A Short History of Ireland
Historical documentary
A Short History of Ireland - A Failed Plantation and a Bloody Feast in Belfast/An English Queen, a Scottish Lady and a Dark Daughter
The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With Richard Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty.
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A Short History of Ireland - A Fit House for an Outlaw, a Meet Bed for a Rebel and an Apt Cloak for a Thief/The Capture
A look at 16th-Century fashion, Irish style, and the capture of one of Ireland's most powerful Gaelic chieftains, Hugh O'Donnell.
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A Short History of Ireland - A Land of Many Kings/Poets, Judges, Nobles, the Free and the Un-free
The country's epic story continues with early royalty and the perceived power of poets. With James Greene.
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A Short History of Ireland - A Modest Proposal/The Year of the Great Frost
The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With Richard Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty.
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A Short History of Ireland - A Nation Once Again/The Very Extreme of Human Wretchedness
The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With Richard Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty.
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A Short History of Ireland - A Social Laboratory/Property Has its Duties as Well as its Rights
The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With Richard Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty.
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A Short History of Ireland - A Vast Number of People Shipping Off for Pennsylvania and Boston/The Voyage of the Sally
The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With Richard Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty.
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A Short History of Ireland - Assassination in the Phoenix Park/The First Home Rule Bill
The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With Richard Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty.
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A Short History of Ireland - At War with France/Earl Fitzwilliam's Failure
The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With Richard Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty.
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A Short History of Ireland - Athlone and Aughrim/Limerick - A Second Siege and a Treaty
The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With Richard Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty.
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A Short History of Ireland - Belfast, an Imperial City/Committee Room 15
The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With Richard Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty.
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A Short History of Ireland - Beyond the Pale/Garret Mor Fitzgerald, the Great Earl of Kildare
The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With Richard Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty.
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A Short History of Ireland - Brian Boru and the Battle of Clontarf/A Trembling Sod
The country's epic story continues with a long-standing ruler and the impact of events in the year 1014. With James Greene.
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A Short History of Ireland - Bring in Colonies of Civil People of England and Scotland/A Lucky Escape, Scottish Lairds and the Division of Clandeboye
The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With Richard Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty.
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A Short History of Ireland - Civil War/Green against Green
The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With Richard Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty.
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A Short History of Ireland - Conn Bacach O'Neill Visits London/Religious Strife and Plantation
The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With Richard Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty.
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A Short History of Ireland - Conquests and a Failed Treaty/John, Lord of Ireland
Ireland's story continues with more bloody battles - and the arrival of fresh royalty. With Frances Tomelty.
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A Short History of Ireland - Copper, Bronze and Gold/Before the Celts
Ireland's epic story continues with the artefacts and monuments revealing organised communities. With Richard Dormer.
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A Short History of Ireland - Cromwell/The Curse of Cromwell
Oliver Cromwell arrived in Ireland in 1649 and vowed to avenge those who had previously massacred Protestants.
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A Short History of Ireland - Croppies Lie Down/Rouse Hibernians from Your Slumbers
The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With Richard Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty.
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A Short History of Ireland - Cultural Revival/Home Rule Promised
The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With Richard Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty.
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A Short History of Ireland - De-Anglicising the Irish People/Two Nations?
The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With Richard Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty.
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A Short History of Ireland - Depression Years/An Empty Political Formula
The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With Richard Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty.
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A Short History of Ireland - Divided Ulster/Not an Inch
The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With Richard Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty.
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A Short History of Ireland - Dreading the Fury of the King/The English Colony
The country's epic story continues with King John's revenge on his Norman lords and town development. With Frances Tomelty.
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A Short History of Ireland - Edward the Bruce/Famine
The country's epic story continues with the Scottish invasion - and a devastating blow to the nation's health. With James Greene.
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A Short History of Ireland - Episode 115
The Split/Troubles North and South: The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With Richard Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty. Episode 115 of 120.
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A Short History of Ireland - Executions and Internment/Sacrifice at the Somme
The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With Richard Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty.
