Episodes
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
Published 05/22/20
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
Published 05/22/20
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
Published 05/22/20
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
Published 05/22/20
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
Published 05/22/20
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
Published 05/22/20
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
Published 05/22/20
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.
Published 05/22/20
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.
Published 05/22/20
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.
Published 05/22/20
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.
Published 05/22/20
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.
Published 05/22/20
Omnibus #36 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes –
• Monster Meetings
• A Nation Once Again?
• The very extreme of human wretchedness
• The far seeing merchants
• So much wretchedness
Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Frances Tomelty, James Greene, Richard Dormer and Sean Crummey.
Published 05/22/20
Omnibus #37 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes –
• The census of 1841
• Phytophthora infestans
• Famine
• The Famine in Skibereen
• Fever
Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Frances Tomelty, James Greene, Richard Dormer and Sean Crummey.
Published 05/22/20
Omnibus #38 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes –
• Emigration
• The Battle of Widow McCormack’s Cabbage Patch
• The Fenian Brotherhood
• The green flag will be flying independently
• God Save Ireland
Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Frances Tomelty, James Greene, Richard Dormer and Sean Crummey.
Published 05/22/20
Omnibus #39 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes –
• The growth of Belfast
• Party fights
• My mission is to pacify Ireland
• Keep a firm grip of your homesteads
• The Land War
Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Frances Tomelty, James Greene, Richard Dormer and Sean Crummey.
Published 05/22/20
Omnibus #41 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes –
• Belfast: an imperial city
• Committee Room 15
• Keep our noble kingdom whole
• The Second Home Rule Bill
• The country is bleeding to death
Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Frances Tomelty, James Greene, Richard Dormer and Sean Crummey.
Published 05/22/20
Omnibus #40 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes –
• The relief of Captain Boycott
• Assassination in the Phoenix Park
• The First Home Rule Bill
• ‘Is them ‘uns bate?’
• The Belfast riots of 1886
Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Frances Tomelty, James Greene, Richard Dormer and Sean Crummey.
Published 05/22/20
Omnibus #42 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes –
• Killing Home Rule with kindness
• De-anglicizing the Irish people
• Two nations?
• Cultural revival
• Home Rule promised
Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Frances Tomelty, James Greene, Richard Dormer and Sean Crummey.
Published 05/22/20
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.
Published 05/22/20
Omnibus #44 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes –
• The conspirators prepare
• We are going to be slaughtered
• Easter Week
• Executions and internment
• Sacrifice at the Somme
Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Frances Tomelty, James Greene, Richard Dormer and Sean Crummey.
Published 05/22/20
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.
Published 05/22/20
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.
Published 05/22/20
Omnibus #47 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes –
• Civil war
• Green against green
• Divided Ulster
• Not an inch
• Northern Ireland: depression years
Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Frances Tomelty, James Greene, Richard Dormer and Sean Crummey.
Published 05/22/20
Omnibus #48 explores Ireland’s rich and turbulent history in the following episodes –
• An empty political formula
• The Economic War
• Democracy in peril
• Forget the unhappy past
• Crying for a happier life
Written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and featuring Frances Tomelty, James Greene, Richard Dormer and Sean Crummey.
Published 05/22/20