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'How Green Was My Valley' & The Easter Rising
'How Green Was My Valley' & The Easter Rising
‘How Green Was My Valley’ was released in 1941 and got nominated for 10 Academy Awards - winning four of them, including... Read more
12 Apr 2020
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Ranked #2
Hidden Histories: Tarlach Mac Niallais
Hidden Histories: Tarlach Mac Niallais
Covid-19 has claimed more than 8,000 lives in the United States of America thus far - including the life of Tarlach Mac ... Read more
5 Apr 2020
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Hidden Histories: The Arms Crisis
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2020 will mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Arms Crisis, a political scandal that rocked Fianna Fáil to its very core... Read more
29 Dec 2019
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Hidden Histories: James Joyce
Hidden Histories: James Joyce
Earlier this week, a Dublin City Councillor proposed bringing the body of James Joyce back to Ireland, on time for the c... Read more
20 Oct 2019
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Hidden Histories: Thin Lizzy
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Donal Fallon joins Gavan Reilly to take a look at some of the lesser known stories of the iconic Irish rock group Thin L... Read more
6 Oct 2019
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Hidden Histories: Dublin's last All Ireland hurling success
Hidden Histories: Dublin's last All Ireland hurling success
Donal Fallon talks us through the forgotten history of Dublin hurling, their last All Ireland success more than 80 years... Read more
15 Sep 2019
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Hidden Histories: Parnellism
Hidden Histories: Parnellism
There were some chuckles earlier this week when Jacob Rees-Mogg evoked the name of Charles Stewart Parnell in the House ... Read more
8 Sep 2019
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Hidden Histories: Poitín
Hidden Histories: Poitín
Ireland has witnessed a craft beer and distilling renaissance in recent years.Teeling Whiskey, Gunpowder Gin and more be... Read more
25 Aug 2019
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Hidden Histories: Space and Us
Hidden Histories: Space and Us
Fifty years ago this week, Ireland - like the rest of the world - was transfixed by man landing on the moon. Moon fragme... Read more
21 Jul 2019
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Hidden Histories: Bastille Day
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Donal Fallon takes a closer look at the storming of the Bastille on this day in 1789 and the ripple effect of the French... Read more
14 Jul 2019
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Hidden Histories: Danny La Rue
Hidden Histories: Danny La Rue
In a time long before Panti Bliss, there was Danny La Rue. Born in Cork in 1927, La Rue - real name Daniel Patrick Carro... Read more
30 Jun 2019
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Hidden Histories: Musician Michael O'Shea
Hidden Histories: Musician Michael O'Shea
Donal Fallon joins Gavan Reilly for this episode of Hidden Histories to discuss Michael O'Shea, who was an Irish 70s exp... Read more
23 Jun 2019
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Hidden Histories: Previous Presidential Visits
Hidden Histories: Previous Presidential Visits
With so much opposition to Donald Trump's visit to these shores next week, Donal Fallon has a look at previous president... Read more
2 Jun 2019
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Hidden Histories: 'My Life in The IRA'
Hidden Histories: 'My Life in The IRA'
Earlier this week, Garda detectives in Dundalk quizzed a man about an IRA attack. The attack happened in 1959, and the q... Read more
19 May 2019
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Hidden Histories: Murder Inc and Bohola
Hidden Histories: Murder Inc and Bohola
The village of Bohola in Mayo is a quiet place. It has a population of 203, and its Wikipedia says “it consists of 2 pub... Read more
12 May 2019
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Hidden Histories: Diarmuid Lynch the 'Pignapper'
Hidden Histories: Diarmuid Lynch the 'Pignapper'
Easter Sunday is, for the State and many others, a day of reflection and commemoration. We know the names of many who di... Read more
21 Apr 2019
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Hidden Histories: The Bard of Bengali
Hidden Histories: The Bard of Bengali
Rabindranath Tagore is perhaps the most famous poet you’ve never heard of, but his bust sits in St. Stephen’s Green in D... Read more
14 Apr 2019
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Hidden Histories: The ‘Limerick Soviet’ one of the most dramatic episodes of revolutionary Ireland.
Hidden Histories: The ‘Limerick Soviet’ one of the most dramatic episodes of revolutionary Ireland.
In April 1919, members of the global media gathered in Limerick to report on a transatlantic Air race beginning in the c... Read more
7 Apr 2019
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Ranked #19
Hidden Histories: Saint Patrick
Hidden Histories: Saint Patrick
The story of Saint Patrick is truly international – he was, afterall, a Welsh missionary, bringing the word of Rome to t... Read more
17 Mar 2019
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