Nick Maxwell

‘Coming and going’ — Ireland and migration today

[sc_embed_player fileurl=”http://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/history2013/20170224-HistoryIrelandShow-072.mp3″] Click the play button to listen To download audio, right click this link and select “Save link as..” @ National Library, Kildare Street 7pm Tues 21 Feb (In conjunction with Beyond Leaving at the National Photographic Archive, Temple Bar) In the c. 120 years after the Great Hunger, half of the people born … Read more

Ireland & the UK from 1916 to Brexit

[sc_embed_player fileurl=”http://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/history2013/20170202-HistoryIrelandShow-071.mp3″] Click the play button to listen To download audio, right click this link and select “Save link as..” @ the London Irish Centre, Camden. 7pm Wed 25 January 2017 . At the heart of the past year’s commemoration of the 1916 Rising has been consideration of Ireland’s evolving relationship with the United Kingdom … Read more

The Battle of the Somme on film

[sc_embed_player fileurl=”http://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/history2013/20161125-HistoryIrelandShow-070.MP3″] Click the play button to listen To download audio, right click this link and select “Save link as..” @ The Kevin Barry Room, The National Concert Hall, Dublin. 6 pm, Saturday 19 November. Tommy Graham with Dr Kevin Rocket (TCD), Jennifer Wellington (UCD), Lar Joye (National Museum) and Tom Burke (Royal Dublin Fusiliers … Read more

‘All changed, changed utterly…’? Ireland 1916-18

[sc_embed_player fileurl=”http://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/history2013/20161111-HistoryIrelandShow-069.mp3″] Click the play button to listen To download audio, right click this link and select “Save link as..” 7pm on Tuesday 8 November 2016 @ the National Library of Ireland, Kildare Street The contrast between the apparent indifference (hostility even) of the public response to the Rising of Easter 1916 with the landslide … Read more

Keeping the head down — Protestants in Independent Ireland.

[sc_embed_player fileurl=”http://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/history2013/20161110-HistoryIrelandShow-068.mp3″] Click the play button to listen To download audio, right click this link and select “Save link as..” Saturday 5 November at the Allingham Festival, Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal Tommy Graham returns to his native Ballyshannon once again with the History Ireland Hedge School. This year’s topic has a particular resonance in a border … Read more