Occasionally, I get invited to give some interviews or public lectures and I will keep this section updated with any future events that may be of interest:
2012
The Media History Conference will be held at Aberystwyth University, Wales, from 4-7 July. I will deliver a paper called 'Defenders of order?' which examines the role of national newspapers during the Irish Civil War.
On Saturday 28 January, the John Boyle O'Reilly Society of Ireland will hold 'From the Earth, A Cry'; a symposium on the life of JB O'Reilly. It will be held at the Westcourt Hotel, Drogheda, from 9.30am to 2pm. I will be speaking along with Dr. David Doyle of UCD, former Taxing Master James Flynn and Michael Kenny of the National Museum. The Drogheda Independent covered the event here.
On Friday 13 January I will give a talk to the Military History Society of Ireland on 'Bayonets and Bulletins: journalists and the Irish Revolution'. The lecture is on at 8pm at Griffith College, Dublin. Non-members of the society are welcome to attend all lectures.
2011
On 26 November Custume Barracks, Athlone, will host the Old Athlone Society's conference on 'The War of Independence in the Midlands'. My contribution will cover Westmeath during those years.
There will be a launch of the new edited collection, Irish Journalism before Independence, at 6pm on Tuesday 8 November in the United Arts Club, Dublin. Pat Rabitte, Minister for Communications, will launch the book.
I will be discussing JB O'Reilly's career on Newstalk's Talking History show at 8.30pm on Sunday 9 October.
We will be having a Galway launch of From The Earth, A Cry in Dún Uí Mhaoilíosa, the Irish Army Barracks in Renmore, at 7pm on Thursday 6 October. I will be giving a brief talk on O'Reilly's life which will be followed by readings of some of his speeches and poems.
Journalist Penny Cronin has a feature on JB O'Reilly and From The Earth, A Cry in the Weekend section of today's (1 October) Irish Independent.
TG4 will show director Kieran Concannon's documentary on John Riley and the San Patricios at 9.30pm on Sunday 25 September. I will be one of the contributors to the show which follows in the footsteps of Riley from Galway to Mexico.
Check out the Irishman's Diary section of The Irish Times (20 September 2011) for an article on John Boyle O'Reilly and his role as an advocate of civil rights in the United States: www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2011/0920/1224304411302.html
The Gutter Bookshop in Temple Bar will host the Dublin launch of From The Earth, A Cry on 20 September at 6.30pm. Tim Pat Coogan will launch the book and all are welcome. You can see the Wild Geese website's report on the launch and the book here: http://thewildgeeseblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/new-book-on-irelands-john-boyle-oreilly.html
I will be on LMFM's Late Lunch with Gerry Kelly at 1.45pm on Friday 26 August to discuss the life and times of JB O'Reilly.
On Friday 26 August I will be on the Pat Kenny Today show where I will be discussing From The Earth, A Cry with presenter, Miriam O'Callaghan.
On Sunday 12 June I will be a guest of Talking History on Newstalk where I will be part of a panel discussing some relatively unknown figures from Irish history.
2010
On Wednesday 20 October at 8.30pm I will be giving a talk on the San Patricios to the Carrick on Shannon and District Historical Society.
NUIG Galway wlll host a seminar about Culture and Politics in Ireland and the British Empire on 14 May. At 10.30am, I will be contributing a talk titled: 'Truce to Treaty: Irish journalists and the peace process of 1920-21'.
Galway City Museum has invited me to give a public lecture about John Riley and the San Patricios. It will be on at 7.30 on Thursday, 25 February and entry is free.
I will be chatting with Keith Finnegan about the San Patricios and also the Connaught Rangers during his show on Galway Bay FM during the morning of 25 February.
2009
The latest conference of the Newspaper and Periodical Historical Forum of Ireland will be held at DIT Aungier Street on the 20 and 21 November. I will be giving a lecture on The Irish Bulletin entitled: ‘The Irish Bulletin: propaganda sheet, first draft of history or both?’
I will be a guest of Patrick Geoghegan and Lindsey Earner-Byrne on their Talking History show on Newstalk Radio at around 8.40 on Sunday 6 September.
Pat Kenny will have me as a guest on his morning show on RTE Radio 1 at around 11am on the 17 August. We will be discussing some of the stories contained within Courage and Conflict.
I will be talking with Tom McGurk on 4FM around 6pm on the 23 July to discuss Irish involvement in the American Civil War.
You may be interested in an article I had in today’s The Irish Times (21 January). It is one of many pieces in the paper’s supplement on the first Dáil Éireann in 1919. My piece covers press reaction to the opening of the parliament.
2008
I will be a guest of Patrick Geoghegan and Lindsey Earner-Byrne on their Talking History show on Newstalk Radio at 8.30pm on Sunday evening, 16 May. We will be discussing newspapers, censorship and propaganda during the Irish War of Independence as examined in my book, The Paper Wall. | 
