Nick Maxwell No doubt we will be hearing a lot of Eric Bogle’s song—perhaps the greatest anti-war song ever written—over the next few weeks and months as we mark the centenary of the Battle of Gallipoli, in which over 130,000 died, including c. 5,000 Irishmen. What seemed like a strategic masterstroke—that would knock out one of the … Read more
The new issue is out! 2015 falls between two centenary years, but there are some big events to be marked this year and we’re trying to do our bit: Gallipoli looms large in our current issue, but there are a few others things between its cover, including: Brian Hanley on commemorating 1916 Fiona Fitzsimons … Read more
[sc_embed_player fileurl=”http://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/history2013/20150205-HistoryIrelandShow-042.mp3″] Click the play button to listen To download audio, right click this link and select “Save link as..” Atlantic Aparthotel, Bundoran, Co. Donegal Sat 17 Jan @ 3pm From Ulster Presbyterian emigration in the eighteenth century to the Appalachians and the Ozarks—and the subsequent evolution of country and bluegrass—to Irish Catholic emigration in … Read more
[sc_embed_player fileurl=”http://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/history2013/20150205-HistoryIrelandShow-041.mp3″] Click the play button to listen To download audio, right click this link and select “Save link as..” Hedge School: Policing in Ireland 1814 – 2014 @ National Museum of Ireland-Country Life, Castlebar, Co. Mayo, 16 January, 2015 Tommy Graham with Conor McNamara, Jim Herlihy, Sarah-Anne Buckley and John Cunningham Recent controversies over … Read more
Ireland is shaped like a pancake if a 1468 map is to be believed. Drawn by Italian cartographer Grazioso Benincasa, it has 57 identifiable modern place-names, such as Porto Rosso (Portrush), Drogda (Drogheda) and Bre (Bray), along with some rivers and offshore islands. Benincasa did not draw the map based on his own survey but … Read more