A recording of a paper given at the UCD Centre for War Studies in March 2014. The paper, The Irish Revolutionary Generation, was given by Professor Roy Foster. 

Prof. Roy Foster (University of Oxford) is the Carroll Professor of Irish History at Hertford College Oxford and has written widely on Irish history, society and politics in the modern period, as well as on Victorian high politics and culture; the authorised biography of Yeats; Ireland in the late 20th Century; and currently the Irish revolutionary generation of 1890-1920, subject of his 2012 Ford Lectures, and a forthcoming book (2014). He is also a well known broadcaster, cultural commentator and critic.

Professor Foster was introduced by the Director of the UCD Centre for War Studies, Professor Robert Gerwarth. 

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Roy Foster - The Irish Revolutionary Generation

Why was there an Easter Rising?

Prof Michael Laffan (UCD) explores the national and international circumstances of Ireland before Easter Week, 1916. He looks at the reasons for the Rising from the perspectives of public opinion, popularity and democracy.

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Why was there an Easter Rising?

In this episode, historian Professor Michael Laffan introduces his podcast series of 10 lectures on The Irish Revolution. Professor Laffan talks about the history of the course, its structure as well as some of the key areas covered in the lectures.

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The Irish Revolution (Introduction)

In this episode, 'The Home Rule Party', Lecture 1 of Professor Michael Laffan's 10 lecture series on The Irish Revolution.

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The Irish Revolution (Lecture 1 - The Home Rule Party)

In this episode, Arthur Griffith, Sinn Fein, the IRB and the lead up to the Easter Rising, Lecture 3 of Professor Michael Laffan's 10 lecture series on The Irish Revolution.

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The Irish Revolution (Lecture 3 - Griffith, Sinn Fein, the IRB and the lead up to the Rising)

In this episode, 'the Easter Rising', Lecture 4 of Professor Michael Laffan's 10 lecture series on The Irish Revolution.

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The Irish Revolution (Lecture 4 - The Easter Rising)

In this episode, 'The Home Rule Crisis', Lecture 2 of Professor Michael Laffan's 10 lecture series on The Irish Revolution.

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The Irish Revolution (Lecture 2 - The Home Rule Crisis)

In this episode, the Aftermath of The 1916 Rising and the 1917 By-Elections, Lecture 5 of Professor Michael Laffan's 10 lecture series on The Irish Revolution.

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The Irish Revolution (Lecture 5 - Aftermath of The 1916 Rising and the 1917 By-Elections)

In this episode, The War of Independence/Anglo-Irish War, Lecture 7 of Professor Michael Laffan's 10 lecture series on The Irish Revolution.

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The Irish Revolution (Lecture 7 - The War of Independence)

In this episode, The 1918 General Election, Lecture 6 of Professor Michael Laffan's 10 lecture series on The Irish Revolution.

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The Irish Revolution (Lecture 6 - The 1918 General Election)

In this epsiode Dr Conor Mulvagh of the UCD School of Hsitory and Archives discusses the third home rule bill of 1912.

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The Third Home Rule Bill - Conor Mulvagh

In this episode, The Anglo-Irish Treaty., Lecture 8 of Professor Michael Laffan's 10 lecture series on The Irish Revolution

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The Irish Revolution (Lecture 8 - The Anglo-Irish Treaty)

In this episode, 'Reaction to the Treaty and lead up to the Irish Civil War', Lecture 9 of Professor Michael Laffan's 10 lecture series on The Irish Revolution.

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The Irish Revolution (Lecture 9 - Reaction to the Treaty)

In this epsiode Dr Judith Devlin, lecturer in Russian history at the UCD School of History and Archives asks why people are so interested in Stalin and his personality.

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Why are people so interested in Stalin's personality?

In this episode, The Irish Civil War, the 10th and final lecture of Professor Michael Laffan's lecture series on The Irish Revolution.

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The Irish Revolution (Lecture 10 - The Irish Civil War)

In this episode, Dr Christopher Prior of the University of Southampton discusses Postcolonial Britain.

