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

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Yeats 150

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Ireland in the ’70s

[sc_embed_player fileurl=”http://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/history2013/20150518-HistoryIrelandShow-045.mp3″] Click the play button to listen To download audio, right click this link and select “Save link as..” @ Mechanics Institute, Galway, 8pm Fri 24 April Brian Hanley, Eamonn McCann, Tom Inglis, Sarah-Anne Buckley.