Podcasts have been all the rage for the last couple of years. From ProductHunt’s daily casts, to Serial which had millions gripped for weeks. I was recently Podcast virgin up until Summer 2014, my very first podcast experience was with, you guessed it, a History themed podcast ! YAY. I’ve given a short list of a few I thought were really good. If I’ve missed a good’n add it below.
Onto the Podcast discussion.My favourite to listen to day to day is BBC- In Our Time.I listen to a least one episode from different playlists everyday in work (where I’m not a history nerd, I’m an ad operations specialist).
A colleague recommended this to me last summer I was a bit late to the party as it was originally released in September 2014. The episode focusing on Holbien is one I’ve listened to more times than I care to admit. Check it out.
A great list of content- I recommend the episodes on The High Kings of Ireland and the Vikings, very enjoyable. Finn is quite the story teller and gives animated recounts of all Ireland crucial historical events.
One of the most recognizable figures in Irish History. A figurehead of the 1916 Rising, key in the revival of the Irish culture and language. Rated as one of the most influential Irish people ever, more than once. Some snippets on Padraic/Padraig/Patrick Pearse.
1] I am come of the seed of the people, the people that sorrow, 2] That have no treasure but hope, 3] No riches laid up but a memory 4] Of an Ancient glory. 5] My mother bore me in bondage, in bondage my mother was born, 6] I am of the blood of serfs; 7] The children with whom I have played, the men and women with whom I have eaten, 8] Have had masters over them, have been under the lash of masters, 9] And, though gentle, have served churls; 10] The hands that have touched mine, the dear hands whose touch is familiar to me, 11] Have worn shameful manacles, have been bitten at the wrist by manacles, 12] Have grown hard with the manacles and the task-work of strangers, 13] I am flesh of the flesh of these lowly, I am bone of their bone, 14] I that have never submitted; 15] I that have a soul greater than the souls of my people’s masters,16] I that have vision and prophecy and the gift of fiery speech, 17] I that have spoken with God on the top of His holy hill.
18] And because I am of the people, I understand the people, 19] I am sorrowful with their sorrow, I am hungry with their desire: 20] My heart has been heavy with the grief of mothers, 21] My eyes have been wet with the tears of children, 22] I have yearned with old wistful men, 23] And laughed or cursed with young men; 24] Their shame is my shame, and I have reddened for it, 25] Reddened for that they have served, they who should be free, 26] Reddened for that they have gone in want, while others have been full, 27] Reddened for that they have walked in fear of lawyers and of their jailors 28] With their writs of summons and their handcuffs, 29] Men mean and cruel!30] I could have borne stripes on my body rather than this shame of my people.
31] And now I speak, being full of vision; 32] I speak to my people, and I speak in my people’s name to the masters of my people. 33] I say to my people that they are holy, that they are august, despite their chains, 34] That they are greater than those that hold them, and stronger and purer, 35] That they have but need of courage, and to call on the name of their God, 36] God the unforgetting, the dear God that loves the peoples 37] For whom He died naked, suffering shame. 38] And I say to my people’s masters: Beware, 39] Beware of the thing that is coming, beware of the risen people, 40] Who shall take what ye would not give. 41] Did ye think to conquer the people, 42] Or that Law is stronger than life and than men’s desire to be free? 43] We will try it out with you, ye that have harried and held, 44] Ye that have bullied and bribed, tyrants, hypocrites, liars!
Started his own bilingual school in Dublin called St.Enda’s.
“Pearse-Museum” by Dave Addey at English Wikipedia
