Professor R F Foster FBA was awarded a British Academy Medal in 2015 for his book Vivid Faces: The Revolutionary Generation in Ireland 1890-1923 (published 2014, paperback 2015, Penguin).

He talks to Professor Richard English FBA about the significance of the book as we approach the centenary of the Easter Rising.

Speakers:

Professor Roy F Foster FBA
Carroll Professor of Irish History at the University of Oxford

Professor Richard English FBA
Wardlaw Professor of Politics at the University of St Andrews

Recorded 30 September 2015

A version of this conversation is published in British Academy Review 27 (February 2016)
http://www.britac.ac.uk/node/4804/


Roy Foster discusses Ireland's revolutionary generation

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