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In the spring and early summer of 2020, the playing of organised sporting competitions in Ireland and across most of the world was effectively suspended. During those months – between March and June 2020 – Prof. Paul Rouse of the School of History in University College Dublin recorded the weekly lecturers of his long running ‘Sport and Ireland: A History’ module. The recordings were undertaken as a series of interviews with Joe Molloy, the award-winning presenter of ‘Off the Ball’ on Newstalk FM and were broadcast live on radio.

The recordings are available here now courtesy of ‘Off the Ball’. Thank you to Joe Molloy and Ger Gilroy for facilitating this series and for making it available on historyhub.

This is Episode 5: Sport as imperialism | Teaching nationalism | Ireland and England's intertwining

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Sport as Imperialism (Ep5 - Sport and Ireland: A History)

In the spring and early summer of 2020, the playing of organised sporting competitions in Ireland and across most of the world was effectively suspended. During those months – between March and June 2020 – Prof. Paul Rouse of the School of History in University College Dublin recorded the weekly lecturers of his long running ‘Sport and Ireland: A History’ module. The recordings were undertaken as a series of interviews with Joe Molloy, the award-winning presenter of ‘Off the Ball’ on Newstalk FM and were broadcast live on radio.

The recordings are available here now courtesy of ‘Off the Ball’. Thank you to Joe Molloy and Ger Gilroy for facilitating this series and for making it available on historyhub.

This is Episode 7: The commercialisation of sport through history

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The commercialisation of sport through history (Ep7 - Sport and Ireland: A History)

Maddalena Marinari is Associate Professor in History at Gustavus College in Minnesota. Maddalena has published extensively on immigration restriction and immigrant mobilization. 

She is the author of Unwanted: Italian and Jewish Mobilization Against Restrictive Immigration Laws, 1882-1965, which came out in 2020 with University of North Carolina Press, and provides the foundation for much of the discussion in this episode since it focuses on US opposition to Italian and Jewish immigrants in the late 19th century and early 20th century and outlines how Italian and Jewish communities in the US responded. 

Something that also informed the discussion is a special issue of the Journal of American History from 2022 that Maddalena co-edited with Erika Lee on the Immigration Act of 1924, which saw the US introduce an immigration quota system that substantially restricted immigration until the mid-1960s. Maddelena also co-edited, with Maria Cristina Garcia and Madeline Hsu, A Nation of Immigrants Reconsidered: U.S. Society in an Age of Restriction, 1924-1965 and she has a second related co-edited anthology coming out in 2023 with Maria Cristina Garcia titled Whose America? U.S. Immigration Policy since 1980 with the University of Illinois Press. 

Maddelena is also one of the scholars behind the excellent #ImmigrationSyllabus, an online tool for anyone interested in understanding the history behind current debates on immigration in the US.

About the series

History Hub presents a series of interviews between our editor Dr Irial Glynn and a number of leading experts on the history of xenophobia. The key question the series grapples with is: what causes xenophobia? Why are certain people hostile towards or afraid of immigrants or of people who come from different cultural backgrounds? Does it stem from anger related to a real or perceived decline in living standards? Does it reflect discomfort with the pace of social change or increasing societal diversity? Or is it connected to the arrival of charismatic and innovative politicians and well-organised far right parties?

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Maddalena Marinari - Unwanted: American restrictionism and Italian and Jewish immigrants, 1882-1924

Dr Irial Glynn is Assistant Professor at the School of History, University College Dublin. He was recently awarded a €2m ERC Consolidator Grant for his study, SOS, which will investigate the history of boat refugees since the 1940s, asking who hinders and who helps asylum seekers on their journeys, and why.

Irish intolerance, Gary Lineker and “humanising” the refugee journey

1923: Hitler’s Breakthrough Year’ - Holocaust Education Ireland November Pogrom Lecture

To mark the date of the November Pogrom, Dr. Mark Jones gave a lecture - ‘1923: Hitler’s Breakthrough Year’ - in association with Holocaust Education Ireland, Trinity College Dublin and University College Dublin. The lecture took place on Tuesday 7 November in Trinity College Dublin.

