An inconvenient truth? Sexual violence and the Irish Revolution
Recorded on Tuesday 26 November at 7pm @ National Photographic Archive, Temple Bar How valid is the assumption that because the War of Independence and Civil War are considered ‘low rape’ conflicts there is little to address in the arena of sexual assault?  To consider this question History Ireland editor Tommy Graham was joined, for a ground-breaking … Continue reading An inconvenient truth? ...
1hr 35m Dec 04, 2019
1hr 35m
Labour and the North, and the National Question
@ Mechanics Institute, Galway (in association with the ICTU & the Irish Centre for the Histories of Labour and Class, NUI Galway) recorded at 8pm on Friday 8 Nov 2019 James Connolly, executed for his part in the 1916 Rising, famously asserted that ‘The cause of Labour is the cause of Ireland; the cause of … Continue reading Labour and the North, and the National Question →
1hr 14m Nov 12, 2019
1hr 14m
A century on—how do we view the War of Independence?
Recorded @ Malahide Community School 2pm Thursday 19 September 2019 A century on—how do we view the War of Independence? How has recent scholarship changed our view of the War of Independence? What new sources are now available? And has this in turn affected how we commemorate these events? History Ireland editor, Tommy Graham, chaired this special … Continue reading A century on—how do we view...
1hr 13m Sep 23, 2019
1hr 13m
The War of Independence in County Clare
David Fitzpatrick’s Politics and Irish Life, 1913–21: provincial experience of war and revolution (1977) reassessedIn association with Clare County Library recorded @ Temple Gate Hotel, Ennis on Saturday, 14 Sept 2019 at 2pm The untimely passing of Prof. David Fitzpatrick (TCD) earlier this year provided an opportunity to reassess his ground-breaking 1977 local study of County … Continue readin...
1hr 28m Sep 16, 2019
1hr 28m
Scotland and the global Irish Revolution
Recorded @ Edinburgh University, Meadows Lecture Theatre, Wednesday 15 May 2019 To what extent did revolutionary developments abroad shape what happened within Ireland during the revolutionary period 1919–23? And in what ways did events within Ireland impact beyond Irish shores, for instance amongst the large Irish diaspora population and other national groups? To discuss this … Continue readin...
1hr 22m May 21, 2019
1hr 22m
A century of women
History Ireland Hedge school at the Anonymous Was A Woman exhibition launch @ Linen Hall Library, Belfast Friday 12 April 2019 The exhibition makes use of the Linen Hall Library’s extensive collections and archives to highlight the historical advancements for women across education, employment and politics. The launch was  followed by a special History Ireland Hedge School, A century … Continue...
1hr 9m Apr 25, 2019
1hr 9m
The Irish Revolution—local or global?
The runaway success of the Atlas of the Irish Revolution (and the parallel TV documentary) and the proliferation of microstudies of the War of Independence and Civil War seems to bear out the adage that, like politics, all history is local. But is it? Do we risk losing sight of the ‘bigger picture’, of a … Continue reading The Irish Revolution—local or global? →
1hr 20m Apr 23, 2019
1hr 20m
Censorship in Ireland—then and now
To mark the selection this year (2019) of Edna O’Brien’s Country Girls trilogy as Dublin’s ‘One City One Book’, the History Ireland Hedge School considered the issue of censorship. Banned on its release in 1960, The Country Girls is often credited with breaking the silence on sexual matters in ‘Catholic Ireland’. While by the 1970s such censorship … Continue reading Censorship in Ireland—then a...
1hr 18m Apr 17, 2019
1hr 18m
Soloheadbeg — impact & legacy
Seminar and History Ireland Hedge School held @ Ballykisteen Hotel,  Limerick Junction, Co. Tipperary. 19 January 2019. A wide ranging discussion on the impact and legacy of Soloheadbeg, including the following topics and speakers. The discussion was chaired by Tommy Graham, editor of History Ireland National and international context—Noreen Higgins McHugh. December 1918 general election in...
1hr 5m Jan 19, 2019
1hr 5m
From ballots to bullets — Ireland 1918–19
recorded @ National Photographic Archive, Temple Bar pm Tuesday 4 December 2018 History Ireland editor, Tommy Graham, was joined by a panel of experts — Brian Hanley, Liz Gillis, Niamh Puirséil — for a discussion to coincide with the National Library’s photographic exhibition covering the turbulent years of 1918 and 1919. Covering the end of the … Continue reading From ballots to bullets — Irel...
1hr 13m Dec 07, 2018
1hr 13m
THE GREAT HUNGER REASSESSED
In Association with Dublin Port Venue: Dublin Port HQ, Alexander Road, East Wall  Time: 2.30PM – 3.30PM  The popularity of Quinnipiac University’s travelling exhibition, Coming Home: Art & the Great Hunger(opening in An tSeaneaglais [Glassworks], Cultúrlann Uí Chanáin, Derry, in January 2019) and the recent release of the film Black ’47have renewed popular interest in the Great … Continue readi...
