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 Juli 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 Juli 20211h 13min
George V’s opening of the Northern Ireland parliament
On 22 June 1921 King George V officially opened the Northern Ireland parliament, thus confirming the existence of Northern Ireland as set out in the 1920 Government of Ireland Act. Moreover, since the...
22 Juni 20211h 6min
Mayo in the Revolutionary Decade
Despite a notable revolutionary pedigree—scene of a French invasion in support of the 1798 Rebellion and cradle of the Land League in 1879—Mayo was a ‘slow starter’ in the War of Independence, with ma...
11 Juni 20211h 15min
The First Irish Cities: an eighteenth-century transformation
Author David Dickson in conversation with Tommy Graham (editor, History Ireland) The untold story of a group of Irish cities and their remarkable development before the age of industrialization. A b...
9 Juni 202144min
The burning of the Custom House, 25 May 1921
On 25 May 1921, Dublin’s Custom House, headquarters of the Local Government Board of Ireland, was occupied and then burnt in an operation involving over 100 IRA volunteers. It has long been regarded a...
25 Maj 20211h 11min
