Padraig Walsh, Vice Chairperson of Kinsale Cultural and Heritage Society,   delivers a lecture on Gallipoli at Charles Fort on Friday, April 25th at 3pm to mark Anzac Day. The poorly planned effort pursued by the then First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill, sought to shorten the First World War by landing on the Dardanelles […]

Kinsale Cultural and Heritage Society is delighted to promote the upcoming exhibition on our clothing heritage that runs at Kinsale Library from April 17th to May 13th. Supported by Creative Ireland, ‘A Stitch in Time: The Clothes We Wore, The Future We Weave’ is the culmination of a series of workshops led by Cork County […]

The society will be publishing a monthly piece on its website, re the history of Kinsale and the District from local historians or those with a specific story to tell. . We are delighted that the first person to make that contribution is William Butler. A member of the OPW staff at Charles Fort, William […]

On Saturday last, our chairperson JJ Hurley delivered an in-dept lecture on the Upton Train Ambush of 1921. Remembering the eight civilians, along with the three volunteers, who were also killed as a result of the incident. Having spent the past week’s researching the events of February 15th 1921, JJ argued that the failure to […]

Niall Stewart is to open the gates on Kinsale’s Medieval History when he takes to the Temperance Hall for a lecture on Thursday, April 17th at 8pm. Niall, who has tremendous knowledge on the subject, is delivering the lecture for Kinsale Cultural and Heritage Society as part of the group’s extensive monthly programme of lectures. […]

Kinsale Cultural and Heritage Society hosted 4th class students at the town’s Library to mark Seachtain na Gaeilge as Seanchaí, Paddy O’Brien, entertained the gathering. The second year the local history society organised the event, it has proven to be very popular with the students from Summercove NS, Scoil Naomh Eltin, Dunderrow NS, St Multose […]

On the 15th of February 1921, 13 members of the IRA, including the Officer in charge of the 3rd Brigade of the Cork IRA, Charlie Hurley, lay in wait to ambush a party of British soldiers at Upton train station. The hastily gathered party of IRA Volunteers lacked the experience of the men of the […]

In September 2016, several large signs to mark key locations on the Battle of Kinsale were stolen. The remaining signs were removed by the local authority for safe keeping. Nine years have almost passed since the historic markers were taken and despite the best efforts of the community, including the Chairman of Kinsale Cultural and […]