Dr Éamon Phoenix: Our Historian Laureate
On 13th November last year I was on holiday in Rome, on my way to St Peter’s Square in the Vatican City, when news reached me that Dr Eamon Phoenix had passed away. I was aware that he’d been unwell, ...
10 Sep 202321min
Belfast Street Names with Martin Magill
For this episode I’ve come to St John’s Catholic Church on the Falls Road to meet with the Parish Priest Father Martin Magill. I’m not here to make a podcast episode about the church though, I’m here ...
11 Jul 202320min
Titanic: Ship of Dreams with Gareth Russell
The biggest ship the world had ever seen, constructed by the world’s biggest shipbuilder Harland & Wolff; Titanic was (and still remains) something that Belfast is immensely proud of. Belfast bore no ...
1 Mai 202336min
Days Like This: US Presidential Visits To Belfast
Joe Biden, the 46th president of the United States, will begin a five-day visit to the island in Belfast next Tuesday and it got me thinking about previous visits to Belfast by US presidents. There ha...
7 Apr 202322min
Voetbalstad Belfast (Football City Belfast) with Wouter Schollema
When we think of the Dutch and their association with football it immediately evokes images of Johan Cruyff and his iconic ‘Cruyff turn’, Van Basten’s almost impossible goal in 1988, Ruud Gullit’s ‘se...
17 Feb 202336min
Bruno Spiro: The German Jew Who Armed The UVF
The story of the UVF’s dramatic 1914 gunrunning operation at the height of the third home rule crisis is one that has often been told. What is less well-known about the UVF’s gunrunning story, however...
21 Aug 202225min
Belfast's Jewish Heritage
You would be forgiven for being completely unaware of the rich Jewish heritage that exists in Belfast. Despite being a relatively small community today (less than 100 and still declining…) the Jews of...
3 Jul 202230min
The Crozier's Return
For this episode of the Historical Belfast Podcast I visited St. Matthew’s Parish Church, consecrated 150 years ago on 11 March 1872. I chatted with Sam Guthrie (Queen’s University Belfast) who has be...
11 Mar 202226min
