The Land of The Golden Sunset Podcast: Recent Episodes
James Kenny
The stories in this series of podcasts are indisputable truths on the evolution of the Irish. However, all history of ancient times is to a greater or lesser extent hearsay, since the method of passing on the stories before writing began, was to incorporate them in tales and ballads which were told and sung at every gathering of the various Clans, passed on as legend in this manner from one generation to the next. Eventually, whichever version survived was available for scribes and historians to document when written records began to be compiled. Myth or Legend, this was no different for the old Gaelic and Milesian people on the Island of Ireland, before the advent of successive foreign invasions, which were numerous and varied and you will get a thorough account of the evolution of the Irish in this series, called ‘’Land of the Golden Sunset’’
This episode covers the period in Northern Ireland between the 1970's and 1998 which includes ‘’The Troubles’’, the Peace People, Prisoners on hunger strike, their elections and deaths the eventual IRA ceasefire, the rise of Sinn Fein and the DUP and the Good Friday Agreement 1998
In 1970 several high ranking politicians in the Republic of Ireland were implicated in an Arms importation plot to help out Nationalists in Derry and Belfast
The Provisional IRA arrive on the scene in Northern Ireland to protect the Civil rights marchers and ''the Troubles'' begin. Internment without trial is not accepted lightly and causes huge problems. Stormont is prorogued with the appointment of William Whitelaw as Secretary of State.
The Civil Rights marches become intense in Northern Ireland John Hume and others turn to Politics and the Marchers are attacked by Paratroopers in Ballymurphy and the Bogside
The Civil Rights campaign began in Northern Ireland in 1968 and a very difficult uphill struggle ensued with Nationalists/Catholics seeking a fairness from the dominant Unionist/Protestant ruling classes and the British government.
How Northern Ireland developed from 1607 to 1800 as the planted province of Ulster and then as part of the Union of Great Britain and Ireland in 1801 and continued as part of Great Britain in 1922 when six counties of Ulster became Northern Ireland under the Anglo Irish Agreement and still is to the present day.
How Ireland fared economically as an independent state after the Anglo Irish Treaty of 1921
Michael Collins relationship with Moya Llewelyn Davies and the Irish Civil War 1922-1923
Michael Collins and his life during and after the Anglo-Irish Treaty negotiations during 1921 and 1922
Irish emigrants in the USA come together to help and support the cause of Irish Freedom
The period in Ireland after Catholic Emancipation when Millions of people died and emigrated
During these wars, the Norman Earls, were at the head and to the fore of every rebellion. The English complained and said they were worse than the Irish rebels and were constantly stirring up trouble.