Soloheadbeg — impact & legacy

[sc_embed_player fileurl=”https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/history2013/20190101-HistoryIrelandShow-101.mp3″] Click the play button to listen To download audio, right click this link and select “Save link as..” Seminar and History Ireland Hedge School held  @ Ballykisteen Hotel, Limerick Junction, Co. Tipperary. Saturday 19 January 2019. National and international context—Noreen Higgins McHugh. December 1918 general election in Tipperary—Seán Hogan. ‘Deserters, spies and hirelings’ : perceptions … Read more

The 1918 general election — political earthquake or ‘same old, same old’?

[sc_embed_player fileurl=”https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/history2013/20181217-HistoryIrelandShow-095.mp3″] Click the play button to listen To download audio, right click this link and select “Save link as..” recorded @ the Allingham Festival, Abbey Centre, Ballyshannon 6pm Saturday 10 November 2018 With good reason the December 1918 general election is regarded as a political earthquake. With a massively expanded electorate, including women over … Read more

From ballots to bullets — Ireland 1918–19

[sc_embed_player fileurl=”https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/history2013/20181207-HistoryIrelandShow-094.mp3″] Click the play button to listen To download audio, right click this link and select “Save link as..” recorded @ National Photographic Archive, Temple Bar pm Tuesday 4 December 2018 History Ireland editor, Tommy Graham, was joined by a panel of experts — Brian Hanley, Liz Gillis, Niamh Puirséil — for a discussion to … Read more

THE GREAT HUNGER REASSESSED

[sc_embed_player fileurl=”https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/history2013/20181120-HistoryIrelandShow-093.mp3″] Click the play button to listen To download audio, right click this link and select “Save link as..” In Association with Dublin Port Venue: Dublin Port HQ, Alexander Road, East Wall  Time: 2.30PM – 3.30PM  The popularity of Quinnipiac University’s travelling exhibition, Coming Home: Art & the Great Hunger (opening in An Seaneaglais [Glassworks], … Read more

100 years of women in politics and political life

[sc_embed_player fileurl=”https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/history2013/20181106-HistoryIrelandShow-092.MP3″] Click the play button to listen To download audio, right click this link and select “Save link as..” recorded @ Bedford Hall, Dublin Castle 2.30pm Friday 2 November 2018 A hundred years ago women in Ireland (then part of the UK) got the vote. To mark a century of women’s subsequent involvement in … Read more