….. and most of the talks from our 2018 Festival can be heard on our Playback page, while the photos below give a flavour of our 2018 Festival too.

Professor John Horne of TCD, with Simon Kingston, co-founder of the WCHF, and Gus, the Festival dog

Micheál Martin, who introduced our Saturday afternoon session on the events of 1918

Dr Andy Bielenberg of UCC with Simon Kingston

Professor Louise Ryan of the University of Sheffield

Terri Kearney of the Skibbereen Heritage Centre

Ronan McGreevy of the Irish Times introducing his film 'United Ireland: How Nationalists and Unionists fought together in Flanders’

Victoria Kingston, Festival co-founder, introduces Katie Childs from London's Imperial War Museum

Niamh MacNally from the National Gallery of Ireland

Our Festival Concert with Patsy Puttnam (left) and Jessie Kennedy, performing songs inspired by the diaries of Lady Mary Carbery in the early 1900s

One of our very successful Festival Field Trips (this one to Drombeg Stone Circle), which we will be running again in 2019

Marc Kingston of The Golden Bean, coffee-suppliers to the Festival