Podcast: Hidden Dublin
Hidden Dublin: from the Monto to Little Jerusalem will provide people with an insight into the social history of the Irish capital in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Universities in Revolution and State Formation
Student and academic revolts, from the 1790s up to the present day, featuring the French student uprisings of 1968, Easter 1916, and other major protest movements which led to the emergence of new states, were explored in an international history conference at UCD.
David McCullagh – Second Term (Ep 6/6)
The Second Inter-Party Government has a reasonable claim to being the worst Government in the history of the State. Which, when you think about the competition, is quite a claim to make.
The Digital Kevin Barry Collection
UCD Library and UCD Archives have digitised two fascinating new collections, honouring one of the most iconic figures of the Irish revolutionary period. Kevin Barry, a medical student at University College Dublin, was executed for his part in an ambush which resulted in the deaths of three British Army officers in 1920. He was hanged …
The Irish at Gallipoli – Episode 6: Evacuation and Aftermath
This episode of Jeff Kildea’s series (The Irish at Gallipoli) looks at the evacuation and then examines how in post-independence Ireland memory of the campaign and the part which Irish troops played in it faded and was lost until recent years when a new wave of publications has begun to revive that memory for the Ireland of today.
