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Shite Talk: An Irish History Podcast

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A somewhat accurate retelling of Irish history stories. Join Irish stand up comedians Jason Brennan and Kevin Larney as they take turns giving their best accounts of some of Ireland's silly,...

Episodes

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Bridget Cleary and The Changeling Fairy Burning

For the spooky season that's in it, Jason tells Kevin the terrifying story of Bridget and Michael Cleary, a Tipperary couple who had to deal...

61:57Oct 27, 2026

Garvaghy Road vs The Orange Order

Hello, and welcome to the 3rd episode of season 15 of Shite Talk / season 1 of GUBU: An Irish History Podcast! (we're rebranding so you'll b...

63:31Oct 21, 2026

Jack Doyle - The Gorgeous Gael

Hello, and welcome to the 2nd episode of season 15 of Shite Talk / season 1 of GUBU: An Irish History Podcast! (we're rebranding so you'll b...

79:25Oct 13, 2026

Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh - A Thundering Disgrace

Hello! We're back next season 15 of Shite Talk / season 1 of GUBU: An Irish History Podcast! This week Kevin told Jason all about the only t...

60:32Oct 6, 2026

Season 15 - 06th October

Hello! We're back next week with a brand new season covering presidential scandals, famous Irish boxers, and a whole lot of Haughey. We're b...

2:39Sep 30, 2026

2026 Belfast Riots

Here's our attempt at covering the recent riots in Belfast. I'll link these two articles we talked about in the episode though, I'd like to...

53:47Jun 17, 2026

George Best Part 5 - For Sure The Bad Years (Teaser)

We wrap up our George Best deep dive with a fifth and final episode as Jason tells Kevin all about the final years of the mans life. This is...

16:54Jun 11, 2026

Kilkenny w/ Davy Holden

Hello! Here's a episode we recorded back in January (so ignore the Ireland-at-the-world-cup chat) with internet historian and proud Kilkenny...

79:04Jun 9, 2026

George Best Part 4 - America (The Not So Bad Years) - Teaser

Jason tells Kevin the fourth instalment of the Georgie Best story. Well, part of it anyway. About 15 mins of it give or take, but if you wan...

16:42Jun 4, 2026

George Best Part 3 - The Not So Good Years (Teaser)

Jason tells Kevin the third instalment of the Georgie Best story. Well, part of it anyway. About 16 mins of it give or take, but if you want...

18:31May 26, 2026

George Best Part 2 - The Good Years

Jason tells Kevin about George Best's career at Man United, before we get into all the good stuff on the behind the Paywall episode! And if...

80:35May 20, 2026

Arsenal vs Roscommon

Here's the first few minutes of our bonus chat about the Connaught final and Arsenal's big game at the weekend . If you want to hear the res...

6:22May 14, 2026

George Best Part 1 - The Belfast Boy

Part One of our mini-series on George Best, the greatest (*Irish) footballer to have ever lived. *If you're from Cork it's OK to say it's Ro...

57:52May 12, 2026

18th Century Soldiers w/ Dr. Andrew Dorman

We talked to our old friend Dr. Dorman about his new book, The British Army, Society and Soldiering in Ireland, 1699-1793. . Also, our first...

64:55May 5, 2026

Big Bag of Cannes Film Festival

Hello! We're finally doing The Big Bag of Cannes Film Festival and by god it's going well so far, the fist date sold out so we've added a se...

0:42May 1, 2026

NORAID - With Kevin Brannigan

Joining us today is Kevin Brannigan, the Director the documentary NORAID: IRISH AMERICA AND THE IRA to chat about the film, the NORAID group...

57:16Apr 28, 2026

Pádraig "Little Lad of Tricks" Pearse (Part 3)

Hello, here's the third and last part of Pearse, we talk a bit about the aftermath of 1916 for his family, some more about St. Enda's school...

5:34Apr 24, 2026

Pádraig Mac Piarais (Part 2)

Here's part two of the Pearse files covering the end of 1915, the lead up to the rising, his trial, and execution. . We'll have the final pa...

78:04Apr 21, 2026

The 90's Rainbow Coalition w/ Roger O'Sullivan

Hello, here's an episode we did recently with the wonderful ⁠Roger O'Sullivan⁠ where we talked about the mid 90's Rainbow Coalition. . Roger...

25:45Apr 16, 2026

Pádraig Pearse (Part 1)

Here's part one of our series on Patrick Pearse / Pádraig Mac Piarais, arguably the figure head of the Easter Rising. In part one we cover f...

85:53Apr 14, 2026