1916 Outside Dublin
Allingham Festival, Ballyshannon, 7 November 2015 Tommy Graham, with Jonathan Bardon, Marc Geagan, John Gibney and Conor McNamara.
View ArticlePatrick Pearse: proto-fascist eccentric or visionary?
@ Red Line Book Festival, Civic Theatre, Tallaght 8pm Thur 15 Oct Joost Augusteijn, Roisin Higgins, John Gibney, Ruth Dudley Edwards This podcast was recorded at The Red Line Book Festival 2015 at The...
View ArticleA strange kind of glory: the Easter Rising in Co. Galway and its context
@ Mechanics Institute, Middle Street, Galway 8pm Tues 17 Nov Tommy Graham with Conor McNamara, Una Newell, John Cunningham, Jackie Ui Chionna
View ArticleFrom popular culture in the Great War to the Great War in popular culture
@ National Library, Kildare Street, Dublin 2 7pm Tues 1 Dec. Maurice Walsh, John Horne, Angus Mitchell and Jennifer Wellington
View ArticleThe Somme: what actually happened?
@ Ulster Canal Stores, Clones, Co. Monaghan 7pm Fri 5 Feb 2016 Hedge School master Tommy Graham discussed The Somme: what actually happened?, with Lar Joye (National Museum), Jason Burke (Queen’s,...
View ArticleThe 1916 Proclamation: then & now
@ Parish Centre, Roundwood, Co. Wicklow 4pm Saturday 27 February Hedge School master Tommy Graham discussed The 1916 Proclamation: then & now, with Liam Kennedy, Padraig Yeates, Robert Ballagh and...
View ArticleWhose Diaspora is it anyway?
16 January 2016 at the Bundoran Cineplex, Donegal Tommy Graham (editor of History Ireland) chaired a discussion on the Irish diaspora with: Liam Kennedy Director, Clinton Institute for American...
View ArticleWomen of the Irish Revolution
A History Ireland Hedge School in association with Fingal Libraries, at Ardgillan Castle, Skerries, Co. Dublin On Saturday 5 March Hedge School master Tommy Graham discussed Women of the...
View ArticleGlasnevin in 1916; 1916 in Glasnevin
@ Glasnevin Museum, 2pm Sunday 10 April 2016 Over the course of the Easter 1916 Rising in Dublin nearly 500 people were killed, half of them civilians. Most of them were buried in Glasnevin, the city’s...
View ArticleThe rise and fall of Nelson’s Pillar
@ National Library of Ireland, Kildare Street Mon 14 March 2016 @ 7pm Who was Horatio Nelson and why did his naval victory over the French at Trafalgar in 1805 provoke a craze for building monuments...
View ArticleDublin 1916: What was it like?
@ Trinity College, Thomas Davis Theatre, 28 March 2016 Introduced by Tommie Gorman, Northern Editor, RTÉ Tommy Graham (Editor, History Ireland) with Dr John Gibney (TCD/Glasnevin Trust), Prof. Lucy...
View ArticleWomen of the Irish Revolution—Constance Markievicz
@ Lissadell House, Lissadell, Co Sligo. 15 May 2016, 3pm In the early twentieth century thousands of Irishwomen participated in the Irish nationalist, labour and cultural movements of the day. However,...
View ArticleWomen of the South: Radicals and Revolutionaries
@ English Market, Cork. 6pm Thur 12 May Tommy Graham, editor of History Ireland chaired a lively discussion with Linda Connolly, John Borgonovo, Mary McAuliffe and Claire McGing addressing a number of...
View ArticleThe Belfast Blitz (75th anniversary)
A History Ireland Hedge Achool @ Northern Ireland War Memorial Museum, 21 Talbot Street, Belfast BT1 2LD, Thursday 5 May at 7pm History Ireland editor, Tommy Graham, was joined for a Hedge School on...
View ArticleThe Somme: an ambiguous legacy
A History Ireland Hedge School in conjunction with the National Library of Ireland Fought between 1 July and 1 November 1916 the Somme Offensive was one of the bloodiest battles in history, costing the...
View ArticleKeeping the head down — Protestants in Independent Ireland
Saturday 5 November at the Allingham Festival, Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal Tommy Graham returns to his native Ballyshannon once again with the History Ireland Hedge School. This year’s topic has a...
View Article‘All changed, changed utterly…’? Ireland 1916-18
7pm on Tuesday 8 November 2016 @ the National Library of Ireland, Kildare Street The contrast between the apparent indifference (hostility even) of the public response to the Rising of Easter 1916 with...
View ArticleThe Battle of the Somme on film
@ The Kevin Barry Room, The National Concert Hall, Dublin. 6 pm, Saturday 19 November. Tommy Graham with Dr Kevin Rocket (TCD), Jennifer Wellington (UCD), Lar Joye (National Museum) and Tom Burke...
View ArticleIreland & the UK from 1916 to Brexit
@ the London Irish Centre, Camden. 7pm Wed 25 January 2017 . At the heart of the past year’s commemoration of the 1916 Rising has been consideration of Ireland’s evolving relationship with the United...
View Article‘Coming and going’ — Ireland and migration today
@ National Library, Kildare Street 7pm Tues 21 Feb (In conjunction with Beyond Leaving at the National Photographic Archive, Temple Bar) In the c. 120 years after the Great Hunger, half of the people...
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