St Patricks Day in Black '47 | The Great Famine XX
As people across the world prepare to mark St Patrick's day this podcast looks what at happened on St Patricks Day during the worst year of the Great Famine. Celebrations were not cancelled but on a d...
16 Mar 201822min
Dublin Famine Tour - A New Interactive Experience
This short podcast explains the Dublin Famine Tour, my new interactive historical experience which launches on St Patricks Weekend.On this walking tour I guide you through Victorian Dublin, explaining...
6 Mar 20182min
Exiles - Irish Famine Emigrants | The Great Famine XIX)
Emigration is arguably the greatest legacy of the Great Irish Famine. Between 1846 and 1851, 1.25 million Irish people passed through the port of Liverpool alone to escape the Great Hunger. This exodu...
2 Mar 201829min
An Eye for an Eye: Evictions & Assassinations | The Great Famine XVIII
Over the course of the Great Famine, hundreds of thousands of Irish people were evicted from their homes.As ruthless landlords showed no pity, eviction was a death sentence for many starving tenants w...
7 Feb 201856min
The Great Famine 1845 - 47 | The Great Famine XVII
This episode marks a return to the Great Famine Series. Coming podcasts will detail the later phase of the Famine including emigration and the bitter struggle that broke out between lanldords & tenant...
22 Jan 201830min
Spies & Jail Breaks: Female Rebels in Medieval Ireland
Isabella Cadel, Grace O Toole, Fynyna O Toohig. These are all women forgotten by history who lived intriguing and fascinating lives. The three had one thing in common - they were all rebels in medieva...
8 Jan 201821min
Ireland's Nazi Commando II (Otto Skorzeny)
The last podcast looked at the arrival of the one time Nazi Commando Otto Skorzeny in Ireland in 1957 and the welcome he received from some of the most influential people in Dublin. This podcast conti...
24 Des 201727min
Ireland's Nazi Commando: Otto Skorzeny (Part I)
This is the first of two podcasts which looks at the story of Otto Skorzeny, a notorious Nazi with a long but forgotten connection to Ireland.It is set in the aftermath of World War II to the intrigui...
18 Des 201736min
