Celts and Weather
Send us Fan Mail The Irish are all about weather and they describe it and their natural world very poetically and thoroughly. The Irish have words for every sort of wave, tide, shift in weather and t...
16 Apr 202416min
Irish Celtic society
Send us Fan Mail Celtic culture existed in Ireland from the late prehistoric era until the 17th century and the Anglo-Norman Invasion. For most of its history, Gaelic Ireland was a scattered[hierarc...
12 Apr 202419min
Cromwell Invasion and the Penal Laws
Send us Fan Mail Cromwell remains a controversial figure due to his use of the army to acquire political power, and the brutality of his 1649 campaign in Ireland. He had men torched taking refuge in ...
9 Apr 202431min
THE CONFEDERATE WARS
Send us Fan Mail The Irish Confederate Wars were a series of clashes between Irish Catholics and British Protestant settlers that lasted from 1641 to 1653. This conflict was profoundly murderous, mass...
8 Apr 202425min
Anglo-Norman Invasion
Send us Fan Mail The Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland took place during the late 12th century, when Anglo-Normans gradually conquered and acquired large swathes of land from the Irish, over which the ...
7 Apr 202432min
Nine Year War & Flight of the Earls
Send us Fan Mail The Nine Years' War, sometimes called Tyrone's Rebellion, took place in Ireland from 1593 to 1603. It was fought between an Irish alliance led mainly by Hugh O'Neill of Tyrone and Hug...
29 Mar 202435min
Heroes - The Fizgeralds, Wolfe Tone, Napper Tandy and the Emmet Brothers
Send us Fan Mail This episode I cover the 1500s and the 1700s and heroes who led rebellions. Thomas Fitzgerald and the Silken/Kildare rebellion. I then Move the heroes of 1798 and another Fitzgerald...
27 Mar 202438min
Easter Uprising
Send us Fan Mail On Easter Monday 1916, Irish nationalists launched an armed revolt against British rule in Ireland. Although quickly suppressed by the British Army, the rising was a seminal moment in...
20 Mar 202433min
