Ireland and Europe: then and now
@ Micheál Ó Clérigh Summer School, Franciscan Friary, Rossnowlagh, Co. Donegal 3.45pm Sat 13 May Declán de Breadún (Irish Times), Alan Titley (UCC), John McCafferty (UCD), Mark Empey (NUIG) joined...
View Article‘Poet of the blackbirds’ — the life and death of Francis Ledwidge
@ Richmond Barracks gymnasium, Inchicore, Dublin 8. 7pm Thurs 27 July ‘[I was] astonished by the brilliance of that eye and that had looked at the fields of Meath and seen there all the simple birds...
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‘Keeping the head down’? — Protestant folklore Project
14th September 2017 @ Cavan County Museum, Virgina Road, Ballyjamesduff, Co Cavan. When one thinks of folklore study and folklore collecting south of the border, the Protestant community is not...
View ArticleHistory Ireland Hedge School @ Mindfield, Electric Picnic
3pm Sun 3 Sept The Bolshevik Revolution — in the dustbin of history? In the face of claims of the total triumph of neo-liberal capitalism and a generation after the collapse of the Soviet Union, how...
View ArticleThe last train from Bundoran
@ 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....
View ArticleREFORMATION 500 — the Hedge School
@ 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...
View ArticleMeeting Éamon De Valera and Michael Collins
@ 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...
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50th anniversary of ‘free education’
@ 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...
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William Allingham: ‘an Irish poet but not a national poet’? (W.B. Yeats)
@ 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...
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Cinema in Revolutionary Ireland
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...
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John Redmond: his life and legacy
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...
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History v archaeology: is it like Neanderthals versus Homo sapiens?
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...
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The cause of Labour? The 1918 general strike against conscription
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...
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Greatest killer of the 20th century? The ’flu pandemic of 1918–19
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...
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100 years of women in politics and political life
recorded @ Bedford Hall, Dublin Castle 2.30pm Friday 2 November 2018 A hundred years ago women in Ireland (then part of the UK) got the vote. To mark a century of women’s subsequent involvement in...
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THE GREAT HUNGER REASSESSED
In Association with Dublin Port Venue: Dublin Port HQ, Alexander Road, East Wall Time: 2.30PM – 3.30PM The popularity of Quinnipiac University’s travelling exhibition, Coming Home: Art & the...
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From ballots to bullets — Ireland 1918–19
recorded @ National Photographic Archive, Temple Bar pm Tuesday 4 December 2018 History Ireland editor, Tommy Graham, was joined by a panel of experts — Brian Hanley, Liz Gillis, Niamh Puirséil — for a...
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Censorship in Ireland—then and now
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...
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The Irish Revolution—local or global?
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...
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A century of women
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...
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Scotland and the global Irish Revolution
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...
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The War of Independence in County Clare
David Fitzpatrick’s Politics and Irish Life, 1913–21: provincial experience of war and revolution (1977) reassessedIn association with Clare County Library recorded @ Temple Gate Hotel, Ennis on...
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A century on—how do we view the War of Independence?
Recorded @ Malahide Community School 2pm Thursday 19 September 2019 A century on—how do we view the War of Independence? How has recent scholarship changed our view of the War of Independence? What new...
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Labour and the North, and the National Question
@ 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...
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An inconvenient truth? Sexual violence and the Irish Revolution
Recorded on Tuesday 26 November at 7pm @ National Photographic Archive, Temple Bar How valid is the assumption that because the War of Indepen-dence and Civil War are considered ‘low rape’ conflicts...
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Teaching Controversial Issues: History and Commemoration
(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...
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Making sense of the general election
The general election of 8 February 2020 marked a seismic shift in Irish politics. The Fianna Fáil/Fine Gael duopoly, which had dominated for nearly a century, was shattered by a resurgent Sinn Féin,...
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Soviets, strikes and land seizures—class conflict & the Tan War
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...
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The sinking of the RMS Leinster and the war at sea
@ National Maritime Museum, Haigh Terrace, Dún Laoghaire 7.30pm Sunday 7 October 2018 Just before 10am on 10 October 1918, east of the Kish Bank, two torpedoes fired by the German submarine UB-123...
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The 1918 general election — political earthquake or ‘same old, same old’?
recorded @ the Allingham Festival, Abbey Centre, Ballyshannon 6pm Saturday 10 November 2018 With good reason the December 1918 general election is regarded as a political earthquake. With a massively...
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Soloheadbeg — impact & legacy
Seminar and History Ireland Hedge School held @ Ballykisteen Hotel, Limerick Junction, Co. Tipperary. Saturday 19 January 2019. National and international context—Noreen Higgins McHugh. Click here for...
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Longford and the global Irish Revolution
(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...
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‘Mobilise the poets’—art & culture in the Irish Revolution
recorded @ the Allingham Festival, Abbey Centre, Ballyshannon 6pm Sat 9 Nov Arthur Griffith made this exhortation from his Gloucester Prison cell in January 1919. But how did the arts (literature,...
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Henry Grattan 200 years on—a misunderstood legacy?
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...
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The Connaught Rangers mutiny—1920, 1970 & 2020
Members of the 1st Battalion of the Connaught Rangers in India, 1920. The leader of the mutiny, James Daly, is bottom right. (King House Museum, Boyle) On 28 June 1920, five men from C Company of the...
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