'Better a state without public records than public records without a state’?
'Better a state without public records than public records without a state’?— state formation, archives and commemoration So said Winston Churchill in reference to the Irish Free State on hearing n...
24 Sep 20201h 12min
Nenagh and North Tipperary during the revolutionary decade
Having considered the ‘global’ impact of the Irish revolution in the last podcast (The Irish Republic abroad in 1920—Dev in America), this Hedge School zooms in on the ‘local’—the market town of Nenag...
21 Sep 20201h 23min
The Irish Republic abroad in 1920—Dev in America
While the War of Independence raged in Ireland, a parallel international diplomatic campaign for recognition and funding for the underground Irish Republic was being waged. Central to this was the tou...
1 Sep 20201h 16min
IRELAND, EMPIRE AND THE SEA
The great voyages of discovery (Columbus, de Gama, etc.) shifted the centre of gravity of European maritime trade from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic. Over the same period the conquest of Ireland w...
7 Aug 20201h 12min
Terence MacSwiney—martyrdom, civil resistance & the Irish Revolution
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. Terence M...
1 Aug 20201h 7min
Cork—Crucible of the War of Independence
Why was it that Cork (county and city), which accounted for c. 10% of the country’s population, produced nearly 25% of those killed in the War of Independence? What role did its substantial (c. 10%) n...
6 Jul 20201h 13min
Derry 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 i...
30 Jun 20201h 17min
The 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 day...
28 Jun 20201h 9min
