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History Ireland 130 - Irish America in the 1950s

History Ireland magazine has now been in production for over 27 years.

The History Ireland Podcast covers a wide variety of topics, from the earliest times to the present day, in an effort to give the listener a sense of the distant past but also to offer a contemporary edge.

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Irish America in the 1950s

Ballyshannon—mapping the old town

Where stands Dev 50 years on?

Making sense of Trump’s America

O’Connell 250—the Liberator reassessed

Housing in Ireland—a history of dysfunction?

A Future For Our Past — Museums in the 21st Century

Making sense of the 2020 and 2024 general elections

‘Our man in Moscow’—50 years of Irish/Russian diplomatic relations

Is Irish History ‘sea-blind’?

How many died—and how—in the Irish Civil War?

‘Garrison games’—Niall Quinn tackles Oscar Traynor

The Life and Times of Brendan O’Regan

St Brigit 1500—who was she?

‘Taking her place amongst the nations of the earth’?—Ireland and the League of Nations

Iníon Dubh and Red Hugh O’Donnell

The Irish Civil War on film

The life and legacy of Theobald Wolfe Tone

Belfast: The story of a city and its people

The post-Civil War economy of the Irish Free State

Change and continuity—the general elections of 1922 and 1923

Labour and the Civil War

Photographs as historical sources

Memorialising the Civil War

Archbishop John Charles McQuaid—a reassessment

A century on—how do we view the Irish Civil War?

The Civil War in Kerry

Reflections on the Decade of Centenaries

W.B. Yeats and the Irish Free State

Marú in Iarthar Chorcaí (Murder in West Cork)

Donegal in the Civil War

Irish Travellers and the State, 1922-2022—activism, advocacy and allyship

The Irish Civil War—a military analysis

What if Michael Collins had survived the Civil War?

Unmanageable Revolutionaries—women in the ‘decade of centenaries’

Michael Collins—man and myth

Arthur Griffith, ‘father of us all’

The life and times of Harry Boland

The assassination of Sir Henry Wilson and the Irish Civil War

The ‘Belleek/Pettigo triangle’, May/June 1922

Sister against sister—women, the Treaty split and the Civil War

Ulysses in history—history in Ulysses

Burning the Big House—the story of the Irish country house in a time of war and revolution (Yale University Press)

The internal politics of the IRA before the Civil War

Northern Ireland in 1922

‘We English protest’—anti-colonial solidarity in the metropole

A Century of An Garda Síochána

Centenary of the Irish Race Congress, Paris, 21-28 January 1922

‘Dublin Castle has fallen!’—the handover, 16 January 1922

Robert Barton—forgotten man of the Irish revolution?