Sean O'Casey and the Dublin that made him
This episode, from the Dublin Festival of History 2025, is the 28th annual Sir John T. Gilbert Commemorative Lecture, delivered by Professor Diarmaid Ferriter of University College Dublin on the Dubli...
2 Dec 202541min
Fulvia: The Woman Who Broke All the Rules in Ancient Rome
This episode, from the Dublin Festival of History 2025, celebrates the charismatic Fulvia who amassed a degree of military and political power that was unprecedented for a woman in Ancient Rome. Accla...
2 Dec 202548min
The Last Transport: The Holocaust in the Eastern Aegean
In this episode, from the Dublin Festival of History 2025, author Anthony McElligott talks about his book The Last Transport: The Holocaust in the Eastern Aegean, and why the timing of the transport r...
2 Dec 202548min
Mission Europe: The Secret History of the Women of Special Operations Executive
In this episode, from the Dublin Festival of History 2025, author Kate Vigurs tells the stories of the lesser-known women who worked across Europe, from the Netherlands to Belgium and Poland to Denmar...
2 Dec 202542min
Filthy Queens: A History of Beer in Ireland
In this episode, from the Dublin Festival of History 2025, Dr Christina Wade looks at the history of beer alongside some of the biggest events in the story of Ireland, as explored in her book titled ‘...
2 Dec 202550min
Getting Our Act Together – Interaction and Unity Between Irish and Indian Radicals
This episode, from the Dublin Festival of History 2025, discusses the common revolutionary sentiments in Ireland and India in the struggle against British occupation. The Easter Rising of 1916 encoura...
2 Dec 202553min
Making Empire: Ireland, Imperialism and the Early Modern World
Welcome to the Dublin Festival of History podcast, brought to you by Dublin City Council.In this episode, from the Dublin Festival of History 2024, Jane Ohlmeyer, Erasmus Smith’s Professor of Modern H...
6 Jan 202539min
The Trouble with Recent History
Welcome to the Dublin Festival of History podcast, brought to you by Dublin City Council.This episode, from the Dublin Festival of History 2024, discusses the turbulent and troubled history of the las...
6 Jan 202545min
