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Back to Search239. Ireland’s Fight For Freedom: The Rise of The IRA (Ep 2)
Season 16 Episode 9
The Irish republicans who led the Easter Rising of 1916 are tried for treason by the British government, and sentenced to death. Some are so unwell t…
10 months ago
238. Ireland’s Fight For Freedom: The Easter Rising (Ep 1)
Season 16 Episode 8
The 1916 Easter Rising was a definitive moment in 20th-century Irish history. Its memory was evoked throughout The Troubles, with republicans wearing…
10 months ago
237. The Great Famine: The Irish Exodus to America (Ep 2)
Season 16 Episode 7
The legacy of the Great Famine continues to shape not only Ireland, but the Irish diaspora in America, Canada, and the UK. In the mid-1800s, starving…
10 months, 1 week ago
236. The Great Famine: The Blight Strikes Ireland (Ep 1)
Season 16 Episode 6
How did the memory of the Great Famine shape Irish identity? Could it have been prevented?
From 1845 to 1852, a disease decimated potato crops across …
10 months, 1 week ago
235. The Viceroy, The Psychopath, and The Merchant: The Irish in Empire (Ep 3)
Season 16 Episode 5
Ireland may have been England’s first colony but, by the 17th century, Irishmen were carving out their own imperial legacies in India. Gerald Aungier…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
234. Battle of the Boyne: Clash of Two Kings (Ep 2)
Season 16 Episode 4
The Restoration reinstates the monarchy in England, Scotland & Ireland, and Irish Catholics believe that they will get their lands back for their loy…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
233. Blood and Betrayal: Oliver Cromwell's Irish Invasion (Ep 1)
Season 16 Episode 3
His statue may stand proudly outside the Houses of Parliament in London, but in Ireland, Oliver Cromwell is remembered as “the Devil from over the Se…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Legacy: Genghis Khan
After victory in China, Genghis Khan goes west and takes on the Khwarezmians, surprising his enemy with a daring assault. He conquers all in his path…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
232. Colonising Ireland: The First Plantations (Ep 2)
Season 16 Episode 2
In 1607, after launching a failed rebellion in Ulster against the English, Hugh O’Neill and other Irish nobles are forced to flee Ireland, and their …
10 months, 3 weeks ago
231. Colonising Ireland: Henry VIII, Elizabeth I, & The Tudor Conquest (Ep 1)
Season 16 Episode 1
Ireland is the only country in Western Europe that has experienced being colonised in the modern era. It was used by England as a laboratory for impe…
11 months ago