1hr 12m Nov 20, 2018
1hr 12m
100 years of women in politics and political life
recorded @ Bedford Hall, Dublin Castle 2.30pm Friday 2 November 2018 A hundred years ago women in Ireland (then part of the UK) got the vote. To mark a century of women’s subsequent involvement in politics and public life, Dublin Castle is hosting a special exhibition in the Coach House. In conjunction, History Ireland editor … Continue reading 100 years of women in politics and political life →
1hr 28m Nov 06, 2018
1hr 28m
The sinking of the RMS Leinster and the war at sea
Recorded at the National Maritime Museum, Haigh Terrace, Dún Laoghaire 7 October 2018 Just before 10am on 10 October 1918, east of the Kish Bank, two torpedoes fired by the German submarine UB-123 struck the 2,640-ton packet steamship RMS Leinster, en route to Holyhead, causing her to sink rapidly; over 500 lost their lives, out of a total of over 800. It was sadly ironic that only a few days...
1hr 18m Oct 11, 2018
1hr 18m
Greatest killer of the 20th century? The ’flu pandemic of 1918–19
Recorded on Friday, 27 APRIL 2018 at 7pm Venue: @ CAFE Readers’ and Writers’ Festival, Cobh Library, Co. Cork The twentieth century was the century of mass death and yet, contrary to popular perception, the greatest killer of all time was neither Hitler nor Stalin, but was an illness often mistakenly associated with the common cold—epidemic … Continue reading Greatest killer of the 20th century...
1hr 24m May 02, 2018
1hr 24m
The cause of Labour? The 1918 general strike against conscription
Recorded on: Monday, 23 APRIL 2018 at 7pm. Venue: @ Liberty Hall, Dublin 1 On 23 April 1918 the Irish Trades Union Congress, and the ITGWU in particular, called a one-day general strike against the imposition of conscription and brought the country to a standstill. While it was the largest strike to date in Irish history, it … Continue reading The cause of Labour? The 1918 general strike again...
1hr 18m Apr 25, 2018
1hr 18m
History v archaeology: is it like Neanderthals versus Homo sapiens?
Recorded @ Kilkenny Medieval Mile Museum on Friday, 16 March 2018 at 6.30pm The difference between history and archaeology is the difference between Neanderthal and Homo sapiens. The latter is more technologically advanced, and the former, although casually misunderstood, nevertheless boasts a bigger brain. Yet, it is hard to imagine one without the other’. This tongue-cheek observation … Conti...
1hr 8m Apr 03, 2018
1hr 8m
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, which had dominated party political life since the heyday of Parnell in the 1880s. It would all but be wiped out by Sinn … Continue reading John Redmond: his life and legacy →
1hr 28m Mar 16, 2018
1hr 28m
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 as a pernicious working class fad both by the British authorities and by their nationalist opponents, its propaganda potential was quickly recognised; in 1916 the … Continue reading Cinema in Revolut...
1hr 22m Mar 05, 2018
1hr 22m
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 native town before moving to London in 1870. His lyrical and descriptive poetry, while somewhat out of fashion today, was a huge influence … Continue reading William Allingham: ‘an Irish poet but not a nati...
1hr 4m Jan 12, 2018
1hr 4m
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 cabinet colleagues, and of the Department of Finance in particular. But once word was out, there was no going back; expectations had been raised … Continue reading 50th anniversary of ‘free education’ →
1hr 20m Nov 23, 2017
1hr 20m
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 (author of Michael Collins: Dublin 1916–22, Wordwell 2017) and David McCullagh (author of De Valera (Volume 1): Rise 1882–1932), Gill Books 2017). Author Joe Connell contributes … Continue reading Mee...
1hr 6m Nov 13, 2017
1hr 6m
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 anniversary. Included on the panel were Adrian Empey (C of I Historical Soc.), John McCafferty (UCD), Alison Forrestal (NUIG), Gesa Thiessen (TCD).
1hr 28m Oct 20, 2017
1hr 28m
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. Tommy Graham, Editor of History Ireland magazine, led a Hedge School discussion panel that included Marc Geagan, Peter Rigney, Jonathan Bardon and … Continue reading The last train from Bundoran →
1hr 10m Oct 11, 2017
1hr 10m
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 should we mark the century of the Bolshevik Revolution? Should it be consigned to the ‘dustbin of history’ — … Continue reading History Ireland Hedge School @ Mindfield, Electric Picnic →
57m Sep 22, 2017
57m
‘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 normally the first sector of society to spring to mind. A major collecting project being undertaken by the National Folklore Collection, focusing on Irish Protestants … Continue reading ‘Keeping the head...
1hr 22m Sep 20, 2017
1hr 22m
‘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 and flowers, with a vividness which made those pages like a magnifying glass, through which one looked at familiar … Continue reading ‘Poet of the blackbirds’ — the life and death of Francis Ledwidge →
1hr 23m Jul 31, 2017
1hr 23m
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 Hedge School master Tommy Graham of History Ireland to debate this topic
1hr 11m May 26, 2017
1hr 11m
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 relationship’ with Ireland. But it was not always close or cordial. The 1916 Rising had cast Ireland’s ‘exiled children in America’ … Continue reading Ireland and the United States from 1917 to Trump →
1hr 42m May 25, 2017
1hr 42m
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 by the gain of another, the United States. How did the Allies swing the balance in their favour by … Continue reading Ireland, the United States and the war at sea, 1917 →
1hr 20m May 09, 2017
1hr 20m
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 United Kingdom — from being an integral part of it, to Home Rule devolution (realised in the North but not in the South), to Commonwealth dominion, sovereign republic (albeit partitioned), and finally c...
1hr 19m Jan 25, 2017
1hr 19m