Irish America in the 1950s
Dublin Festival of Books presents one of a series of presentations on this year's One City One Book—John Banville’s Christine Falls. While most of the action takes place in the gloomy streets of 1950s...
17 Apr 54min
Ballyshannon—mapping the old town
Ballyshannon may or may not be the ‘oldest town in Ireland’ but it has certainly been the site of human settlement and activity for thousands of years and has been mapped since the late sixteenth cent...
14 Nov 20251h
Where stands Dev 50 years on?
Recorded live on Saturday 30 August ’25 @ the Electric Picnic Admired and reviled in equal measure, Éamon de Valera was Ireland’s longest-serving taoiseach and a two-term president. Join History Ir...
5 Sep 202555min
Making sense of Trump’s America
Recorded live on Friday 29 August ’25 @ the Electric Picnic History Ireland editor Tommy Graham in conversation with Dan Mulhall, Irish ambassador in Washington during President Trump’s first adminis...
5 Sep 202554min
O’Connell 250—the Liberator reassessed
(Recorded live on Wednesday 30 July ’25 @ Glasnevin Cemetery visitor centre)Daniel O’Connell was described by his biographer Oliver MacDonagh as ‘perhaps the greatest innovator in modern democratic po...
6 Aug 20251h 20min
Housing in Ireland—a history of dysfunction?
From the tenement collapses of the early twentieth century to the spiralling house prices of the early twenty-first, it seems that housing in Ireland has always been in a state of crisis. What were th...
13 Juni 202557min
A Future For Our Past — Museums in the 21st Century
What is the purpose of museums? How have museums in Ireland evolved over the past 30 years or so? Are there too many or too few? North of the border, how do they operate in a divided society? How shou...
23 Maj 20251h 15min
Making sense of the 2020 and 2024 general elections
We broadcast again editor Tommy Graham’s interview (55 mins) with Brian Hanley (TCD) following the February 2020 general election, with an update (28 mins) on the November 2024 general election. What ...
31 Dec 20241h 23min
