There is a new ‘outreach’ program developed by the history department of University College Cork. The objective is to give history more life and meaning to local communities.
This Association welcomes this excellent initiative to help increase overall knowledge of our history and helping to reawarken local interest.
The University will work with local historical societies. For example, a weekend gathering is planned to start 31 May at Dunmanway, County Cork. There will be lectures, tours of local places and castles, and an overall emphasis on the MacCarthy branch which historically controlled the area.
All are welcome to attend and details can be found on the websites of UCC Cork and the historical society of Dunmanway.
It is indeed gratifying to see this and other initiatives! And to see the publication of so much more on the ‘Gaelic order of things’. This shows the renewed interest in our total history, and the desire to correct the errors compounded over the centuries by the lack of research.
Some recent works of interest are GAELIC IRELAND: land, lordship and settlement, c1250-c1650, P.Duffy, D.Edwards and E. FitzPatrick, eds.; THE BATTLE OF KINSALE, H.Morgan, ed.; THE EARLDOM OF DESMOND 1563-1583: the decline and crisis of a feudal lordship, by Anthony McCormack; THE GAELIC LORDSHIP OF THE O SULLIVAN BEARE, by C. Breen. The latter three deal very specifically with happenings in the old Kingdom of Desmond of course.