Red Flag in Kilmallock
In this episode after Truce & Treaty Irish separatists have assumed control over much of the country and we go to Ireland’s dairying heartland and to the winter farm...
Season Two Trailer: The Summer of 22
A taster of what is coming in future episodes on popular struggles as the British state slowly withdraws from much of Ireland and a new Irish Free State is...
Ep 8: The Factory Farm and the Forest Frontier
All about habitat destruction, simplified eco-systems, declining bio-diversity and how this ties in the spread of zoonotic diseases such as Ebola, AIDS, Avian Flu & Swine Flu. Looking not...
Ep 7: Landscape of Lyme
All about landscape as a historic creation – how what we often think of as ‘nature’ has been shaped by generations of human activity – especially farming. Changing land...
Ep 6: In Dublin County In 1913
Starting in the summer just before the famous Lock-Out of 1913 was a movement of farm workers in the rural parts of Dublin – back then the countryside went...
Ep 5: Notes on the Defence of Irish Country Houses.
The name comes from a draft document composed in 1914 by Colonel George O’Callaghan-Westropp, self-styled as The O’Callaghan, a county Clare landlord. O’Callaghan-Westropp was an activist in the British...
Ep 4: Dubs, Dirty Shirts and World Revolution
Where were the Irish regiments of the British Army in 1919‒21? This episode goes from Cairo and Constantinople to Iraq and India and puts the Irish revolution into its...
Ep 3: The Last Campaign Of The Leinsters
In the Autumn of 1921 men of the 1st Battalion Leinster Regiment were in action against a rebellion in Malabar, in the south-west of what was then British India....
Ep 2: Prairie Fire
This episode looks at the West of Ireland agrarian movement of the spring and early summer of 1920. That year saw a widespread popular mobilisation known as the cattle...
Ep: 1 The Forgotten
This episode is about the farm labour strike in Meath and Kildare in July and August 1919. Farm workers were by far the largest single group in the Transport...
Teaser: This Is A Rebel Story!
The name Peelers and Sheep comes from an incident in the 1919 Meath and Kildare farm labour strike. It took eleven policemen, nicknamed peelers, led by a sergeant and...
