The Rich and Turbulent Story of Ireland, from the Ice Age to World War II

081 Jobbing With The Most Corrupt People Under Heaven - The Passing Of The Act Of Union
082 Robert Emmet - Now Is Your Time For Liberty
083 Let No Man Write My Epitaph - Caravats And Shanavests
084 Ribbonmen Orangemen And Rockites - Emancipation Refused
085 The Catholic Association - The Invasion Of Ulster
086 The Clare Election - Scum Condensed Of Irish Bog
087 A Social Laboratory - Property Has Its Duties As Well As Its Rights
088 The Repealer Repulsed - Monster Meetings
089 A Nation Once Again - The Very Extreme Of Human Wretchedness
090 The Far Seeing Merchants Of Northern Venice - So Much Wretchedness

NB: Produced as double episodes so there will be 120 instead of the original 240
The two episode titles are delimited by a -
This should take 12 torrent - given luck

About the Series

A Short History of Ireland started on 27 March, 2006 and ran for a total of 240 episodes,
taking an historical journey spanning the Ice Age, the arrival of Christianity, the Viking
era, Brian Boru, the Norman invasion, the plantation and the famine through to the creation
of the Irish Free State

Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon OBE, QUB, each programme was read by local actors Frances
Tomelty, James Greene and Richard Dormer, who interweave eye-witness accounts, letters and
diary extracts from the times with the historical facts.

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