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Daniel O’Connell and West Cork: an interconnected history, 1775-1847

Lecture by

Dr Jay Roszman

on

Thursday November 27 2025

at

8pm

in

Clonakilty GAA Club, Ahamilla, P85 WN84

 

 

 

This year marks the 250th anniversary of the birth of Daniel O’Connell. Known as ‘The Liberator’ for securing Catholic Emancipation in 1829, O’Connell had many connections with West Cork, which will be explored in this lecture.

 

Dr Jay Roszman is a lecturer in 19th century Irish and British History at University College Cork, a position he took up in 2018. His first book, Outrage in the Age of Reform: Irish Agrarian Violence, Imperial Insecurity, and British Governing Policy 1830-1845 was published by Cambridge University Press in 2022. He has worked on aspects of Daniel O’Connells career, and most recently assisted with the forthcoming documentary on O’Connell’s life, which will air on RTÉ in late December. His new project explores the Queen’s Colleges and their relationship with the British Empire: training men for imperial careers, but also as institutions that reflected British imperial interests in Ireland and abroad.

 

Cover charge: €5.

Documentary: Historic Coastal Village of Timoleague

As part of Heritage Week 2022, Dúchas Clonakilty Heritage visited the historic coastal village of Timoleague which is situated at the mouth of the Argideen river estuary.  To take us back over the centuries our guides are Diarmuid Kingston and Michael O’Mahony.

Documentary: Three Local Stories

Produced as part of Heritage Week 2021, this documentary tells three stories. The first part is the history of Lisselane Estate and in particular two of its owners – the infamous landlord William Bence Jones and in more modern times, C. O. Stanley. The second section concentrates on Kilgarriffe old cemetery and some of the many important individuals and families interred there over the last three hundred years or so. The final section of the video highlights Ring Village and the nearby Ballintemple Graveyard, detailing the importance of Ring as a port and the 800-year history of the cemetery wherein lay the remains of Tadhg an Asna among other notable names.