A Short History of Ireland

60 Episodes

Reverse

Series 2: Omnibus 12

2024-09-1831:51

Omnibus #12 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes –• Broadcasting North and South • Showband fever • Whitaker and Lemass • Lemass and Brookeborough • Brookeborough’s fallWritten by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Cherrie McIlwaine, Patrick FitzSymons and Sean Crummey.

Series 2: Omnibus 11

2024-09-1829:08

Omnibus #11 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes –• Church and state • The Fethard On Sea boycott • A disgrace to the nation • The launch of the Canberra • De Valera’s vision of Cathleen ni HoulihanWritten by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Cherrie McIlwaine, Patrick FitzSymons and Sean Crummey.

Series 2: Omnibus 10

2024-09-1830:35

Omnibus #10 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes –• Operation Harvest • Defeat for the IRA • Stagnation • The vanishing Irish • InishkillaneWritten by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Cherrie McIlwaine, Patrick FitzSymons and Sean Crummey.

Series 2: Omnibus 9

2024-09-1829:28

Omnibus #9 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes –• The Princess Victoria disaster • Linen, boom and collapse • Shipbuilding in Belfast • Marching on the Longstone Road • The revival of the IRAWritten by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Cherrie McIlwaine, Patrick FitzSymons and Sean Crummey.

Series 2: Omnibus 8

2024-09-1831:32

Omnibus #8 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes –• The Chapel Gate Election • Conquering the white death • The Mother and Child controversy • Lacklustre performance • The rule of BrookeboroughWritten by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Cherrie McIlwaine, Patrick FitzSymons and Sean Crummey.

Series 2: Omnibus 6

2024-09-1828:49

Omnibus #6 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes –• VE Day • Controversial condolences • Northern Ireland elections 1945 • The Welfare State • Northern Ireland, a very substantial measure of government aidWritten by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Cherrie McIlwaine, Patrick FitzSymons and Sean Crummey.

Series 2: Omnibus 7

2024-09-1828:43

Omnibus #7 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes –• The winter of 1947 • The 1947 Education Act • The family of the republic • The inter-party government • Ireland, a republic Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Cherrie McIlwaine, Patrick FitzSymons and Sean Crummey.

Series 2: Omnibus 4

2024-09-1827:32

Omnibus #4 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes –• German guests of the state • American visitors • The tramp of marching Yanks • Don’t be a dope • Governing Éire, 1939 to 1945Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Cherrie McIlwaine, Patrick FitzSymons and Sean Crummey.

Series 2: Omnibus 2

2024-09-1829:12

Omnibus #2 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes –• Neither time nor gold can beat Germany • Censorship in Éire, 1939 to 1945 • The period of the next moon may well bring our turn • The Easter Tuesday Belfast Blitz • Tremendous devastationWritten by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Cherrie McIlwaine, Patrick FitzSymons and Sean Crummey.

Series 2: Omnibus 1

2024-09-1829:31

Omnibus #1 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes –• The Emergency, Éire 1939 • We here today are in a state of war • Failed preparations • Ireland and the Battle of the Atlantic • The Magazine Fort attack, December 1939Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Cherrie McIlwaine, Patrick FitzSymons and Sean Crummey.

Series 1: Omnibus 48

2024-09-1830:47

Omnibus #48 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes –• An empty political formula • The Economic War • Democracy in peril • Forget the unhappy past • Crying for a happier lifeWritten by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Frances Tomelty, James Greene, Richard Dormer and Sean Crummey.

Series 1: Omnibus 47

2024-09-1829:26

Omnibus #47 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes –• Civil war • Green against green • Divided Ulster • Not an inch • Northern Ireland: depression yearsWritten by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Frances Tomelty, James Greene, Richard Dormer and Sean Crummey.

Series 1: Omnibus 44

2024-09-1829:34

Omnibus #44 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes –• The conspirators prepare • We are going to be slaughtered • Easter Week • Executions and internment • Sacrifice at the SommeWritten by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Frances Tomelty, James Greene, Richard Dormer and Sean Crummey.

Series 1: Omnibus 42

2024-09-1829:42

Omnibus #42 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes –• Killing Home Rule with kindness • De-anglicizing the Irish people • Two nations? • Cultural revival • Home Rule promisedWritten by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Frances Tomelty, James Greene, Richard Dormer and Sean Crummey.

Series 1: Omnibus 41

2024-09-1829:17

Omnibus #41 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes –• Belfast: an imperial city • Committee Room 15 • Keep our noble kingdom whole • The Second Home Rule Bill • The country is bleeding to deathWritten by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Frances Tomelty, James Greene, Richard Dormer and Sean Crummey.

Series 1: Omnibus 40

2024-09-1728:31

Omnibus #40 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes –• The relief of Captain Boycott • Assassination in the Phoenix Park • The First Home Rule Bill • ‘Is them ‘uns bate?’ • The Belfast riots of 1886Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Frances Tomelty, James Greene, Richard Dormer and Sean Crummey.

Series 1: Omnibus 39

2024-09-1728:59

Omnibus #39 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes –• The growth of Belfast • Party fights • My mission is to pacify Ireland • Keep a firm grip of your homesteads • The Land WarWritten by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Frances Tomelty, James Greene, Richard Dormer and Sean Crummey.

Series 1: Omnibus 38

2024-09-1729:15

Omnibus #38 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes –• Emigration • The Battle of Widow McCormack’s Cabbage Patch • The Fenian Brotherhood • The green flag will be flying independently • God Save IrelandWritten by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Frances Tomelty, James Greene, Richard Dormer and Sean Crummey.

Series 1: Omnibus 36

2024-09-1729:33

Omnibus #36 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes –• Monster Meetings • A Nation Once Again? • The very extreme of human wretchedness • The far seeing merchants • So much wretchednessWritten by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Frances Tomelty, James Greene, Richard Dormer and Sean Crummey.

Series 1: Omnibus 37

2024-09-1728:39

Omnibus #37 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes –• The census of 1841 • Phytophthora infestans • Famine • The Famine in Skibereen • FeverWritten by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Frances Tomelty, James Greene, Richard Dormer and Sean Crummey.

#box-pro-ellipsis-17654706646625{-webkit-line-clamp:2;}A Short History of Ireland

Padraig Sweeney