The Black Death vs Covid-19: A Social History of the Pandemic
673 years ago in Kilkenny, a Franciscan Friar John Clyn wrote one of the most famous accounts of the Black Death in Ireland. In this episode I am joined by D.J. Walsh and Eoin Tabb, the hosts of the p...
28 Juni 202136min
5000 Year Old Tombs, Writers Block & Graveyards of Inspiration
I have writers block again, so I went on a hunt for inspiration in historic locations around Kilkenny. I ended up at a tomb that's over 5,000 years old where our ancestors did very very strange things...
20 Juni 202123min
Terence MacSwiney's Hunger-Strike (The War of Independence XIV)
Through 1920 Terence MacSwiney became the most well known Irish republican across the world. Elected as Lord Mayor of Cork in March, he was arrested in August and began the longest hunger-strike in Ir...
14 Juni 202133min
The Rebel County (the War of independence Part XIII)
Cork is known as the rebel county. From late 1919 it earned this adage as some of the most bitter fighting in the War of Independence took place in Cork city and county. This episode begins with the s...
31 Maj 202133min
Belfast, Derry & The War in the North (the War of Independence XII)
The story of the War of Independence in the North of Ireland is often overlooked. This obscures the fact that Belfast was the most violent place in Ireland during the conflict. However it was a very d...
24 Maj 202134min
Women & the Irish Revolution - The War of Independence Part XI
In the latest installment of the War of Independence series I am joined by historian Liz Gills to talk about women and the Irish revolution. While numerous Irish women from revolutionaries to unionist...
17 Maj 202130min
The IRA on the Offensive - Easter 1920 (the War of Independence Part X)
As Easter approached in 1920 many politicians in Britain feared a major uprising in Ireland along the lines of the 1916 Rising. While the IRA had a major operation planned it was one that took the aut...
10 Maj 202130min
An Empire in Crisis (The War of Independence Part IX)
To date the War of Independence series has focused largely on the republican movement. This episode however looks at how the British government and their representatives in Ireland viewed the conflict...
26 Apr 202131min
