Crowd-funding the revolution—the underground administration
Dáil Éireann sought not only to take back the political control lost in the 1800 Act of Union, but also the fiscal and monetary powers lost with the merger of the Irish and British exchequers in 1817....
24 Sep 20211h 11min
Prisons and prisoners during the War of Independence
On 9 September 1921 over fifty IRA prisoners staged a break-out—one of several during the War of Independence—from Rath internment camp in the Curragh, Co. Kildare. To mark its centenary, and to discu...
9 Sep 20211h 12min
Kenmare: History and survival—Fr John O’Sullivan and the Famine Poor
Listen to author Colum Kenny in conversation with History Ireland editor, Tommy Graham, as he discusses the story of a remarkable man’s efforts to help starving people during the Irish Great Famine. H...
3 Sep 202127min
Fingal in the revolutionary decade
To what extent did the military tactics of Thomas Ashe's (5th) Fingal battalion of the Irish Volunteers in 1916 prefigure those of the IRA in the War of Independence, 1919-21? To what extent did the s...
27 Aug 202154min
The propaganda war in the revolutionary decade
According to British Prime Minister David Lloyd George Irish nationalists were ‘natural propagandists’. How accurate was this description? How did they breach what Arthur Griffith called the ‘paper wa...
13 Aug 20211h 8min
Faith and Fury: the evangelical campaign in Dingle and West Kerry 1825–45
Author Bryan MacMahon in conversation with Tommy Graham (editor, History Ireland) In West Kerry between 1825-45, the work of Protestant evangelicals was widely hailed as a model of a successful missi...
6 Aug 202131min
Kilkenny in the Revolutionary Decade
Kilkenny was described by Ernie O’Malley as ‘slack’ during the War of Independence. Was this really the case? Kilkenny has a notable revolutionary history—as crucible of the Tithe War (1830s), birthp...
23 Jul 20211h 9min
The Truce
A century ago, at noon on 11 July 1921, a truce came into effect in the Anglo-Irish war between the IRA and Crown forces. Why did it happen then—and why had peace feelers in late 1920 failed? What mot...
11 Jul 20211h 13min
