Commemorating Bloody Sunday in the Junior Cycle history classroom
In the early morning of Sunday 21 November 1920 units of Dublin’s IRA assassinated 11 suspected British intelligence agents; two Auxiliaries and two civilians were also killed. That afternoon Crown fo...
30 Okt 20201h
The West’s awake!–Revolution in Roscommon 1916-1921
Roscommon was one of the first counties to reflect the ‘utter change’ of the post-1916 period, with the election of the first Sinn Féin-backed MP in February 1917; in less than two years that party wo...
27 Okt 20201h 23min
‘In Mountjoy Jail one Monday morning…’—the Irish Revolution in ballad and song
Kevin Barry is one of the most popular, and certainly one of the most sung, of Irish ballads. But who was Kevin Barry? Why was he immortalized in song? And what has been the significance of the ballad...
16 Okt 20201h 16min
'Eye of the storm?’—Dublin and the War of Independence
Seat of Crown administration since the twelfth century, and still bearing the physical scars of the 1916 Rising, during the War of Independence Dublin was also GHQ of the IRA and the location of the u...
29 Sep 20201h 26min
'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
