Nick Maxwell

[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

[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

[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