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Talks from our 2024 Festival & more on 2025 plans on our website. Co-founder @VictoriaKingst6
Skibbereen, West Cork, Ireland
Joined October 2016
A huge thank you to everyone who came to #WestCorkHistoryFestival 2024, all our wonderful speakers, @inishbeg for the beautiful setting, the delicious food & drink vendors, @Corkcoco @dfatirl @HeritageHubIRE & our many supporters, patrons & volunteers - too many to list here!
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@skibbheritage A remarkable woman, Agnes Clerke also inspired a concert created by @kennedy_jessie at the West Cork History Festival in 2022 which was also performed @ArmaghSpace
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RT @cormacmoore: I would appreciate help from people on X/Twitter. I am looking to contact the family of the late photographer James Roland…
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Great to see our 2025 plans in @SouthernStarIRL in the company of #paulmescal and the Wren parade in #ballydehob ! Plans shaping up well for this year with an event in Dublin in late spring / early summer and an event in West Cork second weekend of August. We’ll keep you posted!
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An important article by Festival contributor @Edward__Burke Ireland is not immune to the wave of foreign state espionage sweeping Europe
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RT @IrishTimes: Boston College academic Mike Cronin: 'They’ll mine me for the information, but they won’t use me on TV, because they do not…
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A Happy New Year & best wishes for a hopeful 2025 from beautiful West Cork.
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RT @westcorkhisfest: As 2024 draws to a close, we'd like to wish all our friends & supporters a very Happy Christmas and all the best for 2…
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As 2024 draws to a close, we'd like to wish all our friends & supporters a very Happy Christmas and all the best for 2025. We're planning something slightly different for our 2025 Festival - find out more on our website:
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Great to see West Cork featured in the Guardian this week, including our friends & Festival collaborators Atlantic Sea Kayaking. But sadly no mention of West Cork’s many & brilliant festivals !
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Great to hear Festival contributor Professor Margaret MacMillan on BBC Radio 4’s Westminster Hour last night, presented by @BBCBenWright
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RT @FinnClodagh: #ThroughHerEyes Amazing news - these 11 trailblazing women from, or with links to, the Munster region, have been selected…
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On our website now a long overdue blog update, featuring a selection of historical reads & listens including ancient figs & Irish foxes from @heritage_irish exhibitions from @PRONI_DFC and @UlsterMuseum plus @MylesDungan1 on PG Wodehouse:
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Many congratulations to @henryhemming for this award for his book Four Shots in the Night, about which he spoke so brilliantly at our Festival this year.
Huge congratulations to all the winners! And thank you to the HWA Chair, Imogen Robertson, for being the driving force behind #HWACrowns24 (and, indeed, every year!). 8/
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Good to see Kinsale & Sherkin featured in this article: Winter walks: Eight picturesque trails with places to eat and drink at the end
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The forgotten Tyrone woman who became a revered Indian saint: ‘She was a spiritual mentor to people we would now call terrorists’
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RT @RTEHistoryShow: On tonight's show: In a conversation recorded for The West Cork History Festival @westcorkhisfest, Myles speaks to Au…
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This evening we're delighted that @RTEHistoryShow will feature an interview by @MylesDungan1 of novelist Thomas Keneally, first recorded at our 2024 Festival. It includes discussion of Keneally's book Fanatic Heart about controversial nationalist writer & journalist John Mitchel.
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Have your say on honouring Irish women: Are there any Irish streets, buildings, places or structures that should be named, or renamed, after women?
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