West Cork Histories

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

Panel Discussion: The Bandon Valley Killings

Professor Brian Walker: The Bandon Valley Massacre

Don Wood: 1922 and the Protestant Community in West Cork

John Kelly: Artistic Response to An Gorta Mór

Professor Breandán Mac Suibhne: Black ’47 in Skibbereen

Miriam O’Donovan: ‘James Goodman’s Song Manuscript of 1857 in its Context’

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’

Liam Kennedy: ‘The IRA and Irish Protestants, 1919-23 and 1969-98’

Daisy Goodwin – Writing Victoria

Ida Milne and Ian d’Alton – ‘Protestant and Irish: Opening a different sort of conversation?’

John Dorney: ‘Florence McCarthy and his Spanish Connections’

Clare Connolly: Subject Waves

Brian Coghlan: ‘An exploration of the life of Percy Ludgate’

Guy Warner: Three First World War Airmen with Cork Connection

Niamh O’Sullivan: Art & the Great Hunger

Mary McGilicuddy: Women in the Fishing Industry in South West Ireland in the Late 18th & Early 19th Centuries

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