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A Short History of Ireland - Faithful to Erin, We Answer Her Call/The Conspirators Prepare
The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With Richard Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty.
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A Short History of Ireland - Famine/The Famine in Skibbereen
The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With Richard Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty.
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A Short History of Ireland - Feudal Ireland/A Great Affliction Befell the Country
The country's epic story continues the domination of the Norman Barons - and more battles. With Richard Dormer.
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A Short History of Ireland - Fever/Emigration
The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With Richard Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty.
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A Short History of Ireland - Forget the Unhappy Past/Crying for a Happier Life
The country's rich and turbulent story concludes. With Richard Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty.
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A Short History of Ireland - Garret Og and Silken Thomas Fitzgerald/The Rebellion of Silken Thomas
The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With Richard Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty.
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A Short History of Ireland - Grainne O'Malley and the Composition of Connacht/The Siege of Enniskillen
The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With Richard Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty.
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A Short History of Ireland - Holy War in Munster/The Plantation of Munster
The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With Richard Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty.
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A Short History of Ireland - Homesteads and Crannogs/Living off the Land
Ireland's story continues with an exploration of early lifestyle and events before the Vikings. With Frances Tomelty.
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A Short History of Ireland - Into the Land of the Savage Irish/A Catalan Pilgrim amongst the Unconquered Irish
The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With Richard Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty.
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A Short History of Ireland - Is Them 'Uns Bate?/The Belfast Riots of 1886
The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With Richard Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty.
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A Short History of Ireland - Jobbing with the Most Corrupt People Under Heaven/The Passing of the Act of Union
The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With Richard Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty.
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A Short History of Ireland - John Dutton Eats and Sleeps in Connemara/Wood's Halfpence and the Drapier
The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With Richard Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty.
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A Short History of Ireland - Keep Our Noble Kingdom Whole/The Second Home Rule Bill
The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With Richard Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty.
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A Short History of Ireland - Kings and Champions/Agricola Plans to Conquer Ireland
The country's epic story continues with Celtic life and legend, and the advent of the Romans. With Frances Tomelty.
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A Short History of Ireland - Let No Man Write My Epitaph/Caravats and Shanavests
The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With Richard Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty.
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A Short History of Ireland - More Irish Than the Irish Themselves/The Statute of Kilkenny
Ireland's rich and turbulent story continues. With Richard Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty.
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A Short History of Ireland - Mounjoy and Docwra/We Spare None of What Quality or Sex Soever
The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With Richard Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty.
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A Short History of Ireland - My Mission to Pacify Ireland/Keep a Firm Grip on Your Homesteads
The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With Richard Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty.
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A Short History of Ireland - Neolithic Megaliths/The First Farmers
The country's epic story continues with the huts, megaliths and burial chambers of the Stone Age. With James Greene.
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A Short History of Ireland - October 1641 - The Plot that Failed/The 1641 Massacres
The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With Richard Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty.
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A Short History of Ireland - Patrick the Briton/The Early Irish Church
The country's vivid story continues with the early Christians and the arrival of Saint Patrick. With Richard Dormer.
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A Short History of Ireland - Peep o' Day Boys and Defenders/I Will Blow Your Souls to the Low Hills of Hell
The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With Richard Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty.
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A Short History of Ireland - Planting Down and Antrim/The Rebellion of Sir Cahir O'Doherty
The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With Richard Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty.
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A Short History of Ireland - Rebellion in County Down/Vinegar Hill
The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With Richard Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty.
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A Short History of Ireland - Remember, Remember the fifth of November/They Wish to Kill Him by Poison
The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With Richard Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty.
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A Short History of Ireland - Restoration Ireland/The Duke and the City
The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With Richard Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty.
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A Short History of Ireland - Return to Violence/Terror and Reprisal
The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With Richard Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty.
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A Short History of Ireland - Ribbonmen, Orangemen and Rockites/Emancipation Refused
The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With Richard Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty.
