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Episode #21: Bernadette Devlin McAliskey – “A Terrible State o’ Chassis”

We are seeing Ireland north and south being sold to corporate powers Bernadette Devlin McAliskey is Ireland’s finest political orator, and a key figure in recent political history. In this lecture she takes as her theme a line from playwright Sean O’Casey, ‘A Terrible State o’ Chassis’, where chassis means ‘crisis’. While still a student […]

Episode #06 Maurice Fitzpatrick on the Life and Times of John Hume

Would there have been a Good Friday Agreement without John Hume? Maurice Fitzpatrick tackles this question in our second episode to mark the 20th anniversary of the historic agreement that marked an end to the Troubles. From his early involvement as an activist in 1960s Derry, Hume the pacifist schoolteacher transformed the corrupt state that […]

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Episode #21: Bernadette Devlin McAliskey – “A Terrible State o’ Chassis”

Episode #06 Maurice Fitzpatrick on the Life and Times of John Hume

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