‘Keeping the head down’? — Protestant folklore Project

[sc_embed_player fileurl=”https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/history2013/20170920-HistoryIrelandShow-079.MP3″] Click the play button to listen To download audio, right click this link and select “Save link as..” 14th September 2017 @ Cavan County Museum, Virgina Road, Ballyjamesduff, Co Cavan. When one thinks of folklore study and folklore collecting south of the border, the Protestant community is not normally the first sector of … Read more

‘Poet of the blackbirds’ — the life and death of Francis Ledwidge

[sc_embed_player fileurl=”https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/history2013/20170731-HistoryIrelandShow-078.mp3″] Click the play button to listen To download audio, right click this link and select “Save link as..” @ Richmond Barracks gymnasium, Inchicore, Dublin 8. 7pm Thurs 27 July ‘[I was] astonished by the brilliance of that eye and that had looked at the fields of Meath and seen there all the simple … Read more

Ireland and Europe: then and now

[sc_embed_player fileurl=”https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/history2013/20170526-HistoryIrelandShow-077.mp3″] Click the play button to listen To download audio, right click this link and select “Save link as..” @ Micheál Ó Clérigh Summer School, Franciscan Friary, Rossnowlagh, Co. Donegal3.45pm Sat 13 MayDeclán de Breadún (Irish Times), Alan Titley (UCC), John McCafferty (UCD), Mark Empey (NUIG) joined Hedge School master Tommy Graham of History … Read more

Ireland and the United States from 1917 to Trump

[sc_embed_player fileurl=”https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/history2013/20170525-HistoryIrelandShow-076.mp3″] Click the play button to listen To download audio, right click this link and select “Save link as..” @ the National Library of Ireland, Kildare Street recorded at 7pm Tuesday 23 May The centenary of the entry of the United States into the WWI provides a timely opportunity to review the ‘unique relationship’ … Read more

Ireland, the United States and the war at sea, 1917

[sc_embed_player fileurl=”https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/history2013/20170509-HistoryIrelandShow-075.MP3″] Click the play button to listen To download audio, right click this link and select “Save link as..” 7 was the pivotal year of the First World War. At its outset German U-boats were inflicting huge damage on Allied shipping, while in the land war the loss of one ally, Russia, was not … Read more