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Saturday 5 November at the Allingham Festival, Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal
Tommy Graham returns to his native Ballyshannon once again with the History Ireland Hedge School. This year’s topic has a particular resonance in a border town like Ballyshannon. He is joined by Brian Hanley, Jonathan Barden and Niall Meehan to discuss this difficult and contentious issue. Due to technical difficulties the recording ends just before the end of the discussion on 46 minutes.
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A History Ireland Hedge School in conjunction with the National Library of Ireland
Fought between 1 July and 1 November 1916 the Somme Offensive was one of the bloodiest battles in history, costing the lives of more than 1.5 million men. On the first day alone the British Army suffered c. 60,000 casualties, many of them members of the 36th (Ulster) Division, and later soldiers of the 16th (Irish) Division were involved. While the involvement of the former continues to be extensively commemorated (especially in the North), Southern nationalist involvement has left a more ambiguous legacy. To explore the latter and related matters History Ireland editor, Tommy Graham, Tom Burke (Royal Dublin Fusiliers Association), Lar Joye (National Museum), David Murphy (Maynooth) and Jennifer Wellington (UCD) joined a large audience at the National Library of Ireland on 19 July 2016 at 7pm.
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A History Ireland Hedge Achool @ Northern Ireland War Memorial Museum, 21 Talbot Street, Belfast BT1 2LD, Thursday 5 May at 7pm
History Ireland editor, Tommy Graham, was joined for a Hedge School on the bombing of Belfast during WW II by Brian Barton (The Blitz: Belfast in the War Years), Ciaran Elizabeth Doran (Curator Northern Ireland War Memorial), Michael Kennedy (RIA’s Documents on Irish Foreign Policy), and Peter Collins (St. Marys College).
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@ English Market, Cork. 6pm Thur 12 May
Tommy Graham, editor of History Ireland chaired a lively discussion with Linda Connolly, John Borgonovo, Mary McAuliffe and Claire McGing addressing a number of themes relating to Irish women’s activism. These included: Suffrage, Cumann na mBan in Munster, The historical importance of socialist feminism in Ireland, The conflict between nationalist feminists and suffrage, The historical significance of Mary McSwiney and other forgotten activists in Cork and Why were women /Irish feminists so profoundly marginalised in the post independence period?
‘Women of the South’: Radicals and Revolutionaries is a collaboration between Farmgate Café and a group of scholars/writers with expertise in Irish women’s history and writing. There are two interacting elements: (1) an exhibition of photographs and political imagery; a historical timeline; and a ‘roll of honour’ listing of all Cork Cumann na mBan members in the café/the English Market; and (2) a series of associated public engagement and cultural events, supported by an interactive website with digitised images, historical material and texts.
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@ Lissadell House, Lissadell, Co Sligo. 15 May 2016, 3pm
In the early twentieth century thousands of Irishwomen participated in the Irish nationalist, labour and cultural movements of the day. However, except for a few notable exceptions, much of their work and activities were subsequently forgotten or overlooked in the historical record.
History Ireland editor, Tommy Graham, chaired a lively discussion on the contributions of these heretofore forgotten women with particular reference to Countess Markievicz. He was joined by Mary McAuliffe (UCD, Richmond Barracks 1916 ‘We were there’ – 77 women of the Easter Rising), Margaret Ward (Queen’s University Belfast, Unmanageable Revolutionaries’: women and Irish Nationalism), Lauren Arrington (University of Liverpool, W. B. Yeats, The Abbey Theatre, Censorship and the Irish State: adding the half-pence to the pence) and Laura McAtackney (Aarhus University, Gender, incarceration and power relations during the Irish Civil War 1922–23).
This History Ireland Hedge School was part of the 1916-2016 Commemoration Ireland’s Women: revolution and remembrance weekend organised by the Sligo Field Club. 13 – 15 May, Lissadell House, Lissadell, Co Sligo.
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@ Trinity College, Thomas Davis Theatre, 28 March 2016Introduced by Tommie Gorman, Northern Editor, RTÉ Tommy Graham (Editor, History Ireland) with Dr John Gibney (TCD/Glasnevin Trust), Prof. Lucy McDiarmid (Montclair University, New Jersey, former President of the American Conference for Irish Studies), Dr Mary McAuliffe (School of Social Justice/Women’s Studies UCD), and Joseph E.A. Connell Jr (Who’s Who in the Dublin Rising 1916) discussed what Dublin was like at the time of the Easter Rising.
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@ National Library of Ireland, Kildare Street
Mon 14 March 2016 @ 7pm
Who was Horatio Nelson and why did his naval victory over the French at Trafalgar in 1805 provoke a craze for building monuments throughout Britain and Ireland? The first, a ‘Nelson arch’, was erected at Castletownshend, Co. Cork, within days of the victory, and by 1808 ‘Nelson’s Pillar’ was erected in Dublin’s Sackville (now O’Connell) Street. From the start it was a controversial and polarizing monument and eventually fell foul of a republican bomb in March 1966, shortly before the official commemorations of the 50th anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising. Discussing Nelson, the Pillar and the atmosphere of 1966 Ireland, were History Ireland editor, Tommy Graham, with Donal Fallon, Fergus Whelan, Dennis Kennedy and Carole Holohan.
