Soloheadbeg — impact & legacy
Seminar and History Ireland Hedge School held @ Ballykisteen Hotel, Limerick Junction, Co. Tipperary. 19 January 2019. A wide ranging discussion on the impact and legacy of Soloheadbeg, including ...
19 Jan 20191h 5min
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 — fo...
7 Des 20181h 13min
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 Gr...
20 Nov 20181h 12min
100 years of women in politics and political life
recorded @ Bedford Hall, Dublin Castle 2.30pm Friday 2 November 2018 A hundred years ago women in Ireland (then part of the UK) got the vote. To mark a century of women’s subsequent involvement in p...
6 Nov 20181h 27min
The sinking of the RMS Leinster and the war at sea
Recorded at the National Maritime Museum, Haigh Terrace, Dún Laoghaire 7 October 2018 Just before 10am on 10 October 1918, east of the Kish Bank, two torpedoes fired by the German submarine UB-123 s...
11 Okt 20181h 17min
Greatest killer of the 20th century? The ’flu pandemic of 1918–19
Recorded on Friday, 27 APRIL 2018 at 7pm Venue: @ CAFE Readers’ and Writers’ Festival, Cobh Library, Co. Cork The twentieth century was the century of mass death and yet, contrary to popular percept...
2 Mai 20181h 24min
The cause of Labour? The 1918 general strike against conscription
Recorded on: Monday, 23 APRIL 2018 at 7pm. Venue: @ Liberty Hall, Dublin 1 On 23 April 1918 the Irish Trades Union Congress, and the ITGWU in particular, called a one-day general strike against the i...
25 Apr 20181h 18min
History v archaeology: is it like Neanderthals versus Homo sapiens?
Recorded @ Kilkenny Medieval Mile Museum on Friday, 16 March 2018 at 6.30pm The difference between history and archaeology is the difference between Neanderthal and Homo sapiens. The latter is more t...
3 Apr 20181h 8min
