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The Dublin Festival of History is an annual free Festival, brought to you by Dublin City Council, and organised by Dublin City Libraries. The Festival has gained a reputation for attracting...
This episode, from the Dublin Festival of History 2025, is the 28th annual Sir John T. Gilbert Commemorative Lecture, delivered by Professor...
This episode, from the Dublin Festival of History 2025, celebrates the charismatic Fulvia who amassed a degree of military and political pow...
In this episode, from the Dublin Festival of History 2025, author Anthony McElligott talks about his book The Last Transport: The Holocaust...
In this episode, from the Dublin Festival of History 2025, author Kate Vigurs tells the stories of the lesser-known women who worked across...
In this episode, from the Dublin Festival of History 2025, Dr Christina Wade looks at the history of beer alongside some of the biggest even...
This episode, from the Dublin Festival of History 2025, discusses the common revolutionary sentiments in Ireland and India in the struggle a...
Welcome to the Dublin Festival of History podcast, brought to you by Dublin City Council. In this episode, from the Dublin Festival of Histo...
Welcome to the Dublin Festival of History podcast, brought to you by Dublin City Council. This episode, from the Dublin Festival of History...
Welcome to the Dublin Festival of History podcast, brought to you by Dublin City Council. In this episode, from the Dublin Festival of Histo...
Welcome to the Dublin Festival of History podcast, brought to you by Dublin City Council. This episode, from the Dublin Festival of History...
Welcome to the Dublin Festival of History podcast, brought to you by Dublin City Council. In this episode, from the Dublin Festival of Histo...
Welcome to the Dublin Festival of History podcast, brought to you by Dublin City Council. This episode, from the Dublin Festival of History...
In this episode from the Dublin Festival of History 2023, Peter Sheridan marks the centenary of the birth of the writer Brendan Behan. Raise...
In this episode from the Dublin Festival of History 2023, Dublin City Council Historian in Residence, Dr Mary Muldowney, will discuss the 40...
In this episode, from the Dublin Festival of History 2023, Kathryn Milligan discusses the work of artist Harry Kernoff. Born in London on th...
In this episode, from the Dublin Festival of History 2023, Enda Finnan examines the Navan Road parish area and the transformation of the rur...
In this episode, from the Dublin Festival of History 2023, Francis Thackaberry explores the attitudes and responses to poverty in eighteenth...
In this episode, from the Dublin Festival of History 2023, Fergus Whelan remembers the revolutionary and poet Dr William Drennan (1754-1820)...
In this episode, from the Dublin Festival of History 2023, Aodh Quinlivan illustrates the strained relationship between the Irish Free State...
In this episode, from the Dublin Festival of History 2023, Anne Chambers tells us about Lord Sligo - from a youth of hedonistic self-indulge...
In this episode, from the Dublin Festival of History 2023, Ann Marie Durkan will introduce the maps she prepared, which locate animals and a...
In Beyond the Wall, acclaimed historian Katja Hoyer offers a kaleidoscopic new vision of this vanished country. Beginning with the bitter ex...
The large influx of fugitive Nazis and collaborators in post-WWII Argentina created an environment that normalised the presence of such hein...
On the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, Peter Taylor tells for the first time the gripping story of Operation Chiffon, MI5’s t...
Monto: Madams, Murder and Black Coddle chronicles the history and reminiscences in a part of Dublin rich in the memories of its people. Rece...
Historian Fergus Whelan will discuss the life of writer, philosopher, and advocate of women’s rights Mary Wollstonecraft, her impact on the...
Dublin City Library and Archive hosts a lecture with David Dickson, titled ‘Dublin v. Cork: A Tale of Two Eighteenth-Century Cities’ To citi...
Welcome to the Dublin Festival of History Podcast, brought to you by Dublin City Council. In this episode from the 2021 Dublin Festival of H...
Donal Fallon speaks to two writers who have written recent books on the history of Dublin. In O’Connell Street: The History and Life of Dubl...
George III, Britain’s longest-reigning king, has gone down in history as ‘the cruellest tyrant of this age’. Andrew Roberts’s new biography...
On a sunlit evening in 1882, Lord Frederick Cavendish and Thomas Burke, Chief Secretary and Undersecretary for Ireland, were ambushed and st...
Twenty years on from her critically acclaimed book, ‘Northern Protestants: An Unsettled People’, Susan McKay talks again to the Protestant c...
Myles Dungan’s family was involved in four violent deaths between 1915 and 1922. Jack Clinton, an immigrant small farmer from County Meath,...
At the end of the Irish War of Independence, Dublin signed an unsatisfactory treaty with London, that amongst other things, required oaths o...
Before 1871, Germany was not a nation but an idea. Its founder, Otto von Bismarck, had a formidable task at hand. How would he bring thirty-...
Iain McGregor’s book is a powerful, fascinating, and groundbreaking history of Checkpoint Charlie, the famous military gate on the border of...
When Dubliner Derek Scally goes to Christmas Eve Mass on a visit home from Berlin, he finds more memories than congregants in the church whe...
In 2020, statues across the world were pulled down in an extraordinary wave of global iconoclasm. From the United States and the United King...
Ireland is a nation obsessed with death. We find a thrill in the moribund, a strange enchantment in the drama of our dark past. It’s everywh...
In the annals of the Third Reich, little has been said about the role played by the German nobility in the Nazis’ rise to power. Nazis and N...
The 1921 partition of Ireland had huge ramifications for almost all aspects of Irish life and was directly responsible for hundreds of death...
Celebrity, with its neon glow and selfie pout, strikes us as hypermodern. But the famous and infamous have been thrilling, titillating, and...
On the brink of defeat, Hitler commissioned 10,000 V2s - ballistic rockets that carried a one-ton warhead at three times the speed of sound,...
After her grandmother died, Hadley Freeman travelled to her apartment to try and make sense of a woman she’d never really known. When Hadley...
In the years just before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall, people from across the political spectrum in Europe and America celebrated a...
At the beginning of 1940 Germany was at the pinnacle of its power. By May 1945 Hitler was dead and Germany had suffered a disastrous defeat....
In The Ratline, his riveting real-life thriller, Philippe Sands offers a unique account of the daily life of senior Nazi SS Brigadefuhrer Ot...
At 9am on the morning of 21 November 1920, Michael Collins’ IRA gunmen killed 15 suspected British intelligence officers at various sites ac...
In 1914 a civilization that had blandly assumed itself to be a model for the rest of the world had collapsed into a savagery beyond any comp...
The battered and exhausted Britain of 1945 was desperate for workers – to rebuild, to fill the factories, to make the new NHS work. From all...