The Darkness Echoing: Exploring Ireland's Places of Famine, Death and Rebellion - Gillian O’Brien in Conversation with Michael Staunton
Dublin Festival of History Podcast10 Mar 2022

The Darkness Echoing: Exploring Ireland's Places of Famine, Death and Rebellion - Gillian O’Brien in Conversation with Michael Staunton

Ireland is a nation obsessed with death. We find a thrill in the moribund, a strange enchantment in the drama of our dark past. It’s everywhere we look and in all of our beloved myths, songs and stories that have helped to form our cultural identity. Our wakes and ballads, our plays and famine sites, all of them and more come together to tell ourselves and the world who we are and what we have suffered to get here.


Always fascinated by the Irish preoccupation with death and the rituals around it, Gillian sets out to explore this intriguing habit of ours, to be compelled to celebrate the macabre and relish the darkness of own mortality. In The Darkness Echoing she tours Ireland to find our most haunted and fascinating historical sites, to discover the stories behind them and reveal what they say about Ireland as a nation.


Dr Gillian O’Brien is a Reader in Modern Irish History at Liverpool John Moores University. She is the author of Blood Runs Green: The Murder That Transfixed Gilded Age Chicago.


Michael Staunton is a medieval historian and Associate Professor of History at University College Dublin.


The Dublin Festival of History is brought to you by Dublin City Council, and organised by Dublin City Libraries, in partnership with Dublin City Council Culture Company.

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