Cavan_Trails

Autumn Lecture Series - 2025

This lecture firstly examines land ownership in county Cavan before charting the impact of land reform between 1870 and 1930 on changing land ownership in the county. It concludes by examining the interactions of the Irish Land Commission with the Farnham estate and their agency there between 1924 and 1931.

Eunan O'Halpin, Professor emeritus of History at Trinity College Dublin, is working on an all-island study of political violence between 1922 and 1925. His previous works include Defending Ireland: the Irish state and its enemies since 1922 (Oxford: 1999), Kevin Barry: an Irish rebel in life and death (Newbridge: 2020) and The Dead of the Irish Revolution (London: 2020) (with Daithi O Corrain).