Nick Maxwell [sc_embed_player fileurl=”http://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/history2013/20160209-HistoryIrelandShow-057.mp3″ ] Click the play button to listen To download audio, right click this link and select “Save link as..” @ Ulster Canal Stores, Clones, Co. Monaghan 7pm Fri 5 Feb 2016 Hedge School master Tommy Graham discussed The Somme: what actually happened?, with Lar Joye (National Museum), Jason Burke (Queen’s, Belfast), and George … Read more
Thady McMahon, Eugene O’Curry and singing beggars in mid-nineteenth-century Dublin. By Ciarán McCabe In November 1852 a 60-year-old blind beggar named Thady McMahon was arrested and detained in Dublin city for ‘being a wandering vagrant’. With three or four previous convictions ‘for vagrancy’, McMahon was sentenced before the magistrates at the Capel Street Police Office … Read more
The son of a portrait-painter, George Petrie was among the leading figures in Dublin’s intellectual circles in the second and third quarters of the nineteenth century. His interests encompassed antiquarianism, painting and sketching, and he was an avid collector of ancient Irish music. His skill as an artist led to his election as a member … Read more
The Royal Irish Academy (RIA) plays an important part in the story of Thady McMahon and his relationship with his associates and patrons from amongst Dublin’s intellectual élite. The RIA was established in 1786 for the purpose of ‘promoting the study of science, polite literature and antiquities’. At the time of McMahon’s arrest, George Petrie … Read more
Loose Horse Productions RTÉ 1, 14 December 2018 By John Gibney On 14 December 1918 a UK-wide general election took place in Britain and Ireland, and on 14 December 2018 RTÉ covered it. The first such election since 1910 was held within weeks of the armistice that ended hostilities in the First World War and … Read more