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@ Glasnevin Museum, 2pm Sunday 10 April 2016
Over the course of the Easter 1916 Rising in Dublin nearly 500 people were killed, half of them civilians. Most of them were buried in Glasnevin, the city’s largest cemetery. What were the practicalities involved in coping with the extra intake? Who ended up being buried there and how were they subsequently commemorated (or not in some cases)? To discuss these and related questions join History Ireland editor, Tommy Graham, for a lively round table discussion with Conor Dodd (Glasnevin Trust), Joe Duffy (Children of the Rising: the untold story of the young lives lost during Easter 1916), John Gibney (Glasnevin Trust/TCD), and Liz Gillis (Women of the Irish Revolution).
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A History Ireland Hedge School in association with Fingal Libraries, at Ardgillan Castle, Skerries, Co. Dublin
On Saturday 5 March
Hedge School master Tommy Graham discussed Women of the Irish Revolution with Mary McAulliffe, Fearghal McGarry, Margaret Ward and Ailbhe Rogers.
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16 January 2016 at the Bundoran Cineplex, Donegal
Tommy Graham (editor of History Ireland) chaired a discussion on the Irish diaspora with:
Liam Kennedy Director, Clinton Institute for American Studies, University College Dublin
Micheál Ó hÉanaigh Stiúrthóir Fiontraíochta, Fostaíochta agus Maoine, Údarás na Gaeltachta
Mary Hickman, Professor of Irish Studies and Sociology, St Mary’s University, London
Barbara Franz, Professor of Political Science, Rider University New Jersey USA
Kevin Cullen, Boston Globe Journalist and Author
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@ Parish Centre, Roundwood, Co. Wicklow
4pm Saturday 27 February
Hedge School master Tommy Graham discussed The 1916 Proclamation: then & now, with Liam Kennedy, Padraig Yeates, Robert Ballagh and Linda Connolly.
Part of a 1916 seminar run by The Roundwood and District Historical and Folklore Society.
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@ Ulster Canal Stores, Clones, Co. Monaghan
7pm Fri 5 Feb 2016
Hedge School master Tommy Graham discussed The Somme: what actually happened?, with Lar Joye (National Museum), Jason Burke (Queen’s, Belfast), and George Knight (Clogher Historical Society).
Hedge School funded by the Commemorations Unit, Department of Arts Heritage and the Gaeltacht.
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@ National Library, Kildare Street, Dublin 2
7pm Tues 1 Dec.
Maurice Walsh, John Horne, Angus Mitchell and Jennifer Wellington
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@ Mechanics Institute, Middle Street, Galway
8pm Tues 17 Nov
Tommy Graham with Conor McNamara, Una Newell, John Cunningham, Jackie Ui Chionna
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@ Red Line Book Festival, Civic Theatre, Tallaght
8pm Thur 15 Oct
Joost Augusteijn, Roisin Higgins, John Gibney, Ruth Dudley Edwards
This podcast was recorded at The Red Line Book Festival 2015 at The Civic Theatre, Tallaght by South Dublin Libraries & Arts.’
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Allingham Festival, Ballyshannon, 7 November 2015
Tommy Graham, with Jonathan Bardon, Marc Geagan, John Gibney and Conor McNamara.
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@Glasnevin Cemetery Visitor Centre,
7 pm, Thursday, 17 September 2015
Hedge School master Tommy Graham with historians Judith Campbell, Gabriel Doherty, Shane Kenna and Conor McNamara.
A History Ireland Hedge School supported by the Commemorations Unit, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
(note: owing to a technical hitch, the first few minutes are missing from this recording)
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@ Rathmichael Summer School, National School, Stonebridge Road, Shankill, Co. Dublin
8pm Fri 21 Aug
Franc Myles, Tom Condit, Seán Duffy, Robert Chapple and Tommy Graham in the chair
Listeners please note: only the first half of this is available following an equipment outage, but worth a listen anyway.
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@ National School, Reenascreena, West Cork
7.30pm Sat 11 July
Judith Campbell, Conor McNamara, Shane Kenna
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@ History Festival of Ireland, Borris House, Co. Carlow
7pm Fri 5 June
Patrick Geoghegan, Jane Wellesley, Lar Joye, Hugh Gough
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@ Guild Hall, Derry 3pm Sat 16 May
Michael Kennedy, Pauline Mitchell, Joe O’Loughlin, Emmet O’Connor
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@ Ulster Museum, Belfast, 7pm Thur 26 March
Roisin Higgins, Guy Beiner, Dominic Bryan, Tom Hartley, Jason Burke.
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@ National Library, Kildare Street, Dublin 2. 7pm Fri 12 June
Roy Foster, Catriona Crowe, P.J. Mathews & with readings by Theo Dorgan
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@ Mechanics Institute, Galway, 8pm Fri 24 April
Brian Hanley, Eamonn McCann, Tom Inglis, Sarah-Anne Buckley.
