Genealogy: what does it think it is?

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Recorded at the National Library, Kildare Street. Wed. 6 Feb. @ 7pm Genealogy: what does it think it is? Brian Donovan (findmypast.ie), Fiona Fitzsmons (Eneclann), John Grenham (Association of Professional Genealogists in Ireland) and Michael Merrigan (Genealogical Society of Ireland)

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Ballyshannon, the Border and the Board: the past 100 years

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Ballyshannon Hedge School

Recorded at @ The Allingham Arts Festival, Abbey Arts Centre, Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal. Sat. 10 Nov.

With Anthony Begley (Ballyshannon: genealogy and history), Marc McMenamin(journalist) and Joe O’Loughlin (Voices of the Erne Corridor)

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The War of Independence in Cavan/Monaghan

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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 Council GAA.

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Irish Army deserters and the morality of neutrality.

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Venue: National Library of Ireland,

Date and time: 7.30pm Wednesday 16 MayBrian Girvin (Uni. of Glasgow), Michael Kennedy (RIA, Documents of Irish Foreign Policy), Geoff Roberts (UCC) and Eunan O’Halpin (TCD).

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History Ireland’s 20th Anniversary Hedge School

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‘Too many histories . . .’? surveys of the past generation
Recorded at the Royal College of Physicians, Kildare Street, Dublin 2 (in association with the Irish Association and Dept. of Foreign Affairs) on 16 May 2013. 
Ireland’s leading historians discussed the major narrative histories of the past generation.
Joe Lee (Ireland 1912–1985: Politics and Society, 1990),  Éamon Phoenix (Northern Nationalism: Nationalist Politics, Partition and the Catholic Minority in Northern Ireland 1890–1949, 1994), Diarmaid Ferriter (The Transformation of Ireland 1900–2000, 2004), and Mary Cullen (Telling It Our Way: Essays in Gender History, 2013)

 

 

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From Jacobitism to Jacobinism: a reconsideration

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Venue: ‘Aughrim Remembered’, Aughrim, Co. Galway
Date: Saturday 21 July
Panel:Richard Dohery (The Williamite War in Ireland: 1688-1691), Billy Kelly (UU), Éamon Ó Ciardha (UU) and Hiram Morgan (UCC).

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The Beautiful Game or the Garrison Game

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Donal Fallon (Come Here To Me blog), Brian Trench (Media Officer, Bohemian FC), Tommy Graham (History Ireland), Paul Rouse (sports historian, UCD), and David Toms (Waterford supporter & UCC) address the topic of ‘The Beautiful Game or the Garrison Game?’. This was a very well-attended History Ireland hedge school at Phizzfest, community arts festival, at Dalymount Park, the Home of Irish Football. The event took place in the Jodi Stand’s Block G on Saturday’ afternoon of September 8th 2012.

Recorded by Andy Donlan for Bohemian Football Club.

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