Over the years our Society has published five volumes of the Bantry Historical Journal and a commemorative book, Bantry Remembers 1916-1921.

The contents of each volume are listed below. Our Journals are available to purchase in Bantry at SuperValu, Bantry Bookshop, the Museum, the Tourist Information and An Post – or contact the Society. You can also purchase available volumes online by clicking on the button under the image.

Bantry Historical Journal Vol.V, 2025

Contents:

William O’Sullivan Esq., Carriganass Castle, Kealkill – Patrick Crowley

Garryvurcha Church, Church Road, Bantry – Hazel Vickery

A Mealagh Man – Seamus O’Shea

Growing up in Bantry in the Early Years of the Twentieth Century – Margaret Connolly

The Vice-Guardians of Bantry Union: A Call for Recognition – Geraldine Powell

The Shooting of William Simms Bird – Sean Kelly & Sean Fitzgerald

What makes a great Irish street – Kevin Hourihan

The life of Edith Newman Devlin – Sean Kelly

Bantry Historical Journal Vol.IV, 2022

Contents:

A Poteen Maker Looks Back – Jack McCarthy

Driving to Kilmichael; Lieutenant Cecil Guthrie – Andy Bielenberg

A Crowley son of Bantry – Thomas White

Bantry’s former courthouse in its historical context – Richard Butler

The rebel’s wife – Matilda Witheringion Tone – Larry Breen

The Lives and Times of the Bryces of Garinish – Jim Larner

Miniature masterpieces: a century of Irish stamps – Stephen Ferguson

A Woman’s Voice? The Cult of St Canir of Bantry – Elva Johnston

Some Observations on Bantry’s Townscape – Kevin Hourihan

The Doonour stone mould: Early Bronze Age metalworking – Sharon Weadick

A Daytrip from Bantry – Áine Brosnan

Poteen – a commercial enterprise – Liam Downey

The RIC District during the War of Independence – Diarmuid Kingston

The Bantry Branch – Oliver Doyle

The Franciscans in Bantry – Patrick Conlan

Extract from History of Bantry Óglaig na hÉireann – Raphael P. Keyes

The Church or Ireland, Disestablished 1871 – Robin Bantry-White

The Treaty Ports, 1938-1945 – Michael Kennedy

Bantry Historical Journal Vol.III, 2018

Contents:

Sheela Na Gig – Midwife of the Soul – Aine Brosnan

St Finbarr’s Catholic Church, Bantry: a history – Richard J. Butler

The Evansons and O’Donovans: Forgotten Landlords and Magistrates of Durrus – Pat Crowley

Let’s Light the Town of Bantry – Frank O’Donovan

Bantry Railway Station Fire 1954 – Oliver Doyle

Unusual Rock Art near Bantry, West Cork, The Ballybane Group – Finola Finlay & Robert Harris

Some Notes on Bantry’s Streets, Roads, Lanes and Terraces – Colum Hourihane

Ellen Hutchins (1785-1815): Ireland’s first Female Botanist – Madeline Hutchins

George William Biggs – Susan Keenan

Bantry Witness Statements from the Bureau of Military History 1913-21 – Sean Kelly

Dereenalomane Barytes Mine – Eugene McSweeney

Vickery’s Hotel – Hazel Vickery

Bantry Historical Journal Vol.II, 1994

Contents:

Uneasy Times for the RIC at Bantry – Seán Fitzgerald

The Whiddy Island Seaplane Base – Donal Fitzgerald

Whiddy Oil Bonanza in 1917 – letters to the Editor, Cork Examiner

The Sisters of Mercy in Bantry – Jennie McCarthy

The Iconography of Medieval Irish Art – Colm Hourihan

The Direeney Drowning – Anon

The Whites of Bantry – Family Origins – Seamus Crowley

The Revenge of Donal Comm – J.J. Calanan

Steam and Steel in Bantry – Seán Kelly

Biggs’ Boat of Coal (1918) – Anon

The Tithe Struggle in Béara and Bantry – Richard S. Harrison

The Life and Work of Francis O’Neill – Nora Cremin

Townland Names and their Meanings – Donal Fitzgerald

Mining in the Kilcrohane Area – Frank O’Mahony

Bantry Historical Journal Vol.I, 1993

Contents:

The Abbey: Bantry’s Franciscan Friary – Seamus Crowley

Technology of Yesteryear – Seán Kelly

The Statue of Our Lady of the Beach – Barbara Willis

Kilcrohane and the Holy Ground – Frank O’Mahony

The Priest’s Leap – T.D. Sullivan

Rural Settlement near Bantry 1600-1845 – Kevin Hourihan

Wolfe Tone and Bantry Bay – Sean Fitzgerald

The Mason and his Craft in Medieval Ireland – Colm Hourihan

The Roses of Scart Baun – Barbara Willis

Education in 19th Century Bantry – Jennie McCarthy

The Famine in Bantry – Donal Fitzgerald

Bantry Remembers 1916-1921, 2016

Contents:

Events before 1916

Easter 1916

Easter 1916 in Cork

Tell my Mother I died for Ireland

Events after 1916

Map

1916 Centenary Commemoration

Acknowledgements