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

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

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’

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