A snapshot of history

Cavan County Council’s Decade of Centenaries commemoration programme continues on Thursday, October 12, at 7.30pm in Cavan County Museum with a talk entitled, 'Imaging conflict: photography and the revolutionary period, 1913-1923', by Dr Orla Fitzpatrick, a research fellow at Trinity College Dublin.

This talk will cover the photographic images which feature in the exhibition Imaging Conflict, which was curated by Orla Fitzpatrick and Brenda Malone. The speaker will concentrate upon images depicting the War of Independence and the Civil War including lesser-known surveillance photographs and those used for propaganda purposes. Dr Fitzpatrick is a Research Fellow based at Trinity College Dublin's Long Room Hub. She is working on a Shared Island project on Ireland's Border Cultures. She has contributed to Breifne Journal and also teaches at the National College of Art and Design.

The lecture is the second in a six-part series being delivered by Cavan County Library Service as part of Cavan County Council’s ongoing Decade of Centenaries commemorations and are supported by the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport, and Media under the Decade of Centenaries 2012-2023 initiative.

The first lecture in the series, ‘On an equal footing with all: Ireland and the League of Nations 1922 – 1946’ by Dr Michael Kennedy, Executive Editor of the Royal Irish Academy’s Documents on Irish Foreign Policy, was delivered at Johnston Central Library on Thursday, 5th October. All lectures will be made available online at Cavan County Council’s dedicated page for the Decade of Centenaries commemorations www.cavancoco.ie/centenaries, where the complete archive of Decade of Centenaries lectures, webisodes, and podcasts is available.