Corn, Gunpowder & Class Conflict | The Famine in Clogheen I | The Great Famine XXIX
This episode is a return of the Great Famine Series. Focusing on the town of Clogheen in South Tipperary, this two part episode follows the lives of three individuals Robert Davis, David Keane and Ric...
2 Maj 201947min
The Hellfire Club - Debauchery in The Dublin Mountains
The Hellfire club is an 18th century ruin in the foothills of the Dublin Mountains. The building has a scandalous history and is considered by some to be one of Ireland's most haunted locations. A few...
23 Apr 201933min
Nebraska - Irish Emigrants Surviving on The Frontier
When we think of Irish Emigrants in the USA, images of New York or Boston spring to mind. However on a recent trip to the US I visited friends in Nebraska where I found a very different Irish American...
3 Apr 201922min
The Last of Her Kind | Peig Sayers II
In 1892 Peig Sayers married & moved from Dunquin in West Kerry to the Great Blasket Island. Her life provides us with fascinating insights into what marriage was like in the late 19th century (a combi...
15 Mars 201931min
The Last of Her Kind | Peig Sayers I
When Peig Sayers died in 1958, she as regarded as one of Ireland's greatest storytellers and folklorists.Born in Dunquin in 1873 Co Kerry she grew up in the aftermath of the Great Famine in extreme po...
4 Mars 201933min
A Very Irish Murder in Cincinnati
In April 1894 Cincinnati's Irish Amercian community was rocked by a shocking and brutal murder. It was so scandalous that many newspapers in Ireland refused to even mention it, even though both the vi...
11 Feb 201941min
A 21st Century Witch Hunt | Kilkenny Witch Trial of 1324 III
The city of Kilkenny was rocked by the notorious witchcraft trial of 1324 (covered in the last two episodes). These events took place seven centuries ago in the long distant past. To conclude the seri...
28 Jan 201941min
Plan 2019: New Series Announced & New York Event.
The series on the Great Hunger of the 1840s will finish in the summer of 2019, but I have been busy planning something new. Find out what it is in this major announcement. I am visiting New York for t...
15 Jan 20195min
