Wicklow County Council’s Decade of Centenaries programme is proud to present a new History Ireland Hedgeschool podcast telling the story of Wicklow’s Robert Childers Barton – his Glendalough estate, his political career and role in the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921 and aftermath.
Of the five plenipotentiaries who signed the Anglo-Irish Treaty on 6 December 1921 most attention has been focused on the motivations and actions of Michael Collins and Arthur Griffith—and on ‘the plenipotentiary who wasn’t’, Eamon de Valera. But what about the other three—Eamon Duggan, George Gavan Duffy and Robert Barton, particularly the latter, the only one who later took an anti-Treaty position. To find out more about this republican Protestant landlord from Wicklow join History Ireland editor, Tommy Graham in discussion with John Dorney, Joan Kavanagh, Chris Lawlor, and Catherine Wright.
The Hedge School series of podcasts is produced by History Ireland and the Wordwell Group. For more information or to subscribe, visit historyireland.com
This podcast is supported by Wicklow County Council’s Archives Service and the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media under the Decade of Centenaries 2012-2023 Initiative.
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