On this week's programme - History books for Christmas. Our panel of guests Sinead McCoole, Mark Duncan and Cathy Scuffil share their picks of the best books for the history lover in your life.

List of books mentioned

Lost Ireland by Orla Fitzpatrick (Pavilion)

Old Ireland in Colour 2 by John Breslin and Sarah-Anne Buckley (Irish Academic Press)

The Darkness Echoing: Exploring Ireland's Places of Famine, Death and Rebellion by Gillian O'Brien (Doubleday Ireland)

A Little History of the Future of Dublin by Frank McDonald (Martello Publishing)

On The Banks of the Dodder – Rathgar & Churchtown, An Illustrated History by Ged Walsh (O’Brien Press)

Semple Stadium: Field of Legends by Liam Ó Donnchú (O’Brien Press)

Unmanageable Revolutionaries by Margaret Ward (Arlen House)

On Dangerous Ground: A Memoir of the Irish Revolution by Maire Comerford, edited by Hillary Dully (Lilliput Press)

The Old Galway Diary by Ronnie O'Gorman and Tom Kenny (The Galway Advertiser)

Malton’s Views of Dublin – The Story of a Georgian City by Trevor White (Martello Publishing)

Midnight in London by Colum Kenny (Eastwood Books)

The Treaty: The gripping story of the Negotiations that brought about Irish Independence and led to the Civil War by Gretchen Friemann (Merrion Press)

Birth of a State: The Anglo-Irish Treaty by Míchael O’Fathartaigh and Liam Weeks (Irish Academic Press)

A Difficult Birth – The Early Years of Northern Ireland: 1920 – 25 by Alan F. Parkinson (Eastwood Books)

Birth of the Border by Cormac Moore (Merrion Press)

Country House Collections – Their Lives and Afterlives by Terence Dooley & Christopher Ridgeway (Four Courts Press)

On Tyranny Graphic Edition - Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder (Ten Speed Press)

Saint Stephen’s Green by Frank Hopkins (Mercier Press)

O’Connell Street: The History and Life of Dublin’s Iconic Street by Nicola Pierce (O’Brien Press)

The Coastal Atlas of Ireland (Cork University Press)

The First National Museum: Dublin's Natural History Museum in the mid-nineteenth century by Sherra Murphy (Cork University Press)

Irish Tweed: History, Tradition, Fashion by Vawn Corrigan (O’Brien Press)

Irish Aran: History, Tradition, Fashion by Vawn Corrigan (O’Brien Press)

All Strangers Here – 100 Years of Personal Writing from the Irish Foreign Service Edited by Ragnar Deeney Almqvist, Helena Nolan and Angela Byrne (Arlen House)

Break the Mould: How to Take Your Place in the World by Sinead Burke (Wren & Rook)