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Postcolonial Britain - Christopher Prior

In a podcast for the History Hub.ie podcast series, Dr Lindsey Earner-Byrne (UCD) looks at the Mother and Child Scheme controversy which erupted in Ireland in the early 1950s.

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The Mother and Child Scheme Controversy - Lindsey Earner-Byrne

In a podcast for the History Hub.ie podcast series Dr Paul Rouse (UCD) examines a key moment in the development of modern Ireland which took place in the billiards room of Lizzy Hayes’ Commercial Hotel in Thurles, Co Tipperary on November 1st 1884 – the founding of the Gaelic Athletic Association. 

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What actually happened at the founding meeting of the GAA? - Paul Rouse

The Crusades (Part 4 – The legacy of The Crusades)

Professor Jonathan Phillips (Royal Holloway, University of London) visited University College Dublin early in 2012 where he participated in a discussion on The Crusades with Dr Edward Coleman of UCD. As part of the History Hub.ie podcast series that discussion was recorded and edited into 4 separate individual podcasts.

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The Crusades (Part 4 – The legacy of The Crusades)

The Crusades (Part 3 - The Third Crusade, Richard Lionheart and Saladin)

Professor Jonathan Phillips (Royal Holloway, University of London) visited University College Dublin early in 2012 where he participated in a discussion on The Crusades with Dr Edward Coleman of UCD. As part of the History Hub.ie podcast series that discussion was recorded and edited into 4 separate individual podcasts.

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The Crusades (Part 3 - The Third Crusade, Richard Lionheart and Saladin)

The Crusades (Part 2 - The reasons for the calling of the Second Crusade)

Professor Jonathan Phillips (Royal Holloway, University of London) visited University College Dublin early in 2012 where he participated in a discussion on The Crusades with Dr Edward Coleman of UCD. As part of the History Hub.ie podcast series that discussion was recorded and edited into 4 separate individual podcasts.

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The Crusades (Part 2 - The reasons for the calling of the Second Crusade)

The Crusades (Part 1 - Why did Pope Urban II launch the First Crusade in 1095?)

Professor Jonathan Phillips (Royal Holloway, University of London) visited University College Dublin early in 2012 where he participated in a discussion on The Crusades with Dr Edward Coleman of UCD. As part of the History Hub.ie podcast series that discussion was recorded and edited into 4 separate individual podcasts.

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The Crusades (Part 1 - Why did Pope Urban II launch the First Crusade in 1095?)

In this Tudor and Stuart Ireland Conference podcast, a conversation about the MACMORRIS Project between Brendan Kane from University of Connecticut and Pat Palmer from Maynooth University, who is Principal Investigator on MACMORRIS.

Tudor and Stuart Ireland Conference
The 11th Annual Tudor & Stuart Ireland Interdisciplinary Conference took place at Maynooth University on 18 & 19 August 2023.

The conference was generously supported by the MACMORRIS Project; the Irish Research Council; The Department of English, Maynooth University; The Arts and Humanities Institute, Maynooth University; and, Marsh’s Library.

As in previous years, the Conference was recorded for podcasting by Real Smart Media in association with History Hub. You can access the archive of Tudor and Stuart Ireland Conference podcasts on History Hub's website - History Hub.ie - as well as on Apple podcasts, Soundcloud and Spotify.

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Pat Palmer in conversation with Brendan Kane about MACMORRIS (Live Podcast Recording)

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)

In this episode, a recording of a paper - ‘"Éire Saor agus Gaelach?": The Military Service Pensions Collection and the Irish language’ - by Dr Síobhra Aiken from Queen's University Belfast.

The paper was part of UCD School of History's Mícheál Ó Cléirigh seminar series, in collaboration with the UCD Decade of Centenaries project 'Everyday Life In The Irish Revolution' which is run by UCD's Dr Fionnuala Walsh.

