Ireland and the United States from 1917 to Trump

[sc_embed_player fileurl=”https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/history2013/20170525-HistoryIrelandShow-076.mp3″] Click the play button to listen To download audio, right click this link and select “Save link as..” @ the National Library of Ireland, Kildare Street recorded at 7pm Tuesday 23 May The centenary of the entry of the United States into the WWI provides a timely opportunity to review the ‘unique relationship’ … Read more

Ireland, the United States and the war at sea, 1917

[sc_embed_player fileurl=”https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/history2013/20170509-HistoryIrelandShow-075.MP3″] Click the play button to listen To download audio, right click this link and select “Save link as..” 7 was the pivotal year of the First World War. At its outset German U-boats were inflicting huge damage on Allied shipping, while in the land war the loss of one ally, Russia, was not … Read more

‘Now you see them…now you don’t’: women in the Irish Revolution

[sc_embed_player fileurl=”http://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/history2013/20170505-HistoryIrelandShow-074.mp3″] Click the play button to listen To download audio, right click this link and select “Save link as..” @ Mechanics Institute, Middle Street, Galway (in association with the Women’s History Association of Ireland) Recorded on Friday 21 April at 8pm One of the features of last year’s 1916 centenary commemorations was the extent … Read more

Reflecting on the Reformation

[sc_embed_player fileurl=”https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/history2013/20170410-HistoryIrelandShow-073.mp3″] Click the play button to listen To download audio, right click this link and select “Save link as..” A History Ireland Hedge School recorded at at Belfast Fest. of Ideas & Politics, Conor Hall, Belfast Campus, Ulster University, York Street Sun 26 March It is 500 years since Martin Luther nailed his Ninety-five … Read more

‘Coming and going’ — Ireland and migration today

[sc_embed_player fileurl=”http://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/history2013/20170224-HistoryIrelandShow-072.mp3″] Click the play button to listen To download audio, right click this link and select “Save link as..” @ National Library, Kildare Street 7pm Tues 21 Feb (In conjunction with Beyond Leaving at the National Photographic Archive, Temple Bar) In the c. 120 years after the Great Hunger, half of the people born … Read more