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Henry Grattan 200 years on—a misunderstood legacy?

[sc_embed_player fileurl=”https://history2013.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/20200609-HistoryIrelandShow-112.mp3″] Click the play button to listenTo download audio, right click this link and select “Save link as..” Born in Dublin’s Fishamble Street in 1746, but resident for most of his life in Tinnehinch, near Enniskerry, Co. Wicklow, Henry Grattan was the most noted, and certainly the most eloquent, of the eighteenth-century opposition ‘patriots’ … Read more

Soviets, strikes and land seizures—class conflict & the Tan War

[sc_embed_player fileurl=”https://history2013.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/20200430-HistoryIrelandShow-111.mp3″] Click the play button to listen To download audio, right click this link and select “Save link as..” This Podcast is part of the History Ireland Hedge School programme supported by the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht under the Decade of Centenaries 2012–2023 initiative. In the midst of the War of Independence a … Read more

‘Topnobbers’—James Joyce and Louis Werner

‘Louis Werner is touring here, Mr Bloom said. O yes, we’ll have all topnobbers. J.C. Doyle and John MacCormack I hope and. The best, in fact.’ (James Joyce, Ulysses) By Eugene Dunphy From boyhood into manhood, James Joyce was immersed in music. At the Martello Terrace family home in Bray, he often witnessed his father … Read more

Jack’s Irish holiday

A New Zealand perspective on the Easter Rising. By Rory Sweetman Jack Garland was an orderly with the New Zealand Medical Corps attached to the hospital ship Marama during the First World War. The 21-year-old corporal spent the first few months of 1916 evacuating wounded Allied troops from around the Mediterranean, including many survivors of … Read more

PARALLELS: ‘The shadow of the gunman’ in 1932 and 2020

Themes in Irish politics that have recurred over nine decades. By James McNaney ‘Sinn Fein is not a normal political party.’ When Leo Varadkar said this during the recent general election campaign, he did not mean that Sinn Féin is unconventional but expressed fears over the party’s links to the IRA. Members of Fine Gael … Read more