The last train from Bundoran

[sc_embed_player fileurl=”https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/history2013/20171011-HistoryIrelandShow-081.mp3″] Click the play button to listen To download audio, right click this link and select “Save link as..” @ Railway Heritage Festival, Eclipse Cinema, Bundoran, Co. Donegal 8pm Sat 30 Sept 2017 marks 60 years since the closure of the Great Northern Railway and the last train to leave Bundoran station. Tommy Graham, … Read more

History Ireland Hedge School @ Mindfield, Electric Picnic

[sc_embed_player fileurl=”https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/history2013/20170922-HistoryIrelandShow-080.mp3″] Click the play button to listen To download audio, right click this link and select “Save link as..” 3pm Sun 3 Sept The Bolshevik Revolution — in the dustbin of history? In the face of claims of the total triumph of neo-liberal capitalism and a generation after the collapse of the Soviet Union, … Read more

‘Keeping the head down’? — Protestant folklore Project

[sc_embed_player fileurl=”https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/history2013/20170920-HistoryIrelandShow-079.MP3″] Click the play button to listen To download audio, right click this link and select “Save link as..” 14th September 2017 @ Cavan County Museum, Virgina Road, Ballyjamesduff, Co Cavan. When one thinks of folklore study and folklore collecting south of the border, the Protestant community is not normally the first sector of … Read more

‘Poet of the blackbirds’ — the life and death of Francis Ledwidge

[sc_embed_player fileurl=”https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/history2013/20170731-HistoryIrelandShow-078.mp3″] Click the play button to listen To download audio, right click this link and select “Save link as..” @ Richmond Barracks gymnasium, Inchicore, Dublin 8. 7pm Thurs 27 July ‘[I was] astonished by the brilliance of that eye and that had looked at the fields of Meath and seen there all the simple … Read more

Ireland and Europe: then and now

[sc_embed_player fileurl=”https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/history2013/20170526-HistoryIrelandShow-077.mp3″] Click the play button to listen To download audio, right click this link and select “Save link as..” @ Micheál Ó Clérigh Summer School, Franciscan Friary, Rossnowlagh, Co. Donegal3.45pm Sat 13 MayDeclán de Breadún (Irish Times), Alan Titley (UCC), John McCafferty (UCD), Mark Empey (NUIG) joined Hedge School master Tommy Graham of History … Read more