Hedge School Recordings

[sc_embed_player fileurl=”https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/history2013/20180502-HistoryIrelandShow-090.MP3″] Click the play button to listen To download audio, right click this link and select “Save link as..” Recorded on Friday, 27 APRIL 2018 at 7pm Venue: @ CAFE Readers’ and Writers’ Festival, Cobh Library, Co. Cork The twentieth century was the century of mass death and yet, contrary to popular perception, the greatest … Read more

[sc_embed_player fileurl=”https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/history2013/20180425-HistoryIrelandShow-089.mp3″] Click the play button to listen To download audio, right click this link and select “Save link as..” Recorded on: Monday, 23 APRIL 2018 at 7pm. Venue: @ Liberty Hall, Dublin 1 On 23 April 1918 the Irish Trades Union Congress, and the ITGWU in particular, called a one-day general strike against the imposition of … Read more

[sc_embed_player fileurl=”http://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/history2013/20180402-HistoryIrelandShow-088.mp3″] Click the play button to listen To download audio, right click this link and select “Save link as..” Recorded @ Kilkenny Medieval Mile Museum on Friday, 16 March 2018 at 6.30pm The difference between history and archaeology is the difference between Neanderthal and Homo sapiens. The latter is more technologically advanced, and the former, although … Read more

[sc_embed_player fileurl=”https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/history2013/20180316-HistoryIrelandShow-087.mp3″] Click the play button to listen To download audio, right click this link and select “Save link as..” Recorded on Wednesday, 14 March 2018 at 7pm @ The Officers’ Mess, Custume Barracks, Athlone March 2018 marks the centenary of the death of John Redmond, leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party, which had dominated … Read more

[sc_embed_player fileurl=”https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/history2013/20180305-HistoryIrelandShow-086.mp3″] Click the play button to listen To download audio, right click this link and select “Save link as..” Recorded on Tuesday 27 February at 7pm in the National Library, Kildare Street, Dublin 2 In Ireland in the revolutionary period, cinema was the latest form of mass entertainment. Previously ignored as a pernicious working class … Read more