{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/5e9e83a5cdb0b478238c705c/5e9e83c0d467c27057df599b?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Rescuing History: The Four Courts Explosion","description":"<p>Hi Folks,</p><p>There's only a few days before the launch of my new weekly series 'Partisans: Irish Stories from the Spanish Civil War'. I am really looking forward to your feedback. You will have exclusive early access here on patreon from Friday.</p><p>In the meantime I have this bonus show on a famous event in Irish history - the Four Courts Explosion. In June 1922 the Public Records Office of Ireland was destroyed in a massive explosion that rocked Dublin City Centre. Several centuries of Irish historical records had been stored in the building, most of which were incinerated. In this episode I explain the background to the explosion and what was lost. </p><p>In the second part of the podcast I visited the National Archives on Bishop Street where I meet Zoe Reid who works restoring items rescued from the site in the aftermath of the explosion.</p><p><br></p>","author_name":"Podcast Audio Feed"}