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 Dublin playwright Seán O’Casey; his formative years and what influenced his work, which incorporates so much of the social, cultural & political history of early twentieth century Dublin.This episode was recorded at the Round Room in the Mansion House, on 27th September, 2025. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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. Acclaimed historian Jane Draycott has used original sources to piece together Fulvia’s life and sort fact from fiction, while also exploring the role of women in Roman society.This episode was recorded at the Round Room in the Mansion House, on 27th September, 2025. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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 raises important questions in relation to long-term ideological Nazi goals and the immediate contingency thrown up by war. This episode was recorded at the Round Room in the Mansion House, on 28th September, 2025. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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 Denmark, recruited by Britain's Special Operations Executive in the wake of the Nazi invasion of Europe.This episode was recorded at the Round Room in the Mansion House, on 28th September, 2025. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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 ‘Filthy Queens: A History of Beer in Ireland’. Christina is a co-host of the Beer Ladies Podcast.This was first published as an online talk, recorded on 30th September 2025. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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 encouraged freedom fighters in India, just as the Jallianwala Bagh massacre at Amritsar in India in 1919 horrified the Irish public. Insensitive statements made by General Dyer during his trial were condemned by Irish newspapers that covered the Amritsar massacre. As researched by Jawhar Sircar, a journalist and retired civil servant of the Indian government.This was first published as an online talk, recorded on 1st October 2025. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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 History (1762) at Trinity College Dublin, examines how Empire and imperial frameworks, policies, practices, and cultures have shaped the history of the world for the last two millennia. Making Empire re-examines empire as a process and Ireland’s role in it through the lens of early modernity. This conversation was chaired by Professor Patrick Geoghegan.This episode was recorded at Printworks, Dublin Castle, on 28th September 2024. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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 last 50 years in Ireland. The country has seen violence in Northern Ireland, the collapse of the economy and bailout of the banks, the exposure of shocking abuse perpetrated by the Catholic Church and numerous referenda which have changed Irish society. So, when do recent events become history?Historians Diarmaid Ferriter, Caelainn Hogan and Mick Clifford in a conversation chaired by Frank McNally.This episode was recorded at Printworks, Dublin Castle, on 29th September 2024. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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 Archangel: The Tempestuous Lives of Roger Casement, chronicling the life and legacy of the British diplomat and Irish rebel executed for high treason. This conversation was chaired by author, researcher and lecturer Paraic Kerrigan.This episode was recorded at Printworks, Dublin Castle, on 28th September 2024. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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 determine the boundary between the Irish Free State and Northern Ireland. Dublin City Historian in Residence, Cormac Moore discusses the effects of the commission with Margaret O’Callaghan and Ed Burke, chaired by Ronan McGreevy.This episode was recorded at Printworks, Dublin Castle, on 28th September, 2024. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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 Matters, Myles Dungan, examines two hundred years of agrarian conflict from the ruinous famine of 1741 to the eve of World War Two.This episode was recorded at Printworks, Dublin Castle, on 28th September 2024. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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 volume in the award-winning Atlas Series. It presents fresh perspectives on, and a nuanced understanding of, the history of the Irish Civil War (1922–3). Speakers are Hélène O’Keeffe, Donal Ó Drisceoil, John Borgonovo and Mike Murphy.This episode was recorded at Printworks, Dublin Castle, on 27th September, 2024. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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 to Dublin’s tenements, Behan is regarded as one of the greatest Irish writers and poets of all time.Sheridan discusses his engagement with the work of Behan and his career more broadly.Peter Sheridan, is a playwright, screenwriter and director.This episode was recorded at 14 Henrietta Street, on October 11, 2023.Please note: This broadcast contains strong language and themes throughout.The Dublin Festival of History is brought to you by Dublin City Council, and organised by Dublin City Libraries, in partnership with Dublin City Council Culture Company. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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, including a comparison with the successful campaign for Repeal of the 8th. The fifth anniversary of that Referendum was on May 25 and the signing of Repeal into law took place on September 18, 2018.This episode was recorded at Central Library on September 28, 2023.The Dublin Festival of History is brought to you by Dublin City Council, and organised by Dublin City Libraries, in partnership with Dublin City Council Culture Company. