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Today with Pat Kenny, Tuesday 27th November 2012

Tuesday 27th November

The mid-morning current affairs magazine with the stories of the day, sharp analysis, in-depth features and consumer interest

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Peter’s Key: Peter DeLoughrey and the Fight for Irish Independence

Tuesday 27th November

In 1918, Irish Republicans who were locked up in Lincoln Prison began hatching a plan to escape. The internees, among them, Eamon de Valera, had been accused of conspiring with Germany against Britain during the First World War and were imprisoned without trial under what became known as the German Plot. The idea of escape was not so unusual. However, the plan itself was. One of the prisoners, Peter DeLoughry from Kilkenny, decided that the best way to make an escape was, simply, to walk out of the jail. This is what they did. Declan Dunne, has written a biography ...

http://www.rte.ie/radio1/today-with-pat-kenny/programmes/2012/1127/355129-today-with-pat-kenny-tuesday-27th-november-2012/?clipid=942568

Transatlantic by Colum Mc Cann

Monday 20th May

1919. Emily Ehrlich watches as two young airmen, Alcock and Brown, emerge from the carnage of the First World War to pilot the very first non-stop transatlantic flight from Newfoundland to the west of Ireland. Among the letters being carried on the aircraft is one which will not be opened for almost a hundred years. 1998. Senator George Mitchell criss-crosses the ocean in search of an elusive Irish peace. How many more bereaved mothers and grandmothers must he meet before an agreement can be reached? 1845. Frederick Douglass, a black American slave, lands in Ireland to champion ideas of democracy ...

http://www.rte.ie/radio1/today-with-pat-kenny/programmes/2013/0520/451393-today-with-pat-kenny-monday-20-may-2013/?clipid=1218851

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