Dr Aiken's talk, which was recorded on November 10 2023, was entitled: ‘"Éire Saor agus Gaelach?": The Military Service Pensions Collection and the Irish language’.

Siobhra Aiken - The Military Service Pensions Collection and the Irish language

'Our shared built military heritage: the online mapping, inventorying and recording of the army barracks of Ireland, 1690-1921' by Dr Ivar McGrath (UCD) and Dr Suzanne Forbes (Open University). 

The talk took place on January 26 2024 as part of the UCD College of Arts and Humanities Research Strand on Digital Cultures.

Theme Leaders: Marc Caball, UCD School of History
Lynda Mulvin, School of Art History and Cultural Policy

Digital Cultures is one of the research themes for the UCD College of Arts and Humanities Research Strategy for 2020-2024. The strategy brings together and supports the combined research excellence from across the College’s Schools, Institutes, Centres and subject disciplines.

As part of the Digital Cultures theme of the strategy, Dr Charles Ivar McGrath (UCD) and Dr Suzanne Forbes (Open University) recently gave an online presentation entitled: ‘Our shared built military heritage: the online mapping, inventorying and recording of the army barracks of Ireland, 1690-1921’. The presentation took place in January 2024 and focused on their work on the Army Barracks of Ireland project. The project is funded by the North South Research Programme and co-lead by University College Dublin and The Open University.

The project team are currently preparing a comprehensive online map of all army barracks operational on the island of Ireland between 1690 and 1921, due for launch in early 2024.
You can learn more about the project on https://barracksireland.wordpress.com/ 

Thanks to support from the UCD College of Arts and Humanities Research Strand in Digital Cultures, we are able to feature their talk in this episode of the podcast.

A video of the talk, complete with slides, is also available to watch on the History Hub website.

The talk was introduced by Digital Cultures theme leaders: Dr Marc Caball from UCD School of History, and Professor Lynda Mulvin from UCD School of Art History.

The online mapping, inventorying and recording of the army barracks of Ireland, 1690-1921

A UCD Gender History Seminar
 
Organised by Dr Fionnuala Walsh (UCD History) and Dr Mary McAuliffe (UCD Gender Studies)

The ‘Women and the Irish Constitution: a roundtable discussion’ took place on Tuesday 13 February 2024 in the Humanities Institute, UCD Dublin. The panel included contributions from Dr Mary McAuliffe (UCD, chair) Prof. Caitriona Beaumont (London South Bank University), Associate Professor Jennifer Redmond (Maynooth University), Orla O'Connor (National Women's Council), Prof. Lindsey Earner Byrne (Trinity College Dublin) and the Sutherland School of Law Poet in Residence, Julie Morrissy. 

The referendum on 8 March 2024, proposing to delete Article 41.2 of the Irish constitution which refers to women's 'life within the home' and her domestic role 'without which the common good cannot be achieved', prompted this us to reflect on reactions to the article in 1937 and the relationship between women, home and work in 20th century Ireland. 

This roundtable brings together leading historians, a poet and the chair of the National Women's Council to discuss the past and present of these issues. Listen in to what was a fascinating conversation!

We would like to thank the funders of this event: the UCD College of Arts and Humanities EDI Committee, UCD History and the UCD Decade of Centenaries Seed Funding Scheme.

Women and the Irish Constitution: a roundtable discussion

David Art is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Tufts University (Medford, MA). David Art's field is comparative politics, with a regional focus on Europe. Professor Art's research interests include extremist political parties and movements, the politics of history and memory, and comparative historical analysis in the social sciences. 

He is the author of Inside the Radical Right: The Development of Anti-Immigrant Parties in Western Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2011) and The Politics of the Nazi Past in Germany and Austria (Cambridge University Press, 2006). His articles have appeared in Comparative Politics, German Politics and Society, Party Politics, and West European Politics. 

Professor Art is Co-Convenor of the European Consortium for Political Research's (ECPR) Standing Group on Extremism and Democracy. During the 2008-2009 academic year he was a Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow at the European University Institute.

