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Latest episodes

• 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…

• 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…