Civil War Podcast Series

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• Civil War Trauma - Part 5

  August 19, 2022 · 47 min

  The Civil War lasted for little more than a year but what of the lingering fall-out and the bitterness that infected politics for decades afterwards. Dr Gavin Foster, Associate Professor in Irish Studies at Concordia University in Canada…

• The Role of Women - Part 4

  August 19, 2022 · 40 min

  For most of the last hundred years, the role of women in the revolutionary period, including the Civil War, received shockingly little attention but that is now changing. Apart from the general omissions there were women who played…

• The Big Fella Writ Large - Part 2

  August 19, 2022 · 52 min

  Michael Collins was the man who won the war, or so some said. Others considered him the Lost Leader, a figure who could have brought the new state to a bright, new shining place. On 22 August 1922, Collins was shot dead in Beal na mBlath…

• The Violence - Part 3

  August 19, 2022 · 30 min

  The Civil war was noted for episodes of outrage that many felt sank to the depth of depravity. Many of these occurred in Munster and in particular in Co Kerry. But what was the real character of the violence, and how did it get so out of…

• A Politics Divided -Part 1

  August 19, 2022 · 38 min

  The signing of the Anglo Irish treaty in 1921 opened up a chasm in Irish politics that wouldn’t really close for nearly a century. In this episode of the Irish Examiner series on the Civil War, we talk to historian and journalist David…

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