‘Keeping the head down’? — Protestant folklore Project
14th September 2017 @ Cavan County Museum, Virgina Road, Ballyjamesduff, Co Cavan. When one thinks of folklore study and folklore collecting south of the border, the Protestant community is not norm...
20 Sep 20171h 21min
‘Poet of the blackbirds’ — the life and death of Francis Ledwidge
@ Richmond Barracks gymnasium, Inchicore, Dublin 8. 7pm Thurs 27 July ‘[I was] astonished by the brilliance of that eye and that had looked at the fields of Meath and seen there all the simple birds...
31 Juli 20171h 23min
Ireland and Europe: then and now
@ Micheál Ó Clérigh Summer School, Franciscan Friary, Rossnowlagh, Co. Donegal 3.45pm Sat 13 May Declán de Breadún (Irish Times), Alan Titley (UCC), John McCafferty (UCD), Mark Empey (NUIG) joined H...
26 Maj 20171h 10min
Ireland and the United States from 1917 to Trump
@ the National Library of Ireland, Kildare Street recorded at 7pm Tuesday 23 May The centenary of the entry of the United States into the WWI provides a timely opportunity to review the ‘unique rela...
25 Maj 20171h 42min
Ireland, the United States and the war at sea, 1917
1917 was the pivotal year of the First World War. At its outset German U-boats were inflicting huge damage on Allied shipping, while in the land war the loss of one ally, Russia, was not compensated ...
9 Maj 20171h 19min
Ireland & the UK from 1916 to Brexit
Recorded at the London Irish Centre, Camden, 25 January 2017. At the heart of the past year’s commemoration of the 1916 Rising has been consideration of Ireland’s evolving relationship with the Uni...
25 Jan 20171h 18min
