Carlow History Festival Hedge School

[sc_embed_player fileurl=”https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/history2013/20140707-HistoryIrelandShow-036.mp3″] Click the play button to listen To download audio, right click this link and select “Save link as..” @ History Festival of Ireland, Huntington Castle, Clonegal, Co. Carlow Sun 8 June Show bands, beat bands & ballads: youth culture of the ’60s & ’70s Tommy Graham with Carole Holohan, John Ryan (ex-Granny’s Intentions), Niall … Read more

Before Banna: politics, society & sport in Kerry 1912–1916

[sc_embed_player fileurl=”http://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/history2013/20140415-HistoryIrelandShow-035.mp3″] Click the play button to listen To download audio, right click this link and select “Save link as..” @ Seanchaí—Kerry Writers’ Museum, Listowel Roger Casement’s landing and arrest at Banna Strand has assured Kerry a place in the narrative (and song) of the 1916 Rising. The county was equally prominent in the War … Read more

Volunteers 1913: two traditions or one?

[sc_embed_player fileurl=”http://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/history2013/20131226-HistoryIrelandShow-032.mp3″] Click the play button to listen To download audio, right click this link and select “Save link as..”   @ Belfast City Hall, Tues 10 December 6pm Lar Joye, Michael Laffan, Timothy Bowman, Philip Orr

Ballyshannon & the Erne scheme: dammed or damned?

[sc_embed_player fileurl=”http://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/history2013/20131121-HistoryIrelandShow-030.mp3″] Click the play button to listen To download audio, right click this link and select “Save link as..”   @ Allingham Festival, Ballyshannon, Abbey Centre, Sat 9 Nov 5.30pm Tommy Graham with Brian Drummond, Michael Kennedy, Jonathon Bardon, Pauraic Travers