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Bob Geldof reads N.M. Cummins’ Letter to the London Times
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A slight hiatus…
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2019 Speakers
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Censorship, port history and Cork in 1920
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Gerald O’Brien on the Monster Repeal Meeting
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Brendan Simms: Britain, Ireland and Europe
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Ireland, Empire and the Sea
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Kieran Doyle: Memorials of the revolution in Cork
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Dr Eve Morrison: The Kilmichael Ambush
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Professor Brian Walker: Cork & Ulster in 1920
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The Interregnum, Alice Stopford Green & the Great Parchment Book of Waterford
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Shackleton’s sisters, First World War brides & Home School Histories
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Partition, Harry Clarke, U-Boats & the 17th century beef trade
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Partition, Helen Hooker O’Malley & Edith Somerville
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The American Civil War, the sinking of HMS Wasp & the Ulster Museum’s extraordinary collections
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A post-Easter post including the Belfast Blitz, the 1918-19 flu pandemic & the history of emotion
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Skibbereen Heritage Centre, St Patrick’s Day & wartime rugby
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‘Mr Yeats & the Beastly Coins’, old photos of Cork & the Benin Bronzes
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