Irish historian, biographer and crime fiction author
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Voters in Republic remain hostile to Commonwealth and are opposed to the prospect of a future united Ireland being a member, poll finds To discuss with Shane this morning was Dr. Ruth Dudley Edwards, Historian and Author of The Seven: The Lives and Legacies of the Founding Fathers of the Irish Republic.
Voters in Republic remain hostile to Commonwealth and are opposed to the prospect of a future united Ireland being a member, poll finds To discuss with Shane this morning was Dr. Ruth Dudley Edwards, Historian and Author of The Seven: The Lives and Legacies of the Founding Fathers of the Irish Republic.
In this instalment of the Reaction podcast, we feature editor Iain Martin talking to Maggie Pagano about the decline of Pax Americana, journalist and author Ruth Dudley-Edwards on the changing state of Northern Irish politics, and our new programme 'Press Review' - a roundup from the Reaction editors of the media that grabbed them this week.
Matthew Flinders, Professor of Politics at the University of Sheffield and founding director of the Sir Bernard Crick Centre and leads a conversation on the future of the Union. He is joined by John Lloyd, contributing editor at the Financial Times; Andrew Wilson, former Member of the Scottish Parliament, and founding partner at Charlotte Street Partners; Iain MacWhirter, author and political commentator for the Herald; and Ruth Dudley Edwards, historian and writer. In this in-depth conversation, they debate the evolution of the union, explore what an independent Scotland would look like and discuss the impact Covid-19 and Brexit have had on public opinion towards the union.
This weekend will mark the 100th Anniversary of Bloody Sunday, 14 people were shot dead by British Forces in Croke Park on November 21, 1920, including Tipperary player Michael Hogan, who the Hogan Stand is named after. For more we’re joined by Dr. Ruth Dudley Edwards historian and author of The Seven: The Lives and Legacies of the Founding Fathers of the Irish Republic. Listen and subscribe to Newstalk Breakfast on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Download, listen and subscribe on the Newstalk App. You can also listen to Newstalk live on newstalk.com or on Alexa, by adding the Newstalk skill and asking: 'Alexa, play Newstalk'.
Gareth Soye sits down with journalist, historian, and author Ruth Dudley Edwards. They discuss losing friends over politics, the importance of free speech, and the joy of a bloody good argument.
To keep things ticking over while the comrades bide their time and wait for the next opportunity to record a full pod, here are some choice cuts that didn't make previous episodes. Kev makes the bold claim that a race of reptilians are NOT responsible for the oppression of humanity, and somebody chimes in with some relevant observations from 1953. The antifa boys then soberly assess just how powerless humankind has been revealed to be by the corona crisis, before Seb muses over the lack of self-awareness among establishment figures & organisations. The pair then take a superficial pop at the appearance of Ruth Dudley Edwards, because why not? different political priorities // military-industrial theft // no blueprint for coronavirus // Bernie personality cult? // liberal driving the poor towards the Fascists // self-immolation as desperate protest // Primary Colors // political huckster Music: The Nightwatchman - Union Town Neil Young - Ordinary People The Mighty Stef - We Want Blood The Pogues - The Auld Triangle The Decemberists - This Is Why We Fight
Philip Dodd talks to actor Christopher Eccleston and historian Ruth Dudley Edwards and asks them for their views on the way identity and a sense of belonging are shifting. Producer: Torquil MacLeod You can hear Christopher Eccleston in BBC Radio 3's Drama Schreber, see him in the RSC Macbeth production as part of the BBC Culture in Quarantine season and in the latest series of the TV drama the A Word. Ruth Dudley Edwards' books include The Seven — The Lives and Legacies of the Founding Fathers of the Irish Republic and her latest crime fiction title Killing The Emperors
WAR on the Media. The comrades had a serious discussion around ever pervading influence of the media over politics, the rising global disatisfaction with democracy as it is currently understood (bourgois representative democracy). Then for a bit of levity Kev reads a piece about the recent success of Sinn Féin in Ireland by Brexit supporting and Irish ex-patriot historian, columnist and alleged crime writer Ruth Dudley Edwards. They wrap up by covering the crimes being carried out against the Wet'suwet'en people in Canada, how the state and media are being deployed in support of capital against these and other indigenous peoples in North America, who have already suffered and continue to suffer genocide against them. It's heavy but the comrades find room for some laughs. Mano-y-mano // love for Bernie and hate for the MSM // the vacuum in geopolitics // Global Dissatisfaction with democracy, disconnect between media and the masses, self immolation as a form of protest // the base are belong to elites // how to detect media bias, cops love the WIRE, Marvel Movies have BAD MESSAGES !! // reading Ruth // Quoting tweets in a NEWSPAPER // the mouth of others // searching for substance // journalists swing right // the Wet'suwet'en solidarity // murdered and missing indigenous women // naming and shaming subsidaries of capital // Greens are not REVOLUTIONARY // Link to the study on global