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Uncovering Ireland's Hidden CurriculumUndercover Irish goes under the cover of Irishness, through ballads, poems, social history, the Irish language (Gaeilge), historical events and people, especially those on the periphery— while drawing lines to today's world and adding…
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Cork's Kilmainham Ep. 4: The Firing Squads Return (opens the original)
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Cork's Kilmainham continues. In Episode 4, the story moves into the darkest period yet for Cork Military Detention Barracks. Following the death of Terence MacSwiney and the introduction of martial law, the barracks moves to the centre of the conflict in Cork. Men captured across the county are brought here, court martialled here and, increasingly, condemned to death here. This episode tells the story of Con Murphy, the first man executed in Cork under the new martial law regime, before moving t
Cork's Kilmainham Ep. 3: The Chain, the Cell and the Hunger Strike (opens the original)
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Cork's Kilmainham Episode 3: The Chain, the Cell and the Hunger Strike In Episode 3 of Cork's Kilmainham , we follow the extraordinary story of Terence MacSwiney , from prisoner in the aftermath of the 1916 Rising to Lord Mayor of Cork , and finally back into British military custody at the Cork Military Detention Barracks . The episode begins in the shadow of Thomas Kent's execution in May 1916 , as Cork Volunteers were arrested, imprisoned and deported. Among them were Tomás MacCurtain and Ter
Cork's Kilmainham Ep. 2: 1916, Thomas Kent, Tadhg Barry and the Hidden Grave (opens the original)
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When we think of the executions of 1916, we think of Kilmainham Gaol. But Cork has its own surviving 1916 execution site. In this episode of Undercover Irish, we return to Cork Military Detention Barracks and tell the story of Thomas Kent, the east Cork Volunteer executed there on 9 May 1916 and secretly buried within the military grounds. We trace Kent's life from Castlelyons to Boston, where he became involved in Irish-language and cultural organisations, through the Land War and his imprisonm
Cork's Kilmainham Ep. 1: From Famine to Fenians, From Cork to the Catalpa (opens the original)
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Show Notes After far too long away from the podcast, Undercover Irish is back with a new series exploring the extraordinary history of Cork Military Prison, a building I have come to think of as Cork's Kilmainham . Hidden in plain sight, this building has connections to the Great Famine, the Fenians, 1916, hunger strikes, courts martial, executions, the War of Independence and the Civil War. And now it is set to be demolished!!! In this first episode, we go back to the beginning. We look at the
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