1923 was Hitler’s breakthrough year. From the end of 1922 up to the infamous Beerhall Putsch in Munich during the night of 8-9 November, the Nazi Party grew from around 8,000 to over 50,000 members. In this lecture, historian Mark Jones examined the history of the year 1923 through the prism of antisemitic violence. 

In this talk you will learn about individual and collective acts of physical violence against Jews, the state-led deportation of Jews from Bavaria, and the role played by antisemitism in Hitler’s attempts to destroy German democracy a decade before he was appointed Chancellor of Germany in January 1933.

Mark Jones is Assistant Professor at University College Dublin. He was educated at Trinity College Dublin, the University of Tübingen and the University of Cambridge. He holds a PhD from the European University Institute in Florence and has held visiting fellowships at the Free University of Berlin and Bielefeld University. The author of 1923: The Forgotten Crisis in the Year of Hitler’s Coup, he is among the leading English-language historians of modern Germany and a recognized authority on the history of the Weimar Republic.

Mark Jones - 1923: Hitler’s Breakthrough Year (HEI November Pogrom Lecture)

"Underworlds and undercurrents: Approaching extractive history from below" by Dr Adam Bridgen from Durham University.

The event was part of Dr Sarah Comyn's Irish Research Council MINERALS Laureate project and associated seminar series on Methodologies concerning Extractivism. 

Adam Bridgen's talk -"Underworlds and undercurrents: Approaching extractive history from below" - took place in UCD Humanities Institute on April 17 2024, and was introduced by Dr Sarah Comyn.

Adam Bridgen - Underworlds and undercurrents: Approaching extractive history from below

Dr Siobhán Ní Bhriain graduated from UCD Medicine in 1991. Dr Ní Bhriain trained in Medicine and Psychiatry in the UK and Ireland. She worked as a Research Fellow in the Mercer’s Institute for Research on Ageing before completing her Higher Specialist Training in Old Age and General Adult Psychiatry.

She has worked in Tallaght University Hospital/CHO 7 as Consultant in Psychiatry of Later Life since 2006 and was Clinical Director at the Tallaght and St. James’s Mental Health Services for many years.

She took up the post of NCAGL for Mental Health in January 2019 and moved to the role of National Clinical Lead for Integrated Care, Clinical Design and Innovation in February 2020. The move coincided with the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic and Siobhán led the development of the ‘HSE Operational Pathways of Care for Covid-19’ for the Chief Clinical Officer. She chairs the Covid Clinical Advisory Group to the CCO, as well as participating in many other Covid and non-Covid related working groups, including the National Public Health Emergency Team.

MGA Clinical Influencers

UCD MGA launched its Podcast Series - MGA Clinical Influencers - in 2022.

During this podcast series, graduates give us a trip down memory lane when describing their time at UCD (and on some occasions in other Schools of Medicine) and as junior doctors.

They discuss their stellar careers in their chosen speciality and highlights and challenges during those careers, how they share their expertise and coach others. On a personal level, they will discuss how they manage a decent work life balance, where that is possible and books for us to enjoy and holiday locations we should be thinking about. Our interviewees have compelling stories to tell that will spark your curiosity about life in the clinical speciality they have chosen and the career path they have travelled.

https://www.ucd.ie/medicine/alumni/mgapodcastseries/

Siobhán Ní Bhriain - National Clinical Lead for Integrated Care HSE (UCD Class of 1991)

This episode features a paper from 2011 by Professor Mary Daly from University College Dublin School of History. Professor Daly's paper was entitled 'The curse of the Hospitals Sweepstake. A hospital service not a health service'.

