'How long shall we be able to remain here': Major General Oliver Nugent in Cavan,1922' by Nick Perry

Major-General Oliver Nugent, of Mountnugent, County Cavan, led an important role in the formation and training of the UVF in Cavan, and led the Ulster Division on the Western Front from 1915-18. Nugent returned to Cavan and an Ireland convulsed by revolution and civil war. In this talk, Nick Perry discusses Oliver Nugent, and his life in Cavan following the formation of the Irish Free State. This is fourth of six lectures which will run every Thursday at 7.30pm until 18th November. This lecture series forms part of Cavan County Council’s Decade of Centenaries 2021 and Historian-in-Residence programme and is supported by the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media under the Decade of Centenaries 2012-2023 initiative.