The Connaught Rangers mutiny—1920, 1970 & 2020

[sc_embed_player fileurl=”https://history2013.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/20200625-HistoryIrelandShow-113.mp3″] Click the play button to listen To download audio, right click this link and select “Save link as..” On 28 June 1920, five men from C Company of the 1st Battalion of the Connaught Rangers led a mutiny in Jalandhar, Punjab, in protest against martial law in Ireland. Following their surrender a few days … Read more

Henry Grattan 200 years on—a misunderstood legacy?

[sc_embed_player fileurl=”https://history2013.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/20200609-HistoryIrelandShow-112.mp3″] Click the play button to listenTo download audio, right click this link and select “Save link as..” Born in Dublin’s Fishamble Street in 1746, but resident for most of his life in Tinnehinch, near Enniskerry, Co. Wicklow, Henry Grattan was the most noted, and certainly the most eloquent, of the eighteenth-century opposition ‘patriots’ … Read more

Soviets, strikes and land seizures—class conflict & the Tan War

[sc_embed_player fileurl=”https://history2013.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/20200430-HistoryIrelandShow-111.mp3″] Click the play button to listen To download audio, right click this link and select “Save link as..” This Podcast is part of the History Ireland Hedge School programme supported by the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht under the Decade of Centenaries 2012–2023 initiative. In the midst of the War of Independence a … Read more

Teaching Controversial Issues: History and Commemoration

[sc_embed_player fileurl=”https://history2013.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/20200309-HistoryIrelandShow-110.mp3″] Click the play button to listen To download audio, right click this link and select “Save link as..” (organised by The History Teachers Association of Ireland (as part of the Dublin Branch Spring Seminar) in conjunction with the National Library of Ireland and History Ireland) Recorded @ the National Library of Ireland on 7 March 2020 … Read more