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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David Art - The development of anti-immigrant parties in Western Europe

In this episode a recording of the Holocaust Education Ireland's Holocaust Memorial Lecture for 2024.

The 2024 lecture was given by Prof. Doris L. Bergen from University of Toronto. Her lecture, “The Holocaust as World History” was given 7 February 2024 in Trinity College Dublin. Prof Bergen was introduced by Dr Patrick Houlihan from Trinity College Dublin.

Doris Bergen - The Holocaust as World History

In this episode, a recording of 'St Brigit and the beginnings of Irish history' a panel discussion organised by Dr Fionnuala Walsh from UCD for International Women's Day 2024. 

The panel was: Associate Prof. Elva Johnston (UCD); Assistant Professor Megan Welton (UCD); Dr Niamh Wycherley (Maynooth); and Dr Elizabeth Dawson (Carlow College).

St Brigit and the beginnings of Irish history

AFTERLIVES: 'My life wasn't much after': women's voices in the Military Archives.

*Supported by UKRI External Participatory and Collaborative Research Fund, London South Bank University and University College Dublin Decade of Centenaries Seed Funding.*

In episode 2 of AFTERLIVES, Associate Professor Fionnuala Walsh (UCD School of History) is joined by Dr Leeann Lane (DCU) and Professor Lindsey Earner-Byrne (TCD) to discuss the ordinary lived experience of Irish women in the aftermath of war and revolution and also their work uncovering poverty, welfare and the search for recognition of women's contributions and losses. 

Afterlives
The aim of the Afterlives project is to uncover the life stories and contributions of rebellious women in the wake of revolution and civil war in Ireland, Finland and Germany 1918-1980s.

AFTERLIVES: 'My life wasn't much after': women's voices in the Military Archives

Episode 1 of 'The Irish at Gallipoli', a six-part series of podcasts by Dr Jeff Kildea, Keith Cameron Chair of Australian History at University College Dublin in 2014.

Episode 1: Background
The Gallipoli campaign in which thousands of Irishmen fought and died is largely unknown in Ireland. By contrast, in Australia and New Zealand the anniversary of the landing at Gallipoli in Turkey on 25 April 1915 is the focus of national commemorations for those who died in the First World War and all wars and civil conflicts since. Conceived as a naval operation to force a way through the Dardanelles to relieve pressure on Russia and to break the stalemate on the Western Front, the eight-month military campaign ended in defeat, claiming the lives of more than 50 000 soldiers on the Allied side and many more on the Turkish side. This first episode provides an overview of the origins of the Gallipoli campaign and the events leading up to the landing.

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Jeff Kildea. The Irish at Gallipoli (Episode 1: Background)

In this special episode to mark the centenary of the Russian Revolution (1917), University College Dublin historian Dr Judith Devlin examines one of the defining events of the 20th century. Dr Devlin discusses the tumultuous events of 1917, including: the lead up to the February Revolution; Lenin's return from exile; the October Revolution and its aftermath; the ensuing Civil War; and how Russians today commemorate the events of 1917.

Judith Devlin is Senior Lecturer in the School of History at University College Dublin. Her research focuses on Soviet and post-Soviet Russia and her publications include 'Slavophiles and Commissars: Enemies of Democracy in Modern Russia ' (Macmillan) and 'The Rise of the Russian Democrats: Causes and Consequences of the Elite Revolution' (Elgar).

Dr Devlin spent a decade in the Department of Foreign Affairs, working on European political integration, before being sent to Paris and then Moscow, where she served as Gorbachev's perestroika got underway. 

Her initial research interests lay in the popular culture of 19th century France and the history of French psychiatry, the subject of her first book 'The Superstitious Mind' (Yale). Following her years in Gorbachev's Russia, she shifted her attention to the culture and politics of the Stalin era and her current research project concerns the Stalin cult.

Judith Devlin on the Russian Revolution

Professor Mundy is Chair and Professor of Art History at Fordham University in New York.  She specializes in Latin American art with emphasis on indigenous art and cartography in the 16th century. 

