Radio Ear

Peter Daly: good cop/bad cop ‘Documentary on One’, RTÉ Radio 1, 14 September 2013 Citizens: Lockout 1913–2013 Episode 5: ‘Consequences 1914–1916’, RTÉ Radio 1, 7 September 2013 Listening to Peter […]

What Gladstone could teach the EU

Because Queen Victoria’s invitation to William Ewart Gladstone to form his first administration in 1868 followed a period of Fenian violence, his response to this was ‘My mission is to […]

Irish ironies

There are a number of ironies for Ireland in this whole story, including: 1. The impact of refrigeration The foundation of the Land League and the arrival of the first […]

‘More European than the rest of the Ten’? Ireland and Poland, 1980–1

Between December 1980 and April 1981, western powers had good reason to fear that the Soviet Union was about to intervene in Poland, either in the form of a unilateral […]

TV Eye: The Raj in the rain

The Raj in the rain RTÉ1, 17 September 2013 Frank Duff agus an Léigiún Mhuire Esras Productions TG4, 11 September 2013 by John Gibney The Raj in the rain was […]