The Irish History Show

Cathal Brennan interviews John Dorney on the assassination of Sean Hales and the reprisal executions of Rory O’Connor, Dick Barret, Lam Mellow and Joe McKelvey in December 1922. http://media.blubrry.com/irishhistoryshow/p/irishhistoryshow.ie/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/IrishHistoryShowEpisode32.mp3 December 1922 was dark time in Ireland, with the Irish Civil War raging. On December 7 1922, two anti-Treaty IRA gunmen shot …

John Dorney caught up with Brian Hanley to discuss the IRA during the Emergency (World War II). Click on the Link to Listen Brian Hanley on the IRA during the Emergency The IRA by 1939 was an organisation that had come out the worst, not only of the Civil …

Conor Mulvagh, historian of the Irish Parliamentary Party, talks to John Dorney about the IPP or Home Rule Party that dominated Irish politics for nearly 50 years, between the 1880s and 1918. The IPP, Conor argues was, ‘a dual issue party’, the two issues being the land question – specifically improving the lot …

Cathal Brennan talks to  historian Alex O’Fhailghigh for Episode Nine of the Irish History Show on radicalism in Irish community in Scotland in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Listen to the interview here Irish Radicalism in Scotland Part I Irish Radicalism in Scotland Part II Irish Radicalism in Scotland Part …

This is an interview with early modern historian Padraig Lenihan on the writing of Irish history from the 16th century down to the present day. Padraig Lenihan Part I Padraig Lenihan Part II We talk about; – How the English conquerors and colonists of  the 16th and 17th centuries wrote …