disatisfaction with deomcracy https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-01/uoc-gdw012720.php Article about Comcast's donation to the RNC with links to @lhfang and his tweets https://www.inquisitr.com/5886359/msnbc-comcast-rnc/ Zach Breslin's peice on the elites https://medium.com/@zackbreslin/the-irish-ruling-class-who-are-they-what-do-they-want-how-do-they-get-233290bcfca7 The piece we read from RDE https://www.ruthdudleyedwards.co.uk/2020/02/sinn-feins-rise-akin-to-that-of-nazis-in-1930s-and-is-a-threat-to-democracy-on-this-island/ Counter punch piece on whats happening in the Wet'suwet'en Territory https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/02/12/wall-street-invading-wetsuweten-territory/ Battle in Seattle https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0850253/ Guerrilla Radio by Rage Against the Machine
It’s the most public of sackings, but what happens in private? And what's in store for cabinet ministers shown the door? Former Head of Press at Number 10, Giles Kenningham takes Christopher Hope behind-the-scenes and reveals the Government’s most embarrassing reshuffle blunders.Also on the podcast: veteran Irish journalist, Ruth Dudley-Edwards with her reaction to the shock Irish election result and what it means for Brexit, and Lucy Morrell of Britain Thinks tells us if the UK’s Brexit divisions are healing. Read research from Britain Thinks: https://britainthinks.com/news/britainthinks-brexit-diaries-the-end |Listen to Crossfire: www.playpodca.st/crossfire |Attend our Brexit Heroes event: https://telegraph.co.uk/event/brexitheroes |Get 30 days' free access to The Telegraph: https://telegraph.co.uk/chopper |Email: choppersbrexitpodcast@telegraph.co.ukTwitter: @chopperspodcast
Ruth Dudley Edwards explains how she recovers from writing seriously about politics, revolution and terrorism by writing satirical crime novels. A firm believer in learning to laugh at everything and a dedicated opponent of fashionable opinions, she talks about how she chooses her subjects, why she so loves the crime-writing world and its inhabitants, and why she’s never met a fan of her crime novels that she did not like. Part of Alibis in the Archive 2018.
Socialist Phil Kelly, journalist Peter Popham, and historian Ruth Dudley Edwards discuss.
All that is solid melts into air. It was one of Karl Marx's most famous slogans, but the great Victorian might have been writing about 2016. Many a political death arrived suddenly, and famous names from Prince to David Bowie died literally too. The British people voted to crash out of the European Union, and now—the one thing all the wise heads agreed couldn't happen has done. America has voted in President Donald Trump. Where are these unsettling times taking us, and what will the new president actually do? In the third episode of this monthly series, Prospect editor Tom Clark is joined by the esteemed American writer, Sam Tanenhaus who has followed Trump all year and explains why this most unprepared of leaders is looking as shocked as the rest of us; and, Diane Roberts, a literary critic and a commentator for National Public Radio warns that Trump's arrival could set back the clock for women and minorities by half a century. The historian, Ruth Dudley-Edwards, gives her take on whether the effect of one of 2016's earlier surprises—Brexit—could reopen an ancient Irish wound on the border. And all the panel reflect on one of the year's cheerier “Oh My God” moments: the award of the Nobel literature prize to Bob Dylan. All of the discussion draws on articles in the December 2016 edition of Prospect magazine. Produced by Matt Hill at Rethink Audio. To download the next episode automatically, you can subscribe to this series on iTunes (using the button above) or through the many free podcast apps available for your smartphone. Just search "Prospect Headspace" and subscribe. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
On Start the Week Tom Sutcliffe looks back a hundred years to Easter Rising of 1916. Ruth Dudley Edwards explores the lives of Ireland's founding fathers and questions how they should be remembered, while Heather Jones places this historical moment in the context of the Great War. David Rieff praises forgetting in his study of the uses and abuses of historical memory, and its often pernicious influence on the present. And the Irish commentator Fintan O'Toole examines the present fortunes of a country once famed as the Celtic Tiger. Producer: Katy Hickman.
By the end of January 1914 the Lockout ended with a decisive and crushing victory for the employers. Many leave Dublin to seek work in English cities and the striking girls and women from Jacobs are worst off. Most do not get work again and those that do are not allowed back until April. Actor Ronnie McCann voices James Connollys prophetic words, Dublin is isolated, and we hear from Connollys great grandson James Connolly Heron and from Larkins great grandchildren, Jim and Aoife Breslin. Historians Emmet O Connor, Padraig Yeates, Theresa Moriarty, Ann Mathews and Diarmaid Ferriter vividly describe events while author Ruth Dudley Edwards, a biographer of Connolly assesses the leadership of Connolly, Larkin and Constance Markievicz.
In Episode 5 we explore the impact of defeat on not just the trade union movement but also on our key characters. Is it the defeat of Lockout or the outbreak of World War One which defines 1916? We hear the voices of Connolly and Larkin read by Ronnie McCann and Stephen Murray as well as the views of historians and commentators including Padraig Yeates, Diarmaid Ferriter and Ruth Dudley Edwards.