Civil War in Kerry and Beyond: A Centenary Conference
A three-day conference marking the centenary of the Irish Civil War in Kerry and nationally, and assessing its history, memory and legacy.
Part of the State Decade of Centenaries Programme for 2023
In association with UCD Gender Studies, Kerry County Council and Kerry Library, and the Department of Computing, Creative Media and Information Technology at MTU Kerry
Supported by the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media under the Decade of Centenaries Programme 2012-2023.
Research presented at 2023 Conference now in a new edited collection
The research papers presented at the Kerry Civil War Conference in 2023 are the subject of a new publication from Four Courts Press which shares the story of the Civil War in Kerry and beyond and its many memories and legacies. The book is edited by the organisers of the conference, Bridget McAuliffe, Mary McAuliffe and Owen O’Shea and brings together a wide range of experts, academics and historians in the first collection of its kind.
Civil War in Kerry and Beyond: A Centenary Conference
A three-day conference marking the centenary of the Irish Civil War in Kerry and nationally, and assessing its history, memory and legacy.
FEATURING Mise, le Meas, an innovative visual media project collaboration between the Animation, Visual Effects and Motion Design students at MTU Kerry Campus and the Learners of the Digital Design and Visual Communication, and the Animation (Creative Media) programme in Kerry College
and HOSTING Their Memory will Endure: Civil War in Kerry, a night of poetry, music and song
and SCREENING Ballyseedy, first shown on RTE in 1997, a unique dramatised account of one of the darkest days of the Civil War in Kerry
