Australia
Brazil
Canada
Germany
India
Ireland
Japan
Mexico
New Zealand
Philippines
South Africa
United Kingdom
Irish Marketing Podcast
From Tinpot Productions
History
The Póilíní Podcast
by Tinpot Productions
Today: #132 in History, Australia on our combined chart.
Today: #31 in History, Ireland on our combined chart.
Chart positions today · United States
Not on the United States charts we track today.
Not on the United Kingdom charts we track today.
Not on the Canada charts we track today.
Not on the Germany charts we track today.
Not on the Brazil charts we track today.
Not on the Mexico charts we track today.
Not on the New Zealand charts we track today.
Not on the India charts we track today.
Not on the Japan charts we track today.
Not on the Philippines charts we track today.
Not on the South Africa charts we track today.
If you like The Póilíní Podcast, try…
The Garda Podcast
Similar topics: garda and policing
The History Book Buffs
Also in History
The Irish History Boys
Also in History
Speaking Irish
Also in History
Transatlantic: An Irish American History Podcast
Also in History
Ranking history · United States
No ranking history for this show in United States over the last 14 days.
Latest episodes
-
Haunted Barracks: Ghost Stories from the Irish Policing Archive
October 29, 2026 · 38 minIn this Halloween special, we open the policeman's notebook on the unexplained, from the ghosts said to haunt the Garda College at Templemore, to a 1955 Garda Review account of a coal-shovelling spirit at Dublin Castle. We investigate the…
-
The Birdhill Baby: A Tragic Discovery Wrapped in the Evening Herald
October 22, 2026 · 33 minIn April 1941, a railway gatekeeper in Birdhill, County Tipperary, found a newborn's body wrapped in a copy of the Evening Herald. This episode explores how Gardaí handled cases of concealment of birth and infant death between 1939 and…
-
The First Ban Gardaí, Yvonne Burke and the Women Who Broke the Mould
October 15, 2026 · 39 minIn 1959, twelve women joined An Garda Síochána amid marriage bars, Dáil sexism and instructions to avoid "girlish giddiness". Thirty-four years later, Garda Yvonne Burke and her colleague chased shotgun-wielding armed robbers through…
-
The Macushla Ballroom Martyrs: From Showbands to Showdown
October 8, 2026 · 32 minIn November 1961, hundreds of rank-and-file gardaí defied their own commissioner and packed the Macushla ballroom in Dublin to protest draconian conditions and a pay deal that shut out the newest recruits. Within days, eleven men were…
-
Stringybark Creek: The Irish Policemen Who Hunted Ned Kelly
October 1, 2026 · 41 minThis episode follows the Irish threads running through Australia's most famous outlaw story, from John "Red" Kelly's transportation for stealing a pig to the four Irish-born policemen — Kennedy, Scanlan, Lonigan and McIntyre — sent into…
Show 3 more episodesShow fewer episodes
-
The Kidnapping of Gilbert Potter: A District Inspector's Fatal Sense of Duty
September 24, 2026 · 31 minIn April 1921, at the height of the War of Independence, RIC District Inspector Gilbert Potter was seized by the IRA after stumbling into the tail end of an ambush near Clogheen, Tipperary. Marched over the Knockmealdowns into Waterford…
-
The Carrickshock Massacre: Ten Minutes That Shook Irish Policing
September 17, 2026 · 36 minIn this episode of The Póilíní Podcast, writer Helen Moorhouse and retired Garda Sergeant and police historian Dr John Reynolds, unpack the Carrickshock Massacre: the brutal tithe system that provoked it, the newly formed Peace…
-
The Póilíní Podcast Trailer
September 10, 2026 · 1 minThe Póilíní Podcast starts 17th Sept 2026. Hosted by writer Helen Moorhouse and Garda historian Dr John Reynolds, this exciting podcast will explore stories pulled from more than 200 years of Irish policing history. Find out more…
About the show
The Póilíní Podcast brings listeners on a journey through stories from the history of Irish policing, stretching over 200 years. Each week, we’ll take a story from our policeman’s notebook to paint a picture of incredible, often untold, events and through the lens of these stories, look at the lives of serving members, their families and society in Ireland and beyond.
The podcast is presented by Garda historian Dr John Reynolds, and writer and journalist Helen Moorhouse.
Dr John Reynolds, PHD, holds 40 years’ service as a member of An Garda Síochána. During his career, he worked in surveillance, serious crime investigations, Disaster Victim Identification and frontline emergency dispatch. Since retiring from the force, he has founded the Garda Museum and served as chief coordinator for the Garda centenary. Helen Moorhouse is a writer, journalist, novelist and self-confessed ‘history nerd’.
Together, they have compiled a casebook of gripping yarns, tragic tales and forgotten people - not to be missed.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.