Sean O'Casey and the Dublin that made him
This episode, from the Dublin Festival of History 2025, is the 28th annual Sir John T. Gilbert Commemorative Lecture, delivered by Professor...
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Fulvia: The Woman Who Broke All the Rules in Ancient Rome
This episode, from the Dublin Festival of History 2025, celebrates the charismatic Fulvia who amassed a degree of military and political pow...
The Last Transport: The Holocaust in the Eastern Aegean
In this episode, from the Dublin Festival of History 2025, author Anthony McElligott talks about his book The Last Transport: The Holocaust...
Mission Europe: The Secret History of the Women of Special Operations Executive
In this episode, from the Dublin Festival of History 2025, author Kate Vigurs tells the stories of the lesser-known women who worked across...
Filthy Queens: A History of Beer in Ireland
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...
Getting Our Act Together – Interaction and Unity Between Irish and Indian Radicals
This episode, from the Dublin Festival of History 2025, discusses the common revolutionary sentiments in Ireland and India in the struggle a...
Making Empire: Ireland, Imperialism and the Early Modern World
Welcome to the Dublin Festival of History podcast, brought to you by Dublin City Council. In this episode, from the Dublin Festival of Histo...
The Trouble with Recent History
Welcome to the Dublin Festival of History podcast, brought to you by Dublin City Council. This episode, from the Dublin Festival of History...
Broken Archangel: The Tempestuous Lives of Roger Casement
Welcome to the Dublin Festival of History podcast, brought to you by Dublin City Council. In this episode, from the Dublin Festival of Histo...
The Boundary Commission
Welcome to the Dublin Festival of History podcast, brought to you by Dublin City Council. This episode, from the Dublin Festival of History...
Land Is All That Matters - Myles Dungan
Welcome to the Dublin Festival of History podcast, brought to you by Dublin City Council. In this episode, from the Dublin Festival of Histo...
New Perspectives on the Irish Civil War
Welcome to the Dublin Festival of History podcast, brought to you by Dublin City Council. This episode, from the Dublin Festival of History...
On Behan, On Dublin - in conversation with Peter Sheridan
In this episode from the Dublin Festival of History 2023, Peter Sheridan marks the centenary of the birth of the writer Brendan Behan. Raise...
From 8th Amendment to Repeal the 8th - with Mary Muldowney
In this episode from the Dublin Festival of History 2023, Dublin City Council Historian in Residence, Dr Mary Muldowney, will discuss the 40...
Harry Kernoff 1900-1974 - in conversation with Kathryn Milligan
In this episode, from the Dublin Festival of History 2023, Kathryn Milligan discusses the work of artist Harry Kernoff. Born in London on th...
The evolution of Navan Road - in conversation with Enda Finnan
In this episode, from the Dublin Festival of History 2023, Enda Finnan examines the Navan Road parish area and the transformation of the rur...
Industrious Poor and Rolling Vagabonds - in conversation with Francis Thackaberry
In this episode, from the Dublin Festival of History 2023, Francis Thackaberry explores the attitudes and responses to poverty in eighteenth...
May Tyrants Tremble: The Life of William Drennan - with Fergus Whelan
In this episode, from the Dublin Festival of History 2023, Fergus Whelan remembers the revolutionary and poet Dr William Drennan (1754-1820)...
Vindicating Dublin: Dublin Corporation and 1924 - in conversation with Aodh Quinlivan
In this episode, from the Dublin Festival of History 2023, Aodh Quinlivan illustrates the strained relationship between the Irish Free State...
From Rake to Radical: An Irish Abolitionist - In conversation with Anne Chambers
In this episode, from the Dublin Festival of History 2023, Anne Chambers tells us about Lord Sligo - from a youth of hedonistic self-indulge...