Parliament, Streets or Both
Socialist republicans discuss the strategy necessary to build a socialist republic in Ireland. They ask whether the struggle should be exclusively in Parliament or in the streets or both.
Jan 02, 2025•35 min
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Peadar O'Donnell Socialist Republican Forum
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90 years of Connolly Books ... Dublin's oldest radical bookshop
90 years of Connolly Books ... Dublin's oldest radical bookshop December 2022, saw Dublin's oldest radical bookshop celebrated its 90th anniversary. Owned and managed by the Communist Party of Ireland, the shop stocks one of the best selections of radical and left-wing books available in Ireland. In this episode two celebrated historians recount the history of the bookshop during an event held to mark the occasion. They are joined by long time and recently retired General Secretary of the CPI, E...
Dec 05, 2024•53 min
The 1867 Fenian Proclamation
On Tuesday 5 March 1867, the Irish Republican Brotherhood (the Fenian Movement) published a Proclamation Of The Irish Republic, prior to attempting the overthrow of British rule in Ireland. This document is now an item of historic interest albeit with some obvious current relevance.
Dec 01, 2023•4 min
Discussing the Century of Reaction
Writing in the Irish Worker on 14 March 1914, James Connolly said of the mooted partitioning of Ireland Such a scheme as that agreed to by Redmond and Devlin, the betrayal of the national democracy of industrial Ulster would mean a carnival of reaction both North and South, would set back the wheels of progress, would destroy the oncoming unity of the Irish Labour movement and paralyse all advanced movements whilst it endured. In this episode the Peadar O'Donnell Socialist Republican Forum conve...
Jan 08, 2022•37 min
The Century of Reaction
Writing in the Irish Worker on 14 March 1914, James Connolly said of the mooted partitioning of Ireland Such a scheme as that agreed to by Redmond and Devlin, the betrayal of the national democracy of industrial Ulster would mean a carnival of reaction both North and South, would set back the wheels of progress, would destroy the oncoming unity of the Irish Labour movement and paralyse all advanced movements whilst it endured. In this episode for the Peadar O'Donnell Socialist Republican Forum, ...
Jan 01, 2022•35 min
The rationale behind the Mother and Baby homes scandal in Ireland
A recent RTE TV documentary highlighted the horrors inflicted on thousands of women and children in Ireland's 'Magdalene Laundries' (institutions run by orders of nuns for women who were deemed as "fallen" by society) for decades after the foundation of the 26-County state. In this short podcast we ask why the state tolerated and indeed facilitated such cruel behaviour.
Nov 10, 2021•4 min
Combatting those who would pollute the earth
To coincide with the COP26 in Glasgow, the Peadar O'Donnell Socialist Republican Forum's Patricia Campbell interviews two leading environmentalists ... Seán McBrearty of the US based group ' Oil and Water Don't Mix' and Fidelma o'Kane of the Irish group 'Save Our Sperrins'.
Oct 29, 2021•43 min
Fine Gael and a united Ireland
Examining how the Fine Gael party view the prospect of Irish unity.
Aug 09, 2021•7 min
The Scramogue Ambush
On 23 March 1921 the IRA in Co Roscommon ambushed a convoy of British military and members of the RIC as they travelled from Strokestown towards Longford. The ambush took place in a rural area called Scramogue. This is the story of that engagement along with detailed background of events in the county leading up to the ambush and its aftermath. The story is recounted here by Roscommon historian Henry Owens.
Mar 23, 2021•38 min
Speaking about the BLM movement in the USA
Political activist and historian Matt Siegfried talks with Patricia Campbell about the current Black Lives Matter protest movement in the USA and discuss the sensitive (for the Irish at any rate) matter of racism among Irish Americans.
Jun 13, 2020•23 min
Containing the Surge
Nothing worries an established ruling class so much as a series of unpredictable events over which they have no control. There can be little doubt that developments over the last six months have given rise to just such concerns within governing circles in Dublin. Is the Irish Establishment preparing to contain these unexpected developments by drawing the more amenable into their ranks?
Jun 03, 2020•8 min
We only want the Earth
We only want the Earth is a line from a song composed by James Connolly and this phrase was used as the title for a podcast created to celebrate the socialist's life work on the 104th anniversary of his execution.
May 20, 2020•44 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Mayday 2020
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May 18, 2020•1 hr 29 min•Season 1Ep. 1
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