Reflecting on the Reformation
A History Ireland Hedge School recorded at at Belfast Fest. of Ideas & Politics, Conor Hall, Belfast Campus, Ulster University, York Street Sun 26 March It is 500 years since Martin Luther nailed...
View Article‘Now you see them…now you don’t’: women in the Irish Revolution
@ Mechanics Institute, Middle Street, Galway (in association with the Women’s History Association of Ireland) Recorded on Friday 21 April at 8pm One of the features of last year’s 1916 centenary...
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Ireland, the United States and the war at sea, 1917
1917 was the pivotal year of the First World War. At its outset German U-boats were inflicting huge damage on Allied shipping, while in the land war the loss of one ally, Russia, was not compensated by...
View ArticleIreland and the United States from 1917 to Trump
@ the National Library of Ireland, Kildare Street recorded at 7pm Tuesday 23 May The centenary of the entry of the United States into the WWI provides a timely opportunity to review the ‘unique...
View ArticleIreland 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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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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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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