Longford and the global Irish Revolution

Click HERE to hear full recording (organised by Longford County Library, Heritage and Archives Service in conjunction with History Ireland) recorded @ Canal Studio, Backstage Theatre, Longford on Thur 21 Nov 2019 Another in the ongoing series of Hedge Schools on how the Irish Revolution at local level influenced, and was influenced by, the wider global … Read more

An inconvenient truth? Sexual violence and the Irish Revolution

[sc_embed_player fileurl=”https://history2013.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/20191204-HistoryIrelandShow-109.mp3″] Click the play button to listenTo download audio, right click this link and select “Save link as..” Recorded on Tuesday 26 November at 7pm@ National Photographic Archive, Temple Bar How valid is the assumption that because the War of Independence and Civil War are considered ‘low rape’ conflicts there is little to address … Read more

Labour and the North, and the National Question

[sc_embed_player fileurl=”https://history2013.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/20191112-HistoryIrelandShow-108.mp3″] Click the play button to listen To download audio, right click this link and select “Save link as..” @ Mechanics Institute, Galway (in association with the ICTU & the Irish Centre for the Histories of Labour and Class, NUI Galway) recorded at 8pm on Friday 8 Nov 2019 James Connolly, executed for his … Read more

A century on—how do we view the War of Independence?

[sc_embed_player fileurl=”https://history2013.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/20190923-HistoryIrelandShow-107.mp3″] Click the play button to listen To download audio, right click this link and select “Save link as..” Recorded @ Malahide Community School 2pm Thursday 19 September 2019 How has recent scholarship changed our view of the War of Independence? What new sources are now available? And has this in turn affected how … Read more

The War of Independence in County Clare

[sc_embed_player fileurl=”https://history2013.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/20190916-HistoryIrelandShow-106.mp3″] Click the play button to listen To download audio, right click this link and select “Save link as..” David Fitzpatrick’s Politics and Irish Life, 1913–21: provincial experience of war and revolution (1977) reassessed In association with Clare County Library  recorded @ Temple Gate Hotel, Ennis on Saturday, 14 Sept 2019 at 2pm The … Read more