Nick Maxwell [sc_embed_player fileurl=”https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/history2013/20141204-HistoryIrelandShow-040.mp3″] Click the play button to listen To download audio, right click this link and select “Save link as..” National Library of Ireland 25 Nov
@ Allingham Festival, Ballyshannon, Abbey Arts Centre, Sunday 9 November 2014 Jeff Kildea, Jonathan Barton, Quincey Dougan and Marc Geagan [sc_embed_player fileurl=”http://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/history2013/20141117-HistoryIrelandShow-039.mp3″] Click the play button to listen To download audio, right click this link and select “Save link as..”
In 1928 the Irish Times, when reporting the commemoration of the end of the First World War on 11 November, Armistice Day, observed that ‘already a new generation has arisen to which the war is little more then a legend’. That can hardly be said of the ‘Great War’ in the centenary year of its … Read more
By Joseph E.A. Connell Jr At the start of the First World War, the Irish Republican Brotherhood’s (IRB) Supreme Council determined that a rising should be planned and undertaken in Ireland. While the original purpose of the Volunteers was to ensure that Home Rule was implemented, at least from September 1914 its covert purpose was … Read more
ANDY BIELENBERG and RAYMOND RYAN Routledge £85 ISBN 9780415566940 This is a very comprehensive and hugely satisfying survey of its subject-matter. It begins with British prime minister Lloyd George’s last-minute offer of full fiscal autonomy during the Treaty negotiations that led to independence in 1922 and takes us right up to the bank guarantee of … Read more