Sunday 22nd October
The History Show 22nd Oct 2017 - Full Show Podcast
Full programme podcast featuring discussion of Catalonian Independence; a major undertaking at the National Library; working lives of Dublin Dockers as told in the new book by Don Bennett and Aileen O'Carroll; and Irishmen in the Korean War.
Irishmen in the Korean War
Historian Liz Gillis joins Myles to talk about Irish men who fought in the Korean war, men whose voices she found in the RTÉ Archives.
The Dublin Docker
Author Aileen O'Carroll and former docker Paddy Daly talk to Myles about working lives of our capital's port. With Don Bennett, Aileen is co-author of the new book The Dublin Docker: Working Lives of Dublin's Deep-Sea Port.
A Moving Experience at The National Library
Lorcan Clancy talks to Katherine McSharry about a major undertaking that's happening at The National Library on Kildare Street.
Catalonia and Independence
To discuss the history behind the Catalan independence movement, and its connection with Ireland, Myles is joined by Manus O'Riordan, Ireland Secretary of the International Brigades Memorial Trust.
Sunday 15th October
The History Show 15th Oct 2017 - Full Show Podcast
Full programme podcast featuring a discussion on confederate monuments; the history of Irish housing policy, the story of Patrick McCartan; celebrating women in Irish medicine
Women in Medicine
Harriet Wheelock from the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland previews an event celebrating historical women in the field of medicine.
Mission to Moscow
Rhona Tarrant speaks to historian Donal Fallon about the story of Patrick McCartan, the Irish republican who made a secret loan deal with the Soviets in the early 1920s.
Housing Policy in Ireland
Diarmaid Ferriter of University College Dublin takes us through housing policy in Ireland since the foundation of the state.
Removal of Confederate Monuments
Historian Dan Geary, cultural journalist Clara Rose Thornton and historian John Gibney discuss the ongoing removal of Confederate monuments in the USA, and whether or not we should take look at some of our own statues and monuments with fresh scrutiny.
Sunday 8th October
Atlas of the Irish Revolution
The Atlas of the Irish Revolution is a new book which sets out to illuminate the revolutionary period, drawing together new research and a range of perspectives. Editors Donal O'Drisceoil and Mike Murphy. and contributor Catriona Crowe talk to Myles.
Coffee Culture in Ireland
Colette Kinsella speaks to food historian Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire about coffee house culture in Ireland, a tradition which stretches back to the mid 17th century.
News from the Archive
Catriona Crowe on the newly catalogued Chief Secretary's Registered Papers, which shed light on ordinary life in the 19th century.
Australia State Visit
Myles speaks to President Higgins at Áras an Uachtaráin ahead of the state visit to Australia and New Zealand, and historian Jennifer Wellington picks out some stops of historic interest on the President's tour.
President Michael D Higgins - Extended Interview
President Higgins speaks to Myles Dungan about his family history, the variety of experiences of Irish emigrants to Australia, the idea of ‘ethical memory’ in relation to the upcoming centenary of the Irish Civil War, and he talks about why he hasn’t yet announced whether or not he’s running for a second term.
Monday 5th June
The History Show 5th June 2017
On this week’s show – the last of the season – we’re looking at significant summers in Irish and world history: we hear why riots happen more often in hot weather; we hear what Ireland’s farmers in the summer of ‘46 really thought of the civil servants who helped them save the harvest; and we visit Ireland’s first purpose-built tourist resort.
Significant European Summers
Heather Jones from the London School of Economics looks at the Summer of Innocence [1914] and Russia’s Revolutionary Summer of 1917.
Greenore, Co. Louth, and its place in Irish tourist history
Elaine Keogh reports from Greenore, Co. Louth, on its place in Irish tourist history. She speaks to local historian, Brian Larkin.
Why do riots happen in Hot Weather?
Consultant Psychiatrist at Tallaght Hospital, Brendan Kelly, gives an overview of scientific research which suggests that both interpersonal and group violence increase along with temperatures.
Big American Summers
Sandra Scanlon lectures in history at UCD, but is currently based in Atlanta, Georgia. She looks at the Red Summer of 1919; the Freedom Summer of 1964; and the ‘Summer of Hate’ in 1968.
Irish Summers of note
UCD historian, Paul Rouse and Met Eireann Deputy Head of Forecasting, Evelyn Cusack recall some significant summers in Irish history.
