August 2010, “What’s in a Ruin? Ruins & Identity in a Fortified House, Inniscarra, Co. Cork”, People, Places and Memory, Interdisciplinary Conference in the Moore Institute, NUI Galway in association with the Department of Archaeology, National University of Ireland, Galway.
February 2010, “The Ruins of Memory- Ruins and identity in a Fortified House, Inniscarra, Co. Cork”, The Irish Post Medieval Archaeology Group, Belfast.
November 2009, “The Ruins of Memory, Ruins and Identity in the Lee Valley, Co. Cork”, College of Arts Conference, National University of Ireland, Cork
April 2009, “Objects of Desire: Searching for Identity and Memory in the River Lee Valley, Co. Cork”, Anthropological Association of Ireland, Queen’s University, Belfast.
February 2009, “Objects of Desire: Nostalgic Currency or Archaeological Relics?” The Irish Post Medieval Archaeology Group, Sligo.
November 2008, “Memory and Identity in the River Lee Valley, Co. Cork”, College of Arts, National University of Ireland, Cork.
May 2008, “Interconnections: Geography, Landscape and Memory”, Conference of Irish Geographers, Liverpool.
September 2005: “Creating Spaces of Modernity, Cork and its Great Exhibitions, 1852-1903″, Locating Design Conference in association with Design History Society, London Metropolitan University.
May 2005: “Townscape, Power and Identity: Creating New Urbanities in Eighteenth Century Cork”, Conference of Irish Geographers, NUI Galway.
September 2003: “Nineteenth Century Education and Liberation in Nineteenth Century Cork“; Critical Spaces in the Cityscape”, Geography Department, University of Plymouth, Exeter, England.
May 2004: “From Cork to Toronto: Politics, Education and the Hincks Legacy in the Nineteenth Century“, Irish Association for Canadian Studies, NUI Cork.
May 2004: “California Dreaming: Perspectives on Irish Emigrants in Late Nineteenth Century San Francisco, c.1850-c.1880″, “Conference of Irish Geographers”, NUI Maynooth.
February 2004: “Archaeological Relics or Symbols of Colonialism: Exploring the Architectural Heritage of the Urban Landscape of Cork (c.1600-c.1850)”, “The Irish Post Medieval Archaeology Group with the Society for Post Medieval Archaeology (UK)”, Derry.
May 2003: “Matters of Empire, Education and Useful Knowledge in Nineteenth Century Cork” The Royal Cork Institution (1803-1880), “Conference of Irish Geographers”, Trinity College Dublin.
October 2002: “Towards a Sense of Place: Local Studies - Education and Practice in the Cork Context” Critical Perspectives on Irelands’ Heritages: Consumption, Methods and Practice”, Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology.
Lord Mayor of Cork 2005/6 Deidre Clune at the Launch of Kieran's Publication, 'Voices of Cork'
