A Californian student at University College Cork will help remember the arrival of the US navy in Ireland — 100 years to the day after her great-grandfather commanded the flotilla that sailed into Cork harbour.

Deaths of 78 people accused of being British spies have been documented by researchers, writes Nicola Stathers

A Terence MacSwiney play was watched over the weekend by his grandson — almost 80 years after his own mother played a lead role in the last Cork production.

Before he died on hunger strike, Terence MacSwiney had a made a huge contribution to the cultural life of his native Cork, writes Marjorie Brennan

John Borgonovo explores the political landscape in Cork in the years preceding the 1916 Rising

An exciting 1916 project is touring the country at the moment inviting local communities to have their 1916 family letters digitised and transcribed for posterity.

Catalonia’s intense interest in the 1920 hunger strike and death of Cork’s lord mayor will be the subject of a seminar in the city next week.

UCC historian Dr John Borgonovo recalls the response to the sinking of the Lusitania in his native US, which took another two years to enter the Great War

I refer to recent two-part TV3 documentary, In the Name of the Republic, presented by Professor Eunan O’Halpin of Trinity College Dublin.

John Borgonovo, of the school of history in UCC, in his article in the Irish Examiner, on Mar 27, and Niall Meehan, of Griffith College, Dublin, in his article on the academic.edu website, last week, wrote of their reactions to TV3’s two-part history documentary, In the Name of the Republic, which examined killings and disappearances by the IRA in the War of Independence, 1919-21, and after the truce, in mid-1921.

Considering that I appeared only briefly in last Monday night’s documentary, In the Name of the Republic, about the War of Independence in Cork, I was surprised to find that John Borgonovo had so much to say about me in his response to the programme (Examiner, 27/3/2013).

The late British historian Robert Kee said the one certainty about history is that nothing is certain.

UCC historian John Borgonovo casts doubt on some claims made in the TV3 series ‘In The Name Of The Republic’

THE controversial revisionist historian Dr Peter Hart is to speak on political violence at the Irish Historical Society in UCC on Tuesday next. One of the events in Irish history on which Dr Hart made his reputation is the Kilmichael ambush of November 1920.