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The Somme 1916 – From Both Sides of the Wire

28 July 2016 By James Burge

About two thirds of the way through the first episode of The Somme 1916 – From Both Sides of the Wire (BBC2; six parts starting 18 July; prod/dir: Alastair Laurence)  there is a sequence which could stand as a paradigm of what can be done with history on television. Peter Barton stands in the field […]

Ireland’s Revolutionary Sisterhood

13 April 2016 By Catherine Hokin

On the 2nd April 2014, over 100 women gathered in Wynn’s Hotel Dublin at a gathering presided over by Agnes O’Farrelly, Professor of Irish Language at University College Dublin and Ireland’s first female Irish-language novelist. Their purpose was to discuss the role of women in the lead up to revolution and on into the fight […]

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