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Shite Talk: An Irish History Podcast

by Kevin Larney & Jason Brennan

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Bridget Cleary and The Changeling Fairy Burning

October 27, 2026 · 1 hr 2 min

For the spooky season that's in it, Jason tells Kevin the terrifying story of Bridget and Michael Cleary, a Tipperary couple who had to deal with a classic bout of fairy magic, and battle off an auld changeling.We'll be doing a Live Show…
Garvaghy Road vs The Orange Order

October 21, 2026 · 1 hr 4 min

Hello, and welcome to the 3rd episode of season 15 of Shite Talk / season 1 of GUBU: An Irish History Podcast! (we're rebranding so you'll be hearing that a lot) After the news last week that the Orange Order march has been cancelled for…
Jack Doyle - The Gorgeous Gael

October 13, 2026 · 1 hr 19 min

Hello, and welcome to the 2nd episode of season 15 of Shite Talk / season 1 of GUBU: An Irish History Podcast! (we're rebranding so you'll be hearing that a lot) This week Jason tells Kevin the story of Jack Doyle, the Cobh man who tried…
Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh - A Thundering Disgrace

October 6, 2026 · 1 hr 1 min

Hello! We're back next season 15 of Shite Talk / season 1 of GUBU: An Irish History Podcast! This week Kevin told Jason all about the only time (to date) and Irish President resigned. If you want to listen to our bonus stuff it's up on…
Season 15 - 06th October

September 30, 2026 · 3 min

Hello! We're back next week with a brand new season covering presidential scandals, famous Irish boxers, and a whole lot of Haughey. We're back up on PATREON as well, we've been putting up bonus stuff there for the past few weeks and…

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2026 Belfast Riots

June 17, 2026 · 54 min

Here's our attempt at covering the recent riots in Belfast. I'll link these two articles we talked about in the episode though, I'd like to include more sources below but as the story is still updating daily it's probably better to just…
George Best Part 5 - For Sure The Bad Years (Teaser)

June 11, 2026 · 17 min

We wrap up our George Best deep dive with a fifth and final episode as Jason tells Kevin all about the final years of the mans life. This is the first 15mins, but if you want to listen to more, plus all our back cataloge and ad free…
Kilkenny w/ Davy Holden

June 9, 2026 · 1 hr 19 min

Hello! Here's a episode we recorded back in January (so ignore the Ireland-at-the-world-cup chat) with internet historian and proud Kilkenny man, ⁠⁠Davy Holden⁠⁠. We talked about our favourite revolutionaries, the best Irish historical…
George Best Part 4 - America (The Not So Bad Years) - Teaser

June 4, 2026 · 17 min

Jason tells Kevin the fourth instalment of the Georgie Best story. Well, part of it anyway. About 15 mins of it give or take, but if you want the next 45mins you can find it behind the paywall at HeadStuff+ And that'll cover you for next…
George Best Part 3 - The Not So Good Years (Teaser)

May 26, 2026 · 19 min

Jason tells Kevin the third instalment of the Georgie Best story. Well, part of it anyway. About 16 mins of it give or take, but if you want the next hour and a bit you can find it behind the paywall at HeadStuff+ And that'll cover you…
George Best Part 2 - The Good Years

May 20, 2026 · 1 hr 21 min

Jason tells Kevin about George Best's career at Man United, before we get into all the good stuff on the behind the Paywall episode! And if you want to see our video content, or find out when we have our next live gigs, give us a follow…
Arsenal vs Roscommon

May 14, 2026 · 6 min

Here's the first few minutes of our bonus chat about the Connaught final and Arsenal's big game at the weekend . If you want to hear the rest of this episode, AS WELL AS all our episodes ad free AND all the bonus stuff we've ever done you…

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About the show

Kevin Larney and Jason Brennan⁠ take a look at some of the weirder events from the annals of Irish history. You can get ad-free and bonus episodes as well as our full back catalogue on Patreon for ~€5.