A database of the fatalities in County Cork during the War of Independence, the Truce and the Civil War
The Cork Fatality Register is a large-scale project by UCC historian, Dr Andy Bielenberg and Professor Emeritus James S. Donnelly, Jr, of UW-Madison. It aims to identify all of the fataltities in Cork during the War of Independence, the Truce Period and, now for the first time, the Irish Civil War.
Vist the Cork Fatlaity Register here and explore the database.
A new online collaboration with RTE based on the Atlas of the Irish Revolution.
Building on the success of the UCC/RTE Digital War of Independence Project and Great Irish Famine Project, UCC is pleased to announce a new online collaboration with RTE based on the Atlas of the Irish Revolution. Launching in January 2022 and ongoing until May 2023, the Irish Civil War project will be an online companion to the UCC/RTE documentary: The Irish Civil War
Structured around a timeline of centenary events between Janaury 1922 and April 1923, visitors to the Irish Civil War project on rte.ie/history will find a wealth of authoritiative insight into the final stage of the Irish Revolutoonary period. Accessible explainers and more detailed articles by key historians of the period will be illustrated with image galleries, archival documents and maps from the Atlas of the Irish Revolution.
Dedicated to creating ‘a one-stop shop’ for the history of the Irish revolutionary period, RTE will include relevant content from across its TV and radio archives, as well as articles from the Century Ireland project. New material will continue to be published to coincide with key centenary events until the April 1923.
8-week Lecture Series: 'Civil War in Ireland: New Perspectives'
The 'Atlas of the Irish Revolution' editorial team, in collaboration with the National Library of Irealnd, bring you a series of lectures as part of the NLI Decade of Centenaries Prorgamme. Entitled 'Civil War in Ireland: New Perspectives', the lecture series will complement the three-part RTE Documentary series 'The Irish Civil War due to air on RTE in December 2022.
The calendar of lectures is be available below and you can register to attend via the the NLI website
Civil War in Ireland: New Perspectives
An 8-week lecture series brought to you by the Atlas of the Irish Revolution editorial team in partnership with the National LIbrary of Irealnd
Thursday 13 October: Lecture 1 - 8:00pm
In person with a live audience in the NLI Reading Room and live streamed.
Chair: Dr Donal O Drisceoil
Speaker: Dr Andy Bielenberg
Lecture Title: The Dead of the Irish Civil War:
Tuesday 18 October: Lecture 2 - 7:00pm
Via Zoom
Speaker: Dr Donal O Drisceoil
Lecture Title: War of Words: Censorship, Propaganda and Civil War
Tuesday 25 October: Lecture 3 - 7:00pm
Via Zoom
Speaker: Professor Heather Jones
Lecture Title: The Irish Civil War: the British Perspective
Tuesday 1 November: Lecture 4 - 7:00pm
Via Zoom
Speaker: Dr Adrian Grant
Lecture Title: The Irish Civil War and Northern Ireland
Tuesday 8 November: Lecture 5 - 7:00pm
Via Zoom
Speaker: Dr John Borgonovo
Lecture Title: The Irish Civil War: a local and regional perspective
Tuesday 15 November: Lecture 6 - 7:00pm
Via Zoom
Speaker: Professor Fearghal McGarry
Lecture Title: The Civil War Legacy: Ireland in the 1920s and 30s
Tuesday 22 November: Lecture 7 - 7:00pm
Via Zoom
Speaker: Dr Síobhra Aiken
Lecture Title: Memory and Trauma
Tuesday 29 November: Lecture 8 - 7:00pm
In person with a live audience in UCC, and live streamed.
Speaker: Professor Lindsey Earner-Byrne
Lecture Title: Gender and the Civil War
Prof. Lindsey Earner-Byrne: 'Gendering Loss in the Irish Civil War'
Public Lecture: Gendering Loss in the Irish Civil War
Tuesday 29 November, 7pm
Speaker: Professor Lindsey Earner-Byrne
Online and in person in The Shtepps Lecture Theatre, the Hub, UCC
Watch the live stream here
Lecture Description: Before the Irish Civil War was even officially over, thousands of families and individuals had their lives blown irrevocably off course by trauma, injury and/or the death of a family member. Grief was often sidelined by the mundane but necessary work of survival, which frequently involved bureaucratic encounters commodifying loss to fit the dictates of official ‘case-making’. This paper looks at the gendered impact of this process. In particular, it explores the impact on the relatives of those injured or killed during or as a result of the conflict, who tended to be disproportionately women and children.
Lindsey Earner-Byrne is the Professor of Irish Gender History at University College Cork. She has published on the history of motherhood, sexuality, welfare and poverty including a recent study with Professor Diane Urquhart on the history of abortion on the island of Ireland. She is currently working on the life experiences of the firstborn generation on the island of Ireland after the formation of the two states in 1921 and 1922.
This lecture is last in an eight-week autumn lecture series: 'Civil War in Ireland: New Perspectives', a collaboration between the National Library of Ireland and the Atlas of the Irish Revolution editorial team, UCC
New three-part RTE documentary series on the Irish Civil War
The multi-awarding winning team that brought you the The War of Independence and the Great Hunger documentary series on RTE is pleased to announce a new major new series entitled 'The Irish Civil War' which premiered on RTE in December 2022.
The Irish Civil War, a three-part television documentary, based on UCC’s Atlas of the Irish Revolution premiered in December 2022 to mark the centenary of the Civil War. As part of the Decade of Centenaries and with support from the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, The Irish Civil War series examines the critical years of the Irish State’s foundation from the Truce period to the highly charged Treaty Debates and split, to the outbreak of the Civil War, the conduct of that war and its legacy.
The three-part Irish Civil War documentary Series is now available to view on the RTE Player
Read about the making of the Irish Civil War documentary in this article by Director Ruán Magan
