A Short History of Ireland - S1

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Below is a list of all of the Season 1 Episodes of A Short History of Ireland

Season 1

1. The First Plants, Animals and People/Stone Age Ireland
2. Neolithic Megaliths/The First Farmers
3. Copper, Bronze and Gold/Before the Celts
4. The Coming of the Celts/Preparing for the Otherworld in Pre-Christian Celtic Ireland
6. Patrick the Briton/The Early Irish Church
7. A Land of Many Kings/Poets, Judges, Nobles, the Free and the Un-free
9. Saints and Scholars/Not the Work of Men, But Angels
10. St Columba, St Columbanus and the Wandering Irish/The Vikings Are Coming
11. The Wars of the Gael and the Gall/Viking Towns and Cities
12. Brian Boru and the Battle of Clontarf/A Trembling Sod
14. Waterford and Dublin, a Tale of Two Sieges/Henry II Comes to Ireland
15. Conquests and a Failed Treaty/John, Lord of Ireland
16. Dreading the Fury of the King/The English Colony
17. Feudal Ireland/A Great Affliction Befell the Country
18. Edward the Bruce/Famine
19. The Black Death/Galloglasses
20. More Irish Than the Irish Themselves/The Statute of Kilkenny
21. Into the Land of the Savage Irish/A Catalan Pilgrim Amongst the Unconquered Irish
22. Richard II's Great Expedition to Ireland/The Pale
23. Beyond the Pale/Garret Mor Fitzgerald, the Great Earl of Kildare
24. Garret Og and Silken Thomas Fitzgerald/The Rebellion of Silken Thomas
25. The Church in Turmoil/Sober Ways, Politic Drifts and Amiable Persuasion
26. Conn Bacach O'Neill Visits London/Religious Strife and Plantation
27. Shane the Proud/The Fall of Shane O'Neill
28. A Failed Plantation and a Bloody Feast in Belfast/An English Queen, a Scottish Lady and a Dark Daughter
29. Holy War in Munster/The Plantation of Munster
30. The Wreck of the Armada/The Last Voyage of the Girona
32. A Fit House for an Outlaw, a Meet Bed for a Rebel and an Apt Cloak for a Thief/The Capture
33. The Escape of Red Hugh O'Donnell/The Pirate Queen of Connacht
34. Grainne O'Malley and the Composition of Connacht/The Siege of Enniskillen
36. The Survy Fort of Blackwater/The Earl of Essex's Failure
37. Mounjoy and Docwra/We Spare None of What Quality or Sex Soever
43. The Plantation of Ulster/Make Speede, Get Thee to Ulster
44. The Londonderry Plantation/The Luck of the Draw
45. The Heretics Intend to Vomit Out All Their Poison/Thomas Wentworth and the Graces
46. The Eagle Wing and the Black Oath/Presbyterian Anger, Catholic Resentment
48. The Confederation of Kilkenny/Civil War
50. To Hell or Connacht/Priests and Tories
51. Restoration Ireland/The Duke and the City
52. Work, Food and Leisure/The Popish Plot
53. The Trial and Execution of Oliver Plunkett/Lilliburlero
54. Three Kings and Thirteen Apprentice Boys/No Surrender
55. The Relief of Derry/Schomberg
56. The Battle of The Boyne/Galloping Hogan, Sarsfield and The Walls of Limerick
57. Athlone and Aughrim/Limerick - A Second Siege And A Treaty
58. The Wild Geese/The Penal Laws
59. The Minority Prevailing Over The Majority/The Protestant Ascendancy
60. John Dutton Eats and Sleeps in Connemara/Wood's Halfpence and the Drapier
61. A Modest Proposal/The Year of the Great Frost
62. The Year of Slaughter/The First Performance of Handel's Messiah
63. The Second City of the Empire/Dublin - Poverty, Crime and Duels
65. The Hearts of Steel and the Hearts of Oak/Clearing the Land
66. The Peasantry/Superfine Cloth of Home-Manufacture
67. Ulster's Domestic Linen Industry/Wash Mills, Bleach Greens and Beetling Engines
68. The Siege of Enniskillen
68. A Vast Number of People Shipping Off for Pennsylvania and Boston/The Voyage of the Sally
69. The American Revolution and Ireland/Free Trade or Else
