Upcoming Research Events
Resting Places: On Wounds, War, and The Irish Revolution
18 Oct 2023
Happening On
25/10/2023
Ellen McWilliams and Stephen Travers
Wednesday October 25th 3pm
O'Rahilly Building (ORB) 2.12
“Ellen McWilliams reflects on her Catholic upbringing in West Cork in the 1980s and 1990s, and on relations with her Protestant neighbours. She is haunted by the killings in the period of Ireland’s War of Independence and Civil War, and in particular by the ‘Dunmanway massacre’ of April 1922 which marked the area where she grew up. "