Nick Maxwell [sc_embed_player fileurl=”https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/history2013/20180316-HistoryIrelandShow-087.mp3″] Click the play button to listen To download audio, right click this link and select “Save link as..” Recorded on Wednesday, 14 March 2018 at 7pm @ The Officers’ Mess, Custume Barracks, Athlone March 2018 marks the centenary of the death of John Redmond, leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party, which had dominated … Read more
[sc_embed_player fileurl=”https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/history2013/20180305-HistoryIrelandShow-086.mp3″] Click the play button to listen To download audio, right click this link and select “Save link as..” Recorded on Tuesday 27 February at 7pm in the National Library, Kildare Street, Dublin 2 In Ireland in the revolutionary period, cinema was the latest form of mass entertainment. Previously ignored as a pernicious working class … Read more
[sc_embed_player fileurl=”https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/history2013/20180112-HistoryIrelandShow-085.mp3″] Click the play button to listen To download audio, right click this link and select “Save link as..” @ Abbey Arts Centre, Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal 7pm Sat 11 Nov ‘17 Unlike Ballyshannon’s other famous son, Rory Gallagher, poet William Allingham (b. 1824) spent most of his adult life in his native town before … Read more
[sc_embed_player fileurl=”https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/history2013/20171123-HistoryIrelandShow-084.mp3″] Click the play button to listen To download audio, right click this link and select “Save link as..” @ the National Library, Kildare Street 7pm Tues 21 Nov On 10 September 1967, Minister for Education Donogh O’Malley announced a scheme for free secondary education, much to the surprise of his cabinet colleagues, and of … Read more
[sc_embed_player fileurl=”https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/history2013/20171113-HistoryIrelandShow-083.MP3″] Click the play button to listen To download audio, right click this link and select “Save link as..” @ Dublin Book Fesitval, RDS Library, Dublin. 2.30pm Sun 5 Nov As part of the Dublin Book Festival, Tommy Graham, Editor of History Ireland magazine, hosts a discussion with Joseph E.A. Connell Jr (author of Michael Collins: … Read more