‘We Irish were never homogeneous. Always hybrids, always mongrels’ – The Irish Times
For a generation of TV viewers growing up in the early 1980s, the history of Ireland will be forever sketched by the soft, Oxbridge tones of historian Robert Kee in his magisterial series, Ireland: A Television History. The landmark 13-part 1981 series sought to explain Ireland’s past during the height of The Troubles, firstly, to … Read more