Nick Maxwell – Page 253 – History Ireland

An inconvenient truth? Sexual violence and the Irish Revolution

[sc_embed_player fileurl=”https://history2013.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/20191204-HistoryIrelandShow-109.mp3″] Click the play button to listenTo download audio, right click this link and select “Save link as..” Recorded on Tuesday 26 November at 7pm@ National Photographic Archive, Temple Bar How valid is the assumption that because the War of Independence and Civil War are considered ‘low rape’ conflicts there is little to address … Read more

Labour and the North, and the National Question

[sc_embed_player fileurl=”https://history2013.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/20191112-HistoryIrelandShow-108.mp3″] Click the play button to listen To download audio, right click this link and select “Save link as..” @ Mechanics Institute, Galway (in association with the ICTU & the Irish Centre for the Histories of Labour and Class, NUI Galway) recorded at 8pm on Friday 8 Nov 2019 James Connolly, executed for his … Read more

100 YEARS AGO: Long committee creates two Home Rule parliaments

By Joseph E.A. Connell Jr With the end of the First World War in November 1918, and with Sinn Féin winning a majority of Irish seats in the December general election, the British government faced its obligation under the Home Rule suspensory measure of 1914 to return to the Irish question. It became apparent that … Read more

December 17

Tues 7pm dlr Lexicon, Lexicon Lab. Port collections—a history of the port and the port archive, Lar Joye.

EVENTS

NOVEMBER 04 Mon 7.30pm Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 63 Merrion Square South. Surviving the seventeenth century? The Kennedys of Mount Kennedy, Cork, Therese Hicks. 05 Tues 8pm Kilmacanogue History Society, Glenview Hotel, Glen of the Downs. Paul Henry—art and Modernism, Eimear O’Connor. Adm. €3. 06 Wed 8pm Rathmichael Historical Society, National School, Stonebridge Road. Howth … Read more