History Ireland Show
Summary: Each issue of History Ireland covers a wide variety of topics, from the earliest times to the present day, in an effort to give the reader a sense of the distant past but also to offer a contemporary edge. Every article is illustrated with photographs, maps or paintings to provide a vivid impression of the topic.
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@ The Kevin Barry Room, The National Concert Hall, Dublin. 6 pm, Saturday 19 November. Tommy Graham with Dr Kevin Rocket (TCD), Jennifer Wellington (UCD), Lar Joye (National Museum) and Tom Burke (Royal Dublin Fusiliers Assoc. and UCD) discuss The Battle of the Somme film (1916) that was shown in the National Concert hall after … Continue reading The Battle of the Somme on film →
7pm on Tuesday 8 November 2016 @ the National Library of Ireland, Kildare Street The contrast between the apparent indifference (hostility even) of the public response to the Rising of Easter 1916 with the landslide victory of Sinn Féin in the general election of December 1918 seems to bear out the famous lines of W.B. … Continue reading ‘All changed, changed utterly…’? Ireland 1916-18 →
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 … Continue reading Keeping the head down — Protestants in Independent Ireland →
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 … Continue reading The Somme: an ambiguous legacy →
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 … Continue reading The Belfast Blitz (75th anniversary) →
@ 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 … Continue reading Women of the South: Radicals and Revolutionaries →
@ 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, … Continue reading Women of the Irish Revolution—Constance Markievicz →
@ Trinity College, Thomas Davis Theatre, 28 March 2016 Introduced 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. … Continue reading Dublin 1916: What was it like? →
@ 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 … Continue reading The rise and fall of Nelson’s Pillar →
@ 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 … Continue reading Glasnevin in 1916; 1916 in Glasnevin →
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.
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 … Continue reading Whose Diaspora is it anyway? →
@ 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.
Ulster Covenant 1912: an exerc A History Ireland Hedge School recorded at the National Library on 28 November 2012 with Peter Collins (St Mary’s Belfast), Tom Hartley (Sinn Féin), Brian Kennaway (Irish Association) and Philip Orr (New perspectives: politics, religion and conflict in mid-Antrim) Peter Collins (St Mary’s Belfast), Tom Hartley (Sinn Féin), Brian Kennaway (Irish Association) and Philip Orr (New perspectives: politics, religion and conflict in mid-Antrim)
Recorded in Clifden 7pm, Friday 16 March 2012 with Mary Harris (UCG), Conor McNamara (Notre Dame), Cormac Ó Comhraí and Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc (UL).
