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Clive is an enthusiastic and popular speaker who is always lively and engaging. Get in touch if you’re planning your organisation’s upcoming programme.

Ireland's history

Clive can speak authoritatively on any of the topics listed below and in the downloadable PDF.
If the subject you’d like to hear about isn’t listed please do contact Clive for a chat as he still may be able to meet your needs.
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When leading our school groups to the Easter Rising sites in Dublin, the students have always been delighted with his commentary and his expert analysis of the events of 1916.
Royal Belfast Academical Institution
No better person to open our talks season.
Abbey Historical Society
We enjoyed your talk with its humorous anecdotes. You made your talk subjects come alive and gave us a better understanding of their times and background.
Queen’s University Women’s Club

Women & men in Ireland's history

  • Sarah Purser
  • Constance and Maeve Markievicz
  • Lady Augusta GregoryMaud Gonne
  • Hanna Sheehy Skeffington
  • Edith, Lady Londonderry
  • Mary McAleese
  • Mary, Lady Bailey – Irish Aviatrix
  • Alice Milligan
  • Hazel Lavery
  • Mary McSwiney
  • Charlotte Despard
  • Saidie Patterson
  • Mary Robinson
  • Grace O’Malley: The Pirate Queen
  • Louie Bennett
  • Ethne Carberry
  • Lady Mary Heath – daring aviatrix
  • Jennie Wyse Power
  • Mary Macswiney
  • Betsy Gray
  • Violet Gibson, the woman who tried to kill Mussolini
  • Lily and Lolly Yeats
  • Wolfe Tone
  • Thomas Russell
  • Robert Emmet
  • Daniel O’Connell
  • Cardinal Paul Cullen
  • Captain Charles Boycott
  • Charles S Parnell
  • Douglas Hyde
  • John Devoy
  • John Redmond
  • The O’Rahilly
  • Hugh Lane
  • Edward Carson
  • James Craig
  • Arthur Griffith
  • Eamon de Valera
  • Patrick Pearse
  • Michael Collins
  • Karl Spindler & The Aud
  • Harry Clarke
  • James Connolly
  • James Larkin
  • Thomas McDonagh
  • Liam Mellowes
  • Liam Lynch
  • Erskine Childers
  • Tom Clarke
  • Kevin O’Higgins
  • Oscar Wilde
  • G. B. Shaw
  • Ian Paisley
  • W.B. Yeats
  • Richard Mulcahy
  • Roger Casement
  • Eoin MacNeill
  • Fr Hugh O’Flaherty
  • John Millington Synge
  • Sean O’Casey
  • Fr. Theobald Mathew
  • Sir Wm Hastings
  • Roger Casement
  • John Charles McQuaid
  • Ernest Blythe – Double Agent
  • Francis Stuart
  • Harry Boland
  • Tom Crean – Antarctic hero
  • W.T. Cosgrave
  • Sean Lemass
  • John Costello
  • Jack Lynch
  • Charles Haughey
  • Garret Fitzgerald
  • Liam Cosgrave

General Subjects

  • Saint Brigid and Saint Patrick
  • The Stolen Village – a kidnapped village
  • The 1798 Rebellion (also in Down and Antrim)
  • Vere Foster and Education in Ireland
  • The Big Wind
  • The Spanish Flu
  • The Great Famine – All Ireland
  • The Great Famine – focussing on N. Ireland
  • Fenianism and the Fremantle Mission
  • The Disestablishment of the Church of Ireland
  • Ireland and the Boer War
  • The Theft of the Irish Crown Jewels
  • The Home Rule Crisis Irish Citizen Army
  • The Easter Rising
  • The Anglo Irish Treaty, 1921
  • The Ulster Crisis
  • Howth Gun Running
  • Guns for Ulster
  • The Partition of Ireland
  • The War of Independence
  • The Irish Civil War
  • Black and Tans
  • The Blueshirts and Eoin O’Duffy
  • Northern Ireland’s six Prime Ministers
  • Spies in Ireland
  • The Formation of Northern Ireland in 1921
  • Ulster Defence Regiment
  • World War Two in both parts of Ireland
  • The Andrews Family History
  • Six Famous Sons of Killyleagh: Sloane, Blackwood, Cooke, Hincks, Cochrane, Healy