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Category: Irish History
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Bulmer Hobson: The Revolutionary Who Survived to Imagine a Different Ireland
Dylan Foley Words:19054 Time to read:50 minutes Introduction On Good Friday 1916, Bulmer Hobson found himself in an absurd and bitter predicament. His own comrades in the Irish Republican Brotherhood—men he had recruited, trained, and worked alongside for over a decade—kidnapped him and held him captive in a house in the Dublin suburbs. They weren’t…
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Outside The Colony Irish History Podcast Series
A Travision Foundation & All Is Motion Collaboration Narratives of History Talk with Professor Fangzhe Qiu of Maynooth. Science: DNA Studies. Science: Microbiome Studies.
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John Butler Yeats; Anarchism & Art in the Making of Modern Ireland
Contents Ireland in 1839 Part I: Making of a Radical “To thine own self be true” Trinity and the Law Part II: Ireland in Crisis Not So Revolutionary Ireland Young Ireland’s Alternative The Empire Strikes Back Part III: Radical Tradition John O’Leary Exiles in Garden City Arts and Crafts Movement Arts and Crafts Republic Part…
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Why Sligo Needs a World Class Museum
The case for a world class museum in the town of Sligo, northwest Ireland.
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The Mind and the Colonial Death Star
Author – Bernard Sweeney 2021 Wouldn’t it be enlightening to know the unknown, to know something you always had known deep down, and something that makes more sense once known. For example, say if someone said that the Settled Irish who believe themselves to be “the default Irish” are in fact a sub-culture of English…
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Brexit, Irelands saviour!
Why Brexit may allow Ireland to finally take its place on the world stage. And allow the development of the regions of the country.
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Queen Medb and Lakshmi, Irish Kingship and the Feminine Power
“for ’tis I that exacted a singular vow, such as no woman before me had ever required of a man of the men of Erin, namely, a husband without avarice, without jealousy, without fear. For should he be mean, the man with whom I should live, we were ill-matched together, in as much as I…
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Rural Ireland is Rich, not Poor: The Exploitation of Ireland by its Own System
Despite success in raising living standards in Ireland since independence, and especially since joining the EU in the early seventies, Irish governments have failed to prevent the imbalance of development in Dublin at the expense of almost every region in the country. Emigration has remained a preferred solution to economic downturns, with the forcing of young…