Revolutionary Period 1912-23 Archives - Page 10 of 57

The War of Independence in Cavan/Monaghan

[sc_embed_player fileurl=”https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/history2013/20130425-HistoryIrelandShow-010-TheWarOfIndependenceInCavanMonaghan.mp3″] Click the Play button to listen To download file, right click this link and select “Save link as..” Recorded in Cavan Museum, Ballyjamesduff, 19 April with Matthew Lewis and Fearghal McGarry, both of Queen’s University, Belfast; Pádraig Ó Ruairc (Author of ‘Blood on the Banner’) ; and Aogán Ó Fearghall, President of Ulster … Read more

Remembering the Ulster Covenant

[sc_embed_player fileurl=”https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/history2013/20130425-HistoryIrelandShow-004-RememberingTheUlsterCovenant.mp3″] Click the Play button to listen To download file, right click this link and select “Save link as..” Recorded at the Regional Cultural Centre, Letterkenny, Co. Donegal with Brian Kennaway (Irish Association), Éamon Phoenix (Stranmillis), Margaret O’Callaghan (QUB) and Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc (Uni. of Limerick).

Cumann na mBan by Joseph E.A. Connell Jr

The first meeting to discuss the foundation of Cumann na mBan was held on 25 November 1913, the same night as the first meeting of the Volunteers. Its first ‘official’ meeting was in Wynn’s Hotel on 2 April 1914. Agnes O’Farrelly was its first president and Mary Colum was one of its first organisers. The … Read more

Dublin Fire Brigade and the Irish Revolution

Dublin Fire Brigade and the Irish Revolution Las Fallon (South Dublin Libraries, €7.50) ISBN 9780956580481 Dublin Fire Brigade (DFB) has a pivotal if unsung role in the history of the Troubles, 1916–23, and as the individual responsible for destroying one of the last artefacts from that time, I feel that I am particularly well … Read more

TV eye

In the name of the Republic TV3, 18 & 25 March 2013 Title Films by Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc IRA leader Tom Barry once likened the more unsavoury aspects of the War of Independence to being dragged ‘down into the mire’. The two-part documentary In the name of the Republic, presented by Professor Eunan … Read more