Republicanism and Revolutionary Ireland
From The Forgotten Lives of the Women of Cahir to The Mulranny Police Conspiracy, listen to all of the episodes here.
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Women are all too often overlooked in history. The Daughters of Dun Iascaigh, written by the Cahir Womens History Group, addresses this imbalance by profiling the lives of over 20 women from this Tipperary town
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The Mater Hospital in Dublin first opened its doors in 1861. It has a fascinating although often forgotten history. From using cocaine as pain relief in the 19th century to treating the wounded of the 1916 Rising, the hospital has always been a fascinating place.
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In the 1830s the British politican George Lewis described the fate of an informer in Ireland as a man “doomed to certain death….he would be hunted through the country like a mad dog every hand would be raised against him”. This was something of an understatement in some cases.
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The ‘Mulranny Police Conspiracy’ is a little-known story that took place in the west of Ireland at the turn of the 20th century. The setting is Mulranny – a stunning village along the Wild Atlantic Way but in 1900 it was something of a forgotten backwater.
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In this podcast I look at the events in Ireland in 1972 and how it has come to pass that 42 years later one of the Ireland’s most prominent politicians arrested. What was in this historical archive? What are the rights of historians to record history vs. the rights of families of victims who may want to read private archives looking of answers?