Revolutionary Ireland

Lorcan Collins Revolutionary Ireland

Irish History

  • 1 hour 9 minutes
    Glimpses Of An Irish Felon's Prison Life 8-13

    Final Chapters in Glimpses of an Irish Felon's Prison Life by Thomas Clarke.

    27 May 2023, 6:09 pm
  • 50 minutes 27 seconds
    Glimpses Of An Irish Felon's Prison Life 4-7

    Part two of a reading of Thomas J Clarke's Glimpses Of An Irish Felon's Prison Life in preparation for a forthcoming episode of the Revolutionary Ireland Podcast on the life of Tom Clarke. This episode covers charpers four, five, six and seven. More to follow!

    17 March 2023, 4:54 pm
  • 48 minutes 23 seconds
    Glimpses Of An Irish Felon's Prison Life 1-3

    A reading of Thomas J Clarke's Glimpses Of An Irish Felon's Prison Life in preparation for a forthcoming episode of the Revolutionary Ireland Podcast on the life of Tom Clarke. This episode covers charpers one, two and three. More to follow!

    2 February 2023, 11:26 am
  • 58 minutes 35 seconds
    Noraid: Irish Northern Aid Committee

    Noraid was the organisation that raised money and awareness in the United States about the ongoing situation in the Six Counties in Ireland. This episode includes an interview with Robert Collins who is the author of a recently published book on Noraid. Join Lorcan Collins as he examines Noraid between 1970 and 1994.

    14 January 2023, 3:11 pm
  • 1 hour 3 minutes
    Thomas MacDonagh Pt.2

    Part two of the life of Thomas MacDonagh, poet, teacher, dramatist, writer, Irish language enthusiast, commandant of Jacobs Factory and executed on 3 May 1916 for his role in the Easter Rising.

    30 August 2022, 4:50 pm
  • 51 minutes 27 seconds
    Thomas MacDonagh Pt.1

    Part one of the life of Thomas MacDonagh, teacher, poet, writer, Irish language enthusiast, Signatory of the 1916 Proclamation and executed for his role in the Easter Rising of 1916.

    20 July 2022, 4:19 pm
  • 48 minutes 30 seconds
    Máire Comerford; Revolutionary
    In this episode Lorcan Collins examines the extraordinary life of Máire Comerford. Lorcan conducts an interview with Hilary Dully who has recently edited a memoir written by Máire.
    23 April 2022, 11:07 pm
  • 57 minutes 29 seconds
    Handover of Dublin Castle 1922

    Join Lorcan Collins in this 34th episode of the Revolutionary Ireland Podcast as he looks at the handover of Dublin Castle in 1922. Lorcan interviews Dr. John Gibney, co-author with Kate O'Malley of a new book on the subject, The Handover.

    15 February 2022, 5:59 pm
  • 52 minutes 27 seconds
    Seán South of Garryowen Part 2

    Join Lorcan Collins for episode 33 of the Revolutionary Ireland Podcast, Part 2 of the Seán South podcast. Lorcan discusses Operation Harvest and interviews the family of Fergal O'Hanlon who was killed in action alongside Seán South on New Years Day 1957 during Operation Harvest when the IRA attacked Brookeborough RUC Barracks in Fermanagh, Ireland.

    30 December 2021, 11:29 pm
  • 51 minutes 24 seconds
    Seán South of Garryowen Part 1

    Join Lorcan Collins for episode 32 of the Revolutionary Ireland Podcast as he examines the life of Seán South, the Limerick IRA Volunteer killed in action on New Years Day 1957 when he and his comrades attacked an RUC Barracks in Brookeborough, County Fermanagh, Ireland as part of Operation Harvest. This is a two part episode and in part one Lorcan interviews his Father Dermot Collins about the FCA. Seán South was a member of the FCA before he joined the IRA.

    30 December 2021, 11:20 pm
  • 50 minutes 13 seconds
    1916 Diary of Lilian Stokes

    In this episode Lorcan Collins reads the diary of an eyewitness to the events of Easter Week 1916. Lillian Stokes was living on Raglan Road in Dublin and wrote a detailed diary about everything she heard and saw during the 1916 Rising. Her evocative account is very well written and adds much to the story of 1916.

    20 October 2021, 9:39 am
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