CHOMI Podcast

The UCD Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland (CHOMI) based in the UCD School of History, is an interdisciplinary research centre dedicated to the study of the medical humanities. Established in 2006, the Centre seeks to promote the study of the social and cultural history of medicine. Its research and other activities are supported by a range of funding bodies. 

This podcast series features recordings of academic papers on the history of medicine and medical humanities which were given at CHOMI events in University College Dublin, and other venues in Ireland.

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Mary Daly - The curse of the Hospitals Sweepstake. A hospital service not a health service

Palomitas ('Popcorn' in Spanish) is the podcast where Spanish cinema comes alive. In episode one of the series, Dr Matthew Hilborn (Government of Ireland Research Fellow in Spanish Studies, UCD) and Dr Mary Farrelly (Assistant Professor of Spanish Studies, UCD) discuss La llamada (2017), the film version of the hit Spanish musical, written and directed by Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo.

This podcast has emanated from research conducted with the financial support of Taighde Éireann – Research Ireland under Grant number R27505.

Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction to Palomitas podcast series https://on.soundcloud.com/Pw8RrCQ96ieU2PLW9
00:56 Background to La llamada https://on.soundcloud.com/aL4ZbPekmhgqQ9QL7
05:44 Historical and cultural context to the film https://on.soundcloud.com/v6utjjMZqJRyyvyYA
16:54 Key themes and motifs in the film https://on.soundcloud.com/QYHMdE3vCiJuULaN8
34:52 Cultural significance of La llamada and its global reach https://on.soundcloud.com/pruUGw1PmMx1KRxH9 
41:20 The new auteurship of Los Javis https://on.soundcloud.com/Hgv3Q3gmZPXAxYhn8

Scholarship cited in the episode:

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Farrelly, M. (2021). Seen and Unseen: Women, Spirituality and the Gaze on the Spanish Stage and Screen. Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies doi.org/10.1080/24741604.2021.1873587

García López, M. (2024). Millennial Screen Cultures in Spain: Queering the Mainstream. Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies doi.org/10.1080/24741604.2024.2392416

Wheeler, D. (2018). The Musical in Spain. Hispanic Research Journal doi.org/10.1080/14682737.2018.1444425

Louis, A., Loxham, A. (2024). Mediating Contemporary Transfeminisms and Femininities in Veneno and Ellas. In: Femininity and Feminism in Spanish TV Dramas. Palgrave Macmillan http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-64369-9_7

Sánchez Olmos, C. (2023). Exploring transmedia storytelling through original songs in award-winning Spanish films. In: Popular Music in Spanish Cinema https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003194347

1. La llamada (Los Javis, 2017) (with Mary Farrelly)

In episode two, Matthew chats with Dr Fiona Noble (Lecturer in Spanish, Stirling University) about Ocho apellidos vascos (Emilio Martínez-Lázaro, 2014), the highest-grossing Spanish film of all time. Also featuring exclusive one-on-one interviews with Martínez-Lázaro himself, as well as co-scriptwriter Borja Cobeaga.

Timestamps:
01:18 Introduction to Ocho apellidos vascos https://on.soundcloud.com/dFTk93mPkJ8PTeNX6
07:07 Historical & cultural background https://on.soundcloud.com/AUQELFGJBrddQr8f8
17:27 An (un?)conventional romantic comedy https://on.soundcloud.com/Gvmu9S9AnRyFbr1g6
27:21 Humour of regional stereotypes https://on.soundcloud.com/CRsuLDZrrnDhjv41A
33:37 Gender roles https://on.soundcloud.com/PaRtmj1VgUR26UUN8
41:54 Spanish-ness vs Basque-ness https://on.soundcloud.com/5rcpPVy2HqJbHCLJ8
49:09 SpanishTM national identity https://on.soundcloud.com/6pf6a7ypUeFgnTsr7

Scholarship cited in the episode:

For the books, ask your library - university and/or public - to buy a copy! Trust us: librarians are always eager for requests!

