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Daniel O’Connell and West Cork: an interconnected history, 1775-1847

Lecture by

Dr Jay Roszman

on

Thursday November 27 2025

at

8pm

in

Clonakilty GAA Club, Ahamilla, P85 WN84

 

 

 

This year marks the 250^th anniversary of the birth of Daniel O’Connell. Known as ‘The Liberator’ for securing Catholic Emancipation in 1829, O’Connell had many connections with West Cork, which will be explored in this lecture.

 

Dr Jay Roszman is a lecturer in 19^th century Irish and British History at University College Cork, a position he took up in 2018. His first book, Outrage in the Age of Reform: Irish Agrarian Violence, Imperial Insecurity, and British Governing Policy 1830-1845 was published by Cambridge University Press in 2022. He has worked on aspects of Daniel O’Connells career, and most recently assisted with the forthcoming documentary on O’Connell’s life, which will air on RTÉ in late December. His new project explores the Queen’s Colleges and their relationship with the British Empire: training men for imperial careers, but also as institutions that reflected British imperial interests in Ireland and abroad.

 

Cover charge: €5.