War of Independence

Maps, shipyards and our very own Mount Gabriel

Bad Bridget, Rex Ingram and murder in Co Cork

A bumper end of 2020 post – and a Happy New Year !

13 December: our not-quite weekly at this time of year round-up

22 November: almost too much history this week…..

15 November: our weekly round-up

Our weekly update

Our weekly update

25 October: our weekly historical miscellany

18 October: WCHF’s (mostly) regular round-up

9 October: History Festival selection

20 September: a short selection this week

13 September: our regular round-up of historical content online

8 September: our not-quite-weekly round up

Our weekly selection

16 August: our weekly round-up

Simon Kingston on our plans for our 2020 Digital Festival

Our 2020 digital (mini) Festival

2 August: our weekly round up

25 July: a fortnightly round up ….

WCHF weekly selection

5 July: our weekly round up

The new Taoiseach & the West Cork History Festival

Our weekly historical miscellany

Weekly selection

Weekly round up

Weekly update of articles to read and films to watch

The WCHF weekly miscellany

Interesting things to read, watch and listen to

Cancellation of 2020 Festival

Weekly selection

Our weekly (very roughly) round-up

Some interesting things to read

Poetry Day Ireland 2020

Some interesting things to read

Some interesting things to read and listen to …

This is quite some Easter egg….

Harry Clarke at Easter

Some interesting things to read, watch and listen to…

2020 Festival update

Self-isolating in West Cork

In these difficult times…

Articles of interest

Podcast on Passage Tombs

West Cork History Festival film

Lough Abisdealy

RIC and DMP commemorations

Looking forward to a happy & history-filled 2020

Happy Christmas and all the best for 2020 !

A Brief History of …. Clementines at Christmas

Ballydehob in 1977

An inconvenient truth? Sexual violence and the Irish Revolution

Speakers

Sunday: the West Cork History Festival

Ruth Dudley Edwards podcast

Ireland in the European Eye

Ida Milne and Ian d’Alton podcast

8 September: Timekeeping in Youghal

Wonders of the World architectural series on Newstalk

West Cork History Festival

16 September: Professor Roy Foster on the effect of Brexit on Anglo-Irish relations

Professor Brendan Simms in the New Statesman

Films of some of our Festival talks are now available on our website

Latest news: 2020 Festival dates confirmed

Long Strand

Halloween… or Samhain

The Treaty of Limerick

Remembrance Sunday

Professor Roy Foster lecture on Somerville & Ross at UCC

Our specially commissioned 2019 Festival podcasts are all here

Gold in the National Museum of Ireland

An inconvenient truth? Sexual violence and the Irish Revolution

Ballydehob in 1977

A Brief History of …. Clementines at Christmas

Happy Christmas and all the best for 2020 !

Looking forward to a happy & history-filled 2020

RIC and DMP commemorations

Lough Abisdealy

West Cork History Festival film

Podcast on Passage Tombs

Articles of interest

In these difficult times…

Self-isolating in West Cork

2020 Festival update

Some interesting things to read, watch and listen to…

Harry Clarke at Easter

This is quite some Easter egg….

Some interesting things to read and listen to …

Some interesting things to read

Poetry Day Ireland 2020

Some interesting things to read

Our weekly (very roughly) round-up

Weekly selection

Cancellation of 2020 Festival

Interesting things to read, watch and listen to

The WCHF weekly miscellany

Weekly update of articles to read and films to watch

Weekly round up

Weekly selection

Our weekly historical miscellany

The new Taoiseach & the West Cork History Festival

5 July: our weekly round up

WCHF weekly selection

25 July: a fortnightly round up ….

2 August: our weekly round up

Our 2020 digital (mini) Festival

Simon Kingston on our plans for our 2020 Digital Festival

16 August: our weekly round-up

Our weekly selection

8 September: our not-quite-weekly round up

13 September: our regular round-up of historical content online

20 September: a short selection this week

9 October: History Festival selection

18 October: WCHF’s (mostly) regular round-up

25 October: our weekly historical miscellany

Our weekly update

Our weekly update

15 November: our weekly round-up

22 November: almost too much history this week…..

13 December: our not-quite weekly at this time of year round-up

A bumper end of 2020 post – and a Happy New Year !

Bad Bridget, Rex Ingram and murder in Co Cork

Maps, shipyards and our very own Mount Gabriel

Legacies of slavery from Bristol via Belfast & intelligence in the War of Independence

India, Dublin, Cork City & Drimoleague

Creative Centenaries website, the Anglo-Zulu War and Medieval pilgrimage

The Cricket Bat that Died for Ireland (and some other things)