In Focus: 100 Drums For Ulster

Event at Stormont celebrating 100 years of Northern Ireland. Organised by the Ulster-Scots Agency in partnership with Northern Ireland’s five Lambeg Drumming Associations.

History Now: Theatre and Archival Memory with Dr Barry Houlihan

Dr Barry Houlihan Archivist at National University of Ireland, Galway talks about his new book ‘Theatre and Archival Memory: Irish Drama and Marginalised Histories 1951-1977’.

History Now: Eddi Reader

Scottish folk singer Eddi Reader discusses her discovery of a trove of material belonging to her great-uncle Seamus Reader, who played a role in the Irish revolutionary period.

History Now: Falls, Brawls and Townhalls

Barry Sheppard talks to ex-wrestler Dave Finlay and author of the book ‘Falls Brawls and Townhalls’ Nick Campbell about the history of wrestling in Northern Ireland.

History Now: Forget The Alamo with Chris Tomlinson

Barry Sheppard talks to co author Chris Tomlinson about the New York Times best selling book ‘Forget The Alamo’.

History Now: Gender, Movement and Violence in Natchez with Dr Nik Ribianszky

Dr Nik Ribianszky, Lecturer in American History at Queen’s University, discusses the tenacious struggles by which free blacks claimed and maintained their freedom until slavery’s demise in Natchez.

History Now: Crawford Gribben

Crawford Gribben, Professor of History at Queen’s University, discusses his new book ‘Survival and Resistance in Evangelical America: Christian Reconstruction in the Pacific Northwest’, with Barry Sheppard.

History Now: The Myth of Economic Growth with John Barry

Professor John Barry talks to Barry Sheppard on ‘The ecocidal myth of endless economic growth’.

History Now: The life and work of Brendan Behan with Donal Fallon

History Now: The life and work of Brendan Behan with Donal Fallon.

History Now: The Early Years of Northern Ireland with Alan Parkinson

Historian Alan Parkinson talks about the turbulent years of 1920 through to 1925 in the early development of Northern Ireland.