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The Echo Of The Thunder
by Daniel Baker
A podcast about the history and politics of Irish republicanism featuring a range of interviews with historians, activists, writers and artists. Presented and produced by Daniel Baker.
Episodes
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Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc on the rise of the Irish Far Right
I'm back with a new volume of standalone episodes on the history and politics of Irish republicanism! In this episode I talk to Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc, author of Burn Them Out! a history of the Irish far right, recently published by Bloomsbury. Padraig has written several non-fiction books on the...
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Women Volunteers in the Provisional IRA w/Theresa O'Keefe
In this episode, I speak to Theresa O’Keefe about womens involvement in the Provisional IRA. Her book ‘Feminist Identity Development and Activism in Revolutionary Movements’ has been described as the first in-depth exploration of women in the contemporary Irish republican movement and the...
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Trauma, Testimony and the Irish Civil War with Síobhra Aiken
For episode 7 of the podcast I am joined by Siobhra Aiken. Her book Spiritual Wounds: Trauma, Testimony and the Irish Civil War deconstructs the concept of the Civil War as "the unspeakable war". She outlines the ways in which a raft of Civil War veterans set out to depict their experiences.…
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The Yank: My Life as a Former US Marine in the IRA w/ John Crawley
In this episode I’m delighted to welcome John Crawley to the show. John was born in Long Island, New York, in 1957, the son of a Co. Roscommon father and a Co. Kerry mother. Two years later the family moved to Chicago and, in 1972, John moved to the town of Castlerea, Co Roscommon, to live with…
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From Child Soldier To The H Block Prison Struggle with Séamus Kearney
I was joined by Séamus Kearney to discuss his recently released memoir "No Greater Love” (https://www.anceathrupoili.com/en/shop/no-greater-love-the-memoirs-of-seamus-kearney/). The book details Séamus' involvement in the republican movement, from his entry into the youth wing of the Provisional...
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The 1969/'70 IRA/Sinn Fein Split with Brian Hanley
For the fourth episode of the show I welcome Brian Hanley to the podcast. We discuss the '1969/'19 70 split in the Irish republican movement and the subsequent trajectory of the Provisionals and Officials up until 1972: the deadliest year of the Troubles that saw the Officials eventual ceasefire...
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Revolutionary Republican Women with Liz Gillis
Episode 2 of The Echo Of The Thunder is out tomorrow morning in celebration of #InternationalWomensDay I spoke to historian, writer and researcher Liz Gillis about the vitally important contributions of women to the republican movement, from Fenianism to the Civil War. Liz is one of the leading...
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What is Irish Republicanism? From the Enlightenment to The Troubles with Fearghal Mac Bhloscaidh
For the first episode of The Echo of the Thunder podcast I was delighted to speak with Fearghal Mac Bhloscaidh. Fearghal is a historian of the Irish revolutionary period and author of the consistently blistering BLOSC blog, a home for his writing on history and politics. His explicitly Marxist,...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
A podcast about the history and politics of Irish republicanism featuring a range of interviews with historians, activists, writers and artists. Presented and produced by Daniel Baker.
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Daniel Baker
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