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Wednesday 5th August 2015 at 1pm – The History Show

(First Broadcast 14th December 2014)

Women of the Irish Revolution

Historians Sinead McCoole and Liz Gillis on better and lesser known women of the Irish revolutionary period.

Glen Miller

Lorcan Clancy on the disappearance of Glen Miller 70 years ago this week.

Major General Patrick Cleburne

Historian and author Damien Shiels talks to Orla Rapple about Major General Patrick Cleburne, one out of sixteen Irish-born men who reached the rank of either Colonel or General in the Confederate forces during the American Civil War.   Killed 150 ago.

Charlie Chaplin

Steven Benedict on Charlie Chaplin’s contrasting on-screen and off-screen personas.

Christmas at the Movies in 1914

Ruth Barton, lecturer in film at Trinity College Dublin on what was happening at the movies here over Christmas in 1914.