Local Elections and the Shooting of Tomás MacCurtain | Jan – Apr 1920
Episode 22 – Irish War of Independence In the hopes of stopping Sinn Féin’s dramatic growth the British government introduced[…]
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Category: Irish History
News and Stories about Irish History
“What’s my life compared with the cause?” MacSwiney and Barry – Oct 1920
Death of Terence MacSwiney & Kevin Barry – Oct 1920 Unwilling to create another martyr like Thomas Ashe, British authorities[…]
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Irish War of Independence
Black and Tans vs. IRA – 1920 The movement for more Irish self determination had turned into a full out revolutionary[…]
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100 years since the execution of Kevin Barry
100th anniversary of the death of Kevin Barry This week marks the 100th anniversary of the death of Kevin Barry[…]
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The Conscription Crisis in Ireland | April 1918 – Episode 1
Conscription Crisis | April 1918 With Allied casualties mounting on the Western front due to the German Spring Offensive, in[…]
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The Corn Harvest in Ireland in the 1950s
Vintage Farming Ireland – Threshing Oats Once the corn stack had been built and a thresher was available to thresh[…]
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The Names of Ireland’s 32 Counties Explained
How the names of counties are formed from the Irish Language In this video I will explain the meaning behind[…]
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Remarkable story of Christopher ‘Yarra’ Duffy who survived being shot on Bloody Sunday.
Bloody Sunday in Croke Park in 1920 The remarkable story of Christopher ‘Yarra’ Duffy, who survived being shot in the[…]
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The Great Irish Famine – documentary
Ireland’s Great Famine of 1845-1849 Ireland’s Great Famine of 1845-1849 was a catastrophic tragedy that has embedded itself in the[…]
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Hospitality in Early Irish Society
Ancient Ireland Culture and Society We can see in this video how under Brehon Law providing hospitality became a legal[…]
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