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A Short History of Ireland - Richard II's Great Expedition to Ireland/The Pale
In the late 14th Century, King Richard II travelled to Ireland to quell the threat of Irish lords.
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A Short History of Ireland - Robert Emmet/Now is Your Time for Liberty
The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With Richard Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty.
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A Short History of Ireland - Saints and Scholars/Not the Work of Men, But Angels
Exploring the life of monks and their exquisite illustrated manuscripts. With Richard Dormer.
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A Short History of Ireland - Shane the Proud/The Fall of Shane O'Neill
The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With Richard Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty.
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A Short History of Ireland - St Columba, St Columbanus and the Wandering Irish/The Vikings Are Coming
The country's epic story continues with the travels of early Irish monks and the arrival of a major force. With Frances Tomelty.
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A Short History of Ireland - Stretch out the Hand of Forebearance/The Treaty
The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With Richard Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty.
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A Short History of Ireland - The Adventure of Captain Francisco de Cuellar/The Wild Irish are Barbarous and Most Filthy
The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With Richard Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty.
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A Short History of Ireland - The American Revolution and Ireland/Free Trade or Else
The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With Richard Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty.
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A Short History of Ireland - The Battle of Christmas Eve/The Treaty of Mellifont
The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With Richard Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty.
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A Short History of Ireland - The Battle of the Biscuits/Freeing the Country from the Rod of Tyrannical Evil
The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With Richard Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty.
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A Short History of Ireland - The Battle of the Boyne/Galloping Hogan, Sarsfield and the Walls of Limerick
The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With Richard Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty.
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A Short History of Ireland - The Battle of Widow McCormack's Cabbage Patch/The Fenian Brotherhood
The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With Richard Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty.
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A Short History of Ireland - The Black Death/Galloglasses
The country's epic story continues with a devastating epidemic - and a new mercenary warrior elite. With Richard Dormer.
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A Short History of Ireland - The Boys of Wexford/The Battle of New Ross
The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With Richard Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty.
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A Short History of Ireland - The Catholic Association/The Invasion of Ulster
The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With Richard Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty.
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A Short History of Ireland - The Census of 1841/Phytophthora Infestans
The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With Richard Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty.
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A Short History of Ireland - The Church in Turmoil/Sober Ways, Politic Drifts and Amiable Persuasion
The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With Richard Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty.
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A Short History of Ireland - The Clare Election/Scum Condensed of Irish Bog
The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With Richard Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty.
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A Short History of Ireland - The Coming of the Celts/Preparing for the Otherworld in Pre-Christian Celtic Ireland
The country's rich and turbulent story continues with the arrival of foreign invaders. With Frances Tomelty.
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A Short History of Ireland - The Confederation of Kilkenny/Civil War
The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With Richard Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty.
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A Short History of Ireland - The Country is Bleeding to Death/Killing Home Rule with Kindness
The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With Richard Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty.
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A Short History of Ireland - The Covenant/The Great Dublin Lock-Out
The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With Richard Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty.
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A Short History of Ireland - The Curragh Mutiny/To the Brink of Civil War
The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With Richard Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty.
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A Short History of Ireland - The Dreary Steeples/Partition
The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With Richard Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty.
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A Short History of Ireland - The Dungannon Convention of 1782/Grattan's Parliament
The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With Richard Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty.
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A Short History of Ireland - The Eagle Wing and the Black Oath/Presbyterian Anger, Catholic Resentment
The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With Richard Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty.
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A Short History of Ireland - The Economic War/Democracy in Peril
The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With Richard Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty.
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A Short History of Ireland - The Escape of Red Hugh O'Donnell/The Pirate Queen of Connacht
The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With Richard Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty.
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A Short History of Ireland - The Failure to Reform/The 14th of July 1789 - Sacred to Liberty
The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With Richard Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty.
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A Short History of Ireland - The Far Seeing Merchants of Northern Venice/So Much Wretchedness
The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With Richard Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty.
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A Short History of Ireland - The First Plants, Animals and People/Stone Age Ireland
The country's rich and turbulent story begins in the Ice Age. Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon, with Frances Tomelty.
