Dr Colum Kenny BCL, BL is a professor emeritus of Dublin City University and an honorary bencher of the Society of King's Inns. A Journalist and historian, his books include King's Inns and The Kingdom of Ireland: Ireland's 'inn of court' 1541-1800 and Kenmare: History and Survival - Fr John O'Sullivan and the Famine Poor. Colum is a distant relation of Fr O'Sullivan. The title of Dr Kenny's talk is " 'Bare repealer’ and 'close relations': Fr John O'Sullivan, the O'Connells of Derrynane and Catholic diversity in nineteenth century Kerry".