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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 figure in twentieth century Irish art. Well regarded for his portraiture and landscape painting, Kernoff often focused on the depiction of Dublin, a city with which he became intimately familiar with, after the Kernoff family moved there in 1914. Kathryn Milligan is the author of ‘Painting Dublin, 1886-1949: Visualising a Changing City’.This episode was recorded at Pearse Street Library, on October 9, 2023.The Dublin Festival of History is brought to you by Dublin City Council, and organised by Dublin City Libraries, in partnership with Dublin City Council Culture Company. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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 Cabragh, Ashtown and Pelletstown from the 1920s to the 1960s. He connects the dots between migration and change of land ownership and development.Enda Finnan is a local resident and historian.This episode was recorded at Cabra Library, on October 12, 2023.The Dublin Festival of History is brought to you by Dublin City Council, and organised by Dublin City Libraries, in partnership with Dublin City Council Culture Company. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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, associated poverty with idleness, disease and moral decay and sought ways to prevent ‘foreign’ vagrants from ‘infesting’ the city. One response was to found Dublin’s first tax-funded workhouse in James’s Street in 1703. Francis Thackaberry is a former teacher, journalist, and arts administrator. This episode was recorded at 14 Henrietta Street, on October 9, 2023.The Dublin Festival of History is brought to you by Dublin City Council, and organised by Dublin City Libraries, in partnership with Dublin City Council Culture Company. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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 congregation, was born the son of a unitarian minister and made his life’s work the building of ‘a Brotherhood of Affection to Break Down the Brazen Walls of Separation’ which had been erected between ‘Irishmen by Distinctions of Rank, Property and Religious Persuasion’.Fergus Whelan is the author of ‘May Tyrants Tremble’.This episode was recorded at the Dublin Unitarian Church, on September 28, 2023.The Dublin Festival of History is brought to you by Dublin City Council, and organised by Dublin City Libraries, in partnership with Dublin City Council Culture Company. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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 study. He examines how after the Civil War, the Corporation continued to irritate the central Government and how the dissolution of Dublin Corporation came to be. Aodh Quinlivan is an author and senior lecturer.This episode was recorded at the Mansion House on September 27, 2023.The Dublin Festival of History is brought to you by Dublin City Council, and organised by Dublin City Libraries, in partnership with Dublin City Council Culture Company. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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 legislator and landlord, Sligo became enshrined in the history of Jamaica as ‘Emancipator of the Slaves’ and in Ireland as ‘The Poor Man’s Friend’. Anne Chambers is a biographer, novelist, and screenwriter. This episode was recorded at the Central Library, on October 4, 2023.The Dublin Festival of History is brought to you by Dublin City Council, and organised by Dublin City Libraries, in partnership with Dublin City Council Culture Company. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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 an insight into how in 1901, 803 Dubliners worked as cattle dealers, drovers, farriers and vets, yet over the course of the 20th century most of these animals, and most of these jobs, disappeared. Ann Marie Durkan is an Irish Research Council funded PhD candidate in Dublin City University.This episode was recorded at the Central Library, on October 3, 2023.The Dublin Festival of History is brought to you by Dublin City Council, and organised by Dublin City Libraries, in partnership with Dublin City Council Culture Company. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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 arc of the state they would go on to create, first under the watchful eye of Stalin, and then in an increasingly distinctive German fashion. From the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961, to the relative prosperity of the 1970s, and on to the creaking foundations of socialism in the mid-1980s, Hoyer argues that amid oppression and frequent hardship, East Germany was yet home to a rich political, social and cultural landscape, a place far more dynamic than the Cold War caricature often painted in the West.The Dublin Festival of History is brought to you by Dublin City Council, and organised by Dublin City Libraries, in partnership with Dublin City Council Culture Company. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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 crimes of Argentina’s own genocidal dictatorship in 1976-83. During the research for his book ‘The Real Odessa’ on the escape of Nazi war criminals, author Uki Goñi was surprised to discover that some escaped first to Ireland from where they made their way to Argentina.The Dublin Festival of History is brought to you by Dublin City Council, and organised by Dublin City Libraries, in partnership with Dublin City Council Culture Company. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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 Ireland. The conversation was hosted by journalist Susan McKay.The Dublin Festival of History is brought to you by Dublin City Council, and organised by Dublin City Libraries, in partnership with Dublin City Council Culture Company. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
'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 Terry Fagan of the North Inner-City Folklore Project draws on rich oral history collections from the area, explaining how Dublin’s Monto came to be, and why it lasted for so long. Terry Fagan is a historian and tour guide with a particular interest in the north inner-city.The Dublin Festival of History is brought to you by Dublin City Council, and organised by Dublin City Libraries, in partnership with Dublin City Council Culture Company. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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