Nick Maxwell

The Somme: an ambiguous legacy

[sc_embed_player fileurl=”http://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/history2013/20160721-HistoryIrelandShow-067.mp3″] Click the play button to listen To download audio, right click this link and select “Save link as..” A History Ireland Hedge School in conjunction with the National Library of Ireland Fought between 1 July and 1 November 1916 the Somme Offensive was one of the bloodiest battles in history, costing the lives … Read more

The Belfast Blitz (75th anniversary)

[sc_embed_player fileurl=”http://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/history2013/20160628-HistoryIrelandShow-066.mp3″] Click the play button to listen To download audio, right click this link and select “Save link as..” A History Ireland Hedge Achool @ Northern Ireland War Memorial Museum, 21 Talbot Street, Belfast BT1 2LD, Thursday 5 May at 7pm History Ireland editor, Tommy Graham, was joined for a Hedge School on the … Read more

Women of the South: Radicals and Revolutionaries

[sc_embed_player fileurl=”http://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/history2013/20160624-HistoryIrelandShow-065.mp3″] Click the play button to listen To download audio, right click this link and select “Save link as..” @ English Market, Cork. 6pm Thur 12 May Tommy Graham, editor of History Ireland chaired a lively discussion with Linda Connolly, John Borgonovo, Mary McAuliffe and Claire McGing addressing a number of themes relating to … Read more

Women of the Irish Revolution—Constance Markievicz

[sc_embed_player fileurl=”http://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/history2013/20160519-HistoryIrelandShow-064.mp3″] Click the play button to listen To download audio, right click this link and select “Save link as..” @ Lissadell House, Lissadell, Co Sligo. 15 May 2016, 3pm In the early twentieth century thousands of Irishwomen participated in the Irish nationalist, labour and cultural movements of the day. However, except for a few … Read more

Dublin 1916: What was it like?

[sc_embed_player fileurl=”http://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/history2013/20160426-HistoryIrelandShow-063.mp3″] Click the play button to listen To download audio, right click this link and select “Save link as..” @ Trinity College, Thomas Davis Theatre, 28 March 2016Introduced by Tommie Gorman, Northern Editor, RTÉ Tommy Graham (Editor, History Ireland) with Dr John Gibney (TCD/Glasnevin Trust), Prof. Lucy McDiarmid (Montclair University, New Jersey, former President … Read more