69. The Battle of the Biscuits
70. The Dungannon Convention of 1782/Grattan's Parliament
70. Freeing the Country From the Rod of Tyrannical Evil
71. The Scurvy Fort of Blackwater
71. The Failure to Reform/The 14th of July 1789 - Sacred to Liberty
72. The Earl of Essex's Failure
72. The United Irishmen/The Belfast Harp Festival of 1792
73. Mountjoy and Docwra
74. We Spare None of What Quality or Sex Soever
74. Peep o' Day Boys and Defenders/I Will Blow Your Souls to the Low Hills of Hell
75. The Battle of Christmas Eve
76. The Treaty of Mellifont
77. Remember, Remember the Fifth of November
77. The Boys of Wexford/The Battle of New Ross
78. The Rebellion Spreads North/Rebellion in County Antrim
78. They Wish to Kill Him by Poison
79. Rebellion in County Down/Vinegar Hill
79. The Flight of the Earls
80. The Earls in Exile
80. The Races of Castlebar/The Union Proposed
81. Bring in Colonies of Civil People of England and Scotland
82. Robert Emmet/Now is Your Time for Liberty
82. A Lucky Escape, Scottish Lairds and the Division of Clandeboye
83. Planting Down and Antrim
83. Let No Man Write My Epitaph/Caravats and Shanavests
84. The Rebellion of Sir Cahir O'Doherty
84. Ribbonmen, Orangemen and Rockites/Emancipation Refused
85. The Catholic Association/The Invasion of Ulster
85. The Plantation of Ulster
86. Make Speede, Get Thee to Ulster
86. The Clare Election/Scum Condensed of Irish Bog
87. The Londonderry Plantation
88. The Luck of the Draw
88. The Repealer Repulsed/Monster Meetings
89. The Heretics Intend to Vomit Out All Their Poison
89. A Nation Once Again/The Very Extreme of Human Wretchedness
90. Thomas Wentworth and the Graces
90. The Far Seeing Merchants of Northern Venice/So Much Wretchedness
91. The Census of 1841/Phytophthora Infestans
91. The Eagle Wing and the Black Oath
92. Presbyterian Anger, Catholic Resentment
92. Famine/The Famine in Skibbereen
93. October 1641, the Plot That Failed
93. Fever/Emigration
94. The Battle of Widow McCormack's Cabbage Patch/The Fenian Brotherhood
94. The 1641 Massacres
95. The Confederation of Kilkenny
96. The Growth of Belfast/Party Fights
96. Civil War
97. My Mission to Pacify Ireland/Keep a Firm Grip on Your Homesteads
97. Cromwell
98. The Curse of Cromwell
98. The Land War/The Relief of Captain Boycott
99. Assassination in the Phoenix Park/The First Home Rule Bill
99. To Hell or Connacht
100. Priests and Tories
100. Is Them Uns Bate?/The Belfast Riots of 1886
101. Restoration Ireland
101. Belfast, an Imperial City/Committee Room 15
102. Keep Our Noble Kingdom Whole/The Second Home Rule Bill
102. The Duke and the City
103. Work, Food and Leisure
104. De-Anglicising the Irish People/Two Nations?
104. The Popish Plot
105. Cultural Revival/Home Rule Promised
105. The Trial and Execution of Oliver Plunkett
106. The Covenant/The Great Dublin Lock-Out
107. The Curragh Mutiny/To the Brink of Civil War
108. Faithful to Erin, We Answer Her Call/The Conspirators Prepare
109. We Are Going to be Slaughtered/Easter Week
110. Executions and Internment/Sacrifice at the Somme
111. The Rise of Sinn Fein/The First Dail
111. The Battle of the Boyne
112. Return to Violence/Terror and Reprisal
113. Athlone and Aughrim
113. The Dreary Steeples/Partition
114. Limerick: A Second Siege and a Treaty
115. The Wild Geese
115. The Split/Troubles North and South
116. The Penal Laws
117. The Minority Prevailing Over the Majority
117. Divided Ulster/Not an Inch
118. Depression Years/An Empty Political Formula
118. The Protestant Ascendancy
119. John Dutton Eats and Sleeps in Connemara
119. The Economic War/Democracy in Peril
120. Forget the Unhappy Past/Crying for a Happier Life
120. Wood's Halfpence and the Drapier
