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
John Redmond: his life and legacy
Recorded on Wednesday, 14 March 2018 at 7pm @ The Officers’ Mess, Custume Barracks, Athlone March 2018 marks the centenary of the death of John Redmond, leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party, whic...
16 Mar 20181h 27min
Cinema in Revolutionary Ireland
Recorded on Tuesday 27 February at 7pm in the National Library, Kildare Street, Dublin 2 In Ireland in the revolutionary period, cinema was the latest form of mass entertainment. Previously ignored...
5 Mar 20181h 21min
William Allingham: ‘an Irish poet but not a national poet’? (W.B. Yeats)
@ Abbey Arts Centre, Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal 7pm Sat 11 Nov ‘17 Unlike Ballyshannon’s other famous son, Rory Gallagher, poet William Allingham (b. 1824) spent most of his adult life in his nativ...
12 Jan 20181h 3min
50th anniversary of ‘free education’
@ the National Library, Kildare Street 7pm Tues 21 Nov On 10 September 1967, Minister for Education Donogh O’Malley announced a scheme for free secondary education, much to the surprise of his cabine...
23 Nov 20171h 20min
