Episodes
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Forgetting the Civil War: one hundred years of silence-breaking - - lecture by Dr Síobhra Aiken
On 26 April 2023, Dr Síobhra Aiken provided the annual William English Lecture to the Old Athlone Society in Lough Ree Yacht Club. The lecture forms part of Westmeath County Council’s Historian in Residence programme for 2023. Historian in Residence Dr Ian Kenneally provides a brief introduction…
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Documentary - 'Wreckage and Ruin': scenes from a civil war
The forty-five minute documentary, researched and written by Dr Ian Kenneally, Historian in Residence with Westmeath County Council, and produced by Midlands 103, looks at four stories from the midlands during the Irish Civil War: an ambush in Glasson in August 1922; the shooting of Patrick...
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Episode 10 - Laurence Ginnell - Part 2: from Ireland to America
In the latest edition of our podcast series, Historian in Residence Ian Kenneally speaks with Dr Paul Hughes in the second of two episodes devoted to the remarkable political career of Westmeath’s Laurence Ginnell. The second episode covers the period 1918-1923. During 1920 and 1921, Ginnell was…
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Episode 9 - Laurence Ginnell – Part 1: the MP for Ireland
In the latest edition of our podcast series, Historian in Residence Ian Kenneally speaks with Dr Paul Hughes in the first of two episodes devoted to the remarkable political career of Westmeath’s Laurence Ginnell. The first episode covers the period 1908-1918, a time during which Ginnell...
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Episode 8 - Alice Ginnell: activist and diplomat, 1916-1923
In the latest edition of our podcast series, Historian in Residence Ian Kenneally speaks with Dr Anne Marie O’Brien, about the role played by Alice King (later Ginnell) in Cumann na mBan, Sinn Féin and as part of Dáil Éireann’s international publicity efforts during the War of Independence. Alice...
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Episode 7 - The War of Independence: a focus on Roscommon, Part 2, 1920 to 1921
In the latest edition of our podcast series, Historian in Residence Ian Kenneally speaks with author and historian Dr John Burke. It is the first of two episodes which discuss Roscommon during the years 1917-1921. Of course, there are many crossovers and connections between Roscommon and…
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Episode 6 - The Irish Revolution: a focus on Roscommon, Part 1, 1917 to 1920
In the latest edition of our podcast series, Historian in Residence Ian Kenneally speaks with author and historian Dr John Burke. It is the first of two episodes which discuss Roscommon during the years 1917-1921. Of course, there are many crossovers and connections between Roscommon and…
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Episode 5 - The Treaty, 1921: records from the archives
In the latest edition of our podcast series, Ian Kenneally speaks with Zoë Reid, Senior Conservator in the National Archives of Ireland, and Dr John Gibney of the Royal Irish Academy about the upcoming exhibition: ‘The Treaty, 1921: Records from the Archives’. The exhibition gives the public an...
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Episode 4 - Mount Everest: the first expedition
In 1921, a team led by Charles-Howard Bury, an Irish explorer and veteran of the First World War, entered Tibet from India with the goal of mapping Mount Everest/Chomolungma for the first time. The team, which contained renowned mountaineers such as George Leigh Mallory, also hoped to discover a...
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Episode 3 - Marika MacCarvill on Eileen McGrane
In our third Westmeath Decade of Centenaries podcast, Dr Paul Hughes speaks to Marika MacCarvill, granddaughter of Eileen MacCarvill (née McGrane). Eileen McGrane went to UCD and became a leading officer in the Dublin university’s Cumann na mBan branch, but became best known for her close working...
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Episode 2 - Local and National Perspectives on the Truce, July 1921
In this episode, Dr Paul Hughes and guest Dr Marie Coleman discuss the Truce of July 1921. The Truce brought a provisional halt to the war between the Irish Republican Army and the forces of the British Crown, paving the way for peace negotiations that would eventually lead to the signing of the...
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Episode 1 - The Tormey Brothers of Moate
In the first of a series of Westmeath County Council Decade of Centenaries podcasts, Dr Paul Hughes talks to John Sheehan, Senior Lecturer at the Department of Archaeology, University College, Cork, about the lives and deaths of the Tormey brothers of Moate. In January 1921, Joseph Tormey was…
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About this show
The episodes highlight aspects of life in County Westmeath, Ireland, during the Irish War of Independence (1919-1921) and Irish Civil War (1922-1923).
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Westmeath Historian in Residence
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