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Programme 6: Diarmuid MacMurrough
Diarmuid MacMurrough - Did he leave the key under the mat as the English embarked on 750 years of domination?
Elva Johnston and Edel Bhreathnach discuss one of the most reviled figures in Irish history.
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Programme 5: Hugh O'Neill
Hugh O'Neill - Gaelic nationalist or disaffected Elizabethan?
Tadgh O Hannracháin and Ciaran Brady discuss the Tyrone thorn in the side of the Virgin Queen.
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Programme 4: Wolfe Tone
True Republican icon or ascendancy dilettante?
Tom Dunne and Patrick Geoghegan with their perspectives on the character of the leader of the United Irishmen.
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Programme 3: Daniel O'Connell
The Liberator of the Great Comedian?
Tom Bartlett and Kevin Whelan offer divergent views on the champion of Catholic Emancipation.
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Programme 2: Charles Stewart Parnell
Lost leader or arrogant egotist?
Roy Foster and Paul Bew adopt opposing viewpoints on the Parliamentary Party Leader
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Programme 1: Patrick Pearse.
Ruth Dudley Edwards and Martin Mansergh dispute the legacy of the 1916 leader.
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