Photographs as historical sources

Are historians visually illiterate? Does colourisation bring old photographs to life or is it just a passingfad? ‘Coffee-table’ history books—good or bad? In conjunction with the ongoing People & Places:Ireland in the 19th & 20th centuries exhibition at the National Photographic Archive, these are someof the questions that will be posed by editor, Tommy Graham,…

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Memorialising the Civil War

New History Ireland Hedge School PODCAST Recorded @ Phizzfest ’2312 May ’23, Glasnevin Cemetery Museum Memorialising the Civil War How was the Civil War memorialized—by both sides? Who won the ‘memory war’? To address these and other questions listen to History Ireland editor, Tommy Graham, in discussion with Conor Dodd,John Dorney, Mary McAuliffe and Caitlin…

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A century on—how do we view the Irish Civil War?

Due for release on Friday 10th March A century on—how do we view the Irish Civil War? History Ireland editor, Tommy Graham, and the Hedge School panel—John Dorney, Brian Hanley,Colum Kenny and Mary McAuliffe—field questions from Leaving Cert students in Coulson Theatre,Gonzaga College, Dublin (recorded on 2 March 2023). History Ireland Podcast Channel: https://www.historyireland.com/podcast-channel/ Spotify:…

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The Civil War in Kerry

  Image: The Ballyseedy memorial near Tralee, Co. Kerry, commemorating the massacre of eight anti-Treaty IRA prisoners on 6 March 1923. (irishwarmemorials.ie) The Civil War in Kerry The violence and divisions caused by the Irish Civil War were more vicious, bitter and protracted in County Kerry than anywhere else in Ireland. Why? Join History Ireland…

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Reflections on the Decade of Centenaries

New podcast coming on Fri 3 February Reflections on the Decade of Centenaries What is the relationship between commemoration and historical scholarship? How has this worked out in practice in the Decade of Centenaries? What were the opportunities taken? What were missed? Join History Ireland editor Tommy Graham in discussion with John Gibney, Brian Hanley,…

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W.B. Yeats and the Irish Free State

A century ago, in December 1922, at the height of the Civil War, poet W.B. Yeats was nominated to the Senate of the newly established Irish Free State. In January of that year he had participated in the cultural programme of the Irish Race Congress in Paris. In 1923 he was awarded the Nobel Prize…

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Marú in Íarthar Chorcaí (Murder in West Cork)

Shown on TG4, 9.30pm, Wednesday 7 December 2022 Available to view *here* Over two nights in April 1922, thirteen Protestant men were shot dead in West Cork. According to Peter Hart’s 1998 book The IRA and its enemies, they were shot because they were Protestants—sectarian killings carried out by members of the IRA—and ‘the nationalist…

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Donegal in the Civil War

Image: ‘Found in Pettigo’—a Lancia armoured car captured by the IRA in May 1922and later recaptured by British forces. Donegal in the Civil War While not in the vanguard of the War of Independence, Donegal became the scene of the last standup fight between the IRA (pro- and anti-Treaty) and British military (in the ‘Pettigo…

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The Irish Civil War—a military analysis

Image above : The Four Courts, 30 June 1922, moments after the ‘great explosion’ in the Public Records Office, two days after the commencement of bombardment by the pro-Treaty National Army that signal led the start of the Irish Civil War. (Irish Architectural Archive) The Irish Civil War—a military analysis At the outbreak of the…

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