Lots of really interesting things to read and watch this week....

A major Cork-related Decade of Centenaries anniversary falls today - 100 years since the death in Brixton Prison, on hunger strike, of Cork Lord Mayor Terence MacSwiney. There have been lots of articles on the subject in the last few days, but two of the most interesting looked at the impact on MacSwiney's family. Firstly Ronan McGreevy in the Irish Times on MacSwiney's widow Muriel and daughter Máire and on RTE History, a profile of his sister, Mary. Depicted below in an image from the National Library of Ireland, Mary MacSwiney was a prominent suffragist, republican and one of the country's first female TDs.

Also in Cork, but back to the early 17th century, our friends at the Roaringwater Journal blog have this piece on the depiction of West Cork's Roaringwater Bay in a (secret) 1612 map.

An intriguing post on the often excellent Writing the 'Troubles' blog called Researching the Troubles through the Study of Architectural Heritage Destruction by Andrew G. McClelland.

Also related to Northern Ireland, a huge archive of BBC Northern Ireland footage is now available on the BBC website - so many interesting films to watch.

Finally, Liverpool University Press have just published a really interesting-looking collection of essays entitled Southern Irish Loyalism, 1912-1949 which is co-edited by Festival contributor Brian Hughes. You can hear his talk at our 2018 Festival - entitled ‘Gossip, rumour, and propaganda: depictions and perceptions of Irish revolutionary violence' by clicking here.