Kilbrittain History Society Lecture One of Bandon's most iconic buildings - Allmans Bandon Distillery is located near Bandon Mart. Founded in the 1820s by James C. Allman, it was converted from a cotton mill into a whiskey distillery. The presentation will explore the Allman's Distillery story from the Overton Cotton Mill near the Bridewell tributary […]
On Thursday next, April 25th at 8pm, Padraig Walsh presents a lecture on The Gallipoli Campaign at the Temperance Hall, Kinsale. Hosted by Kinsale Cultural and Heritage Society, Padraig is set to tell the story of another lost opportunity on the ancient hills of the Dardanelles in 1915 to put an end to the Great War […]
To mark the bi-centenary of both the RNLI and the Irish Coast Guard, our next event will feature the following joint lectures. The RNLI was founded by Sir William Hillary in 1824. The Courtmacsherry RNLI Lifeboat Station along with the RNLI Lifeboat Station at Arklow were the first to be set up in Ireland in […]
Cork Historical & Archaeological Society presents The margrave, the devil and the Irishman, a newly discovered medieval text concerning the Irish anchorite monk Johannes of Göttweig’ by Dr Diarmuid Ó Riain. Dr Diarmuid Ó Riain is a postdoctoral researcher on the Digital Atlas of Early Irish Carved Stone project based in UCC’s Department of Archaeology. […]
Muskerry Local History Society presents ‘A History of Irish Whiskey from the Midleton Archive’ with Carol Quinn. Non-members: €4 per lecture
Coppeen Archaeological Historical and Cultural Society presents: 'The Battle of Jutland' by Tony McCarthy June 1916: the largest Naval Battle of World War 1, 250 ships,100,000 men, with several West Cork casualties. Non-member €5 - Refreshments included.
Michael Collins features as the lecture theme for Kinsale Cultural and Heritage Society on Thursday November 28th in the Temperance Hall in Kinsale at 8pm. Revealing the many layers of the enigmatic Collins, considered to be a colossus of twentieth century history, is Mr Tim Crowley. Considered to be one of the foremost historians on the […]
Seamus is currently writing a book on the Behagh Company and in his research he has uncovered local stories, told and untold, which shine a new light on the lives of people in all strata of society in “Trouble Times." All welcome, charge of €5.
The talk will include a discussion on the location, the structure, function, and place in local imagination, as well as preservation works and current status. The building will be put in the historical context of sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and events such as the Desmond Rebellion, the Nine Years War, the Battle of Kinsale and […]
Dr Murray is a senior lecturer in UCC’s Department of Early and Medieval Irish and currently head of its School of Irish Learning. In this talk, he will examine the Munster connections of the longest text from the Fenian Cycle of tales. The significance of these Munster materials will be examined in the context of […]