121. A Modest Proposal
122. The Year of the Great Frost
123. The Year of the Slaughter
124. The First Performance of Handel's Messiah
125. The Second City of the Empire
126. Poverty, Crime and Duels
127. The Irish Gentry are Expensive People
128. A Sort Of Despot - The Irish Landlord
129. The Hearts of Steel and the Hearts of Oak
130. Clearing the Land
131. The Peasantry
132. Superfine Cloth of Home-Manufacture
133. Ulster's Domestic Linen Industry
134. Wash Mills, Bleach Greens and Beetling Engines
135. A Vast Number of People Shipping Off for Pennsylvania and Boston
136. The Voyage of the Sally
137. The American Revolution and Ireland
138. Free Trade or Else
139. The Dungannon Convention of 1782
140. Grattan's Parliament
141. The Failure to Reform
142. The 14th of July 1789; Sacred to Liberty
143. The United Irishmen
144. The Belfast Harp Festival of 1792
145. At War with France
146. Earl Fitzwilliam's Failure
147. Peep o' Day Boys and Defenders
148. I Will Blow Your Souls to the Low Hills of Hell
149. The French are in the Bay
150. Nothing But Terror Will Keep them in Order
151. Croppies Lie Down
152. Rouse Hibernians From Your Slumbers
153. The Boys of Wexford
154. The Battle of New Ross
155. The Rebellion Spreads North
156. Rebellion in County Antrim
157. Rebellion in County Down
158. Vinegar Hill
159. The Races of Castlebar
160. The Union Proposed
161. Jobbing With the Most Corrupt People Under Heaven
162. The Passing of the Act of Union
163. Robert Emmet
164. Now is Your Time for Liberty
165. Let No Man Write My Epitaph
166. Caravats and Shanavests
167. Ribbonmen, Orangemen and Rockites
168. Emancipation Refused
169. The Catholic Association
170. The Invasion of Ulster
171. The Clare Election
172. Scum Condensed of Irish Bog
173. A Social Laboratory
174. Property Has its Duties as Well as its Rights
175. The Repealer Repulsed
176. Monster Meetings
177. A Nation Once Again
178. The Very Extreme of Human Wretchedness
179. The Far Seeing Merchants of Northern Venice
180. So Much Wretchedness
181. The Census of 1841
182. Phytophthora Infestans
183. Famine
184. The Famine in Skibbereen
185. Fever
186. Emigration
186. The Battle of Widow McCormack's Cabbage Patch
188. The Fenian Brotherhood
189. The Green Flag will be Flying Independently
190. God Save Ireland!
191. The Growth of Belfast
192. Party Fights
193. My Mission to Pacify Ireland
194. Keep a Firm Grip on Your Homesteads
195. The Land War
196. The Relief of Captain Boycott
197. Assassination in the Phoenix Park
198. The First Home Rule Bill
199. Is them'uns bate?
200. The Belfast Riots of 1886
201. An Imperial City
202. Committee Room 15
203. Keep Our Noble Kingdom Whole
204. The Second Home Rule Bill
205. The Country Is Bleeding to Death
206. Killing Home Rule with Kindness
207. De-Anglicising the Irish People
208. Two Nations?
209. Cultural Revival
210. Home Rule Promised
211. The Covenant
212. The Great Dublin Lock-Out
213. The Curragh Mutiny
214. To the Brink of Civil War
215. Faithful to Erin, We Answer Her Call
216. The Conspirators Prepare
217. We Are Going to be Slaughtered
219. Executions and Internment
220. Sacrifice at the Somme
221. The Rise of Sinn Fein
222. The First Dail
223. Return to Violence
224. Terror and Reprisal
225. The Dreary Steeples
226. Partition
227. Stretch out the Hand of Forebearance
228. The Treaty
229. The Split
230. Troubles North and South
232. Green against Green
233. Divided Ulster
234. Not an Inch
235. Depression Years
236. An Empty Political Formula
237. The Economic War
238. Democracy in Peril
239. Forget the Unhappy Past
240. Crying for a Happier Life

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