Nick Maxwell

The Emigrant’s Song: the impact of Irish music on American culture

[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

Hedge School: Policing in Ireland 1814 – 2014

[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

Sidelines

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

Events

January 8 Thur 8pm Mount Merrion Historical Society, Community Centre, North Avenue. Monkstown–Dún Laoghaire, Tom Conlon. Adm. ?4/?2 student. 9 Fri 8pm Military History Society of Ireland, Griffith College, South Circular Road. Who became an officer? Irish recruitment to the British armed forces, 1922–49, Stephen O’Connor. 13 Tues 7pm Tallaght Historical Society, County Library. The … Read more

‘This extraordinary combination of rogues and fools’— newspaper coverage of the Rising

In the early twentieth century, the newspapers they read defined Irish people. The Anglo-Irish establishment read the Irish Unionist Irish Times. When the Irish Parliamentary Party (IPP) split over Parnell’s relationship with Katherine O’Shea, the paper’s readership split as well. While the Freeman’s Journal went with the majority in opposing Parnell, a minority moved to … Read more