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@ National Library, Kildare Street. 7pm Tues 14 April.
Tommy Graham with John Horne, Lar Joye, Myles Dungan
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As part of the RTÉ ‘The Road to the Rising’ Event, Gresham Hotel, 3.30pm Monday 6 April 2015
History Ireland Hedge School —Was the Easter Rising justified?
Panellists: Ronan Fanning, Felix Larkin, John Borgonovo, Padraig Yeates with Tommy Graham in the chair.
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Atlantic Aparthotel, Bundoran, Co. Donegal
Sat 17 Jan @ 3pm
From Ulster Presbyterian emigration in the eighteenth century to the Appalachians and the Ozarks—and the subsequent evolution of country and bluegrass—to Irish Catholic emigration in the nineteenth century to Boston, Chicago and New York, waves of Irish emigrants have had a huge effect on the evolution of music in America, including cross-fertilization with blues and jazz (and later provoked, ironically, in the twentieth century, an anti-jazz campaign in Ireland). This in turn had an impact on the advent of rock and roll and its evolution from blues with the subsequent impact on popular culture, including in Ireland. To discuss these and related questions join History Ireland editor Tommy Graham and a panel of experts: Mick Moloney (NYU), Marc Geagan (Northwest Regional College, Derry), Charlie McGettigan (1994 Eurovision winner), Rory Corbett (NUI Galway) and John Dempsey (Texas University).”
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Hedge School: Policing in Ireland 1814 – 2014
@ National Museum of Ireland-Country Life, Castlebar, Co. Mayo, 16 January, 2015
Tommy Graham with Conor McNamara, Jim Herlihy, Sarah-Anne Buckley and John Cunningham
Recent controversies over penalty points and Garda ‘whistle-blowers’ have focused attention on an institution that we all take for granted. Yet Ireland’s first police force, the Peace Preservation Force, is a little over two centuries old. What went before? Why was it established? In what ways did the later Royal Irish Constabulary diverge from other police forces in the United Kingdom? How was it possible, in the midst of a civil war, for the Irish Free State to set up an unarmed ‘civic guard’? Discussing these and related matters were History Ireland editor, Tommy Graham, and his panel of experts—Jim Herlihy (Garda Siochána Historical Society), John Cunningham(NUI Galway), Sarah-Anne Buckley (NUI Galway) and Conor McNamara (Notre Dame).
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National Library of Ireland 25 Nov
@ Allingham Festival, Ballyshannon, Abbey Arts Centre, Sunday 9 November 2014
Jeff Kildea, Jonathan Barton, Quincey Dougan and Marc Geagan
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@ Verbal Arts Centre, Bishop Street Within, Derry Sat 21 June, 7.30pm
Sylvie Kleinman, Breandán MacSuibhne, Ian McBride, John Gibney
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@ Wood Bros Café, Féile Brian Boru,Killaloe, Co. Clare
Sat. 5 July, 7pm
with Seán Duffy, Pat Wallace, Cathy Swift, Donnchadh Ó Corráin
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@ Seanchaí—Kerry Writers’ Museum, Listowel
Roger Casement’s landing and arrest at Banna Strand has assured Kerry a place in the narrative (and song) of the 1916 Rising. The county was equally prominent in the War of Independence and in the Civil War, which was particularly bitter in the county. But what was happening before 1916? Was Kerry always a bastion of republicanism (or of Gaelic football)? What was the level of support for the Irish Parliamentary Party or British Army recruitment? To discuss these and related matters join History Ireland editor, Tommy Graham, in a lively round table discussion with:
Richard McElligott (Forging a Kingdom: the GAA in Kerry 1884–1934)
John Borgonovo (UCC)
Padraig Óg Ó Ruairc (OPW)
Tim Horgan (The Men Will Talk To Me: Kerry interviews by Ernie O’Malley)
and Tommy Graham
Opening address by Jimmy Deenihan TD, Minister for Arts Heritage and the Gaeltacht
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National Library, Kildare Street, Tuesday 21 Jan 7pm
Panel: Ellen Rowley, Ruth McManus, Mary Daly and Chris Corlett with Tommy Graham
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@ Belfast City Hall, Tues 10 December 6pm
Lar Joye, Michael Laffan, Timothy Bowman, Philip Orr
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@ Allingham Festival, Ballyshannon, Abbey Centre, Sat 9 Nov 5.30pm
Tommy Graham with Brian Drummond, Michael Kennedy, Jonathon Bardon, Pauraic Travers
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Hedge School at the National Library, 22 October.
Speakers: Ryan Tubridy, Robert Schmuhl , Michael Kennedy and Carol Holohan
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Tommy Graham in the Chair with Pascal Mooney, Marc Geagan, Gerry Gallagher, Charlie McGettigan
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@ the Electric Picnic, Stradbally, Co. Laois, Sun 1 Sept 2.45pm
Michael Kennedy, Donal Fallon, Carole Holohan, Brian Hanley
