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Doc on One: Thomas and Tess
Documentary on One Thomas and Tess Tess Murray never forgot her first love. She was engaged to Thomas McEver during the Irish War of Independence, but their lives changed when he was abducted, brutally murdered and accused of being a spy. (2019) Thomas And Tess focuses on one horrific violent incident on May 20th,1921…
Read MoreDoc on One: The Little Shop of Secrets
Documentary on One The Little Shop of Secrets Decades ago The Wallace Sisters ran a small newsagents in Cork city. While many bought their paper and tobacco there, few knew of the secrets it held as an IRA brigade HQ during the War of Independence as these fearless sisters led a double life. (2020). In…
Read MoreThe Burning of Cork
An Irish radio documentary from RTÉ Radio 1, Ireland First broadcast April 1960 An excellent piece of oral history as men and women recount their experiences of ‘The Burning of Cork.‘ https://www.rte.ie/radio1/doconone/2011/0304/646642-radio-documentary-the-burning-of-cork-ireland/
Read MoreNew Near FM series on the poem and songs of the Irish revolution: ‘The Indignant Muse’.
Between January and March 2019 Near FM will broadcast a new documentary series entitled The Indignant Muse, a ten part radio series exploring the poetry and songs of the Irish revolution adapted from the acclaimed anthology of the same name, edited by Terry Moylan and published by Lilliput Press. The series is produced by Paul Loughran…
Read MoreNear FM series: ‘Dublin in 1918’
Dublin in 1918 was a recent series from north Dublin’s Near FM that explored life in the Irish capital a century ago. Presented by Ciarán Murray and Donie Tarrant, the three episodes of the series were recorded live in Coolock and Raheny public libraries, with participants including members of the the Dublin City Council Historians in…
Read More30 September 2017: Commemoration of SS Hare and SS Adela, Custom House Quay, Dublin 2
In December 1917, two merchant ships, the SS Hare and the SS Adela, were torpedoed by German U-boats and were lost in the Irish sea during the First World War. Thirty-six lives were lost on 14 December and 27 December 1917, which had a huge impact on the Dublin Docklands community, where many of these victims resided and…
Read More28-29 June 2017: Launches of Terence Dooley’s ‘Monaghan: the Irish Revolution, 1912-23’, Co. Monaghan
On Wednesday 28 June and Thursday 29 June Four Courts Press presented two launches of the latest in its series of county histories of the Irish revolution: Terence Dooley’s Monaghan. In 1912, Monaghan unionists, together with unionists in wider Ulster, prepared to prevent the implementation of home rule. In their thousands, they signed the Ulster…
Read More23 September-8 October 2016: Dublin Festival of History
The 2016 Dublin Festival of History took place from 23 September to 8 October 2016. The festival, which is managed by Dublin Public Libraries, was first hosted in 2013, and consists of a wide range of events: a series of lectures and discussions hosted in Dublin Castle Printworks; walking tours, public talks hosted in Dublin…
Read More6 November 2015: Government announces programme of events to mark centenary of the Battle of the Somme in 2016
On Friday 6 November 2015 An Taoiseach, Enda Kenny TD, the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Heather Humphreys TD, and the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Charlie Flanagan TD, announced a programme of events to mark the centenary of the Battle of the Somme in 2016 as part of the Decade of…
Read More20 October 2015: Public Lecture by Prof. Roy Foster (Oxford): ‘Historians and the memory of the Irish Revolution’, Trinity College Dublin
On Tuesday 20 October Prof. Roy Foster (Oxford) gave the 2015 Edmund Burke Lecture at Trinity College, Dublin, entitled “‘An inheritance from our forefathers?’ Historians and the memory of the Irish Revolution”. Prof. Foster is Carroll Professor of Irish History at the University of Oxford and is currently Parnell Fellow at the University of Cambridge.…
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