The West Cork History Festival will take place over the weekend of 9 - 11 August 2024 at the beautiful Inish Beg estate, which was such a great location for our 2023 Festival.
Our programme this year will have two broad themes: Aftermaths and Diaspora.
Scroll down for more information on our Festival Field trips.
Friday 9 August
17:30-21:00
| Octagon | |
| 17:30 - 19:30 | Opening remarks followed by Professors Margaret MacMillan & Roy Foster |
| 20:00 - 22:00 | Screening of Rebel Wife, directed by Williams Rossa Cole, and telling the story of Mary Jane O’Donovan Rossa |
| The bar will be open and food available |
Saturday 10 August
10:00-21:00
| Octagon | Boathouse | |
| 10:00-11:00 | Andy Bielenberg and John Dorney, in conversation with Helene O’Keeffe - Mapping the Civil War | Christopher de Bellaigue - Suleiman the Magnificent |
| 11:15-12:15 | Donal Byrne - Afterlives of Big House Families | Rosa Gilbert - Oral Histories of the Irish in Britain |
| 12:30 -13:30 | Conor Gearty – How Counter-Terrorism Law Has Changed What We Allow Under Liberal Democracy | Breandan Mac Suibhne – The Miller Collection of Letters |
| 13:30-14:30 Lunch – food and drink will be available | ||
| 14:30- 15:30 | Russell Napier – The Aftermath of Debt | Catherine Wynne – The Irish Soldier in the British Army in the Nineteenth Century |
| 15:45-16:45 | Martin Doyle – The writing of Dirty Linen | Ida Milne – The Elmes Letters: a Wexford Protestant family network on surviving the 1798 rebellion |
| 17:00-18:00 | Anna Reid – A Nasty Little War: The West's Fight to Reverse the Russian Revolution | Ruti Lachs – Cork’s Jewish Culture Past & Present |
| Food and drink will be available Saturday evening only tickets are available for music & film screening, under 16s are free | ||
| 18:00-21:00 | Live music: Fresh Air Collective | Screening of Rebel Wife, directed by Williams Rossa Cole, and telling the story of Mary Jane O’Donovan Rossa |
Sunday 11 August
10:00-18:30
| Octagon | |
| 10:00-11:00 | Tom Keneally in conversation with Myles Dungan |
| 11.15-12.15 | Catherine Bateson – 'Words and Music by an Irishman’ – The Irish American Civil War Experience Expressed in Song |
| 12.30-13.30 | Myles Dungan on his book Land & All That Matters |
| 12:45-13:30 Food & Drink will be available | |
| 14:30-15:30 | Caroline Campbell – The National Gallery in Irish Life |
| 15:45-16.45 | Henry Hemming – Four Shots in the Night: The Hunt for Stakeknife |
| 16:45 – 18:15 | Panel Discussion with Festival speakers: Are Aftermaths when the action happens? |
| END |
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