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May 22, 2012 Cryptic Tombstones and Tour update
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May 9, 2012 Special: The Nine Years War and the Great Dublin Explosion of 1597
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May 2, 2012 Kilmainham Gaol: the labour ward of the modern Irish state….
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April 30, 2012 Centenary Commemorations and Historical Fantasy
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April 10, 2012 Castlecomer Ice House: a Downton Abbey style freezer
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April 6, 2012 The Sewer that spawned a city….
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April 4, 2012 Photo essay: Loughmoe Castle.
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April 2, 2012 Special: Dennis Doherty – A Life of Survival Against the Odds
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March 25, 2012 The last survivor of the 1798 rebellion
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March 13, 2012 St Patricks Day letters from the past. What it means to be Irish?
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March 8, 2012 Dalkey’s Night with Nazism
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March 2, 2012 The Phoenix Park in Pictures
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February 27, 2012 (1000 -1022) Brian Boru, The Battle of Clontarf and its aftermath
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February 13, 2012 Torture, Murder and Exclusion: Ireland’s first 10 years of Independence
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January 5, 2012 The Forgotten Emigrants – Irish American Radicals in the early 20th century.
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December 20, 2011 Dublin in 1974….
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November 29, 2011 John Quincy Adams: A US president with an unusual connection to Ireland
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November 16, 2011 Mont St Michel: Pictures worth a few hundred words.
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November 3, 2011 (980 -1000) The Pursuit of Power (Part III): A New Millenium and A New King.
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November 1, 2011 Dublin in photos: the difference a century makes.
Whats comin next?
I am currently working on an article about Irish Involvement in the Boer War (1899-1902) and episode 9 of the podcast which will focus on the battle of Clontarf (1014).
My current longterm project at the moment is an audiobook about the Black Death in Ireland focusing on the lives of 5 people from the time.
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Fin, for his sins, completed a degree in Greek and Roman Civilisation and Archaeology. After this he took a Masters in Archaeology. Miraculously he still likes history and archaeology, despite the best intentions of the education system. He spent a few years being used by shady developers in what is often called the 'archaeology industry' in Ireland. Now, not surprisingly given his qualifications he is among the 500,000 unemployed in Ireland. He recently was disappointed when the Irish government decided against hiring him as a adviser on the fall of the Roman republic but this music http://www.myspace.com/racketsquad cheers him up no end......Tags
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