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

