Ireland’s rich and turbulent history is explored in a series written by the late Dr Jonathan Bardon.
Omnibus #12 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes – • Broadcasting North and South • Showband fever • Whitaker and Lemass • Lemass and Brookeborough • Brookeborough’s fall Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Cherrie McIlwaine, Patrick FitzSymons and Sean Crummey.
Omnibus #11 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes – • Church and state • The Fethard On Sea boycott • A disgrace to the nation • The launch of the Canberra • De Valera’s vision of Cathleen ni Houlihan Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Cherrie McIlwaine, Patrick FitzSymons and Sean Crummey.
Omnibus #10 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes – • Operation Harvest • Defeat for the IRA • Stagnation • The vanishing Irish • Inishkillane Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Cherrie McIlwaine, Patrick FitzSymons and Sean Crummey.
Omnibus #9 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes – • The Princess Victoria disaster • Linen, boom and collapse • Shipbuilding in Belfast • Marching on the Longstone Road • The revival of the IRA Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Cherrie McIlwaine, Patrick FitzSymons and Sean Crummey.
Omnibus #8 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes – • The Chapel Gate Election • Conquering the white death • The Mother and Child controversy • Lacklustre performance • The rule of Brookeborough Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Cherrie McIlwaine, Patrick FitzSymons and Sean Crummey.
Omnibus #7 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes – • The winter of 1947 • The 1947 Education Act • The family of the republic • The inter-party government • Ireland, a republic Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Cherrie McIlwaine, Patrick FitzSymons and Sean Crummey.
Omnibus #6 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes – • VE Day • Controversial condolences • Northern Ireland elections 1945 • The Welfare State • Northern Ireland, a very substantial measure of government aid Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Cherrie McIlwaine, Patrick FitzSymons and Sean Crummey.
Omnibus #4 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes – • German guests of the state • American visitors • The tramp of marching Yanks • Don’t be a dope • Governing Éire, 1939 to 1945 Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Cherrie McIlwaine, Patrick FitzSymons and Sean Crummey.
Omnibus #2 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes – • Neither time nor gold can beat Germany • Censorship in Éire, 1939 to 1945 • The period of the next moon may well bring our turn • The Easter Tuesday Belfast Blitz • Tremendous devastation Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Cherrie McIlwaine, Patrick FitzSymons and Sean Crummey.
Omnibus #1 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes – • The Emergency, Éire 1939 • We here today are in a state of war • Failed preparations • Ireland and the Battle of the Atlantic • The Magazine Fort attack, December 1939 Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Cherrie McIlwaine, Patrick FitzSymons and Sean Crummey.
Omnibus #48 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes – • An empty political formula • The Economic War • Democracy in peril • Forget the unhappy past • Crying for a happier life Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Frances Tomelty, James Greene, Richard Dormer and Sean Crummey.
Omnibus #47 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes – • Civil war • Green against green • Divided Ulster • Not an inch • Northern Ireland: depression years Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Frances Tomelty, James Greene, Richard Dormer and Sean Crummey.
Omnibus #44 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes – • The conspirators prepare • We are going to be slaughtered • Easter Week • Executions and internment • Sacrifice at the Somme Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Frances Tomelty, James Greene, Richard Dormer and Sean Crummey.
Omnibus #42 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes – • Killing Home Rule with kindness • De-anglicizing the Irish people • Two nations? • Cultural revival • Home Rule promised Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Frances Tomelty, James Greene, Richard Dormer and Sean Crummey.
Omnibus #41 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes – • Belfast: an imperial city • Committee Room 15 • Keep our noble kingdom whole • The Second Home Rule Bill • The country is bleeding to death Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Frances Tomelty, James Greene, Richard Dormer and Sean Crummey.
Omnibus #40 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes – • The relief of Captain Boycott • Assassination in the Phoenix Park • The First Home Rule Bill • ‘Is them ‘uns bate?’ • The Belfast riots of 1886 Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Frances Tomelty, James Greene, Richard Dormer and Sean Crummey.
Omnibus #39 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes – • The growth of Belfast • Party fights • My mission is to pacify Ireland • Keep a firm grip of your homesteads • The Land War Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Frances Tomelty, James Greene, Richard Dormer and Sean Crummey.
Omnibus #38 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes – • Emigration • The Battle of Widow McCormack’s Cabbage Patch • The Fenian Brotherhood • The green flag will be flying independently • God Save Ireland Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Frances Tomelty, James Greene, Richard Dormer and Sean Crummey.
Omnibus #37 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes – • The census of 1841 • Phytophthora infestans • Famine • The Famine in Skibereen • Fever Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Frances Tomelty, James Greene, Richard Dormer and Sean Crummey.
Omnibus #36 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes – • Monster Meetings • A Nation Once Again? • The very extreme of human wretchedness • The far seeing merchants • So much wretchedness Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Frances Tomelty, James Greene, Richard Dormer and Sean Crummey.
Omnibus #35 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes – • The Clare Election • ‘Scum condensed of Irish bog!’ • A social laboratory • The Tithe War • The Repealer repulsed Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Frances Tomelty, James Greene, Richard Dormer and Sean Crummey.
Omnibus #34 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes – • Caravats and Shanavests • Ribbonmen, Orangemen and Rockites • Emancipation refused • The Catholic association • The ‘invasion’ of Ulster Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Frances Tomelty, James Greene, Richard Dormer and Sean Crummey.
Omnibus #33 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes – • Jobbing with the most corrupt people under Heaven • The Passing of the Act of Union • Robert Emmet • Now is your time for liberty • Let no man write my epitaph Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Frances Tomelty, James Greene, Richard Dormer and Sean Crummey.
Omnibus #32 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes – • Rebellion in County Antrim • The rebellion in County Down • Vinegar Hill • The Races of Castlebar • The Union proposed Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Frances Tomelty, James Greene, Richard Dormer and Sean Crummey.
Omnibus #31 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes – • Croppies, lie down • Rouse Hibernians, from your slumbers • The Boys of Wexford • The Battle of New Ross • The rebellion spreads north Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Frances Tomelty, James Greene, Richard Dormer and Sean Crummey.
Omnibus #30 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes – ● Earl Fitzwilliam’s failure ● Peep o’Day Boys and Defenders ● I will blow your soul to the low hills of Hell ● The French are in the bay ● Nothing but terror will keep them in order Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Frances Tomelty, James Greene, Richard Dormer and Sean Crummey
Omnibus #29 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes – ● The failure to reform ● The fourteenth of July 1789 ● The United Irishmen ● The Belfast Harp Festival of 1792 ● At war with France Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Frances Tomelty, James Greene, Richard Dormer and Sean Crummey
Omnibus #28 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes – ● The voyage of the Sally ● The American Revolution and Ireland ● Free Trade – or Else ● The Dungannon Convention of 1782 ● Grattan’s Parliament Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Frances Tomelty, James Greene, Richard Dormer and Sean Crummey
Omnibus #27 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes – ● The peasantry ● Superfine cloth, of home manufacture ● Ulster’s domestic linen industry ● Wash-mills, bleach greens and beetling engines ● A vast number of people shipping off for Pennsylvania and Boston Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Frances Tomelty, James Greene, Richard Dormer and Sean Crummey
Omnibus #26 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes – ● Dublin: poverty, crime and duels ● The Irish gentry are expensive people ● A sort of despot ● Hearts of Steel, Hearts of Oak ● Clearing the land Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Frances Tomelty, James Greene, Richard Dormer and Sean Crummey
