Autumn Lecture Series 2023
Watch Lecture Six
‘Outfacing Atrocity: Heaney, Yeats and meditating in time of civil war’ by Professor Roy Foster, Hertford College, Oxford University.
A lecture delivered by Professor Roy Foster of Hertford College, Oxford University at Johnston Central Library, Cavan on Thursday, 9th November 2023. Delivered as part of Cavan County Council's Decade of Centenaries commemorations in association with the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport, and Media.
Watch Lecture Five
‘From Beggars Bush to the Congo: The Irish Defence Forces, 1922-1960’, by Dr Eoin Kinsella, RIA
A lecture originally delivered at Cootehill Library on Thursday, 2nd November 2023. Delivered as part of Cavan County Council's Decade of Centenaries commemorations in association with the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport, and Media.
Watch Lecture Four
‘Spanish flu and Sinn Féin: Disease as a propaganda tool’ by Dr Ida Milne, Carlow Colle
A lecture originally delivered at Bailieborough Library on Thursday, 26th October 2023. Delivered as part of Cavan County Council's Decade of Centenaries commemorations in association with the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport, and Media.
Watch Lecture Three
A Toothless Hound of Ulster? Loyalist Paramilitarism in Cavan, 1920-1922’ by Dr Edward Burke, UC
Lecture originally delivered by Dr Edward Burke of University College Dublin at Johnston Central Library, Cavan on Thursday, 19th October 2023. Delivered as part of Cavan County Council's Decade of Centenaries commemorations in association with the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport, and Media.
Watch Lecture Two
‘Imaging conflict: Photography, the War of Independence and the Civil War’ by Dr Orla Fitzpatrick
Lecture originally delivered at Cavan County Museum, Ballyjamesduff at 7.30pm on Thursday, 12th October. Filmed by Jago Studios, Cavan. Presented as part of the Decade of Centenaries Commemorations in association with the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media.
Watch Lecture One
'On an equal footing with all: Ireland and the League of Nations 1922 to 1946' by Dr Michael Kennedy
Lecture originally delivered at Johnston Central Library, Cavan at 7.30pm on Thursday, 5th October. Filmed by Jago Studios, Cavan. Presented as part of the Decade of Centenaries Commemorations in association with the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media.