Sunday 28th May
Jackie Kennedy's visit to Waterford
Orla Rapple took a visit to the Waterford house that was Jackie Kennedy’s holiday home for four weeks that summer.
Harvey O'Brien on The Graduate
Harvey O’Brien, who teaches Film Studies at UCD, has been reflecting.
Eamon Dunphy on the 'Lisbon Lions'
RTÉ Soccer analyst, Eamon Dunphy - who was playing for Millwall that year - remembers.
History Show - This week, we’re winding the clocks back fifty years to 1967
This week we're remembering the year 1967 with historian, Kate O'Malley, archivist, Catriona Crowe, and sociologist Niamh Hourigan.
Sunday 21st May
Forthcoming History Events
Details of some of the historical events being commemorated around Ireland this June
Micheline Sheehy-Skeffington
This time 100 years ago Hanna Sheehy Skeffington was on a tour of the US raising awareness of the Irish cause; and of the plight of her husband Francis Sheehy Skeffington who had been murdered during the Easter Rising – though he had no part in it. This summer her grand-daughter will travel to New York following in her granny’s footsteps.
The Donegal Corridor
In World War II, a four-mile stretch of Donegal played a small – but significant - role in the Battle of the Atlantic. Reporter and history teacher Marc McMenamin reports on the so-called ‘Donegal Corridor’.
The 'Saturday Night Massacre'
Comparisons have been made all week between President Trump’s firing of the FBI Director, James Comey, and Nixon’s firing of the Watergate Special Prosecutor, Archibald Cox, in 1973. That incident became known as the ‘Saturday Night Massacre’. Dr. David Fitzgerald, historian at UCC, is here to tell us more about that night in 1973
The Story of Ireland's First Ordnance Survey Maps
This week, in a column for The History Show, writer Mary Russell, tells the story of how the very first Ordnance Survey maps of Ireland – long before GPS - were created.
Controversial Garda Commissioners of the Past
UCD’s Diarmaid Ferriter is here to take us through some of the most controversial Garda Commissioners of the past, and the scandals that brought some of them down
Sunday 14th May
John F. Kennedy – the man, the myth, the legacy
This week’s show is a special programme to mark the approaching centenary of the birth of John F. Kennedy
Samantha Power - Extended
Click here to listen to an extended version of Myles Dungan's interview with Samantha Power about John F Kennedy.
Sunday 7th May
Ronan McGreevy on Willie Redmond
Author and journalist, Ronan McGreevy, has been reflecting on the death – one hundred years ago – of Willie Redmond.
Songs of the Irish Revolution
Music historian, archivist and uilleann piper, Terry Moylan and Daoirí Farrell performs some of the songs of the Irish revolution
History's Youngest Ever Leaders
Writer and broadcaster, Jonathan Creasy, takes a look at some of history’s youngest ever leaders: from Alexander the Great to Mary Queen of Scots.
Sunday 30th April
Michael Collins's Dublin 1916-22
Historian Joseph Connell speaks to Myles about the story of Michael Collins in Dublin in the years between the Rising and his death in 1922.
History Bites: 18th Century Internet
Colette Kinsella, visits Maynooth University’s Russell Library with librarian, Penny Woods,
Why are Irish Websites Disappearing?!
Helen Shenton, the director of the Trinity College Library.
The Mother Baby Scheme controversy of the 1950s
Jennifer Redmond, historian at Maynooth University, is here to give us a very quick reminder.
300 Years of Property Booms & Busts
Frank Quinn and Karl Deeter tell Myles about the 19th Century’s answer to NAMA and Anglo Irish Bank.
Sunday 23rd April
How Offaly produced a Very Controversial Australian Politician
Author, Jeff Kildea, is over from Australia to launch the first volume of his biography of Hugh Mahon this Wednesday.
Who Was Alexander Hamilton?
Ciaran Brady historian at Trinity College is here to tell us more about the man himself who was the first Secretary of the Treasury
Sunday 16th April
A year on from the Easter Rising
Myles is joined by Galway historian, Gearóid Ó Tuathaigh; Belfast playwright Philip Orr; by Katherine McSharry from the National Library; and Mark Duncan from Century Ireland. There's also music from Andy Irvine and Kate O'Callaghan; a poetry reading by actor, Barry McGovern; and a reflection by writer, Dermot Bolger.
Sunday 9th April
Women in Sport
The Irish Women's soccer team were in the news this week but we look into some other challenges our women faced in sport long ago,
Georgian Windows - History Bites
Through the looking glass of Dublin's Georgian Windows
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