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September 18, 2023 Festival Blog

Day Two of the Festival

The main focus of Day Two was the War of Independence and the Decade of Centenaries, but we had talks on other themes and subjects too.

Professor Caitriona Beaumont on her project ‘Afterlives of Activist Women’ looking at Ireland, Germany and Finland
Dr Eve Morrison on ‘Trauma, Democracy and the Irish Civil War’
Helen Beaumont from the National Museum of Ireland and (below) handling objects that Helen brought from the Museum
Commandant Daniel Ayiotis ‘Crests and Troughs: Preserving the Records of the Irish Revolution’
Professor Heather Jones ‘King George V and Ireland: Reform, Revolution and Royal Regret’
Dr Edward Burke on ‘The Greatest Weight? Paramilitaries, inter-generational violence and feud in Ulster’s borderlands’
Dr Nicholas McDowell ‘The Poetry of Civil War: from Milton to Yeats’ Paul Lay ‘Irish Agency in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms’
Paul Lay ‘Irish Agency in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms’
Festival co-founder Simon Kingston introduces Dominic Selwood, who spoke about his book Anatomy of a Nation: A History of British Identity in 50 Documents
Mike MacCarthy-Morrogh ‘The hairy heel infiltrates West Cork: the MacCarthy Morroghs of Innis Beg in the 19th century’. Mike’s family were previous owners of Inish Beg.
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