An ambush at Soloheadbeg, Tipperary in January 1919 is often cited as the opening shots of the War of Independence. However as early as 1917 political tensions were leading to violence across Ireland. Several people were killed in 1917 and 1918. This podcast looks at this descent into war.
The episode is based around the story of Edward Murray, a young Dubliner who played a key role in these events.
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Additional research - Sam McGrath
Sound - Jason Looney
Additional narrations - Aidan Crowe & Therese Murray
Artwork - Keith Hynes
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Kylemore Abbey - Life in a Victorian Mansion in Connemara
Sieges, Luxury and Servitude - A Day in a 500 Year Old Castle
The Black Death vs Covid-19: A Social History of the Pandemic
5000 Year Old Tombs, Writers Block & Graveyards of Inspiration
Terence MacSwiney's Hunger-Strike (The War of Independence XIV)
The Rebel County (the War of independence Part XIII)
Belfast, Derry & The War in the North (the War of Independence XII)
Women & the Irish Revolution - The War of Independence Part XI
The IRA on the Offensive - Easter 1920 (the War of Independence Part X)
An Empire in Crisis (The War of Independence Part IX)
The Fermoy Army Riots (The War of Independence VIII)
The Knocklong Ambush (The War of Independence Part VII)
The Podcast Has Run Aground in The Suez Canal
The Limerick Soviet and The Russian Revolution (The War of Independence VI)
The Escape from Lincoln Jail (The War of Independence V)
The Soloheadbeg Ambush & the First Dáil (the War of Independence IV)
The 1916 Rising (The War of Independence Part II)
The Irish War of Independence Part I - World War I
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