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    Blue Nun Wine

    Blue Nun Wine

    On Today With Pat Kenny last week, Irish historian Diarmaid Ferriter was on talking about some of the icons of the Seventies, from politics and culture to food and wine. At that stage, Ireland’s wine culture was in its infancy, but of course one particular tipple came up in discussion. So exactly does Blue Nun fit into the fine wines of the world? In its heyday in the eighties, the wine was selling two million cases worldwide every year. Nowadays, it sells about 30,000 bottles a year in Ireland, so it turns out, that for all the derision, it’s holding ...

    http://www.rte.ie/radio1/mooney/programmes/2012/1105/345971-mooney-programmes/?clipid=926595
    Culture & Consumerism in the 1970s

    Culture & Consumerism in the 1970s

    The 1970s arrived half a century after independence and it was a time when people started questioning the old way of doing things in this country. So what was this decade like in terms of social change, culture and consumerism? Historian, Diarmaid Ferriter who has just brought out a book on this decade and Jim Lockhart whose band Horslips redefined Irish music in the 1970s discussed this period. Diarmaid’s book Ambiguous Republic – Ireland in the 1970s is published by Profile Books. Horslips will be playing in Dublin’s Olympia Theatre on the 14th and 15th of December.

    http://www.rte.ie/radio1/the-history-show/programmes/2012/1125/354757-the-history-show-sunday-25-november-2012/?clipid=973828
    Has Ireland Too Many Histories?

    Has Ireland Too Many Histories?

    With the ‘decade of centenaries’ already underway, and with a seemingly endless stream of history titles rolling off the presses, from all sorts of different angles, how is the general public to make sense of it all? To celebrate its 20th anniversary, History Ireland magazine will convene special Hedge School bringing together some of the country’s foremost historians and will ask the question “Has Ireland Too Many Histories?” —Prof. Joe Lee of New York University and Prof. Diarmaid Ferriter of University College Dublin are but two of those who will be there and they joined Pat along with History Ireland’s ...

    http://www.rte.ie/radio1/today-with-pat-kenny/programmes/2013/0514/392143-today-with-pat-kenny-tuesday-14-may-2013/?clipid=1084230

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