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
Meeting Éamon De Valera and Michael Collins
@ Dublin Book Fesitval, RDS Library, Dublin. 2.30pm Sun 5 Nov As part of the Dublin Book Festival, Tommy Graham, Editor of History Ireland magazine, hosts a discussion with Joseph E.A. Connell Jr (a...
13 Nov 20171h 6min
REFORMATION 500 — the Hedge School
@ St Werburgh’s Church, Werburgh Street. 7pm Wed 18 October 2017 Tommy Graham, Editor of History Ireland magazine, led a discussion panel to discuss the Reformation on the occasion of its 500th anni...
20 Okt 20171h 27min
The last train from Bundoran
@ Railway Heritage Festival, Eclipse Cinema, Bundoran, Co. Donegal 8pm Sat 30 Sept 2017 marks 60 years since the closure of the Great Northern Railway and the last train to leave Bundoran station. To...
11 Okt 20171h 9min
History Ireland Hedge School @ Mindfield, Electric Picnic
3pm Sun 3 Sept The Bolshevik Revolution — in the dustbin of history? In the face of claims of the total triumph of neo-liberal capitalism and a generation after the collapse of the Soviet Union, how...
22 Sep 201757min
