Nick Maxwell

Censorship in Ireland—then and now

[sc_embed_player fileurl=”https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/history2013/20190417-HistoryIrelandShow-102.mp3″] Click the play button to listen To download audio, right click this link and select “Save link as..” To mark the selection this year (2019) of Edna O’Brien’s Country Girls trilogy as Dublin’s ‘One City One Book’, the History Ireland Hedge School considered the issue of censorship. Banned on its release in 1960, The … Read more

Soloheadbeg — impact & legacy

[sc_embed_player fileurl=”https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/history2013/20190101-HistoryIrelandShow-101.mp3″] Click the play button to listen To download audio, right click this link and select “Save link as..” Seminar and History Ireland Hedge School held  @ Ballykisteen Hotel, Limerick Junction, Co. Tipperary. Saturday 19 January 2019. National and international context—Noreen Higgins McHugh. December 1918 general election in Tipperary—Seán Hogan. ‘Deserters, spies and hirelings’ : perceptions … Read more

The 1918 general election — political earthquake or ‘same old, same old’?

[sc_embed_player fileurl=”https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/history2013/20181217-HistoryIrelandShow-095.mp3″] Click the play button to listen To download audio, right click this link and select “Save link as..” recorded @ the Allingham Festival, Abbey Centre, Ballyshannon 6pm Saturday 10 November 2018 With good reason the December 1918 general election is regarded as a political earthquake. With a massively expanded electorate, including women over … Read more

From ballots to bullets — Ireland 1918–19

[sc_embed_player fileurl=”https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/history2013/20181207-HistoryIrelandShow-094.mp3″] Click the play button to listen To download audio, right click this link and select “Save link as..” recorded @ National Photographic Archive, Temple Bar pm Tuesday 4 December 2018 History Ireland editor, Tommy Graham, was joined by a panel of experts — Brian Hanley, Liz Gillis, Niamh Puirséil — for a discussion to … Read more

THE GREAT HUNGER REASSESSED

[sc_embed_player fileurl=”https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/history2013/20181120-HistoryIrelandShow-093.mp3″] Click the play button to listen To download audio, right click this link and select “Save link as..” In Association with Dublin Port Venue: Dublin Port HQ, Alexander Road, East Wall  Time: 2.30PM – 3.30PM  The popularity of Quinnipiac University’s travelling exhibition, Coming Home: Art & the Great Hunger (opening in An Seaneaglais [Glassworks], … Read more