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Listen to a wide range of talks, readings, lectures and performances which reflect the rich history and literature of Dublin city. Serving over half a million people, Dublin City Libraries is the largest library service in the Republic of Ireland.
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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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Eat, Sleep, History, Repeat! Podcast is made by St Catherine’s National School, Dublin City’s Historian in Residence for Children Dervilia Roche, and co-funded by The Digital Hub. Dublin City Historians in Residence programme is created by Dublin City Libraries, and is delivered in partnership with Dublin City Council Culture Company. Supported by …
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Making Empire: Ireland, Imperialism and the Early Modern World
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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 th…
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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 shock…
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Broken Archangel: The Tempestuous Lives of Roger Casement
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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. T…
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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 …
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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 rec…
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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 (192…
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In this episode entitled Dublin your Knowledge, Dublin’s Historian in Residence for Children Dervilia Roche explores the local history of Whitefriar Street with the children of South City Community National School. This project led to the children making their own history podcast called 'Dublin your Knowledge', with help from Dervilia, comedy write…
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In this episode entitled Curfews in Dublin 1920-1921, Dublin City Historian in Residence Elizabeth Kehoe talks about how the Covid pandemic led to a deeper research into the 1920-1921 curfew in Dublin, how it impacted people from all walks of life and industries, and how it was and still is used as a weapon of war.Interviewed by tour guide and hist…
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In this, the second of a two-part series on the Irish Civil War, Dublin City Historian in Residence Cathy Scuffil looks at events from Béal na Bláth to the Arms Dump.This episode was recorded as part of Dublin City Council’s Decade of Centenaries programme.By Dublin City Libraries & Archives
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From Treaty Talks to Fire at the Four Courts
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Welcome to the Dublin City Libraries podcast.In this, the first of a two-part series on the Irish Civil War, Dublin City Historian in Residence, Cormac Moore discusses events from the Treaty Talks to the Fire at the Four Courts.This episode was recorded as part of Dublin City Council’s Decade of Centenaries programme.…
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Welcome to the Dublin City Libraries podcast.In this episode, entitled Fleapits, Palaces, and Multiplexes Dublin City Historian in Residence Katie Blackwood explores the history of cinemas in Dublin.Listen to stories about the makeshift venues of the early days, the 1930s palaces of entertainment and the suburban cinemas of the mid to late twentiet…
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Prostitution in Dublin in the early 20th century
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Welcome to the Dublin City Libraries podcast.In this episode entitled Prostitution in Dublin in the early 20th Century, Dublin City Historian in Residence Mary Muldowney explores how prostitution became entangled with the cause of Irish Independence, as it was framed, not as a social issue, but as a symbol of degeneracy of the British Empire.Record…
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On Behan, On Dublin - in conversation with Peter Sheridan
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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…
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From 8th Amendment to Repeal the 8th - with Mary Muldowney
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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 Repe…
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Harry Kernoff 1900-1974 - in conversation with Kathryn Milligan
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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 cit…
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The evolution of Navan Road - in conversation with Enda Finnan
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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 Fi…
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Industrious Poor and Rolling Vagabonds - in conversation with Francis Thackaberry
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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 t…
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May Tyrants Tremble: The Life of William Drennan - with Fergus Whelan
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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 …
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Vindicating Dublin: Dublin Corporation and 1924 - in conversation with Aodh Quinlivan
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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 ca…
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From Rake to Radical: An Irish Abolitionist - In conversation with Anne Chambers
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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 Chamb…
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Animals in 20th Century Dublin: In conversation with Ann Marie Durkan
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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 thes…
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Coming Out: Author Andrew Meehan On Discovering He Writes Love StoriesAndrew Meehan is nailing his colours to the mast. He writes love stories, he says – although it took him until his third and most recent novel to recognise it.It was only as he was working on his latest novel, Instant Fires, that realisation dawned.“Halfway through I discovered, …
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City of Books #42 Lia Mills And Catherine Dunne
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Hidden Truths in Reissued Classics“Fiction sometimes unearths truths – and truths we’re not even aware of knowing,” says novelist Catherine Dunne.She’s talking about her novel, A Name For Himself, and Lia Mills’s novel Another Alice, reissued in new editions as part of the Arlen House Classic Literature.Both were published originally in the 1990s, …
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City of Books #10 Colum McCann on Motorbikes, Motivation and Middle East
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Writer Colum McCann talks about his hope that his book, Apeirogon, may contribute to peace. It fictionalises the true story of two fathers, an Israeli and a Palestinian, who each lose a child in the conflict.Elsewhere in the interview, Colum says he can’t write poetry but is drawn to it, and talks about writers he has known including Frank McCourt …
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Beyond the Wall: East Germany’s rich political and cultural landscape
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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…
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Uki Goñi to discuss how Nazi War criminals escaped Europe via Dublin
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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, auth…
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Peter Taylor: Operation Chiffon; The Secret Story of MI5 and MI6 and the Road to Peace in Ireland
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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…
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'Monto: Madams, Murder and Black Coddle' by Terry Fagan
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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…
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Mary Wollstonecraft and 15 Henrietta Street: By Fergus Whelan
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Historian Fergus Whelan will discuss the life of writer, philosopher, and advocate of women’s rights Mary Wollstonecraft, her impact on the life of Margaret King of 15 Henrietta Street, and the links that bound the two women, even after Wollstonecraft’s untimely death. This talk is a collaboration between 14 Henrietta Street and Na Píobairí Uillean…
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