Podcast: The Jacobite Parliament of 1689, with Padraig Lenihan
Cathal Brennan and John Dorney speak to Padraig Lenihan about the ‘Patriot Parliament’ of 1689. First broadcast on the Irish History Show. …
Podcast: Ida Milne and the Spanish Flu of 1918
John Dorney interviews Dr Ida Milne on the ‘Spanish Flu’ pandemic of 1918. Ida Milne is the author of Stacking the Coffins, …
Podcast: Brian Hanley on Republican Policing in the Irish Revolution
Cathal Brennan and John Dorney talk to Brain Hanley here about the efforts of the Irish Republican Police to fight ‘ordinary crime’, …
Podcast: Siege Warfare in 17th Century Ireland, with Padraig Lenihan
Cathal Brennan and John Dorney speak to early modern military historian Padraig Lenihan about siege warfare in early modern Ireland, as broadcast …
Podcast: The 1927 election, John Jinks and the Collapse of the Fifth Dail
Cathal Brennan and John Dorney discuss the (almost) pivotal Irish election of 1927 and its aftermath. Also listen on the Irish History …
Interview: Joe Connell on Guerrilla Warfare in Ireland 1919-1921
Joe Connell is the author of the newly published, The Shadow War, Michael Collins and the Politics of Violence. Here he is …
Podcast: Irish pro-Franco Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War
Cathal Brennan interviews John Dorney on Eoin O’Duffy’s Irish Brigade that fought on the Francoist side of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). …