Her first book, The Mapping of New Spain: Indigenous Cartography and the Maps of the Relaciones Geográficas (1996) was winner of the 1996 Nebenzahl Prize in the History of Cartography.  

In 2012, she co-edited a volume with Mary E. Miller, Painting a Map of Sixteenth-Century Mexico City: Land, Writing and Native Rule (Yale/Beinecke Library, 2012), which sheds light on a rare map of Mexico City, and includes the most extensive scientific analysis of any New World manuscript to date. 

Her latest book, The Death of Aztec Tenochtitlan, the Life of Mexico City (2015), centers on Tenochtitlan-Mexico City and its transformation from the sacred capital of the Aztecs into the center of Spain's overseas empire. It was winner of the 2015 Arvey award from the Association of Latin American Art for the year's best book on Latin American art history, and received the Latin American Studies Association Colonial section book award. It has recently received the 2017 Bryce Wood Book Award from the Latin American Studies Association.

Professor Mundy's interest in digital humanities has resulted in a pioneering work, Vistas: Visual Culture in Spanish America, 1520-1820, that was co-authored with Dana Leibsohn and funded by an N.E.H. digital development and demonstration grant, which is now accessible online www.fordham.edu/vistas.

In episode 12 of History Hub's podcast series – ‘Kingdom, Empire and Plus Ultra: conversations on the history of Portugal and Spain, 1415-1898‘ - Professor Mundy is in conversation with series host Dr Edward Collins. 

In the episode, which is available to podcast on iTunes and Soundcloud, they discuss the overthrow of the great Aztec city of Tenochtitlan in 1521. To Spanish conquerors, this city, built on Lake Texcoco in the Valley of Mexico, was unlike anything they had ever seen when they first encountered it in 1519. Yet, just two years later, the Aztec capital had fallen to Spanish forces and was in ruins, and its leaders dead or imprisoned. But did the city really die? Was it buried and reimagined as the new Spanish colonial city of Mexico? 

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(KEPU) Barbara E. Mundy - Tenochtitlan: Transformation and Endurance after the Spanish Conquest

Dr. François Soyer is a Senior Lecturer in Late Medieval and Early Modern History at the University of New England (Armidale, NSW, Australia). From January 2012 until early 2016, he was a Partner Investigator with the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions at the University of Adelaide and then an Associate Professor in Late Medieval and Early Modern History at the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom between 2015 and 2018. 

He has published a number of books and articles, including The Persecution of the Jews and Muslims of Portugal: King Manuel I and the End of Religious Tolerance (1496-7), published in 2007, Popularizing Anti-Semitism in Early Modern Spain and its Empire. Francisco de Torrejoncillo and the Centinela contra Judíos (1674), published in 2014, and most recently, Antisemitic Conspiracy Theories in the Early Modern Iberian World: Narratives of Fear and Hatred, published in 2019. 

He is currently working on the origins, development and impact of the Antisemitic Ritual Murder and Blood Libel legends in Spain, focusing especially on the Blood Libel cases of San Dominguito de Val and the Holy Child of La Guardia.

In episode 20 of History Hub's podcast series – ‘Kingdom, Empire and Plus Ultra: conversations on the history of Portugal and Spain, 1415-1898' Dr. Soyer discusses antisemitism in medieval and early modern Iberia, specifically some forged documents that purported to be communications between Jews in Spain and Constantinople with series host Dr Edward Collins.

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Kingdom, Empire and Plus Ultra: conversations on the history of Portugal and Spain, 1415-1898

(KEPU) Francois Soyer - Antisemitism, Forgeries, and Conspiracy Theories in Early Modern Iberia

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Our podcasts feature historians talking about a whole range of subjects from medieval to modern history, both Irish and international. Our From the Archives section showcases original historical documents held in the Archive at UCD. We also have a History and Policy section where historians contribute to current policy debates.

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