Noble, Fiona (2017). ''Marriage itself as theater': The performative politics of marriage in Ocho apellidos vascos'. https://doi.org/10.1386/ijis.30.3.199_1

Noble, Fiona (2020). Subversive Spanish Cinema: The Politics of Performance. https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/subversive-spanish-cinema-9781350152472/

Hilborn, Matthew (forthcoming). Film Comedy and Spain: Humour, Genre, and the Nation 1970-2020. Legenda. https://www.mhra.org.uk/publications/Film-Comedy-Spain

Buse, Peter & Triana-Toribio, Núria. 2015. 'Ocho apellidos vascos and the Comedy of Minor Differences'. https://doi.org/10.1080/08831157.2015.1068637

2. Ocho apellidos vascos (Emilio Martínez-Lázaro, 2014) (with Fiona Noble)

In this introductory episode, series editor Heather Delaney (MA Public History UCD) talks to UCD historian Dr Conor Mulvagh and finds out all about the Harlan Strauss tapes and why they are such an important archive.

In 1972, Harlan J Strauss, a young American PhD student, came to Ireland and interviewed veterans of the Irish independence struggle - men and women, at this point in their 70s and 80s, who shared their experiences, sometimes for the first time. These audio recordings sat in Harlan's attic in Washington, DC for decades, unpublished and unheard. In 2022, Harlan brought them to Dublin and deposited them at the National Folklore Collection at UCD. This podcast explores the things those people said and how those who lived through the Irish revolution saw it fifty years after the fact. Harlan’s tapes offer often unparalleled insights into both the experiences and perceptions of revolutionaries reflecting back on their youth. Now, 50 years later, Conor and Harlan have teamed up to delve into these interviews and get an insight into the mind of an Irish revolutionary.

https://historyhub.ie/recording-the-revolution-harlan-strauss

Introduction to Recording the Revolution - The Harlan Strauss Tapes

In this episode a recording of the Holocaust Education Ireland's Annual Memorial Lecture for 2025.

The 2025 lecture was given by Emeritus Professor Anthony McElligott from University of Limerick. His lecture, 'Surviving Liberation: Jewish Camp Survivors 1945-1948' was given 27 February 2025 in Trinity College Dublin. Prof McElligott was introduced by Dr Patrick Houlihan from Trinity College Dublin.

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Surviving Liberation: Jewish Camp Survivors 1945-1948 HEI Annual Memorial Lecture 2025 by Anthony McElligott

In this week’s episode of “Recording the Revolution”, Conor and Harlan pluck their second tape from the archive and discuss Harlan’s illuminating interview with the printer of the Proclamation of the Irish Republic, Christopher “Christy” Brady. Christopher Brady reminisces on his time spent in Liberty Hall, his conversations with James Connolly and the secrecy surrounding the printing of the Proclamation. Christopher Brady was interviewed on 26 March 1972.

The Harlan Strauss Tapes

In 1972, Harlan J Strauss, a young American PhD student, came to Ireland and interviewed veterans of the Irish independence struggle - men and women, at this point in their 70s and 80s, who shared their experiences, sometimes for the first time.

These audio recordings sat in Harlan’s attic in Washington, DC for decades, unpublished and unheard. In 2022, Harlan brought them to Dublin and deposited them at the National Folklore Collection at UCD. This podcast explores the things those people said and how those who lived through the Irish revolution saw it fifty years after the fact.

Harlan’s tapes offer often unparalleled insights into both the experiences and perceptions of revolutionaries reflecting back on their youth. Now, 50 years later, Conor and Harlan have teamed up to delve into these interviews and get an insight into the mind of an Irish revolutionary.

https://historyhub.ie/recording-the-revo…ion-harlan-strauss

Christopher Brady. Episode 2 of Recording the Revolution - The Harlan Strauss Tapes

In this week’s episode of “Recording the Revolution”, Conor and Harlan are taking a look at Harlan's interview with James M Dillon, the former leader of Fine Gael from 1959 to 1965 and son of the Home Rule MP John Dillon. James Dillon sheds light on what life was like during the Irish Revolutionary period and talks about his time spent in the Dail from the 1930s onwards. James Dillon was interviewed by Harlan on 17 March 1973.

