Podcast: Roy Foster on the Irish revolutionary generation
The Irish Revolutionary Generation by Professor Roy Foster (University of Oxford).
The Irish Revolutionary Generation by Professor Roy Foster (University of Oxford).
This month’s from the Archives document is a snapshot of Irish politics – and the intersection between constitutionalism and physical force – during the summer of 1914.
Britain’s commemoration of the First World War must avoid depicting Imperial Germany as a simplified, demonised, or monolithic enemy. To do so brings with it the danger of distorting modern perceptions of Germany as well as misrepresenting Britain’s role in the Europe of a century ago.
May’s ‘From the Archives’ documents are a pair of letters written by Mary Spring Rice to The O’Rahilly on 1 and 9 May 1914. They detail the early planning phases of what would ultimately become the Howth gun-running
ANZAC Day address given by Professor Jeff Kildea, Keith Cameron Chair of Australian History at University College Dublin, at Grangegorman Military Cemetery, Dublin on 25 April 2014.