Dave Mac hosts a series of podcasts looking at different aspects of Cork’s rich history with a particular focus on the many significant events of 1920: the assassination of Lord Mayor Tomás MacCurtain in March, the death by hunger strike of Lord Mayor Terence MacSwiney in October and the Burning of Cork in December. Dave will be joined by various guest experts to delve deep into these stories that have made Cork the place it is today.
https://redfm.ie/shows/dave-macs-cork-history-matters
Latest episodes
John Creedon on An Irish Folklore Treasury and his interest in placenames, history, language and lore.
2 years ago -
40 mins
Cork History Matters
Author Jim O’Neill on The Nine Years War Part 2 – From The Battle of Kinsale 1601 to The Flight of the Earls 1607
2 years ago -
73 mins
Cork History Matters
Author Jim O’Neill on The Nine Years War Part 1 – Up To The Battle of Kinsale 1601
2 years ago -
81 mins
Cork History Matters
Faeries, Felons and Fine Gentlemen: A History of the Glen, Cork 1700-1980
2 years ago -
67 mins
Cork History Matters
Cork History Matters- Elvera Butler Downtown Kampus 1977 - 1981
2 years ago -
60 mins
Cork History Matters
Colum Kenny author of A Bitter War discusses the Irish Civil War 1922-23
2 years ago -
45 mins
Cork History Matters
Colum Kenny author of A Bitter War discusses the Irish Civil War 1922-23
Author Colum Kenny discusses his new book ‘A Bitter Winter,’ a succinct but graphicly detailed dive into the turbulent years of the Irish civil war through the eyes of its key activists on both sides - Michael Collins, Harry Boland, Mary McSwiney and Richard Mulcahy. Reflecting on the lasting bitterness engendered by civil war, Kenny relates it to current tensions surrounding the future of Northern Ireland. Colum aims to foster an informed discussion about the foundation of the Irish state, with the civil war grasped as relevant today rather than politely skirted. The so-far limited coverage of the civil war dodges the bullet, despite its obvious relevance given Sinn Féin’s current trajectory and that party’s insistence on a border poll. Cork, like many other places throughout Ireland, suffered during the conflict that dragged on into the Spring of 1923. Kenny says, “We should be talking about such events now, because they are still relevant to politics on this island”. Colum’s book touches on the life of Seán Hales, the Co. Cork leader in the war with England who was shot and killed on his way to the Dáil. Seán Hales was pro-Treaty and fought on the opposite side of the war to his anti-treaty brother, though they’d been raised together on their Cork farm. Arrested and imprisoned during the 1916 rebellion, after his death the Cork Examiner described him as ‘the man who kept the [IRA] men together in South and West Cork, and was in many ambushes […] He was one of Michael Collins’ closest friends.’
