Sister against sister—women, the Treaty split and the Civil War
(Recorded @ Phizzfest [Phibsborough Community Arts Festival], Sun 15 May 2022, Glasnevin Cemetery Museum) Given their activism in the revolutionary period, now widely acknowledged by historians, why ...
20 Mai 20221h 29min
Ulysses in history—history in Ulysses
In this centenary year of its publication, the History Ireland Hedge School considers James Joyce’s Ulysses, set in Dublin on a single day, 16 June 1904. What was the history of the book? What is the ...
6 Mai 20221h 17min
Burning the Big House—the story of the Irish country house in a time of war and revolution (Yale University Press)
Over the course of the Irish War of Independence and Civil War, nearly 300 ‘Big Houses’ (those belonging to aristocrats with in excess of 2,000 acres), 20% of a total of c. 1,500, were burned to the g...
29 Apr 202237min
The internal politics of the IRA before the Civil War
The Anglo-Irish Treaty sparked turmoil within the IRA. Some accepted it and joined the ranks of the Provisional Government’s new ‘National Army’; some remained neutral; the majority opposed it, but wi...
8 Apr 20221h 9min
Northern Ireland in 1922
While an uneasy peace prevailed in the South following the Truce of July 1921, in Northern Ireland communal violence continued to rage, exemplified most notoriously on 24 March 1922 by the killings of...
24 Mar 20221h 17min
‘We English protest’—anti-colonial solidarity in the metropole
So said the long white apron of suffragette and socialist Margaret Buckmaster at a protest in July 1921 organised by the Peace with Ireland Council (PIC). How significant were such anti-colonial solid...
11 Mar 202255min
A Century of An Garda Síochána
When the Civic Guard—later renamed An Garda Síochána—was founded in February 1922, the force it replaced, the Royal Irish Constabulary, was itself barely a century old. How much of the culture of the ...
25 Feb 20221h 17min
Centenary of the Irish Race Congress, Paris, 21-28 January 1922
Within weeks of the ratification of the Treaty by Dáil Éireann an ‘Irish Race Congress’ assembled in Paris representing Irish organizations from twenty-two countries. Inevitably the Treaty split overs...
21 Jan 202254min
