Haunted By Our History: Ireland and Child Sexual Abuse
This podcast was funded by the Mary Raftery Journalism Fund.We don’t remember 1980s fondly in Ireland. Emigration and recession were features of life. The political atmosphere was defined by divisive ...
17 Okt 201616min
The Manchester Martyrs
In November 1867 tension and fear gripped the city of Manchester. A regiment of the British Army was drafted in to support a police force already bolstered by an extra 2,000 recruits.With the most con...
11 Okt 201622min
Fatal Feuds V - Medieval Downfall
The Fatal Feuds series has tracked the dramatic rise of the de Burgh Lords of the West and Earls of Ulster - the most powerful family in Medieval Irish history.In 1326 the family Patriarch, the Red Ea...
5 Okt 201628min
Bonus: An Irish Childhood in a Stately Mansion
TV series like Downton Abbey offer a sensationalised view of life in Stately Homes but what was it really like? This podcast uses the never before published words of Florence Doreen Wandesforde who wr...
19 Sep 201613min
Fatal Feuds IV - The Fall of the Red Earl
The show picks up the story of the de Burgh family in August 1316 as the biggest battle in medieval Irish history approaches. The De Burghs have paid an huge ransom to free their best battle commander...
8 Sep 201629min
Bonus: Stealing the Stone of Destiny
In 1296 King Edward I of England invaded Scotland. During this campaign he removed the Stone of Destiny (a.k.a. The Stone of Scone) bringing it back to England. The removal of the stone which had been...
30 Aug 201612min
Fatal Feuds III - The Bruce Invasion
The third part of the mini-series Fatal Feuds focuses on the Bruce Invasion of Ireland in 1315. This sees the famous Scottish King Robert the Bruce wage war on his father-in-law the Red Earl of Ulster...
22 Aug 201633min
Bonus - Medieval Ireland's Red Wedding
The Red Wedding is an infamous chapter in the Game of Thrones series. It saw one family wipe out their rivals in a treacherous and brutal massacre. In this podcast I look at a comparable event from Ir...
15 Aug 201610min
