Decade of Centenaries 1912-1923

Talks Saturday 12 August

Talks Friday 11 August

Dr Andy Bielenberg: ‘100 years on; The Dunmanway Massacre Revisited’

Panel Discussion: Reflecting on the challenges which lie ahead in the Decade of Centenaries.

Brian Walker: ‘Southern Protestant Voices during the War of Independence and Civil War’

Eunan O’Halpin – ‘Policing and politics: the RIC and the War of Independence, 1919-21’

Dan Mulhall: Declaring Independence – America 1776, Ireland 1919

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.’

Ruth Dudley Edwards – Reflecting on Attitudes in Southern Ireland to Northern Ireland

Stephen Collins – ‘Why the State Should Commemorate the RIC/DMP – A Personal Perspective’

Clare Connolly: Subject Waves

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

Eunan O’Halpin: A Catalogue of Errors – the British Government and Ireland in 1918

Ida Milne – Stacking the Coffins, the 1918-19 Influenza Pandemic and Irish Society

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