Ireland & the UK from 1916 to Brexit

[sc_embed_player fileurl=”http://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/history2013/20170202-HistoryIrelandShow-071.mp3″] Click the play button to listen To download audio, right click this link and select “Save link as..” @ the London Irish Centre, Camden. 7pm Wed 25 January 2017 . At the heart of the past year’s commemoration of the 1916 Rising has been consideration of Ireland’s evolving relationship with the United Kingdom … Read more

The Battle of the Somme on film

[sc_embed_player fileurl=”http://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/history2013/20161125-HistoryIrelandShow-070.MP3″] Click the play button to listen To download audio, right click this link and select “Save link as..” @ The Kevin Barry Room, The National Concert Hall, Dublin. 6 pm, Saturday 19 November. Tommy Graham with Dr Kevin Rocket (TCD), Jennifer Wellington (UCD), Lar Joye (National Museum) and Tom Burke (Royal Dublin Fusiliers … Read more

‘All changed, changed utterly…’? Ireland 1916-18

[sc_embed_player fileurl=”http://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/history2013/20161111-HistoryIrelandShow-069.mp3″] Click the play button to listen To download audio, right click this link and select “Save link as..” 7pm on Tuesday 8 November 2016 @ the National Library of Ireland, Kildare Street The contrast between the apparent indifference (hostility even) of the public response to the Rising of Easter 1916 with the landslide … Read more

Keeping the head down — Protestants in Independent Ireland.

[sc_embed_player fileurl=”http://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/history2013/20161110-HistoryIrelandShow-068.mp3″] Click the play button to listen To download audio, right click this link and select “Save link as..” Saturday 5 November at the Allingham Festival, Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal Tommy Graham returns to his native Ballyshannon once again with the History Ireland Hedge School. This year’s topic has a particular resonance in a border … Read more

The Somme: an ambiguous legacy

[sc_embed_player fileurl=”http://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/history2013/20160721-HistoryIrelandShow-067.mp3″] Click the play button to listen To download audio, right click this link and select “Save link as..” A History Ireland Hedge School in conjunction with the National Library of Ireland Fought between 1 July and 1 November 1916 the Somme Offensive was one of the bloodiest battles in history, costing the lives … Read more