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  • The Garvaghy Road: Conflict Returns

    September 28, 2026 · 1 hr 5 min

    Naomi and Tim explain the Drumcree conflict and why the current aspirations of the Orange Order to march through the Catholic neighbourhood of the Garvaghy Road are so laden with history. Patreon supporters can watch this episode in video…

  • Trump for a United Ireland?

    September 22, 2026 · 60 min

    It's been a spicy few weeks in politics: Ireland was blindsided by an unexpected endorsement of Irish unity by United States President Donald Trump while on a visit to the country. Meanwhile the pro-independence parties of Scotland and…

  • Going Wilde

    August 16, 2026 · 54 min

    In the latest installment of our Oscar Wilde series, Naomi and Tim discuss Oscar Wilde's move to Oxford, ascent as a star student, and launch in London to become one of the most famous figures of his day -- a kind of Victorian-era…

  • Oscar the Wilde Irishman

    July 14, 2026 · 54 min

    Before the world knew Oscar Wilde, Ireland knew Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde: the son of a famous nationalist poet mother and a pioneering surgeon who grew up at the heart of Ireland's cultural renaissance of the 19th century…

  • Racist riots in Belfast

    June 16, 2026 · 25 min

    Last week footage of a shocking stabbing in Belfast went viral. After it emerged that the perpetrator was an asylum seeker originally from Sudan, protests were called that soon devolved into a racist pogrom. Gangs of young men created…

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  • The mosquito that bit Cromwell

    June 12, 2026 · 1 hr 7 min

    A proposal for the smallest statue in the world to be built in Cork, in honour of the local mosquito that reputedly bit Oliver Cromwell ultimately causing his death, recently went viral. The idea inspired this episode discussing the…

  • Granuaile- warrior of the waves

    May 18, 2026 · 1 hr 27 min

    Granuaile or Grace O'Malley: a woman chieftain in 16th century Ireland who ruled the seas with a fleet of ships and was both respected and deeply feared. Daughter of the seafaring Ó Máille Gaelic clan, Gráinne carved out a position of…

  • Fuel protests blockade Ireland

    April 16, 2026 · 54 min

    For the past week Ireland has been blockaded by protests that have been described as among the largest seen since independence. It's one ripple effect from the US-Israeli attack on Iran, which sent the price of fuel used by farmers…

  • St Patrick's Day News Update

    March 17, 2026 · 56 min

    Lá Fhéile Pádraig sona daoibh! On this most turbulent of St Patrick’s Day, we cover some of the major events that are dominating news headlines: Gerry Adams in court in London, Mícheál Martin on the Taoiseach’s annual pilgrimage to the…

  • Bridget: Saint, Goddess, Myth

    February 23, 2026 · 1 hr 10 min

    This month marks the official start of spring in Ireland and to mark it Naomi and Tim discuss the figure of Bridget, Brigid or Bríd. A goddess in Gaelic times who became Christianised into Saint Bridget, the stories about this figure…

  • Give me Greenland

    January 22, 2026 · 1 hr 0 min

    A strategically-located island in the Atlantic circled by Russian ships and with few of its own defences... Greenland has caught the avaricious eye of the president of the United States and the result is destroying the assumptions that…

  • The checkout workers who boycotted apartheid South Africa and other stories

    December 12, 2025 · 1 hr 15 min

    In this listener questions episode, Naomi and Tim take questions from listeners on everything from Gaelic Ulster, to nomadic patterns of land use, and the quirks of Ireland's postal system. We discuss the long effect of an old law that…

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About the show

A podcast about the culture, history and politics of Ireland. Taking on the knowledge gap since 2017.