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2024-02-28

Doris Bergen - The Holocaust as World History (Annual Holocaust Memorial Day Lecture 2024).

In this episode, a recording of Holocaust Education Ireland's Annual Holocaust Memorial Day Lecture for 2024 by Prof. Doris Bergen.

2024-02-28

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1h 10m
2025-07-25

HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE ARCHIVE. Frank McGuinness. Living With Mortality - A Short Stay in Switzerland.

This episode features the renowned playwright and poet Frank McGuinness who gave a paper entitled "Living With Mortality - A Short Stay in Switzerland" on February 25th 2010 in the UCD Humanities Institute. Frank spoke about the issue of mortality as treated in drama from Greek theatre to contemporary work, including his adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts and his screenplay for the widely acclaimed and BAFTA nominated BBC drama "A Short Stay in Switzerland" which tells the story of Dr Anne Turner who chose to end her life in a Dignitas clinic in Switzerland in January 2006.

2025-07-25

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41 min
2025-07-22

HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE ARCHIVE. John Coakley - The Irish border: the first hundred years.

John Coakley's (UCD) keynote at Partitions and Borders - a comparative and interdisciplinary conference jointly organised by UCD and JNU which took place in UCD in 2018.

2025-07-22

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35 min
MAR 28

Jennifer Mittelstadt. Why Military Welfare History Matters.

This episode features a Military Welfare History Network conference keynote lecture by Professor Jennifer Mittelstadt. This paper was recorded at the Military Welfare History Network’s 2025/26 Military Communities' Medical Welfare and Care History Conference Series. A series of three symposiums which were kindly supported by the Wellcome Trust through the Society for the Social History of Medicine and hosted by both the UCD Centre for War Studies and the University of Birmingham.

Mar 28

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32 min
2012-02-13

Lecture 1 - The Home Rule Party

Professor Michael Laffan's The Irish Revolution - Lecture 1

2012-02-13

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48 min
2012-07-02

Lecture 10 - The Irish Civil War.

Professor Michael Laffan's The Irish Revolution. Lecture 10 - The Irish Civil War.

2012-07-02

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45 min
2017-04-18

Tuomas Tepora. The Finnish Civil War and its legacy, 1918.

This episode features a paper by Dr Tuomas Tepora from the University of Helsinki. The paper was entitled: 'The Finnish Civil War and its legacy, 1918'.

2017-04-18

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37 min
2016-07-18

Ep3: Ricardo Padron. The Spanish Lake: America, the Pacific, and Asia in the Imperial Imagination, 1513-1609.

In episode 3 of 'Kingdom, Empire and Plus Ultra', Ricardo Padron (University of Virginia) discusses Spanish attempts to represent and conquer the Pacific as part of the greater Spanish imperial imagination in the sixteenth century with historian Edward Collins.

2016-07-18

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1h 31m
2017-11-02

Michael Staunton. Thomas Becket and the Invasion of Ireland.

Podcast of Associate Professor Michael Staunton's paper recorded at Dublin City Council's medieval symposium on The Abbey of St Thomas the Martyr.

2017-11-02

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31 min
2022-12-21

Episode 11. Elizabeth Buettner - Europe After Empire - The response to (post)colonial migration in Europe.

Professor Elizabeth Buettner (Amsterdam) is the interviewee in the 11th episode of 'A history of xenophobia - from the goldmines to the rise of the far right today'.

2022-12-21

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1h 6m

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