This podcast is part of the History Ireland Hedge School programme supported by the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht under the Decade of Centenaries 2012–2023 initiative. Terence MacSwiney—martyrdom, civil resistance […]
Read More →Why was it that Cork (county and city), which accounted for c. 10% of the country’s population, produced nearly 25% of those killed in the War of Independence? What role did its […]
Read More →Historians have long contrasted the more nakedly sectarian conflict in Belfast (c. 500 deaths in 1920–2) with the conduct of the War of Independence elsewhere. With disturbances costing twenty lives in […]
Read More →[sc_embed_player fileurl=”https://history2013.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/20200625-HistoryIrelandShow-113.mp3″] Click the play button to listen To download audio, right click this link and select “Save link as..” On 28 June 1920, five men from C Company of […]
Read More →[sc_embed_player fileurl=”https://history2013.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/20200609-HistoryIrelandShow-112.mp3″] Click the play button to listenTo download audio, right click this link and select “Save link as..” Born in Dublin’s Fishamble Street in 1746, but resident for most […]
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