This series will explore the history of what is arguably the most significant event in Irish history.

She was no ordinary aristocrat - Olive was the last of her kind...

In the summer of 1970, Belfast stood on the precipice of war. By June, months of rising tensions burst into violence, setting the stage for one of the most controversial British military operations of the Troubles – the Falls Curfew. This three-day siege of a large nationalist working-class community marked a point of no return for many.

A fascinating journey through the last 1500 years of Irish History looking at some of the most fascinating chapters in the island’s past.

This series explains the backdrop of the Spanish Civil War, the crisis that consumed Spanish politics in the 1930s and the far reaching implications of that conflict not least for people in Ireland.

Transatlantic, the new podcast from Fin Dwyer and Damian Shiels, explores the history between Ireland and North America.

Irish History Podcasts’s Irish in Britain Series

The Mysteries of Ireland

This podcast tells the stories of the men and women who forged vibrant Irish communities in the face of adversity.

Ireland and World War II. Listen now to life in Ireland during World War II an discover stories unheard before.

In this series we will talk about how the First World War destabilised Irish society, the 1916 Rising, the ambush at Soloheadbeg and more.

In the late 1960s, Northern Ireland was plunged into major violence. The conflict known as the Troubles would claim thousands of lives and continues to dominate life on the island of Ireland.

Podcasting is much older than you might imagine. A decade before the true crime show Serial took the world by storm, creators were making some of the earliest shows.

This series tries to explain why a relatively short conflict with a comparatively small number of fatalities could have such an impact

The struggle of the French Resistance against the Nazi Occupation of France remains one of the most famous chapters in World War II history. It has been immortalised in numerous film and books. However, the story of the dozens of Irish people who served in the Resistance has been almost completely forgotten.

The Lingaun Valley is a little known valley that forms the border between Co. Kilkenny and Co. Tipperary. While the societies and kingdoms that fought and died over this valley are long vanished the region is littered with their remains in the tombs, religious sites, castles and battlefields.

From The First Modern Royal Visit to Ireland to Cocaine, Murder & Inquests: A Night on The Town in Victorian Waterford to Kylemore Abbey. Join Fin as he discusses Victorian Ireland.

Land has been the cause of some of the most vicious feuds and brutal murders in modern Irish history. In a society where people developed what was an unhealthy obsession with land, there were all too many willing to kill friends family and neighbours over it. 

Several theories have been forwarded to explain the brutal murder that came to light in a bog at Oldcroghan in 2003. Through meticulous research, the former Keeper of Antiquities in the National Museum of Ireland Eamon Kelly has developed the most convincing explanation. In this episode he reveals who exactly the victim was and why he died.

This series is about people who for one reason or another lived at the periphery of Irish society.