Celebrating the extraordinary contribution of Piaras Mac Éinrí to UCC Ireland. Thank you from all UCC IrelandAppSoc. We will miss your collegiality, expertise, integrity, friendship, & unique capacity for making (good) trouble. Thankfully we're assured he's not going to stay too quiet in retirement.

The research findings of this important new project will also be published as a chapter in the 'Atlas of the Irish Civil War: New Perspectives', edited by Dr Helene O'Keeffe, John Crowley, Donal Ó Drisceoil, John Borgonovo & Mike Murphy, forthcoming with CorkUniversityPress in autumn 2024.

The number of fatalities during the Civil War was 'considerably less' than in the War of Independence, according to a new study rte.ie/news/2024/0429…

Our “Irish Civil War Fatalities Project” will be launched this morning by Minister Martin Catherine Martin TD Tourism-Culture-Arts-Gaeltacht-Sport-Media at the NUI The Irish Story The database link is available here rte.ie/history/civil-… and ucc.ie/en/news/2024/l… Irish Times Culture RTÉ News

How many people died violent deaths in the Irish Civil War? irishtimes.com/history/2024/0…

We extend our deepest condolences to the family and friends of Professor Chris Williams, Head of the College of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences.

A dear friend and highly esteemed colleague who will be deeply missed.

Gorffwys mewn hedd.

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Thoroughly generous, collaborative public history and academic project - Andy Bielenberg (PI) and John Dorney and team including Dr Helene O'Keeffe John Borgonovo have openly shared their rich and extensive data and findings including with other scholars invited to analyse aspects.…

A complex county: Civil War deaths in Cork by John Borgonovo rte.ie/history/civil-… via RTÉ

Such a lovely memory at The farmgatecafe
President Michael D - Pride of Ireland
Thank you Roisín Ní Shiúrtáin - for sending me this photograph

The Dunmanway massacre of 1922 irishtimes.com/opinion/letter…

John Borgonovo and I have a new article “British Army intelligence in Ireland 1919-21: organisation, outcomes and the 6th Division blacklist” in the latest issue Irish Historical Studies (Vol. 47 no. 172) now available online at cambridge.org/core/journals/… History at UCC @UCC

Great night at Dublin Castle with UCC peeps marking the end of the Decade of Centenaries. Appreciate Maurice Manning’s shoutouts to UCC and Cork.

'This is a housing catastrophe - that is what we are looking at,' Raise the Roof spokesperson Adrian Kane said. 'It is a huge problem nationwide.'
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Today's Lunchtime Lecture Crawford Art Gallery is with Martin Buckley, a retired Chief Petty Office - Irish Naval Service. The Ninth Ship is an account of operations, training & the recompression chamber, 1964–2014 in the Irish Naval Service Diving Section #corkharbourfest 1.10-2pm

Tomorrow's Lunchtime Lecture Crawford Art Gallery History at UCC is Passage Landing: The National Army’s Amphibious Attack on the Cork Coast, August 1922 presented by Dr John Borgonovo #corkharbourfest

“Emerald Isles of the Caribbean: Tracing the lives and legacies of the Irish on Montserrat and St Croix”

Really fascinating #CorkHarbourFest lunchtime lecture by Prof Laura McAtackney today Crawford Art Gallery, part of a series this week by History at UCC. Come along!

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Final year of Decade of Centenaries - History at UCC @UCC is developing a digital map and database “of all Civil War casualties” in partnership with @RTE and The Military Archives supported by Tourism-Culture-Arts-Gaeltacht-Sport-Media Catherine Martin TD rte.ie/news/2023/0324… Micheál Martin Centenaries@HistIrl The Irish Times

Irish war crimes against women: Impunity, amnesia and the ‘Kenmare incident’ ⁦- 100 Years ago today June 2nd 1923 ⁦Irish Times Culture⁩ irishtimes.com/culture/books/…

Thanks Gosia!

Launched Today! The final index in the UCC Ireland & RTÉ
#CivilWar Project.

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Maps & articles by Diarmaid Ferriter, Gavin Foster, Brian Hanley, Gerard Shannon, Síobhra Aiken & Eve Morrison explore the end of the Civil War and its legacies.
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