Archiving Radharc’s TV documentaries

The Archive Scheme of the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland is making a serious effort to encourage an ‘archiving culture’ in the broadcast sector. The Radharc Archive Project is one of the first of the BAI-funded projects to come to fruition. Fifteen Radharc programmes from 1962/3 have now been digitally remastered in high definition, along with … Read more

Daniel Doyle: Young Irelander

Daniel Doyle was a quintessential Young Irelander: a young professional of nationalist outlook and literary leanings. Born in Killaloe, Co. Clare, in 1826, he qualified as a solicitor in Limerick in the summer of 1846. It was around this time that he became actively engaged in politics, joining the Young Irelanders, led by the Limerick … Read more

War and peace—the North-west during the Second World War

[sc_embed_player fileurl=”http://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/history2013/20150626-HistoryIrelandShow-048.mp3″] Click the play button to listen To download audio, right click this link and select “Save link as..” @ Guild Hall, Derry 3pm Sat 16 May Michael Kennedy, Pauline Mitchell, Joe O’Loughlin, Emmet O’Connor

Yeats 150

[sc_embed_player fileurl=”http://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/history2013/20150615-HistoryIrelandShow-046.mp3″] Click the play button to listen To download audio, right click this link and select “Save link as..” @ National Library, Kildare Street, Dublin 2. 7pm Fri 12 June Roy Foster, Catriona Crowe, P.J. Mathews & with readings by Theo Dorgan