Four Killings: Land, Hunger, Murder & Family in the Irish Revolution - Myles Dungan in Conversation with Catriona Crowe
Myles Dungan’s family was involved in four violent deaths between 1915 and 1922. Jack Clinton, an immigrant small farmer from County Meath, was murdered in the remote and lawless Arizona territory by ...
31 Mar 20221h 9min
Between Two Hells: The Irish Civil War - Diarmaid Ferriter in Conversation with Ronan McGreevy
At the end of the Irish War of Independence, Dublin signed an unsatisfactory treaty with London, that amongst other things, required oaths of allegiance to the British Empire. To many this was a price...
29 Mar 20221h 10min
Blood & Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871–1918 - Katja Hoyer in Conversation with Roger Moorhouse
Before 1871, Germany was not a nation but an idea. Its founder, Otto von Bismarck, had a formidable task at hand. How would he bring thirty-nine individual states under the yoke of a single Kaiser, co...
24 Mar 202255min
Checkpoint Charlie: The Cold War, the Berlin Wall and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth - Iain MacGregor in Conversation with Jane Freeland
Iain McGregor’s book is a powerful, fascinating, and groundbreaking history of Checkpoint Charlie, the famous military gate on the border of East and West Berlin. East Germany committed a billion doll...
22 Mar 202255min
The Best Catholics in the World - Derek Scally in Conversation with Rachael English
When Dubliner Derek Scally goes to Christmas Eve Mass on a visit home from Berlin, he finds more memories than congregants in the church where he was once an altar boy. Not for the first time, the col...
17 Mar 202248min
Fallen Idols: 12 Statues That Made History - Alex Von Tunzelmann in Conversation with Hugh Linehan
In 2020, statues across the world were pulled down in an extraordinary wave of global iconoclasm. From the United States and the United Kingdom to Canada, South Africa, the Caribbean, India, Banglades...
15 Mar 202255min
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 stori...
10 Mar 202255min
Nazis and Nobles: The History of a Misalliance - Stephan Malinowski in conversation with Robert Gerwarth
In the annals of the Third Reich, little has been said about the role played by the German nobility in the Nazis’ rise to power. Nazis and Nobles now fills this gap, providing the first systematic inv...
8 Mar 202255min
