Discussion of the Lockout
In episode eight of The History Show on Near FM, The Irish Story’s John Dorney and Cathal Brennan discuss the great Lockout …
Commemorating the Lockout
John Dorney reports on the 1913 Commemoration Committee – gearing up for the centenary of the Dublin Lockout of 1913. It will …
The Home Front – Dublin and World War I
Padraig Yeates, author of, ‘A City in Wartime’, a new book on Dublin during the First World War, talks about the impact the war …
Perspectives on the Easter Rising – Part III, Aftermath
In this third and final part of our audio feature on the 1916 Rising, John Dorney talks to historians Padraig Yeates and …
The Great Southern Railway Strike of 1911
John Dorney reports from a talk by Conor McCabe of the Labour History Society on the Railway strike of 1911. In late …
Four Bloody Sundays
In the wake of the Saville Report on the events in Derry in 1972, John Dorney looks at the place of “Bloody …
Class War in Dublin – The Lockout of 1913
In our second interview with Padraig Yeates, author of Lockout: Dublin 1913, we talk about the most bitter and iconic strike in …