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Pat Walsh died on the 18th May 1921 following an altercation between the combined Flying Columns of Ned Aylward and Seán Hogan with British Military Forces at Tullaroan, Co. Kilkenny. Pat was one of the driving forces in Kilkenny behind a cultural revival that was sweeping across Ireland. Indeed Pat typifies a new breed of Irish Nationalist emerging from the ashes of the 1916 Rising. To this day Pat is fondly remembered in his local community and he has become one of the best known and most proudly commemorated of the Kilkenny Volunteers to die during War of Independence in Kilkenny. Join us as we uncover his life and explore the legacy of this Irish Revolutionary. The documentary was supported by The Decade of Centeneries Fund and Kilkenny County Council. Donations to support the making of this documentary can me made here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/captain-pat-walsh-memorial

On Saturday 23rd April 1921 a gun battle took place in South Kilkenny between the West Kilkenny Flying Column and the British Military at Bessboro House outside Piltown. Join author and historian Eoin Swithin Walsh to learn about Pilltown during the War of Independence and events of that fateful day one hundred years ago

Public historian Margo Shea takes us on a tour of Derry City following the establishment of the border and explores how the nationalist community sustained itself while grappling with cultural identity and seeking political rights and representation. Bio: Margo Shea is Associate Professor of History at Salem State University, in Salem, Massachusetts, where she teaches public history, Irish history and world history, oversees a public history certificate program and supervises internships for History majors. She is the author of Derry City: Memory and Political Struggle in Northern Ireland and several articles and chapters in anthologies on heritage, memory and collaborative practice.

Margaret Buckley Maighréad Uí Bhuachalla, (July 1879 – 24 July 1962) was an Irish Republican activist and President of Sinn Féin from 1937 to 1950. She was the first female leader of Sinn Féin and was the first Irishwoman to lead an Irish political organisation.

In her long struggle for independence, Ireland had one vital weapon that the British did not possess and, as the shots of her battle for Independence rang out, it proved to be one that the the rebel forces perfected with deadly consequences for the ‘ancient enemy’. Eventually Ireland acquired almost 15,000 of these weapons. Some of them fell into Britain’s or her agents’ hands, some remained neutral, but the vast majority were in Irish Nationalist hands throughout this long struggle and, without them, Ireland would not be the free, independent, state she is today. This initially unknown, unrecognised and unique weapon was the Public House, and its ammunition consisted of (a) the publican, (b) the building itself where the licensee traded and (c) the bar staff who maintained this weapon. Indeed, it is no exaggeration to say that without the public house Ireland could well be still be part of the British Empire. In this, the first book to identify the pivotal role of the Irish pub, and to give an overview of the role of alcohol in the war for Irish independence, author and historian Eddie Bohan traces the vital place of the Irish pub as a meeting place, a safe house and even banker for the Irish revolution. Dublin-born Eddie Bohan is best known for his life-long work in the licensed trade, but more recently he has been researching and contributing to the field of the history of Irish broadcasting. He has lectured extensively on the history of 1930s Irish Radio, the history of Pirate Radio and the use of the airwaves during the 1916 Easter Rising. In 2013 he produced and presented a six-part television series marking the 25th anniversary of the introduction of the 1988 Wireless Telegraphy Act called ‘Dublin’s Pirate Days’. He currently runs the Irish Broadcasting Hall of Fame and is a regular contributor to the ‘Ireland’s Own’ magazine. In 2011 he began the original 1916 Easter Rising Coach Tour, visiting all the major battle sites of the Rising, which continues today. Purchase the book here: https://kilmainhamtales.ie/kts-13---thirst-for-freedom.php

Keep their Names Ever Green. The deaths of 7 Tipperary Volunteers/Sinn Féin Activists. From the 4th March to the 10th March, 1921, Tipperary experienced a wave of violence in which 7 Volunteers were killed and many more were wounded and arrested. On Saturday 6th March we will gather to remember the Volunteers who lost their lives in this bloody week in the Third and Second Tipperary Brigades. In the four separate and very different engagements between Volunteers and Crown Forces, this single week gives us a unique insight into how the war was being fought in Tipperary and the very real human cost of resistance to the Crown. Above all we will gather to honour these 7 men whose resistance cost them their lives Thomas Lee (20) - Fethard Martin Clancy (18) - Knockroe, Drangan Richard Fleming (30) - Knockroe, Drangan Patrick Hackett (23) - Knockroe, Drangan Patrick Hogan (23) -Derryclooney, Cahir Laurence Hickey (41) - Thurles William Loughnane (23) - Thurles

In his research Tomás has focused on the use of collected social memory, oral history and oral tradition in exploring the Irish Revolutionary Period. He has advocated for many years for the inclusion of oral sources to bring about a deeper and more rounded understanding of the period and has personally recorded over 400 interviews relating to Irish War of Independence and Civil War. His Doctoral Research at University of Limerick enabled a detailed examination of the entire landscape of memory associated with the revolutionary period and led to the creation of a new methodological framework for the use of memory in exploring the Irish War of Independence.

Linda Ervine is a language rights activist from East Belfast, Northern Ireland. She is a speaker and supporter of the Irish language and is the project leader of the "Turas" Irish language project which "aims to connect people from Protestant communities to their own history with the Irish language" Turas is operated through the East Belfast Mission of the Methodist Church in Ireland. Ervine has gained some media attention because of her coming from a Protestant Unionist background and supporting an Irish Language Act (a position generally regarded as unconventional).