A Short History of Ireland

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

Omnibus #25 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes –

● A modest proposal ● 1740: the year of the Great Frost ● 1741: the ‘Year of the Slaughter’ ● The first performance of Handel’s Messiah ● The second city of the Empire

Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Frances Tomelty, James Greene, Richard Dormer and Sean Crummey

Omnibus #24 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes –

● The Penal Laws ● The Minority Prevailing Over the Majority ● The Protestant Ascendancy ● John Dutton Eats and Sleeps in Connemara ● Wood's Halfpence and the Drapier

Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Frances Tomelty, James Greene, Richard Dormer and Sean Crummey

Omnibus #23 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes –

● The Battle of the Boyne ● Galloping Hogan, Sarsfield and the Walls of Limerick ● Athlone and Aughrim ● Limerick - A Second Siege and a Treaty ● The Wild Geese

Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Frances Tomelty, James Greene, Richard Dormer and Sean Crummey

Omnibus #22 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes –

● Lilliburlero ● Three Kings and Thirteen Apprentice Boys ● No Surrender ● The Relief of Derry ● Schomberg

Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Frances Tomelty, James Greene, Richard Dormer and Sean Crummey

Omnibus #21 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes –

● Restoration Ireland ● The Duke and the City ● Work, Food and Leisure ● The Popish Plot ● The Trial and Execution of Oliver Plunkett

Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Frances Tomelty, James Greene, Richard Dormer and Sean Crummey

Omnibus #6 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes –

● At Baginbun Ireland Was Lost and Won ● A Tale of Two Sieges ● Henry II Comes to Ireland ● Conquests and a Failed Treaty ● John, Lord of Ireland

Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Frances Tomelty, James Greene, Richard Dormer and Sean Crummey.

Omnibus #20 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes –

● Civil War ● Cromwell ● The Curse of Cromwell ● To Hell or Connacht ● Priests and Tories

Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Frances Tomelty, James Greene, Richard Dormer and Sean Crummey

Omnibus #19 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes –

● The Eagle Wing and the Black Oath ● Presbyterian Anger, Catholic Resentment ● October 1641, The Plot That Failed ● The 1641 Massacres ● The Confederation of Kilkenny

Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Frances Tomelty, James Greene, Richard Dormer and Sean Crummey

Omnibus #18 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes –

● Make Speede, Get Thee to Ulster ● The Londonderry Plantation ● The Luck of the Draw ● The Heretics Intend to Vomit Out All Their Poison ● Thomas Wentworth and the Graces

Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Frances Tomelty, James Greene, Richard Dormer and Sean Crummey

Omnibus #17 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes –

● Bring in Colonies of Civil People of England and Scotland ● A Lucky Escape, Scottish Lairds and the Division of Clandeboye ● Planting Down and Antrim ● The Rebellion of Sir Cahir O'Doherty ● The Plantation of Ulster

Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Frances Tomelty, James Greene, Richard Dormer and Sean Crummey

Omnibus #16 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes –

● The Treaty of Mellifont ● Remember, Remember the Fifth of November ● They Wish to Kill Him by Poison ● The Flight of the Earls ● The Earls in Exile

Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Frances Tomelty, James Greene, Richard Dormer and Sean Crummey

Omnibus #15 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes –

● The Scurvy Fort of Blackwater ● The Earl of Essex's Failure ● Mountjoy and Docwra ● We Spare None of What Quality or Sex Soever ● The Battle of Christmas Eve

Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Frances Tomelty, James Greene, Richard Dormer and Sean Crummey

Omnibus #14 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes –

● The Pirate Queen of Connacht ● Grainne O'Malley and the Composition of Connacht ● The Siege of Enniskillen ● The Battle of the Biscuits ● Freeing the Country from the Rod of Tyrannical Evil

Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Frances Tomelty, James Greene, Richard Dormer and Sean Crummey.

Omnibus #13 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes –

● The Adventures of Captain Francisco de Cuellar ● The Wild Irish are Barbarous and Most Filthy in their diet ● A Fit House for an Outlaw, a Meet Bed for a Rebel and an Apt Cloak for a Thief ● The Capture of Red Hugh O’Neill ● The Escape of Red Hugh O'Donnell

Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Frances Tomelty, James Greene, Richard Dormer and Sean Crummey.

