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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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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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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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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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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...
View ArticleHenry 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...
View ArticleThe Connaught Rangers Mutiny—1920, 1970 & 2020
On 28 June 1920, five men from C Company of the 1st Battalion of the Connaught Rangers led a mutiny in Jalandhar, Punjab, in protest against martial law in Ireland. Following their surrender a few days...
View ArticleDerry and the North-West, 1920–22—War of Independence or Communal Conflict?
Historians have long contrasted the more nakedly sectarian conflict in Belfast (c. 500 deaths in 1920–2) with the conduct of the War of Independence elsewhere. With disturbances costing twenty lives in...
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