Scotland and the global Irish Revolution

[sc_embed_player fileurl=”https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/history2013/20190521-HistoryIrelandShow-105.mp3″] Click the play button to listen To download audio, right click this link and select “Save link as..” Recorded @ Edinburgh University, Meadows Lecture Theatre, Wednesday 15 May 2019 To what extent did revolutionary developments abroad shape what happened within Ireland during the revolutionary period 1919–23? And in what ways did events within … Read more

A century of women

[sc_embed_player fileurl=”https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/history2013/20190425-HistoryIrelandShow-104.mp3″] Click the play button to listen To download audio, right click this link and select “Save link as..” History Ireland Hedge school at the Anonymous Was A Woman exhibition launch @ Linen Hall Library, Belfast Friday 12 April 2019 The exhibition makes use of the Linen Hall Library’s extensive collections and archives to highlight the historical … Read more

The Irish Revolution—local or global?

[sc_embed_player fileurl=”https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/history2013/20190423-HistoryIrelandShow-103.MP3″] Click the play button to listen To download audio, right click this link and select “Save link as..” The runaway success of the Atlas of the Irish Revolution (and the parallel TV documentary) and the proliferation of microstudies of the War of Independence and Civil War seems to bear out the adage that, … Read more

Censorship in Ireland—then and now

[sc_embed_player fileurl=”https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/history2013/20190417-HistoryIrelandShow-102.mp3″] Click the play button to listen To download audio, right click this link and select “Save link as..” To mark the selection this year (2019) of Edna O’Brien’s Country Girls trilogy as Dublin’s ‘One City One Book’, the History Ireland Hedge School considered the issue of censorship. Banned on its release in 1960, The … Read more

Soloheadbeg — impact & legacy

[sc_embed_player fileurl=”https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/history2013/20190101-HistoryIrelandShow-101.mp3″] Click the play button to listen To download audio, right click this link and select “Save link as..” Seminar and History Ireland Hedge School held  @ Ballykisteen Hotel, Limerick Junction, Co. Tipperary. Saturday 19 January 2019. National and international context—Noreen Higgins McHugh. December 1918 general election in Tipperary—Seán Hogan. ‘Deserters, spies and hirelings’ : perceptions … Read more