Dominion: the making of the western mind
Christianity is the most enduring legacy of the ancient world, and its emergence the single most transformative development in Western history. Even the increasing number in the West today who have ab...
16 Apr 202057min
Six months that changed the world
Between January and July 1919, after the war to end all wars of 1914–18, men and women from all over the world converged on Paris for the Peace Conference. For six extraordinary months the city was ef...
14 Apr 20201h 4min
Kremlin Winter
When Mikhail Gorbachëv introduced perestroika in the mid-1980s, the USSR went through a springtime of growth and change. The Soviet order collapsed in 1991, and Boris Yeltsin initiated a summer of tra...
9 Apr 20201h 10min
Great Irish Speeches
In this episode from the 2019 Festival, historians Catriona Crowe and Donal Fallon present a selection of Great Irish Speeches, all of which have had a remarkable impact on the course of Irish and wor...
7 Apr 20201h
Crusaders
The Crusades - the sequence of religious wars fought between the late eleventh century and late medieval periods. Crusading armies from European Christian states attempted to wrest the Holy Land from ...
2 Apr 202056min
Republic of Shame
Until recently, the Catholic Church, in concert with the Irish state, operated a network of institutions for the concealment, punishment and exploitation of ‘fallen women’. In the Magdalene laundries,...
31 Mar 20201h 5min
The Hitler Years
In 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed the German Chancellor of a coalition government. In a few months he installed a dictatorship, jailing and killing his left-wing opponents, terrorising the rest of t...
26 Mar 20201h 6min
The Irish War of Independence
On 21st January 1919, the Soloheadbeg ambush in Tipperary set in train the Irish War of Independence which would lead in July 1921 to the Truce and then the Treaty setting up the Irish Free State. The...
24 Mar 202055min
