Tag Archives: Irish History Podcast

silence-drawing

For the past few months, Fin Dwyer, of the Irish History Podcast, and journalist Peter McGuire have been looking into child sexual abuse in the recent past and present.

They have been doing their investigations with the help of the Mary Raftery Journalism Fund.

Further to this…

Mark Malone writes:

Your readers might be interested in this podcast around sexual abuse published today by Irish History Podcast. It’s not easy listening, but in the context of what it explore and uncovers, it’s necessary listening.

It includes information on how conservative Catholic activists acted in the 1980s to shut down Department of Education research into the nature and scale of abuse experienced by school kids in the family home.

From 8.33min in… “In 1981, the Department of Education surveyed school children and the results revealed child sexual abuse to be a considerable problem. However, in January 1982, Christina Bhean Ui Chribin and Una Bhean Ui Mhathuna took court action to prevent the department conducting further surveys. These women, deeply conservative catholic activists, reflected a view held by many in Irish society that the safest place for children was in the traditional family home.”

Listen here

Haunted by our history: Ireland and Child Sexual Abuse (Irish History Podcast)

Related: ‘I was eight when my brother started coming into my room’ (Peter McGuire, Irish Times)

Thanks Mark

carving-1Stop that.

A Medieval inter-species ‘sex party’ carved on a wall of Kilkea Castle, Co. Kildare

There are four figures – a rather excited dog to the left, then what appears to be two men, one with a boar’s head getting it on and finally there’s a bird of some description on the right. Strange to say the least…

The strange world of medieval Irish erotica…(Irish History Podcast)

Pic Eve Campbell via Irish History Podcast

-1The genuinely excellent and slightly addictive The Irish History Show presented by Cathal Brennan and John Dorney on Dublin station Near Fm

Available In podcastable form.

Cathal writes:

Episode 16 of the Irish History Show is now online. On this episode we are joined by Dr. Shane Kenna to discuss the Irish National Invincibles and the Fenian Dynamite Campaign of the 1880s.

Previous episodes

The Irish History Show (Facebook)

Oh.

From The Irish History Podcast:

[Jim Larkin] was soon vilified by the employers of Dublin. In September 1913 they launched a newspaper called “The Toiler” which was described its aims “To advance the interest of labour & protect industry & commerce” Aimed at workers it attempted to undermine the Union. In the article above they stooped to a particular low by ludicrously accusing Larkin of being the son of James Carey. James Carey was one of the Phoenix Park murderers.
The ludicrous attempt to link Carey and Larkin needless to say had no basis whatsoever. Larkin was born in Liverpool while Carey lived in Dublin. While it may seem crass it was part on a huge campaign by Dublin employers to break the ITGWU. By 1914 Dublin’s workers began to drift back to work driven by desperate poverty and by the end of January 1914 the employers had won. Larkin for his part left Ireland emigrating to America.

 

Dirty Tricks in the 1913 Lockout (IrishHistoryPodcast)

Pic via Conor McCabe

Thanks Fin