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The Echo Of The Thunder

The Echo Of The Thunder

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 A podcast about the history and politics of Irish republicanism featuring a range of interviews with historians, activists, writers and artists. Presented and produced by Daniel Baker.Daniel Baker Welt
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  • Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc on the rise of the Irish Far Right

    Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc on the rise of the Irish Far Right
    Apr 14 2025
    I'm back with a new volume of standalone episodes on the history and politics of Irish republicanism! In this episode I talk to Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc, author of Burn Them Out! a history of the Irish far right, recently published by Bloomsbury. Padraig has written several non-fiction books on the Irish revolutionary period, including bestselling The Disappeared, which explores all the forced disappearances arising from political violence in 20th-century Ireland, and Revolution, which was shortlisted for the 2011 Irish Book Awards. In November 2023, the Dublin riots shocked Ireland and the wider world. They were sparked by a knife attack by an immigrant on three children. Inflammatory online rumours spread in minutes. Part of the north inner city were wrecked, cars and buses torched, and protestors wreaked havoc on the streets for hours. Until very recently, Ireland had prided itself on having escaped the wave of far-right, xenophobic populism now rampant throughout Europe. That complacency has been rudely challenged. In Burn Them Out!, Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc explores the long history that has led to this pivotal moment. He uncovers the pervasive anti-Semitism of the Irish political elite in the 1920s and 30s, the energetic efforts of Mosley and other British fascists to extend their movement to the North of Ireland, the IRA’s alliance with Nazi Germany in the 40s and the many ultra-Catholic, anti-communist Irish movements that were millimetres away from fascism As is befitting the nature of this podcast we will be discussing the rise of the Irish far right and its history within the context of republican responses to fascism. From the Easter Rising through to the Troubles and the recent, disgraceful, cynical appropration of Irish republican aesthetics by the fascist far right.
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    1 Std. und 25 Min.
  • Women Volunteers in the Provisional IRA w/Theresa O'Keefe

    Women Volunteers in the Provisional IRA w/Theresa O'Keefe
    Nov 18 2023
    In this episode, I speak to Theresa O’Keefe about womens involvement in the Provisional IRA. Her book ‘Feminist Identity Development and Activism in Revolutionary Movements’ has been described as the first in-depth exploration of women in the contemporary Irish republican movement and the relationship between revolutionary republican women and the ‘mainstream’ women’s movement. A groundbreaking work, it is based on a series of interviews conducted with women volunteers in the Provisional IRA and challenges conventional orthodoxies about the development of feminist consciousness within national liberation movements. Theresa is a lecturer and researcher at University College Cork, where she teaches feminism, sexuality, gender, research methods, conflict, crime, and deviance.
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    1 Std. und 27 Min.
  • Trauma, Testimony and the Irish Civil War with Síobhra Aiken

    Trauma, Testimony and the Irish Civil War with Síobhra Aiken
    Jul 14 2023
    For episode 7 of the podcast I am joined by Siobhra Aiken. Her book Spiritual Wounds: Trauma, Testimony and the Irish Civil War deconstructs the concept of the Civil War as "the unspeakable war". She outlines the ways in which a raft of Civil War veterans set out to depict their experiences. While considered by the chattering classes to be low brow pulp at best or subliterature at worst, they read now as a secret history of the post-Civil War period and the efforts republican combatants made to write against the compromises of the Free State. Subscribe/support/keep up to date in the following places: https://anchor.fm/daniel-baker89 https://www.patreon.com/danielbaker https://www.echoandthunder.substack.com
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    1 Std. und 12 Min.
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