Nick Maxwell [sc_embed_player fileurl=”http://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/history2013/20151109-HistoryIrelandShow-053.mp3″] Click the play button to listen To download audio, right click this link and select “Save link as..” Allingham Festival, Ballyshannon, 7 November 2015 Tommy Graham, with Jonathan Bardon, Marc Geagan, John Gibney and Conor McNamara.
Both the Volunteers and the Irish Citizen Army (ICA) members wore uniforms of varying colours. Messrs Morrogh Brothers of Douglas Woollen Mills, Cork, were the official suppliers of cloth for the uniforms of the Volunteers. They provided a ‘high-class uniform serge of a gray-green cloth of a very suitable colour for field work in Ireland … Read more
Boland’s Mills, green flag with harp; City Hall, tricolour; College of Surgeons, tricolour; Four Courts, a professionally made green flag with a plain gold harp; GPO, tricolour (flown on the Henry Street corner) and green flag with ‘Irish Republic’ in gold (flown on the Prince’s Street corner). The British returned the ‘Irish Republic’ flag to … Read more
Reviewed by Niall Meehan Head of the Journalism and Media Faculty in Griffith College, Dublin. Robert Savage has written a richly detailed history of the BBC’s ‘Irish Troubles’, a story of how a sometimes-calculated self-censorship functioned before the British government made it official in 1988. Savage explains how, during the 1960s, BBC Northern Ireland news … Read more
Reviewed by Orfhlaith Ni Bhriain A course director at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance at the University of Limerick. For many years dance scholarship has been considered as a luxury niche and largely undervalued, and even entirely omitted from written accounts depicting the importance of culture in the development of Irish society. … Read more