Clonakilty local history video launched for Heritage Week
2021-05-21 11:10 National Heritage Week continues until this Saturday 21st August.   Unfortunately, due to the COVID restrictions, Dúchas Clonakilty Heritage was unable to organise its traditional heritage week even...
Recovering the Voices of West Cork in the American Civil War
2021-04-30 11:58 Recovering the Voices of West Cork in the American Civil War Zoom Lecture by Dr Damien Shiels Thurs May 13 2021 at 8.30pm   Around 250,000 Irish Americans fought for the Union during the Ameri...
Dúchas AGM 2021
2021-03-27 11:30 The AGM of Dúchas Clonakilty Heritage was held on zoom recently with 20 members attending. Cathaoirleach Tim Feen extended a welcome to all and reviewed the strange year gone by. The group’s last phys...
Gearóid Ó Súilleabháin: A Life
2021-03-01 12:00 Gearóid Ó Súilleabháin: A Life   Zoom lecture Philip O’Regan Thurs Mar 18 2021 8 pm   Gearóid Ó Súilleabháin was one of a number of West Cork men who were closely connected to Michael Collins d...
Membership 2021
2021-02-02 11:34 FREE Membership for 2021   A committee meeting in January 2021 decided to extend 2020 Membership of Dúchas Clonakilty Heritage to the end of 2021, with no membership fees being requested. Therefore,...
THE CASTLES OF WEST CORK
2021-01-15 19:44   Lecture by Finola Finlay  Thurs Jan 28 2021  8pm What do we call a castle in West Cork? Who built them, when and why? How were they constructed? What was their role in West Cork history? Where h...
The Women of the Irish Revolution
2021-01-02 12:06 We are pleased to welcome back Liz Gillis for our next lecture on Feb 25th; many of you will remember the wonderful lecture she presented to us on the Hales Brothers in 2017. Please note the later tim...
KILMICHAEL AMBUSH – A Story of a Century 
2020-12-10 20:11 Colum Cronin Thurs Dec 10 2020  8pm   Having recently produced a film documentary entitled ‘Kilmichael Ambush – A Story of a Century’, Colum tells the story of how he and his son Shane conceived t...
Journals Free to Download
2020-05-01 11:37 In the current environment many individuals, clubs and organisations locally are currently putting measures in place to keep the morale up and keep people occupied (in the safety of their own homes), ...
From Ardfield to Santiago de Compostella/Finisterre
2020-02-20 20:16 From Ardfield to Santiago de Compostella/Finisterre A journey in pilgrim footsteps of over 1000 years by Traolach Ó Donnabháinin The Parish Centre, Clonakilty on Thursday 28th February at 8pm   ...