Omnibus #12 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes –

● An English Queen, a Scottish Lady and a Dark Daughter ● Holy War in Munster ● The Plantation of Munster ● The Wreck of the Armada ● The Last Voyage of the Girona

Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Frances Tomelty, James Greene, Richard Dormer and Sean Crummey.

Omnibus #11 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes –

● Conn Bacach O'Neill Visits London ● Religious Strife and Plantation ● Shane the Proud ● The Fall of Shane O'Neill ● A Failed Plantation and a Bloody Feast in Belfast

Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Frances Tomelty, James Greene, Richard Dormer and Sean Crummey.

Omnibus #10 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes –

● Garret Mor Fitzgerald, the Great Earl of Kildare ● Garret Og and Silken Thomas Fitzgerald; ● The Rebellion of Silken Thomas ● The Church in Turmoil ● Sober Ways, Politic Drifts and Amiable Persuasion

Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Frances Tomelty, James Greene, Richard Dormer and Sean Crummey.

Omnibus #9 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes –

● Into the Land of the Savage Irish ● A Catalan Pilgrim Amongst the Unconquered Irish ● Richard II's Great Expedition to Ireland ● The Pale ● Beyond the Pale

Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Frances Tomelty, James Greene, Richard Dormer and Sean Crummey.

Omnibus #8 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes –

● Famine ● The Black Death ● Gallowglasses ● More Irish Than the Irish Themselves ● The Statute of Kilkenny

Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Frances Tomelty, James Greene, Richard Dormer and Sean Crummey.

Omnibus #7 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes –

● Dreading the Fury of the King ● The English Colony ● Feudal Ireland ● A Great Affliction Befell the Country ● Edward the Bruce caused the whole of Ireland to tremble

Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Frances Tomelty, James Greene, Richard Dormer and Sean Crummey.

Omnibus #5 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes –

● The Wars of the Gael and the Gall ● Viking Towns and Cities ● Brian Boru and the Battle of Clontarf ● A Trembling Sod ● The Rape of Dervorgilla

Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Frances Tomelty, James Greene, Richard Dormer and Sean Crummey.

Omnibus #3 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes –

• Patrick the Briton • The Early Irish Church • A Land of Many Kings • Poets, Judges, Nobles, the Free and the Un-free • Homesteads and Crannogs

Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Frances Tomelty, James Greene, Richard Dormer and Sean Crummey.

Omnibus #2 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes –

● Before the Celts ● The Coming of the Celts ● Preparing for the Otherworld in Pre-Christian Celtic Ireland ● Kings and Champions ● Agricola Plans to Conquer Ireland

Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Frances Tomelty, James Greene, Richard Dormer and Sean Crummey.

Omnibus #1 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes – • The First Plants, Animals and People • Stone Age Ireland • The First Farmers • Burying the dead in The New Stone Age • Copper, Bronze and Gold Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Frances Tomelty, James Greene, Richard Dormer and Sean Crummey.

Omnibus #4 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes –

● Living off the Land ● Saints and Scholars ● Not the Work of Men, But Angels ● St Columba, St Columbanus and the Wandering Irish ● The Vikings Are Coming

Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Frances Tomelty, James Greene, Richard Dormer and Sean Crummey.

Omnibus #43 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes –

• The Covenant • The great Dublin lock-out • The Curragh ‘mutiny’ • To the brink of civil war • Faithful to Erin, we answer her call

Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Frances Tomelty, James Greene, Richard Dormer and Sean Crummey.

Omnibus #45 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes –

• The rise of Sinn Féin • The first Dáil • Return to violence • Terror and reprisal • The dreary steeples

Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Frances Tomelty, James Greene, Richard Dormer and Sean Crummey.

Omnibus #46 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes –

• Partition • Stretch out the hand of forbearance • The Treaty • The split • Troubles north and south

Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Frances Tomelty, James Greene, Richard Dormer and Sean Crummey.

Omnibus #3 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes –

• The appalling influx from the slums • The Blitz, May 1941 • The Catholics and Protestants are going up there mixed • German bombs on Éire • The spy who failed

Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Cherrie McIlwaine, Patrick FitzSymons and Sean Crummey.

Omnibus #5 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes –

• Internees, deserters and volunteers • Keeping Éire lean • An arsenal of victory • Dealing with the IRA in Northern Ireland • Wartime smuggling

Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Cherrie McIlwaine, Patrick FitzSymons and Sean Crummey.