Industrious Poor and Rolling Vagabonds - in conversation with Francis Thackaberry
In this episode, from the Dublin Festival of History 2023, Francis Thackaberry explores the attitudes and responses to poverty in eighteenth-century Dublin. The citizens of prosperous Georgian Dublin...
25 Jan 202443min
May Tyrants Tremble: The Life of William Drennan - with Fergus Whelan
In this episode, from the Dublin Festival of History 2023, Fergus Whelan remembers the revolutionary and poet Dr William Drennan (1754-1820). Dr Drennan, a onetime elder of the Dublin Unitarian Church...
24 Jan 202443min
Vindicating Dublin: Dublin Corporation and 1924 - in conversation with Aodh Quinlivan
In this episode, from the Dublin Festival of History 2023, Aodh Quinlivan illustrates the strained relationship between the Irish Free State and Dublin Corporation, which was central to his recent stu...
23 Jan 202446min
From Rake to Radical: An Irish Abolitionist - In conversation with Anne Chambers
In this episode, from the Dublin Festival of History 2023, Anne Chambers tells us about Lord Sligo - from a youth of hedonistic self-indulgence in Regency England, to a reforming, responsible legislat...
23 Jan 202436min
Animals in 20th Century Dublin: In conversation with Ann Marie Durkan
In this episode, from the Dublin Festival of History 2023, Ann Marie Durkan will introduce the maps she prepared, which locate animals and animal-related businesses in Dublin City in 1911. It provides...
23 Jan 202440min
Beyond the Wall: East Germany’s rich political and cultural landscape
In Beyond the Wall, acclaimed historian Katja Hoyer offers a kaleidoscopic new vision of this vanished country. Beginning with the bitter experience of German Marxists exiled by Hitler, she traces the...
30 Jun 202341min
Uki Goñi to discuss how Nazi War criminals escaped Europe via Dublin
The large influx of fugitive Nazis and collaborators in post-WWII Argentina created an environment that normalised the presence of such heinous criminals in society and by doing so facilitated the cri...
30 Jun 202353min
Peter Taylor: Operation Chiffon; The Secret Story of MI5 and MI6 and the Road to Peace in Ireland
On the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, Peter Taylor tells for the first time the gripping story of Operation Chiffon, MI5’s top secret intelligence operation that helped bring peace to ...
30 Jun 202356min
