26 June 2024, 6:00 – 8:00pm in-person at the Australian Embassy, Dublin
Professor Dianne Hall of Victoria University, Melbourne, a leading historian of the Irish in Australia, spoke with Victoria Kingston, co-founder of the West Cork History Festival about different aspects of the Irish diaspora in Australia. Professor Hall’s most recent book is A New History of the Irish in Australia, written with Professor Elizabeth Malcolm and published in 2019. Diaspora is one of the key themes of the 2024 West Cork History Festival. The West Cork History Festival runs from 9 – 11 August 2024 at the Inish Beg Estate, close to Skibbereen and Baltimore, Co. Cork.
About the West Cork History Festival
The West Cork History Festival is eight years old in 2024. Each year, we seek to broaden the range of the Festival programme to include national and international themes. The festival is not an academic conference or symposium, and the programme includes a selection of subjects which are loosely connected, rather than following a single defining research theme. We hope that by bringing leading academics together with non-academics, and non-historians, we provide an intelligent general audience with food for thought. We do not believe anyone ever has the final word in historical debates and our aim is always to have a plurality of opinions. We include people with different interpretations of our pasts. The bulk of previous years’ Festival programmes are free to view on our website, to maximise accessibility – find out more here.
