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A Short History of Ireland
BBC Radio Ulster
60 episodes
9 months ago

Ireland’s rich and turbulent history is explored in a series written by the late Dr Jonathan Bardon.

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Ireland’s rich and turbulent history is explored in a series written by the late Dr Jonathan Bardon.

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Episodes (20/60)
A Short History of Ireland
Series 2: Omnibus 12

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 fall

Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Cherrie McIlwaine, Patrick FitzSymons and Sean Crummey.

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1 year ago
29 minutes

A Short History of Ireland
Series 2: Omnibus 11

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 Houlihan

Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Cherrie McIlwaine, Patrick FitzSymons and Sean Crummey.

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1 year ago
28 minutes

A Short History of Ireland
Series 2: Omnibus 10

Omnibus #10 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes –

• Operation Harvest • Defeat for the IRA • Stagnation • The vanishing Irish • Inishkillane

Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Cherrie McIlwaine, Patrick FitzSymons and Sean Crummey.

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1 year ago
29 minutes

A Short History of Ireland
Series 2: Omnibus 9

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 IRA

Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Cherrie McIlwaine, Patrick FitzSymons and Sean Crummey.

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1 year ago
28 minutes

A Short History of Ireland
Series 2: Omnibus 8

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 Brookeborough

Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Cherrie McIlwaine, Patrick FitzSymons and Sean Crummey.

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1 year ago
29 minutes

A Short History of Ireland
Series 2: Omnibus 7

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.

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1 year ago
28 minutes

A Short History of Ireland
Series 2: Omnibus 6

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 aid

Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Cherrie McIlwaine, Patrick FitzSymons and Sean Crummey.

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1 year ago
28 minutes

A Short History of Ireland
Series 2: Omnibus 4

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 1945

Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Cherrie McIlwaine, Patrick FitzSymons and Sean Crummey.

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1 year ago
27 minutes

A Short History of Ireland
Series 2: Omnibus 2

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 devastation

Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Cherrie McIlwaine, Patrick FitzSymons and Sean Crummey.

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1 year ago
29 minutes

A Short History of Ireland
Series 2: Omnibus 1

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 1939

Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Cherrie McIlwaine, Patrick FitzSymons and Sean Crummey.

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1 year ago
29 minutes

A Short History of Ireland
Series 1: Omnibus 48

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 life

Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Frances Tomelty, James Greene, Richard Dormer and Sean Crummey.

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1 year ago
30 minutes

A Short History of Ireland
Series 1: Omnibus 47

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 years

Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Frances Tomelty, James Greene, Richard Dormer and Sean Crummey.

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1 year ago
29 minutes

A Short History of Ireland
Series 1: Omnibus 44

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 Somme

Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Frances Tomelty, James Greene, Richard Dormer and Sean Crummey.

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1 year ago
29 minutes

A Short History of Ireland
Series 1: Omnibus 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 promised

Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Frances Tomelty, James Greene, Richard Dormer and Sean Crummey.

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1 year ago
29 minutes

A Short History of Ireland
Series 1: Omnibus 41

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 death

Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Frances Tomelty, James Greene, Richard Dormer and Sean Crummey.

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1 year ago
29 minutes

A Short History of Ireland
Series 1: Omnibus 40

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 1886

Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Frances Tomelty, James Greene, Richard Dormer and Sean Crummey.

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1 year ago
28 minutes

A Short History of Ireland
Series 1: Omnibus 39

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 War

Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Frances Tomelty, James Greene, Richard Dormer and Sean Crummey.

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1 year ago
28 minutes

A Short History of Ireland
Series 1: Omnibus 38

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 Ireland

Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Frances Tomelty, James Greene, Richard Dormer and Sean Crummey.

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1 year ago
29 minutes

A Short History of Ireland
Series 1: Omnibus 36

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 wretchedness

Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Frances Tomelty, James Greene, Richard Dormer and Sean Crummey.

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1 year ago
29 minutes

A Short History of Ireland
Series 1: Omnibus 37

Omnibus #37 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes –

• The census of 1841 • Phytophthora infestans • Famine • The Famine in Skibereen • Fever

Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Frances Tomelty, James Greene, Richard Dormer and Sean Crummey.

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1 year ago
28 minutes

A Short History of Ireland

Ireland’s rich and turbulent history is explored in a series written by the late Dr Jonathan Bardon.