Winners & Losers - How the Great Hunger Ended
'Winners & Losers' looks at the how the Great Famine came to an end. It's set to the backdrop of a News Year's Eve Ball held in Kilkenny Castle on December 31st 1850. The castle was home to the Marqui...
19 Sep 201932min
Jack the Ripper & Irish Connections
Jack the Ripper brutally murdered five women in the Whitechapel area of London in the Autumn of 1888. While his identity remains a mystery, these murders have haunted our imaginations ever since. The ...
2 Sep 201931min
Brehon Law: From Divorce to Irish Sex Magic
Divorce and sex magic are not things we associate with medieval Ireland. However for over one thousand years Irish society was governed by a unique and radically different legal system called Brehon L...
16 Aug 201933min
Was The Great Famine a Genocide? | The Great Famine XXXIII
This subject needs little by way of an introduction. It is one of the most controversial debates in Irish history. It continues to overshadow relations with our nearest neighbour - Great Britain.In th...
31 Jul 201938min
Three Lives, Three Deaths & One Life Unlived
(I am currently researching the final episodes in the Great Famine series. The next show on the Great Hunger is still two weeks away but in the meantime I have this pretty special bonus podcast.)-----...
16 Jul 201939min
Landlords & Mass Evictions - Exploiting the Great Hunger | The Great Famine XXXII
During the Great Hunger over 250,000 people were evicted by their landlords. Most of these people were left destitute with little hope in an Ireland decimated by the Great Famine. In this podcast I lo...
5 Jul 201949min
The Beginning of the End & Queen Victoria in Ireland (1849) | The Great Famine XXXI
In August 1849 Queen Victoria arrived in a famine ravaged Ireland. Contrary to what we might expect there were no protests and in many places the Queen received a rapturous welcome. However this only ...
17 Jun 201954min
Tyranny, Cruelty & Inhumanity - Surviving the Workhouse | The Famine in Clogheen II | The Great Famine XXX
This podcast (the second show on the town of Clogheen) introduces Richard Burke, a man who had a very unusual experience of the Great Famine. Between 1845 and 1848 he was the clerk of Clogheen Workhou...
23 Mai 201950min
