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The History Show

The History Show

The History Show on Near FM presented by Cathal Brennan and John Dorney. Each episode we look at a different aspect of Irish history.
Episode 1: The Civil War in Dublin and Cork.
Episode 2: History of local government in Dublin.
Episode 3: Eunan O’Halpin on the dead of the Irish Revolution / Eve Morrisson on the Bureau of Military History.
Episode 4: Aoife MacCormac on the history of infectious diseases in Ireland / James Durney on When Aungier Street became known as The Dardenelles.
Episode 5: The 1916 Rising.
Episode 6: David Fitzpatrick on Terror in Ireland (1916 – 1923) / Micheál Ó Siochrú on the 1641 Rebellion.
Episode 7: Fascism in Ireland – The Blueshirts and Fine Gael.
Episode 8: The 1913 Lockout.
Episode 9: Irish radicalism in Scotland / The historiography of Early – Modern Ireland.
Episode 10: The southern Irish economy since partition.

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