History Now: Magdalene Laundries
Barry Sheppard talks to Prof Sean O’Connell (QUB) and Leanne McCormick (Ulster University) about their joint research on Magdalene Laundries.
History Now: Episode 24 – Tommy Graham
History Ireland editor Tommy Graham talks to Barry Sheppard about his work on the magazine and the importance of public history.
Archbishop Tutu Belfast Visit 2001
From the Northern Visions Archives. Archbishop Desmond Tutu, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984, visited Belfast to promote human rights. He urged people not to give up hope in the Peace Process.
History Now: Episode 23 – Lucy Wray
PhD researcher Lucy Wray talks to Barry Sheppard about her work on the photographer Alexander (A.R.) Hogg, who captured life in early 20th century Belfast.
History Now: AE Russell
Barry Sheppard talks to Irish Historian Brian McKernan and Jim Conway Chair of the Lurgan & North Armagh George Russell Festival Society about the writer, editor, critic, poet, painter and Irish nationalist George William Russell who wrote with the pseudonym AE.
History Now: Connal Parr
Barry Sheppard talks to Connal Parr about his book Inventing the Myth: Political Passions and the Ulster Protestant Imagination.
History Now: Diarmaid Ferriter
Barry Sheppard welcomes historian Diarmaid Ferriter who discusses his two new books, On the Edge: Ireland’s Off-Shore Islands and The Border: The Legacy of a Century of Anglo-Irish Politics.
Alternative Justice
Twenty Years on – alternatives and restorative justice.
History Now: Episode 19 – Political Cartoons
Barry Sheppard welcomes guests Felix Larkin, Independent Scholar & Peter Gray, Professor of Modern Irish History, QUB to discuss political cartoons and Ireland.
History Now: Episode 18
Barry Sheppard is joined by Dr Lynsey Black of Maynooth University and Dr Coleman Dennehy of the University of Limerick, to talk about the history of capital punishment in Ireland.