‘Now you see them…now you don’t’: women in the Irish Revolution

[sc_embed_player fileurl=”http://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/history2013/20170505-HistoryIrelandShow-074.mp3″] Click the play button to listen To download audio, right click this link and select “Save link as..” @ Mechanics Institute, Middle Street, Galway (in association with the Women’s History Association of Ireland) Recorded on Friday 21 April at 8pm One of the features of last year’s 1916 centenary commemorations was the extent … Read more

Reflecting on the Reformation

[sc_embed_player fileurl=”https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/history2013/20170410-HistoryIrelandShow-073.mp3″] Click the play button to listen To download audio, right click this link and select “Save link as..” A History Ireland Hedge School recorded at at Belfast Fest. of Ideas & Politics, Conor Hall, Belfast Campus, Ulster University, York Street Sun 26 March It is 500 years since Martin Luther nailed his Ninety-five … Read more

‘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