'Monto: Madams, Murder and Black Coddle' by Terry Fagan
Monto: Madams, Murder and Black Coddle chronicles the history and reminiscences in a part of Dublin rich in the memories of its people. Recently republished, this history of the Monto district from T...
4 Maj 202356min
Mary Wollstonecraft and 15 Henrietta Street: By Fergus Whelan
Historian Fergus Whelan will discuss the life of writer, philosopher, and advocate of women’s rights Mary Wollstonecraft, her impact on the life of Margaret King of 15 Henrietta Street, and the links ...
4 Maj 202342min
Dublin v. Cork: A Tale of Two Eighteenth-Century Cities - A Lecture by David Dickson
Dublin City Library and Archive hosts a lecture with David Dickson, titled ‘Dublin v. Cork: A Tale of Two Eighteenth-Century Cities’To citizens of Dublin, their city has always been unquestionably the...
21 Apr 20221h 4min
LGBTQ+ and Public History - Richard O’Leary, Maurice J Casey and Kate Drinane in Conversation with Sara Phillips
Welcome to the Dublin Festival of History Podcast, brought to you by Dublin City Council.In this episode from the 2021 Dublin Festival of History, we hear from practitioners who have worked on LGBTQ+ ...
19 Apr 20221h 12min
If Ever You Go To Dublin Town - Kathryn Milligan and Nicola Pierce in Conversation with Donal Fallon
Donal Fallon speaks to two writers who have written recent books on the history of Dublin.In O’Connell Street: The History and Life of Dublin’s Iconic Street, Nicola Pierce explores the people, the hi...
14 Apr 20221h 2min
George III: The Life and Reign of Britain's Most Misunderstood Monarch - Andrew Roberts in Conversation with Lisa Marie Griffith
George III, Britain’s longest-reigning king, has gone down in history as ‘the cruellest tyrant of this age’. Andrew Roberts’s new biography takes entirely the opposite view. It portrays George as inte...
12 Apr 202253min
The Irish Assassins: Conspiracy, Revenge and the Murders that Stunned an Empire - Julie Kavanagh in Conversation with Roy Foster
On a sunlit evening in 1882, Lord Frederick Cavendish and Thomas Burke, Chief Secretary and Undersecretary for Ireland, were ambushed and stabbed to death while strolling through Phoenix Park in Dubli...
7 Apr 202248min
Northern Protestants: On Shifting Ground - Susan McKay in Conversation with Martin Doyle
Twenty years on from her critically acclaimed book, ‘Northern Protestants: An Unsettled People’, Susan McKay talks again to the Protestant community in Northern Ireland. The book contains interviews w...
5 Apr 20221h 12min
