Delve into the Dublin Festival of History archives with our collection of podcasts from previous programmes.
The most recent podcasts feature recordings from the 2024 festival.
You can subscribe to the Dublin Festival of History Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Audible, or your preferred platform.
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The Trouble with Recent History
2024 Festival – Episode 6 Subscribe to the Dublin Festival of History Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Audible, or your preferred platform. This episode, from the Dublin Festival of History […]
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Broken Archangel: The Tempestuous Lives of Roger Casement
2024 Festival – Episode 5 Subscribe to the Dublin Festival of History Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Audible, or your preferred platform. In this episode, from the Dublin Festival of […]
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The Boundary Commission
2024 Festival – Episode 4 Subscribe to the Dublin Festival of History Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Audible, or your preferred platform. This episode, from the Dublin Festival of History […]
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Making Empire: Ireland, Imperialism and the Early Modern World
2024 Festival – Episode 3 Subscribe to the Dublin Festival of History Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Audible, or your preferred platform. In this episode, from the Dublin Festival of […]
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Land Is All That Matters – in conversation with Myles Dungan
2024 Festival – Episode 2 Subscribe to the Dublin Festival of History Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Audible, or your preferred platform. In this episode, from the Dublin Festival of […]
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New Perspectives on the Irish Civil War
2024 Festival – Episode 1 Subscribe to the Dublin Festival of History Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Audible, or your preferred platform. This episode, from the Dublin Festival of History […]
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On Behan, On Dublin – in conversation with Peter Sheridan
2023 Festival – Episode 12. Subscribe to the Dublin Festival of History Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Audible, or your preferred platform. In this episode from the Dublin Festival of […]
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From 8th Amendment to Repeal the 8th – with Mary Muldowney
2023 Festival – Episode 11. Subscribe to the Dublin Festival of History Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Audible, or your preferred platform. In this episode from the Dublin Festival of […]
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Harry Kernoff 1900-1974 – in conversation with Kathryn Milligan
2023 Festival – Episode 10. Subscribe to the Dublin Festival of History Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Audible, or your preferred platform. In this episode, from the Dublin Festival of […]
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The evolution of Navan Road – in conversation with Enda Finnan
2023 Festival – Episode 9. Subscribe to the Dublin Festival of History Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Audible, or your preferred platform. In this episode, from the Dublin Festival of […]
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Industrious Poor and Rolling Vagabonds – in conversation with Francis Thackaberry
2023 Festival – Episode 8. Subscribe to the Dublin Festival of History Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Audible, or your preferred platform. In this episode, from the Dublin Festival of […]
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May Tyrants Tremble: The Life of William Drennan – with Fergus Whelan
2023 Festival – Episode 7. Subscribe to the Dublin Festival of History Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Audible, or your preferred platform. In this episode, from the Dublin Festival of […]
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Vindicating Dublin: Dublin Corporation and 1924 – with Aodh Quinlivan
2023 Festival – Episode 6. Subscribe to the Dublin Festival of History Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Audible, or your preferred platform. In this episode, from the Dublin Festival of […]
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From Rake to Radical: An Irish Abolitionist – in conversation with Anne Chambers
2023 Festival – Episode 5. Subscribe to the Dublin Festival of History Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Audible, or your preferred platform. In this episode, from the Dublin Festival of […]
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Animals in 20th Century Dublin – in conversation with Ann Marie Durkan
2023 Festival – Episode 4. Subscribe to the Dublin Festival of History Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Audible, or your preferred platform. In this episode, from the Dublin Festival of […]
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Beyond the Wall: East Germany’s rich political and cultural landscape
2023 Festival – Episode 3. Subscribe to the Dublin Festival of History Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Audible, or your preferred platform. In Beyond the Wall, acclaimed historian Katja Hoyer […]
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Uki Goñi to discuss how Nazi War criminals escaped Europe via Dublin
2023 Festival – Episode 2. Subscribe to the Dublin Festival of History Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Audible, or your preferred platform. The large influx of fugitive Nazis and collaborators […]
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Peter Taylor: Operation Chiffon; The Secret Story of MI5 and MI6 and the Road to Peace in Ireland
2023 Festival – Episode 1. Subscribe to the Dublin Festival of History Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Audible, or your preferred platform. On the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday […]
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Mary Wollstonecraft and 15 Henrietta Street: By Fergus Whelan
2022 Festival – Episode 2. Subscribe to the Dublin Festival of History Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Audible, or your preferred platform. Historian Fergus Whelan will discuss the life of […]
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‘Monto: Madams, Murder and Black Coddle’ by Terry Fagan
2022 Festival – Episode 1. Subscribe to the Dublin Festival of History Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Audible, or your preferred platform. Monto: Madams, Murder and Black Coddle chronicles the […]
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Dublin v. Cork: A Tale of Two Eighteenth-Century Cities – A Lecture by David Dickson
2021 Festival – Episode 14. Subscribe to the Dublin Festival of History Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Audible, or your preferred platform. Dublin City Library and Archive hosts a lecture […]
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If Ever You Go To Dublin Town – Kathryn Milligan and Nicola Pierce in Conversation with Donal Fallon
2021 Festival – Episode 12. Subscribe to the Dublin Festival of History Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Audible, or your preferred platform. Donal Fallon speaks to two writers who have […]
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LGBTQ+ and Public History – Richard O’Leary, Maurice J Casey and Kate Drinane in Conversation with Sara Phillips
2021 Festival – Episode 13. Subscribe to the Dublin Festival of History Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Audible, or your preferred platform. Across the island of Ireland, much work has […]
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George III: The Life and Reign of Britain’s Most Misunderstood Monarch – Andrew Roberts in Conversation with Lisa Marie Griffith
2021 Festival – Episode 11. Subscribe to the Dublin Festival of History Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Audible, or your preferred platform. George III, Britain’s longest-reigning king, has gone down […]
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The Irish Assassins: Conspiracy, Revenge and the Murders that Stunned an Empire – Julie Kavanagh in Conversation with Roy Foster
2021 Festival – Episode 10. Subscribe to the Dublin Festival of History Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Audible, or your preferred platform. On a sunlit evening in 1882, Lord Frederick […]
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Northern Protestants: On Shifting Ground – Susan McKay in Conversation with Martin Doyle
2021 Festival – Episode 9. Subscribe to the Dublin Festival of History Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Audible, or your preferred platform. Twenty years on from her critically acclaimed book, […]
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Four Killings: Land, Hunger, Murder & Family in the Irish Revolution – Myles Dungan in Conversation with Catriona Crowe
2021 Festival – Episode 8. Subscribe to the Dublin Festival of History Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Audible, or your preferred platform. Myles Dungan’s family was involved in four violent […]
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Between Two Hells: The Irish Civil War – Diarmaid Ferriter in Conversation with Ronan McGreevy
2021 Festival – Episode 7. Subscribe to the Dublin Festival of History Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Audible, or your preferred platform. At the end of the Irish War of […]
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Blood & Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871–1918 – Katja Hoyer in Conversation with Roger Moorhouse
2021 Festival – Episode 6. Subscribe to the Dublin Festival of History Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Audible, or your preferred platform. Before 1871, Germany was not a nation but […]
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Checkpoint Charlie: The Cold War, the Berlin Wall and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth – Iain MacGregor in Conversation with Jane Freeland
2021 Festival – Episode 5. Subscribe to the Dublin Festival of History Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Audible, or your preferred platform. Iain McGregor’s book is a powerful, fascinating, and […]