The Dublin Festival of History is an annual free festival, brought to you by Dublin City Council, and organised by Dublin City Libraries, in partnership with the Dublin City Council Culture Company. The Festival has gained a reputation for attracting best-selling Irish and international historians to Dublin for a high-profile weekend of history talks and debate. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Sean O'Casey and the Dublin that made him (00:41:50)
This episode, from the Dublin Festival of History 2025, is the 28th annual Sir John T. Gilbert Commemorative Lecture, delivered by Professor Diarmaid Ferriter of University College Dublin on the Dubli...
Fulvia: The Woman Who Broke All the Rules in Ancient Rome (00:48:14)
This episode, from the Dublin Festival of History 2025, celebrates the charismatic Fulvia who amassed a degree of military and political power that was unprecedented for a woman in Ancient Rome. Accla...
The Last Transport: The Holocaust in the Eastern Aegean (00:48:02)
In this episode, from the Dublin Festival of History 2025, author Anthony McElligott talks about his book The Last Transport: The Holocaust in the Eastern Aegean, and why the timing of the transport r...
Mission Europe: The Secret History of the Women of Special Operations Executive (00:42:03)
In this episode, from the Dublin Festival of History 2025, author Kate Vigurs tells the stories of the lesser-known women who worked across Europe, from the Netherlands to Belgium and Poland to Denmar...
Filthy Queens: A History of Beer in Ireland (00:50:46)
In this episode, from the Dublin Festival of History 2025, Dr Christina Wade looks at the history of beer alongside some of the biggest events in the story of Ireland, as explored in her book titled ‘...
Getting Our Act Together – Interaction and Unity Between Irish and Indian Radicals (00:53:56)
This episode, from the Dublin Festival of History 2025, discusses the common revolutionary sentiments in Ireland and India in the struggle against British occupation. The Easter Rising of 1916 encoura...
Making Empire: Ireland, Imperialism and the Early Modern World (00:39:52)
Welcome to the Dublin Festival of History podcast, brought to you by Dublin City Council.In this episode, from the Dublin Festival of History 2024, Jane Ohlmeyer, Erasmus Smith’s Professor of Modern H...
The Trouble with Recent History (00:45:50)
Welcome to the Dublin Festival of History podcast, brought to you by Dublin City Council.This episode, from the Dublin Festival of History 2024, discusses the turbulent and troubled history of the las...
Broken Archangel: The Tempestuous Lives of Roger Casement (00:46:11)
Welcome to the Dublin Festival of History podcast, brought to you by Dublin City Council.In this episode, from the Dublin Festival of History 2024, author Roland Phillips discusses his book Broken Arc...
The Boundary Commission (00:49:42)
Welcome to the Dublin Festival of History podcast, brought to you by Dublin City Council.This episode, from the Dublin Festival of History 2024, is about the Boundary Commission set up in 1924, to det...
Land Is All That Matters - Myles Dungan (00:37:39)
Welcome to the Dublin Festival of History podcast, brought to you by Dublin City Council.In this episode, from the Dublin Festival of History 2024, Irish broadcaster and author of Land Is All That Mat...
New Perspectives on the Irish Civil War (00:48:53)
Welcome to the Dublin Festival of History podcast, brought to you by Dublin City Council.This episode, from the Dublin Festival of History 2024, celebrates the Atlas of the Irish Civil War, the latest...
On Behan, On Dublin - in conversation with Peter Sheridan (01:00:53)
In this episode from the Dublin Festival of History 2023, Peter Sheridan marks the centenary of the birth of the writer Brendan Behan. Raised in Dublin’s north inner city and with strong connections t...
From 8th Amendment to Repeal the 8th - with Mary Muldowney (00:42:49)
In this episode from the Dublin Festival of History 2023, Dublin City Council Historian in Residence, Dr Mary Muldowney, will discuss the 40th anniversary of the 8th Amendment to the Constitution, inc...
Harry Kernoff 1900-1974 - in conversation with Kathryn Milligan (00:42:41)
In this episode, from the Dublin Festival of History 2023, Kathryn Milligan discusses the work of artist Harry Kernoff.Born in London on the 9th of January 1900, Harry Aaron Kernoff was a prolific fig...
The evolution of Navan Road - in conversation with Enda Finnan (00:43:05)
In this episode, from the Dublin Festival of History 2023, Enda Finnan examines the Navan Road parish area and the transformation of the rural community and landscapes of the townlands of Greater Cabr...
Industrious Poor and Rolling Vagabonds - in conversation with Francis Thackaberry (00:43:28)
In this episode, from the Dublin Festival of History 2023, Francis Thackaberry explores the attitudes and responses to poverty in eighteenth-century Dublin. The citizens of prosperous Georgian Dublin...
May Tyrants Tremble: The Life of William Drennan - with Fergus Whelan (00:43:59)
In this episode, from the Dublin Festival of History 2023, Fergus Whelan remembers the revolutionary and poet Dr William Drennan (1754-1820). Dr Drennan, a onetime elder of the Dublin Unitarian Church...
Vindicating Dublin: Dublin Corporation and 1924 - in conversation with Aodh Quinlivan (00:46:53)
In this episode, from the Dublin Festival of History 2023, Aodh Quinlivan illustrates the strained relationship between the Irish Free State and Dublin Corporation, which was central to his recent stu...
From Rake to Radical: An Irish Abolitionist - In conversation with Anne Chambers (00:36:06)
In this episode, from the Dublin Festival of History 2023, Anne Chambers tells us about Lord Sligo - from a youth of hedonistic self-indulgence in Regency England, to a reforming, responsible legislat...
Animals in 20th Century Dublin: In conversation with Ann Marie Durkan (00:40:11)
In this episode, from the Dublin Festival of History 2023, Ann Marie Durkan will introduce the maps she prepared, which locate animals and animal-related businesses in Dublin City in 1911. It provides...
Beyond the Wall: East Germany’s rich political and cultural landscape (00:41:47)
In Beyond the Wall, acclaimed historian Katja Hoyer offers a kaleidoscopic new vision of this vanished country. Beginning with the bitter experience of German Marxists exiled by Hitler, she traces the...
Uki Goñi to discuss how Nazi War criminals escaped Europe via Dublin (00:53:22)
The large influx of fugitive Nazis and collaborators in post-WWII Argentina created an environment that normalised the presence of such heinous criminals in society and by doing so facilitated the cri...
Peter Taylor: Operation Chiffon; The Secret Story of MI5 and MI6 and the Road to Peace in Ireland (00:56:27)
On the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, Peter Taylor tells for the first time the gripping story of Operation Chiffon, MI5’s top secret intelligence operation that helped bring peace to ...
'Monto: Madams, Murder and Black Coddle' by Terry Fagan (00:56:59)
Monto: Madams, Murder and Black Coddle chronicles the history and reminiscences in a part of Dublin rich in the memories of its people. Recently republished, this history of the Monto district from T...
