The Irish War of Independence: The Galway Centenary Conference, is a FREE event which will take place on Saturday July 10 via Zoom and Facebook and later added to a specially designated YouTube channel. The conference will be introduced by Labour Galway City West councillor, Niall McNelis.

The speakers and topics to be explored include;

• Dr Jackie Uí Chionna, who will give a talk entitled, ‘The Races Must Run: Máirtín Mór and the Galway Races During the War of Independence 1920-22’

• Paddy McMenamin will speak on the Belfast pogroms of 1921 and 1971

• Dr Elizabeth Stack will examine US support for Ireland during the War of Independence

• Former city councillor Mark Lohan will give a talk entitled, ‘Partition, Peace, and Unity’

• Military historian Damien Quinn will deliver a talk entitled ‘The War In The West’

• The playwright Jim Ward will also give as talk looking at life for anti-Treaty IRA members in Galway following Independence

• Stephanie Klapp, a German who lives and works in Galway, will present the talk, ‘Our Gallant Allies’

• Author and academic Cormac Ó Comhraí will present the lecture, ‘The Irish Language and the Revolution: Unanswered Questions’

• Ian Kenneally will examine ‘Censorship and Propaganda during the Irish War of Independence’

• NUI Galway’s Dr John Cunningham will give the talk, ‘Incendiarism and State Building in Glenamaddy 1921’.

There will also be a screening of Towards a Green Dawn - The Screeb Ambush, April 6 1921, a documentary by Mícheál ó Maoileáin.