20th-century / Contemporary History

The War of Independence in Cavan/Monaghan

[sc_embed_player fileurl=”https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/history2013/20130425-HistoryIrelandShow-010-TheWarOfIndependenceInCavanMonaghan.mp3″] Click the Play button to listen To download file, right click this link and select “Save link as..” Recorded in Cavan Museum, Ballyjamesduff, 19 April with Matthew Lewis and Fearghal McGarry, both of Queen’s University, Belfast; Pádraig Ó Ruairc (Author of ‘Blood on the Banner’) ; and Aogán Ó Fearghall, President of Ulster … Read more

Remembering the Ulster Covenant

[sc_embed_player fileurl=”https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/history2013/20130425-HistoryIrelandShow-004-RememberingTheUlsterCovenant.mp3″] Click the Play button to listen To download file, right click this link and select “Save link as..” Recorded at the Regional Cultural Centre, Letterkenny, Co. Donegal with Brian Kennaway (Irish Association), Éamon Phoenix (Stranmillis), Margaret O’Callaghan (QUB) and Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc (Uni. of Limerick).  

Coercive confinement in Ireland: patients, prisoners and penitents

Coercive confinement in Ireland: patients, prisoners and penitents Eoin O’Sullivan and Ian O’Donnell (Manchester University Press, £65) ISBN 9780719086489   Coercive confinement in Ireland puts the spotlight on the wide range of institutions used by independent Ireland to confine ordinary criminals and those who flouted the moral codes of the period, along with children and … Read more

Dublin Fire Brigade and the Irish Revolution

Dublin Fire Brigade and the Irish Revolution Las Fallon (South Dublin Libraries, €7.50) ISBN 9780956580481   Dublin Fire Brigade (DFB) has a pivotal if unsung role in the history of the Troubles, 1916–23, and as the individual responsible for destroying one of the last artefacts from that time, I feel that I am particularly well … Read more