Leaving Cert Special

Apr 22, 2010

Bobby Sands and 1916 leader Tom Clarke feature in a series of broadcasts on the Irish radio station Newstalk aimed at Leaving Certificate students. The series, Talking History, has been running since 1^st March and is also be available on Podcast and on iTunes for students to download.

A special Leaving Cert programme broadcast on Sunday, April 11^th, featuring Patrick Geoghegan and a team of historians, teachers and students, discussing key topics relating to the history syllabus, key questions, examination approaches and themes is also available for downloading.

The documentary on Bobby Sands begins about two minutes into the broadcast and features, amongst others, two hunger strikers, Laurence McKeown and Raymond McCartney, and BBC journalist Peter Taylor who covered the period in question.

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The Bobby Sands Trust was established to publish, promote and keep in print the extraordinary writings of Bobby Sands, who from prison isolation became an international figure in 1981, and who to this day continues to inspire Irish republicans in their pursuit of freedom from British rule.

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