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    The History Show

    The History Show

    Bringing the past to life! Discover how our world was shaped as Myles Dungan and guests explore events ranging from medieval times to the recent past Catríona Crowe- Document from the Archives.Nearly 75 years ago Douglas Hyde was inaugurated as the first President of Ireland. And on the 22nd of December he made his first Christmas radio broadcast as President of Ireland to the US.The transcript of that broadcast is in a file in the National Archives President’s Office series- p465- and Catríona Crowe from the National Archives is here to tell us about it.   The Battle of FredericksburgDecades ...

    http://www.rte.ie/radio1/the-history-show/programmes/2012/1223/360242-the-history-show-sunday-23-december-2012/?clipid=973776
    Famine document from the archives

    Famine document from the archives

    “The rain falls on my yellow locksAnd the dew it wets my skin;My babe lies cold within my arms;But none will let me in.” The final lines from The Lass of Aughrim, the setting for this month’s document from the archives. Catriona Crowe came in to talk about this letter which was written during the time of the famine. Full transcript below: John Donoghue Esquire,Sub InspectorCounty of Wicklow,Aughrim June 16 1847 I have to state that on the 11th Instant a travelling pauper named Honor Kirwin & her child dropped on the highway near Aughrim, both being ill with fever, ...

    http://www.rte.ie/radio1/the-history-show/programmes/2013/0127/364769-the-history-show-sunday-27-january-2013/?clipid=984943
    Magdalen Laundry court sentence

    Magdalen Laundry court sentence

    Catriona Crowe joined us with her monthly document from the National Archives.  This month she discussed court records relating to the committal of a woman convicted of infanticide to a Magdalen institution in 1950. Statement by Mary R - 7 December 1949 In about the third week of March 1949, my friends stopped and I knew in June 1949 that I was going to have a baby. My aunt Bridget sent me to the doctor and he told me I was going to have a baby. I remember Wednesday morning, the 30th of December 1949. I was in the house ...

    http://www.rte.ie/radio1/the-history-show/programmes/2013/0217/367961-the-history-show-sunday-17-february-2013/?clipid=1000513

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