William Allingham: ‘an Irish poet but not a national poet’? (W.B. Yeats)

[sc_embed_player fileurl=”https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/history2013/20180112-HistoryIrelandShow-085.mp3″] Click the play button to listen To download audio, right click this link and select “Save link as..” @ Abbey Arts Centre, Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal 7pm Sat 11 Nov ‘17 Unlike Ballyshannon’s other famous son, Rory Gallagher, poet William Allingham (b. 1824) spent most of his adult life in his native town before … Read more

50th anniversary of ‘free education’

[sc_embed_player fileurl=”https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/history2013/20171123-HistoryIrelandShow-084.mp3″] Click the play button to listen To download audio, right click this link and select “Save link as..” @ the National Library, Kildare Street 7pm Tues 21 Nov On 10 September 1967, Minister for Education Donogh O’Malley announced a scheme for free secondary education, much to the surprise of his cabinet colleagues, and of … Read more

Meeting Éamon De Valera and Michael Collins

[sc_embed_player fileurl=”https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/history2013/20171113-HistoryIrelandShow-083.MP3″] Click the play button to listen To download audio, right click this link and select “Save link as..” @ Dublin Book Fesitval, RDS Library, Dublin.  2.30pm Sun 5 Nov As part of the Dublin Book Festival, Tommy Graham, Editor of History Ireland magazine, hosts a discussion with Joseph E.A. Connell Jr (author of Michael Collins: … Read more

REFORMATION 500 — the Hedge School

[sc_embed_player fileurl=”https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/history2013/20171020-HistoryIrelandShow-082.mp3″] Click the play button to listen To download audio, right click this link and select “Save link as..” @ St Werburgh’s Church, Werburgh Street. 7pm Wed 18 October 2017 Tommy Graham, Editor of History Ireland magazine, led a discussion panel to discuss the Reformation on the occasion of its 500th anniversary. Included on … Read more

The last train from Bundoran

[sc_embed_player fileurl=”https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/history2013/20171011-HistoryIrelandShow-081.mp3″] Click the play button to listen To download audio, right click this link and select “Save link as..” @ Railway Heritage Festival, Eclipse Cinema, Bundoran, Co. Donegal 8pm Sat 30 Sept 2017 marks 60 years since the closure of the Great Northern Railway and the last train to leave Bundoran station. Tommy Graham, … Read more