Today the Irish revolutionary, Muriel McSwiney is largely forgotten in Ireland. However, in 1920 she was an internationally renowned figure, given the role she played in the Irish War of Independence.
The fascinating, intriguing and complex figure who was an Irish revolutionary and a communists but Murial MacSwiney is today only remembered as the wife of Lord Mayor of Cork, Terence.
The JFK Library Foundation has launched a bi-weekly podcast with the aim of bringing the life and influence of President John F Kennedy to a younger audience.
On October 17th 1171, King Henry II became the first English King to set foot on Irish soil. By the time he left the island six months later Ireland's relationship with England had been changed forever.
Indeed Henry's visit still haunts Ireland today...
Second in the series “This Week in Irish History" from the Irish History Podcast - after the most notorious massacres in Irish history Oliver Cromwell's siege of Wexford in 1649.
In this his ten-minute podcast, the first in the series “This Week in Irish History, from the Irish History Podcast, you will hear the story of the fascinating life of James McLaine, the most famous Irish highwayman.
796 children’s bodies were found in a mass grave. BBC podcast focuses on St Mary’s mother-and-baby home in Tuam, Galway and the appalling tale of abuse and criminality uncovered by amateur historian Catherine Corless.
Despite the fact that on March 17 1847 thousands had die and hundreds of thousands more faced death the Saint Patrick's Day festivities were not canceled. While many starved the others partied.
