The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists is a book that had a massive impact on British society. Some say it helped win a General Election, George Orwell called it essential reading. In Ireland, it is little known, despite the author coming from Wexford Street. This week, playwright Jimmy Murphy joins me to talk about the impact this book had on his own life and work.
The Anatomy of a Massacre
Portals, Clocks and Cows
The Isle of Wight on Emmet Road
The Battle of Tallaght: 'Yankee Fenians' and 1867
'Then Mount Jerome for the Protestants.'
The Divine Mission of Discontent (Jim Larkin Part II)
The Rising of the Moon (Jim Larkin Part I)
Before Mosley: The British Fascisti in Dublin
Flying Fists and Union Jacks
From Ten Till Dusk: 200 Years of the RHA (with Cristín Leach)
There Is a Light That Never Goes Out
Asylum: Inside Grangegorman
Napoleon's Toothbrush
Bringing Light to O'Connell Street (with Nicola Pierce)
'And Beckett plays the gong.'
Roger Doyle: The Godfather of Irish Electronic Music
The Irish Supernatural (with Kathy Rose O'Brien and Brian J. Showers)
Dead as Doornails
Other People's Lives (with Dermot Bolger)
Dublin in Maps: From the Soviet Union to D6W (with Joseph Brady)
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