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Where the murdering cannons roar’ —the American Civil War correspondence of the McMonagle family

October 16, 2026 · 1 hr 4 min

(Recorded live on Tues 29 Sept ’26, National Library, Kildare Street, Dublin) History Ireland editor Tommy Graham, with Sineád McCoole (National Library), Lar Joye (Heritage Director, Dublin Port) and Breandán MacSuibhne (University of…
Clare and America—from the Famine to Parnell

October 16, 2026 · 1 hr 21 min

(Recorded live on 7 Oct ’26, De Valera Library, Ennis) In the 50 years after the Famine, half of those born in Ireland ended up somewhere else, two thirds of them in the USA; more women than men emigrated. What was the experience of those…
Captain Bligh—hero or villain?

October 9, 2026 · 1 hr 4 min

Captain Bligh—hero or villain?(Recorded live on Saturday 03 October 2026 at Substation, Distributed Museum, Dublin Port) Captain William Bligh, whose draconian discipline provoked mutiny on HMS Bounty in 1789, is one of history’s enduring…
A ‘unique relationship’?—Ireland and the USA 1920–present

September 4, 2026 · 51 min

A ‘unique relationship’?—Ireland and the USA 1920–present(Recorded live on Fri 28 Aug ’26 @ the Electric Picnic)While the UK claims to have a ‘special relationship’ with the USA, we claim a ‘unique relationship’, exemplified by the…
Irish America in the 1950s

April 17, 2026 · 55 min

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 Dublin, it intersects with a parallel…

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Ballyshannon—mapping the old town

November 14, 2025 · 1 hr 1 min

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 century.Now it is the subject of the latest…
Where stands Dev 50 years on?

September 5, 2025 · 55 min

Recorded live on Saturday 30 August ’25 @ the Electric PicnicAdmired and reviled in equal measure, Éamon de Valera was Ireland’s longest-serving taoiseach and a two-term president. Join History Ireland editor Tommy Graham for a lively…
Making sense of Trump’s America

September 5, 2025 · 55 min

Recorded live on Friday 29 August ’25 @ the Electric PicnicHistory Ireland editor Tommy Graham in conversation with Dan Mulhall, Irish ambassador in Washington during President Trump’s first administration. What was Trump like? How can his…
O’Connell 250—the Liberator reassessed

August 6, 2025 · 1 hr 20 min

(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 politics, as well as the originator of…
Housing in Ireland—a history of dysfunction?

June 13, 2025 · 58 min

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 the intended and unintended consequences…
A Future For Our Past — Museums in the 21st Century

May 23, 2025 · 1 hr 16 min

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 should they be funded? To address these and…
Making sense of the 2020 and 2024 general elections

December 31, 2024 · 1 hr 24 min

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 do they tell us about the current shape…

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History Ireland magazine has now been in production for over 27 years. The History Ireland Podcast covers a wide variety of topics, from the earliest times to the present day, in an effort to give the listener a sense of the distant past but also to offer a contemporary edge.