On the move for the Daniel Corkery: The Hidden Ireland-100 Years On conference The Imperial Hotel, Cork City, Ireland

Things are getting exciting as we all gather in Cork…see you there! 🥳

Donall Ó Corcora stressed the importance of the Irish language with its rich cultural heritage to our understanding of the past.

At the Corkery 100 conference, Conal Mac Seáin & Máire Ní Íceadha & Liam P Ó Murchú will explore this lasting legacy. Conal Mac Seáin

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Frank O’Conner & Sean Ó Faolain were Corkery’s most renowned protégés but also his most ardent critics.

At the Corkery 100 conference, Dr Patrick Maume & Conal Creedon will explore Cork in this era & how Corkery shaped Irish intellectual life.

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Daniel Corkery was a potent influence on the Revolutionary generation.

At the Corkery 100 conference,
Dr Siobhrá Aiken & Dr Tomás Mac Conmara will both discuss Corkery’s involvement in this period & the spiritual wounds his seminal thesis The Hidden Ireland exposed.

“For all his gentleness, he was a merciless despiser of what he took to be sham or insincerity…he never, therefore, would compromise.”

The eminent Dan Donovan remembering Daniel Corkery as a teacher and mentor

Míle Buíochas to Seán Ó Laoi for this clip

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Daniel Corkery’s collections of short stories were a popular favourite of readers of Mercier Press Books

Dr Heather Laird will speak at the Corkery 100 conference about Corkery as Head of English UCC & his writing legacy.

Did you know Daniel Corkery was a founding member of the Cork Dramatic Society?🎭

At the Corkery 100 conference, Dr Leeann Lane will speak about Corkery’s influence on Terence McSwiney, the CDS & the South Parish Gaelic League Branch.

Dr Leeann Lane

Míle Buíochas to Michael Duggan, Michael Moynihan & desod Irish Examiner Arts & Culture for covering 100 years of The Hidden Ireland.

Cork embraced our conference on Corkery’s impact from the start.
Thank you to all who support us.

#BeautifulCity

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The excitement is building with a week to go to the Daniel Corkery: The Hidden Ireland-100 Years On conference The Imperial Hotel, Cork City, Ireland

A big THANK YOU to all those who signed up for a ticket. Here is a sneak peak of the conference swag available on the day👇🏻

See you there 🥳

1917 reprint of Socialism Made Easy by the Socialist Labour Party (Glasgow). It would not be reprinted again in full in Britain or Ireland (afaik) until 1968 when Raynor Lysaght self-published a facsimile of the original US edition. Got it for a song online. So happy 🙂

The Horgan brothers in Co Cork were early adapters of moving-picture technology in the 19th century, and a local documentary maker is doing his bit to ensure they become better-known

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Please save the date for our annual J. C. Beckett Lecture which will take place PRONI on 9th May at 6pm. We're delighted that Dr Clodagh Tait will speak to us on
'Margaret Isabella and the fairy in the churn: Women's folklore and girls' histories'.
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Dónall Ó Corcora (1878-1964).

The first Máire Ní Chrualaoich lecture will be by Prof. Meidhbhín Ní Úrdail on ‘Irish-language culture in Thomond in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries’. The People’s Museum, Limerick, 16 April @ 6pm. Organised by CEMS Limerick, with Limerick Civic Trust.

Conal's Conal Creedon film The Boys of Fairhill has a great bit about Doylie's Armoured Car. From 9.50min but the whole documentary's worth watching if you've never seen it. A joy. youtube.com/watch?v=LxChF_…

No. 1 item that must be purchased when home in Cork. Big Boy Foolish new single: The Armoured Car

Brings back happy memories of good days with my Grandda, his jack Russells and the ferrets he kept in the yard. #TheBoysofFairHill

Míle Buíochas Conal Creedon for the recommendation

“Corkery’s observations on the history of the Irish people, divided between the ‘Big House’ and the ‘Bothán’, provoked a debate on the nature of the Irish soul that still rages today”

Míle Buíochas desod & colette sheridan

Nua Ghaeilge UCC Ulster Uni History

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'An saoi a chrith le gile an tsolais
i gceártain seanfhilí.'
Seán Ó Tuama (1926-2006) is é ag tagairt do Dhónall Ó Corcora (1878-1964); 'an máistir-saoi.'

The name 'Copper-Faced Jack' evokes strong images for Dubliners. Today, we discuss the evil barrister/judge, not the sticky-floored culchie petri-dish of a nightclub, owned by former Garda Cathal Jackson.

Tipperary-born Jack Scott was an 18th-century hanging judge, notoriously…

Shhh!🤫 grab a copy of Ireland's Own great overview of 1924…the prefect companion for the:

Daniel Corkery: The Hidden Ireland - 100 Years on conference on Saturday, April 20 The Imperial Hotel, Cork City, Ireland

Brush up on all our questions/insights for the day! #TopScholar