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A Short History of Ireland - The Flight of the Earls/The Earls in Exile
The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With Richard Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty.
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A Short History of Ireland - The French are in the Bay/Nothing But Terror Will Keep them in Order
The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With Richard Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty.
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A Short History of Ireland - The Green Flag will be Flying Independently/God Save Ireland!
The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With Richard Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty.
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A Short History of Ireland - The Growth of Belfast/Party Fights
The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With Richard Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty.
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A Short History of Ireland - The Hearts of Steel and the Hearts of Oak/Clearing the Land
The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With Richard Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty.
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A Short History of Ireland - The Heretics Intend to Vomit Out All Their Poison/Thomas Wentworth and the Graces
The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With Richard Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty.
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A Short History of Ireland - The Irish Gentry are Expensive People/A Sort of Despot - The Irish Landlord
The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With Richard Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty.
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A Short History of Ireland - The Land War/The Relief of Captain Boycott
The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With Richard Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty.
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A Short History of Ireland - The Londonderry Plantation/The Luck of the Draw
The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With Richard Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty.
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A Short History of Ireland - The Minority Prevailing Over the Majority/The Protestant Ascendancy
The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With Richard Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty.
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A Short History of Ireland - The Peasantry/Superfine Cloth of Home-Manufacture
The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With Richard Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty.
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A Short History of Ireland - The Plantation of Ulster/Make Speede, Get Thee to Ulster
The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With Richard Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty.
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A Short History of Ireland - The Races of Castlebar/The Union Proposed
The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With Richard Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty.
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A Short History of Ireland - The Rape of Dervogilla/At Baginbun Ireland was Lost and Won
The country's colourful and vivid story continues with events leading up to the Norman invasion. With Frances Tomelty.
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A Short History of Ireland - The Rebellion Spreads North/Rebellion in County Antrim
The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With Richard Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty.
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A Short History of Ireland - The Relief of Derry/Schomberg
The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With Richard Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty.
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A Short History of Ireland - The Repealer Repulsed/Monster Meetings
The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With Richard Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty.
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A Short History of Ireland - The Rise of Sinn Fein/The First Dail
The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With Richard Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty.
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A Short History of Ireland - The Second City of the Empire/Dublin: Poverty, Crime and Duels
The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With Richard Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty.
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A Short History of Ireland - The Survy Fort of Blackwater/The Earl of Essex's Failure
The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With Richard Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty.
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A Short History of Ireland - The Trial and Execution of Oliver Plunkett/Lilliburlero
The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With Richard Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty.
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A Short History of Ireland - The United Irishmen/The Belfast Harp Festival of 1792
The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With Richard Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty.
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A Short History of Ireland - The Wars of the Gael and the Gall/Viking Towns and Cities
The country's epic story continues with the terror of the Viking invasion - and the big fight back. With Richard Dormer.
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A Short History of Ireland - The Wild Geese/The Penal Laws
The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With Richard Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty.
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A Short History of Ireland - The Wreck of the Armada/The Last Voyage of the Girona
The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With Richard Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty.
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A Short History of Ireland - The Year of Slaughter/The First Performance of Handel's Messiah
The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With Richard Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty.
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A Short History of Ireland - Three Kings and Thirteen Apprentice Boys/No Surrender
The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With Richard Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty.
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A Short History of Ireland - To Hell or Connacht/Priests and Tories
The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With Richard Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty.
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A Short History of Ireland - Ulster's Domestic Linen Industry/Wash Mills, Bleach Greens and Beetling Engines
The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With Richard Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty.
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A Short History of Ireland - Waterford and Dublin, a Tale of Two Sieges/Henry II Comes to Ireland
The country's epic story continues with the Norman invasion - and the arrival of fresh royalty. With Richard Dormer.
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A Short History of Ireland - We Are Going to be Slaughtered/Easter Week
The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With Richard Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty.
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A Short History of Ireland - Work, Food and Leisure/The Popish Plot
The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With Richard Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty.
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