Shite Talk: An Irish History Podcast

The country is heading to the polls this Friday to decide the 10th President of Ireland so we wanted to do a run down of the 2025 race so far; Conor McGregor, small pharma, 20k on Hermès bags, 3k of...

21 Loka 20252h 7min

Part 2 of Saipan and the Roy Keane vs Mick McCarthy fiasco. Little bit of house keeping, from next week onwards we'll be releasing on Tuesday instead of Monday! Also.... We've got a few line ...

13 Loka 20251h 15min

Hello, this week we're doing an episode on the early Irish-Palestine relations. The past two years have been a particularly bleak time in the history of the region but we wanted to take a look at so...

6 Loka 20251h 44min

This week we're taking a look back at Saipan and the Roy Keane vs Mick McCarthy debacle, and the only way to do that is by going back six years beforehand to figure out what the hell was going on that...

29 Syys 20251h 8min

Hello! With Ireland breaking our hearts in the qualifiers at the minute, and a Saipan movie on its way, we're back talking about football this week. We'll have a full Saipan episode out soon, but wh...

26 Syys 202515min

Hello! Here's a short teaser for the final episode in our De Valera series. Over on Head Stuff+ we did more of a deep dive into his birth (and his dad), the so called "Dev's Vice Act" (which led to ...

19 Syys 202510min

If you listened to our Muhammad Ali In Ireland episode you'll already be familiar with strongman, showman, publican, promoter and all around great man himself, Butty Sugrue. Here we delve a little ...

15 Syys 20251h 9min

Well, its the final run of Dev! In this one we cover his last two terms as Taoiseach, his run as President, and talk about his general impact on the country. We will have one more bonus episode cove...

9 Syys 20251h 15min