The Harlan Strauss Tapes

In 1972, Harlan J Strauss, a young American PhD student, came to Ireland and interviewed veterans of the Irish independence struggle - men and women, at this point in their 70s and 80s, who shared their experiences, sometimes for the first time.

These audio recordings sat in Harlan’s attic in Washington, DC for decades, unpublished and unheard. In 2022, Harlan brought them to Dublin and deposited them at the National Folklore Collection at UCD. This podcast explores the things those people said and how those who lived through the Irish revolution saw it fifty years after the fact.

Harlan’s tapes offer often unparalleled insights into both the experiences and perceptions of revolutionaries reflecting back on their youth. Now, 50 years later, Conor and Harlan have teamed up to delve into these interviews and get an insight into the mind of an Irish revolutionary.

https://historyhub.ie/recording-the-revo…ion-harlan-strauss

James M Dillon. Episode 3 of Recording the Revolution - The Harlan Strauss Tapes

In this week’s episode of “Recording the Revolution”, Conor and Harlan are discussing Harlan's fascinating interview with Maire Comerford. One of two women who were interviewed by Harlan, Maire played a highly active role in the Irish revolution and can be described as one of the more radical, committed, and persistent revolutionaries from this period. Maire Comerford was interviewed on 14 March 1972

The Harlan Strauss Tapes

In 1972, Harlan J Strauss, a young American PhD student, came to Ireland and interviewed veterans of the Irish independence struggle - men and women, at this point in their 70s and 80s, who shared their experiences, sometimes for the first time. These audio recordings sat in Harlan's attic in Washington, DC for decades, unpublished and unheard. In 2022, Harlan brought them to Dublin and deposited them at the National Folklore Collection at UCD.

This podcast explores the things those people said and how those who lived through the Irish revolution saw it fifty years after the fact. Harlan’s tapes offer often unparalleled insights into both the experiences and perceptions of revolutionaries reflecting back on their youth. Now, 50 years later, Conor and Harlan have teamed up to delve into these interviews and get an insight into the mind of an Irish revolutionary.

https://historyhub.ie/recording-the-revo…ion-harlan-strauss

Maire Comerford. Episode 4 of Recording the Revolution - The Harlan Strauss Tapes

In the final episode of “Recording the Revolution”, Conor and Harlan return back to the archive and pluck their final tape, which is Harlan's interview with Irish politician and managing director of the Abbey Theatre, Ernest Blythe. Ernest Blythe reflects on his early years in the IRB, the role he played in the Free State’s execution of Anti-treaty IRA members and his views on the partition of Ireland. Ernest Blythe was interviewed on 13 March 1972.

In 1972, Harlan J Strauss, a young American PhD student, came to Ireland and interviewed veterans of the Irish independence struggle - men and women, at this point in their 70s and 80s, who shared their experiences, sometimes for the first time. These audio recordings sat in Harlan's attic in Washington, DC for decades, unpublished and unheard. In 2022, Harlan brought them to Dublin and deposited them at the National Folklore Collection at UCD.

This podcast explores the things those people said and how those who lived through the Irish revolution saw it fifty years after the fact. Harlan’s tapes offer often unparalleled insights into both the experiences and perceptions of revolutionaries reflecting back on their youth. Now, 50 years later, Conor and Harlan have teamed up to delve into these interviews and get an insight into the mind of an Irish revolutionary.

https://historyhub.ie/recording-the-revo…ion-harlan-strauss

Ernest Blythe. Episode 5 of Recording the Revolution - The Harlan Strauss Tapes

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