Dublin Festival of History Podcast

Welcome to the Dublin Festival of History podcast, brought to you by Dublin City Council.

This episode, from the Dublin Festival of History 2024, is about the Boundary Commission set up in 1924, to determine the boundary between the Irish Free State and Northern Ireland. Dublin City Historian in Residence, Cormac Moore discusses the effects of the commission with Margaret O’Callaghan and Ed Burke, chaired by Ronan McGreevy.

This episode was recorded at Printworks, Dublin Castle, on 28th September, 2024.

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Welcome to the Dublin Festival of History podcast, brought to you by Dublin City Council.

In this episode, from the Dublin Festival of History 2024, Irish broadcaster and author of Land Is All That Matters, Myles Dungan, examines two hundred years of agrarian conflict from the ruinous famine of 1741 to the eve of World War Two.

This episode was recorded at Printworks, Dublin Castle, on 28th September 2024.

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Welcome to the Dublin Festival of History podcast, brought to you by Dublin City Council.

This episode, from the Dublin Festival of History 2024, celebrates the Atlas of the Irish Civil War, the latest volume in the award-winning Atlas Series. It presents fresh perspectives on, and a nuanced understanding of, the history of the Irish Civil War (1922–3). Speakers are Hélène O’Keeffe, Donal Ó Drisceoil, John Borgonovo and Mike Murphy.

This episode was recorded at Printworks, Dublin Castle, on 27th September, 2024.

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In this episode from the Dublin Festival of History 2023, Peter Sheridan marks the centenary of the birth of the writer Brendan Behan. Raised in Dublin’s north inner city and with strong connections to Dublin’s tenements, Behan is regarded as one of the greatest Irish writers and poets of all time.

Sheridan discusses his engagement with the work of Behan and his career more broadly.

Peter Sheridan, is a playwright, screenwriter and director.

This episode was recorded at 14 Henrietta Street, on October 11, 2023.

Please note: This broadcast contains strong language and themes throughout.

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In this episode from the Dublin Festival of History 2023, Dublin City Council Historian in Residence, Dr Mary Muldowney, will discuss the 40th anniversary of the 8th Amendment to the Constitution, including a comparison with the successful campaign for Repeal of the 8th. 

The fifth anniversary of that Referendum was on May 25 and the signing of Repeal into law took place on September 18, 2018.

This episode was recorded at Central Library on September 28, 2023.

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In this episode, from the Dublin Festival of History 2023, Kathryn Milligan discusses the work of artist Harry Kernoff.

Born in London on the 9th of January 1900, Harry Aaron Kernoff was a prolific figure in twentieth century Irish art. Well regarded for his portraiture and landscape painting, Kernoff often focused on the depiction of Dublin, a city with which he became intimately familiar with, after the Kernoff family moved there in 1914.

 Kathryn Milligan is the author of ‘Painting Dublin, 1886-1949: Visualising a Changing City’.

This episode was recorded at Pearse Street Library, on October 9, 2023.

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In this episode, from the Dublin Festival of History 2023, Enda Finnan examines the Navan Road parish area and the transformation of the rural community and landscapes of the townlands of Greater Cabragh, Ashtown and Pelletstown from the 1920s to the 1960s. He connects the dots between migration and change of land ownership and development.

Enda Finnan is a local resident and historian.

This episode was recorded at Cabra Library, on October 12, 2023.

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In this episode, from the Dublin Festival of History 2023, Francis Thackaberry explores the  attitudes and responses to poverty in eighteenth-century Dublin. The citizens of prosperous Georgian Dublin, associated poverty with idleness, disease and moral decay and sought ways to prevent ‘foreign’ vagrants from ‘infesting’ the city. One response was to found Dublin’s first tax-funded workhouse in James’s Street in 1703. 

Francis Thackaberry is a former teacher, journalist, and arts administrator.  

This episode was recorded at 14 Henrietta Street, on October 9, 2023.

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In this episode, from the Dublin Festival of History 2023, Fergus Whelan remembers the revolutionary and poet Dr William Drennan (1754-1820). Dr Drennan, a onetime elder of the Dublin Unitarian Church congregation, was born the son of a unitarian minister and made his life’s work the building of ‘a Brotherhood of Affection to Break Down the Brazen Walls of Separation’ which had been erected between ‘Irishmen by Distinctions of Rank, Property and Religious Persuasion’.

Fergus Whelan is the author of ‘May Tyrants Tremble’.

This episode was recorded at the Dublin Unitarian Church, on September 28, 2023.

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In this episode, from the Dublin Festival of History 2023, Aodh Quinlivan illustrates the strained relationship between the Irish Free State and Dublin Corporation, which was central to his recent study. He examines how after the Civil War, the Corporation continued to irritate the central Government and how the dissolution of Dublin Corporation came to be. Aodh Quinlivan is an author and senior lecturer.

This episode was recorded at the Mansion House on September 27, 2023.

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