Latest Agrarian Podcast Episodes
Ibrahim Abdul-Matin: In Memoriam
Farming in Color - June 25, 2023 10:42 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsPeace and Blessings Family, In this *episode of Farming In Color I sit down with Ibrahim-Abdul Matin who was a bright, playful spirit who authentically reflected and acted on bold questions. His artful blending of idealism and spiritual commitment with pragmatic application led him into govern...
Dáil Courts and Cattle Drives
Peelers And Sheep - May 01, 2023 11:07 - 34 minutesIn this episode we have moved into the summer of 1920, agrarian protest has expanded and Sinn Féin are trying to put a halter on it with a new system of Dáil courts – supplanting London’s authority while doing so. We’ll have a deep dive into two court cases from near Mountrath – one in the Dáil s...
April 1920 – Month of Revolution
Peelers And Sheep - April 17, 2023 12:05 - 36 minutesIn this second episode of the Divided Land series we’ll be looking at a ‘Land for the People’ demonstration that took place in Killeshin on the borders of counties Laois and Carlow in April 1920 – and broadening out to look at that month – a month of revolution that saw the burning of police barr...
Cattle Driving Under The Tricolour
Peelers And Sheep - March 29, 2023 06:34 - 25 minutesThis first episode is on what happened when the First World War hit Irish farms and Irish kitchen tables, and we’ll be looking at the tillage movement of 1918 – a time with an intersection between the rise of Sinn Féin and agrarian social conflict and a grievous food crisis. This episode highligh...
The Land for the People?
Peelers And Sheep - July 04, 2022 07:56 - 21 minutes1923 saw a new Land Act, with greater focus on the re-distribution of land as well as the Agricultural Commission which informed policy for what was the major industry of the new Irish Free State. This episode is on debates on agrarian policy within the Irish labour movement, particularly with...
Red Flag in Kilmallock
Peelers And Sheep - June 02, 2022 08:56 - 22 minutesIn 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 strikes of the winter of 1921-'22. Very different conditions to the harvest farm strike we looked at in episode one of season one, ...
The Summer of 22 (Season Two Trailer)
Peelers And Sheep - May 27, 2022 00:01 - 6 minutesA 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 established, a wave of workplace occupations and land conflicts resume in late spring & early summer 1922 - a Third Revolution - a new cycle ...
Ep 8: The Factory Farm and the Forest Frontier
Peelers And Sheep - June 07, 2021 07:00 - 21 minutesAll 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 just at human impact on nature but at particularly capitalist forms of agriculture & resource extraction and...
Ep 7: Landscape of Lyme.
Peelers And Sheep - May 31, 2021 07:00 - 23 minutesAll 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 uses impact on eco-systems and helps spread zoonotic diseases – that’s diseases that come to us from animals – like Covid, AIDS,...
Speaking & Seeking Truths: My Interview with Frances A. Pérez Rodriguez
Farming in Color - April 21, 2021 07:52 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsQuick check in Black Zocalo Lawn to Garden Conversion Fresno Freedom School Board Interview with Frances Details: Frances A. Pérez Rodriguez (she/her) is the Food and Land Education Coordinator of Woke Foods, a food service and food justice worker-owned cooperative focused on inn...
Episode 3: Uprooting Internalized Racism
Farming in Color - April 15, 2021 17:19 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsDisclaimer: This episode delves into topics regarding race and racism - they may be triggering and it is important that listeners breathe and take good care of themselves and allow for pausing if needed. Welcome back to Farming in Color! In this episode Rasheed... - Checks in personally & ...
Ep 6: In Dublin County In 1913.
Peelers And Sheep - April 12, 2021 17:28 - 26 minutesStarting 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 in as far as Crumlin. So this is Dublin in 1913, but not the Dublin of trams and tenements— this is the Dublin of bullocks and brassicas. ...
Ep 5: Notes on the Defence of Irish Country Houses.
Peelers And Sheep - March 08, 2021 19:28 - 36 minutesThe 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 conservative-nationalist mobilisation against Home Rule and lost out through agrarian agitati...
Ep 4: Dubs, Dirty Shirts and World Revolution.
Peelers And Sheep - February 26, 2021 16:51 - 36 minutesWhere 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 global context through some of the scribblings of Sir Henry Wilson - the Longford man who was Chief of the Imperial General Staf...
EP 4: Dubs, Dirty Shirts and World Revolution.
Peelers And Sheep - February 26, 2021 16:51 - 36 minutesWhere 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 global context through some of the scribblings of Sir Henry Wilson - the Longford man who was Chief of the Imperial General Staf...
Episode 2: Interview with a Worm Legend
Farming in Color - February 24, 2021 10:39 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsIn this week's episode I got to sit at the feet of one of my mentors, dear friends and comrades in the movement brother Maurice Small. During this first ever interview on Farming in Color, Maurice and I delved into his path into farming, the power of the worm and advice he has for all you you...
The Last Campaign Of The Leinsters
Peelers And Sheep - November 04, 2020 19:52 - 40 minutesIn 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. This was the last combat of any of the southern Irish regiments which were disbanded in 1922. In this podcast there is some of the hist...
Ep3: The Last Campaign Of The Leinsters
Peelers And Sheep - November 04, 2020 19:52 - 40 minutesIn 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. This was the last combat of any of the southern Irish regiments which were disbanded in 1922. In this podcast there is some of the hist...
Prairie Fire
Peelers And Sheep - September 07, 2020 08:00 - 30 minutesThis 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 drives - crowds assembling to drive cattle and sheep off disputed land. This movement was a major factor underpinning the land ...
Ep 2: Prairie Fire
Peelers And Sheep - September 07, 2020 08:00 - 30 minutesThis 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 drives - crowds assembling to drive cattle and sheep off disputed land. This movement was a major factor underpinning the land ...
The Forgotten
Peelers And Sheep - August 03, 2020 12:05 - 32 minutesThis 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 union during the revolutionary years. The episode will look at the forming of small local unions in 1917 and 1918 as well as the epic cla...
Ep 1: The Forgotten
Peelers And Sheep - August 03, 2020 12:05 - 32 minutesThis 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 union during the revolutionary years. The episode will look at the forming of small local unions in 1917 and 1918 as well as the epic cla...
This Is A Rebel Story
Peelers And Sheep - June 29, 2020 17:27 - 4 minutesThe 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 a head constable, with fixed bayonets, just to deliver thirteen sheep to Drumree railway station. In the end, as you’ll discover...
Teaser: This Is A Rebel Story
Peelers And Sheep - June 29, 2020 17:27 - 4 minutesThe 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 a head constable, with fixed bayonets, just to deliver thirteen sheep to Drumree railway station. In the end, as you’ll discover...
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