Nick Maxwell [sc_embed_player fileurl=”http://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/history2013/20150417-HistoryIrelandShow-044.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 14 April. Tommy Graham with John Horne, Lar Joye, Myles Dungan
[sc_embed_player fileurl=”http://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/history2013/20150417-HistoryIrelandShow-043.mp3″] Click the play button to listen To download audio, right click this link and select “Save link as..” As part of the RTÉ ‘The Road to the Rising’ Event, Gresham Hotel, 3.30pm Monday 6 April 2015 History Ireland Hedge School —Was the Easter Rising justified? Panellists: Ronan Fanning, Felix Larkin, John Borgonovo, Padraig … Read more
March 3 Tues 8pm Clare & Shannon Archaeological & Historical Societies, Old Ground Hotel, Ennis. Praying and singing in medieval Ireland, 1000–1600, Frank Lawrence. 6 Fri 7.30pm NUI Maynooth History Forum, Rhetoric House, South Campus. The moral economy—how the poor survived in 1830s Ireland, Seán Bagnall. 9 Mon 7.30pm Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, … Read more
Through their articles and editorial positions, newspapers shaped and set in motion many of the forces that created the organisations and individuals of the revolutionary years. As was often the case in the period, women were to the fore. In 1908 the Daughters of Ireland. Inghinidhe na hÉireann initiated Bean na hÉireann, the first nationalist-feminist … Read more
MICHAEL KENNEDY & ART MAGENNIS Four Courts Press €40.50 ISBN 9781846825231 Reviewed by Thomas O’Loughlin To appreciate this important book one must note the opening sentences with care: ‘This book originates in a personal memoir by Comdt. Art Magennis of his service with the 35th Irish Battalion in Organisation de Nations Unies au Congo (ONUC) … Read more