Nick Maxwell

100 years of women in politics and political life

[sc_embed_player fileurl=”https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/history2013/20181106-HistoryIrelandShow-092.MP3″] Click the play button to listen To download audio, right click this link and select “Save link as..” recorded @ Bedford Hall, Dublin Castle 2.30pm Friday 2 November 2018 A hundred years ago women in Ireland (then part of the UK) got the vote. To mark a century of women’s subsequent involvement in … Read more

The sinking of the RMS Leinster and the war at sea

[sc_embed_player fileurl=”https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/history2013/20181118-HistoryIrelandShow-091.MP3″] Click the play button to listen To download audio, right click this link and select “Save link as..” @ National Maritime Museum, Haigh Terrace, Dún Laoghaire 7.30pm Sunday 7 October 2018 Just before 10am on 10 October 1918, east of the Kish Bank, two torpedoes fired by the German submarine UB-123 struck the … Read more

Greatest killer of the 20th century? The ’flu pandemic of 1918–19

[sc_embed_player fileurl=”https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/history2013/20180502-HistoryIrelandShow-090.MP3″] Click the play button to listen To download audio, right click this link and select “Save link as..” Recorded on Friday, 27 APRIL 2018 at 7pm Venue: @ CAFE Readers’ and Writers’ Festival, Cobh Library, Co. Cork The twentieth century was the century of mass death and yet, contrary to popular perception, the greatest … Read more

The cause of Labour? The 1918 general strike against conscription

[sc_embed_player fileurl=”https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/history2013/20180425-HistoryIrelandShow-089.mp3″] Click the play button to listen To download audio, right click this link and select “Save link as..” Recorded on: Monday, 23 APRIL 2018 at 7pm. Venue: @ Liberty Hall, Dublin 1 On 23 April 1918 the Irish Trades Union Congress, and the ITGWU in particular, called a one-day general strike against the imposition of … Read more

History v archaeology: is it like Neanderthals versus Homo sapiens?

[sc_embed_player fileurl=”http://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/history2013/20180402-HistoryIrelandShow-088.mp3″] Click the play button to listen To download audio, right click this link and select “Save link as..” Recorded @ Kilkenny Medieval Mile Museum on Friday, 16 March 2018 at 6.30pm The difference between history and archaeology is the difference between Neanderthal and Homo sapiens. The latter is more technologically advanced, and the former, although … Read more