History

Why Did Ireland Want to Join the Spanish Empire?

Did you know Spain almost became Ireland’s ruler? Dive into a wild tale of secret alliances, missed opportunities, and Irish[…]

The Hanging of Kearneys | A Miscarriage of Justice? | Dublin in 1816 | Ireland In the early 1800s the[…]

Dr. Owen O’Shea, author of “From Bullets to Ballots” and an upcoming biography of Austin Stack, joins me for a[…]

Eamon Collins was in Newry on the morning of Sunday the ninth of May, 1987. What he learned confirmed what[…]

What did a Gaelic warrior actually look like? Not the romanticised image — the real thing, backed by historical evidence.[…]

*Listen to the full interview between Fin & James on the Irish History Podcast linktr.ee/irishhistory* In 1940, Nazi Germany had[…]

In this episode of The Celtic Way Podcast Series: Counties of Ireland by Irish Voices, Stephanie Woollard OAM speaks with[…]

The 1926 Census returns have been released online in a landmark initiative that gives the public an insight into the[…]

Cork, 600 AD. A monk founds a monastery on a marsh. Fourteen centuries later, British forces set the city centre[…]

More than 100 villagers were captured during the Sack of Baltimore and sold into North African slave markets as part[…]