Line up coming and tickets on sale 26th April!
The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon Cork County Council West Cork Literary Festival West Cork Arts Centre West Cork Hist Fest Skibbereen Heritage Skibbereen Historical #westcorkfestivals Declan McCarthy

Our latest blog features The Irish Civil War Fatalities project from UCC Ireland with Andy Bielenberg & The Irish Story as well as rare photos of an Irish family in the American Civil war from Damian Shiels and Ireland & wine from Fiona Beckett westcorkhistoryfestival.org/category/festi…

We are delighted to announce that the programme for this year's West Cork Literary Festival is now live.

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The 8 days are packed with readings, workshops, interviews, seminars and children's events, something for every reader

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Great to see Fiona Beckett on Ireland and wine in the Guardian last week - one of our 2023 Festival themes! theguardian.com/food/2024/mar/…

We were very sorry to hear of the recent death of Robert Harris. Among many other things, he was a Festival committee member, a contributor to our programme, organising with Finola the always popular field trips & a source of advice and support. He will be missed.

A really important discussion this Saturday pm Belfast City Council Eoín Brannigan Edward Burke Professor Feargal Cochrane Jason Burke Lisa Rea Currie West Cork Hist Fest Dublin Festival of History

A very Happy St Patrick's Day to all our followers, supporters, speakers, attendees, friends & volunteers! One of our 2024 themes is 'diaspora' so somehow appropriate that we're spending #StPatricksDay in London this year....

We're all in favour of history festivals The Linen Hall ¡MAGINE! !

On #InternationalWomensDay2024 we'd like to pay tribute to all our brilliant female speakers, performers, volunteers and attendees - we could only pick one image for this post so we're featuring Prof H Jones eloquently making her point at our 2023 Festival #womendohistory

Our 2024 Burial Records Upload is Complete! There are now 82,702 records of burials from 128 Cork graveyards on our database, all free of charge to access from anywhere in the world skibbheritage.com/west-cork-grav…
Please spread the word! Cork County Council Claire Santry #irishgenealogy

Drum roll..... All the work has paid off, next week we will be uploading almost 27,000 burial register records to our online database from graveyards all over Cork county.
More to follow soon....!
#westcorkgenealogy #irishancestry #irishancestry #irishgenealogy

We were so pleased to be invited along to this incredible evening Embassy of Ireland & congratulations to Derry Girls & its writer Lisa McGee

Exciting news for Armagh Observatory & Planetarium - we were lucky enough to perform our Festival concert by Jessie Kennedy & inspired by Skibbereen-born astronomer #AgnesClerke at Armagh in Nov 2022. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northe…

AGM of Skibbereen & District Historical Society at 8pm on Wednesday 28th February 2024 at O'Donovan Rossa GAA Pavilion, Skibbereen. We are appealing for members and people interested in history to attend this AGM.

A fascinating talk by Catherine Wynne encompassing Lady Elizabeth Butler, Arthur Conan Doyle, Francis Ledwidge and much else - hopefully available online National Army Museum

A new blog post on our website featuring a recently discovered #bogbody as well as a radio series on Victorian female killers presented by Lucy Worsley & an oral history project on Irish nurses in the NHS westcorkhistoryfestival.org/nurses-bog-bod…

A 2023 Festival highlight was our concert 'Hope On, Hope Ever' with beautiful original music inspired by the #FranklinExpedition & Irish polar explorers. Created & performed by Jessie Kennedy & Tess Leak with the Vespertine Quintet, you can buy it here: jessiekennedymusic.bandcamp.com/album/hope-on-…

We were honoured to host John Bruton & Carl Dinnen in conversation at our 2019 Festival. Very sorry to hear of Bruton's death.

Great to attend this event in London featuring our Honorary President Professor Roy Foster in conversation with Fintan O'Toole organised by @UNDLondon

A very happy & peaceful New Year to our friends, supporters, followers & past speakers. #loughhyne #westcork #HappyNewYear2024