Two months on… – West Cork History Festival

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October 10, 2024 Festival Blog

Two months on…

It's been two months since our 2024 Festival so we're marking the occasion with more photos of the talks and events over a wonderful weekend of history in August.

Helene O'Keefe, Andy Bielenberg and John Dorney just before speaking on UCC's Mapping the Civil War project.
9 August 2024

Margaret Macmillan and Roy Foster in conversation
10 August 2024

Christopher de Bellaigue speaking about Suleyman the Magnificent
10 August 2024

Donal Byrne speaking about the Afterlives of Big House Families
10 August 2024

Conor Gearty speaking about 'How Counter-Terrorism Law Has Changed What We Allow Under Liberal Democracy'
10 August 2024

Rosa Gilbert speaking about her project Oral Histories of the Irish in Britain
10 August 2024

The Aftermath of Debt with Russell Napier
10 August 2024

Breandan Mac Suibhne speaking about The Miller Collection of Letters (also pictured at the top of the post)
10 August 2024

Martin Doyle on the writing of his book Dirty Linen: The Troubles in My Home Place
10 August 2024

Catherine Wynne speaking about The Irish Soldier in the British Army in the Nineteenth Century
10 August 2024

Anna Reid speaking about her book A Nasty Little War: The West's Fight to Reverse the Russian Revolution
10 August 2024

Ida Milne speaking about The Elmes Letters: a Wexford Protestant family network on surviving the 1798 rebellion
10 August 2024

Cork’s Jewish Culture Past & Present with Ruti Lachs
10 August 2024

Catherine Bateson speaking on the subject of The Irish American Civil War
Experience Expressed in Song
11 August 2024

Caroline Campbell, Director of the National Gallery, on the Gallery's role in Irish life
11 August 2024

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