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History Ireland magazine has now been in production for over 27 years. The History Ireland Podcast covers a wide variety of topics, from the earliest times to the present day, in an effort to give the listener a sense of the distant past but also to offer a contemporary edge.

134 - Where the murdering cannons roar’ —the American Civil War correspondence of the McMonagle family

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134 - Where the murdering cannons roar’ —the American Civil War correspondence of the McMonagle family
Fri, 16 Oct 2026
133 - Clare and America—from the Famine to Parnell
Fri, 16 Oct 2026
132 - Captain Bligh—hero or villain?
Fri, 09 Oct 2026
131 - A ‘unique relationship’?—Ireland and the USA 1920–present
Fri, 04 Sep 2026
130 - Irish America in the 1950s
Fri, 17 Apr 2026
129 - Ballyshannon—mapping the old town
Fri, 14 Nov 2025
128 - Where stands Dev 50 years on?
Fri, 05 Sep 2025
127 - Making sense of Trump’s America
Fri, 05 Sep 2025
126 - O’Connell 250—the Liberator reassessed
Wed, 06 Aug 2025
125 - Housing in Ireland—a history of dysfunction?
Fri, 13 Jun 2025
124 - A Future For Our Past — Museums in the 21st Century
Fri, 23 May 2025
123 - Making sense of the 2020 and 2024 general elections
Tue, 31 Dec 2024
122 - ‘Our man in Moscow’—50 years of Irish/Russian diplomatic relations
Mon, 07 Oct 2024
121 - Is Irish History ‘sea-blind’?
Fri, 04 Oct 2024
120 - How many died—and how—in the Irish Civil War?
Fri, 23 Aug 2024
119 - ‘Garrison games’—Niall Quinn tackles Oscar Traynor
Fri, 23 Aug 2024
118 - The Life and Times of Brendan O’Regan
Fri, 19 Apr 2024
117 - St Brigit 1500—who was she?
Fri, 09 Feb 2024
116 - ‘Taking her place amongst the nations of the earth’?—Ireland and the League of Nations
Fri, 17 Nov 2023
115 - Iníon Dubh and Red Hugh O’Donnell
Fri, 03 Nov 2023
114 - The Irish Civil War on film
Fri, 13 Oct 2023
113 - The life and legacy of Theobald Wolfe Tone
Fri, 15 Sep 2023
112 - Belfast: The story of a city and its people
Fri, 18 Aug 2023
111 - The post-Civil War economy of the Irish Free State
Fri, 11 Aug 2023
110 - Change and continuity—the general elections of 1922 and 1923
Fri, 21 Jul 2023
109 - Labour and the Civil War
Fri, 09 Jun 2023
108 - Photographs as historical sources
Fri, 02 Jun 2023
107 - Memorialising the Civil War
Fri, 19 May 2023
106 - Archbishop John Charles McQuaid—a reassessment
Fri, 07 Apr 2023
105 - A century on—how do we view the Irish Civil War?
Fri, 10 Mar 2023
104 - The Civil War in Kerry
Fri, 03 Mar 2023
103 - Reflections on the Decade of Centenaries
Fri, 03 Feb 2023
102 - W.B. Yeats and the Irish Free State
Fri, 09 Dec 2022
101 - Marú in Iarthar Chorcaí (Murder in West Cork)
Fri, 02 Dec 2022
100 - Donegal in the Civil War
Fri, 11 Nov 2022
99 - Irish Travellers and the State, 1922-2022—activism, advocacy and allyship
Fri, 21 Oct 2022
98 - The Irish Civil War—a military analysis
Fri, 14 Oct 2022
97 - What if Michael Collins had survived the Civil War?
Fri, 16 Sep 2022
96 - Unmanageable Revolutionaries—women in the ‘decade of centenaries’
Tue, 13 Sep 2022
95 - Michael Collins—man and myth
Mon, 22 Aug 2022
94 - Arthur Griffith, ‘father of us all’
Fri, 12 Aug 2022
93 - The life and times of Harry Boland
Fri, 05 Aug 2022
92 - The assassination of Sir Henry Wilson and the Irish Civil War
Wed, 22 Jun 2022
91 - The ‘Belleek/Pettigo triangle’, May/June 1922
Fri, 03 Jun 2022
90 - Sister against sister—women, the Treaty split and the Civil War
Fri, 20 May 2022
89 - Ulysses in history—history in Ulysses
Fri, 06 May 2022
88 - Burning the Big House—the story of the Irish country house in a time of war and revolution (Yale University Press)
Fri, 29 Apr 2022
87 - The internal politics of the IRA before the Civil War
Fri, 08 Apr 2022
86 - Northern Ireland in 1922
Thu, 24 Mar 2022
85 - ‘We English protest’—anti-colonial solidarity in the metropole
Fri, 11 Mar 2022
84 - A Century of An Garda Síochána
Fri, 25 Feb 2022
83 - Centenary of the Irish Race Congress, Paris, 21-28 January 1922
Fri, 21 Jan 2022
82 - ‘Dublin Castle has fallen!’—the handover, 16 January 1922
Sun, 16 Jan 2022
81 - Robert Barton—forgotten man of the Irish revolution?
Fri, 31 Dec 2021
80 - Dev and the Banner 1917–1926
Fri, 17 Dec 2021
79 - Pandemics then and now—a reassessment of the 1918 flu in the light of Covid
Tue, 14 Dec 2021
78 - The Treaty—good deal or bad deal?
Mon, 06 Dec 2021
77 - Colmcille 1500—man, myth and memory
Fri, 12 Nov 2021
76 - Ireland and the ‘Greater War’ in Europe—compare and contrast
Fri, 05 Nov 2021
75 - ‘Grand and Royal’—a history of Irish canals
Fri, 29 Oct 2021
74 - Crowd-funding the revolution—the underground administration
Fri, 24 Sep 2021
73 - Prisons and prisoners during the War of Independence
Thu, 09 Sep 2021
72 - Kenmare: History and survival—Fr John O’Sullivan and the Famine Poor
Fri, 03 Sep 2021
71 - Fingal in the revolutionary decade
Fri, 27 Aug 2021
70 - The propaganda war in the revolutionary decade
Fri, 13 Aug 2021
69 - Faith and Fury: the evangelical campaign in Dingle and West Kerry 1825–45
Fri, 06 Aug 2021
68 - Kilkenny in the Revolutionary Decade
Fri, 23 Jul 2021
67 - The Truce
Sun, 11 Jul 2021
66 - George V’s opening of the Northern Ireland parliament
Tue, 22 Jun 2021
65 - Mayo in the Revolutionary Decade
Fri, 11 Jun 2021
64 - The First Irish Cities: an eighteenth-century transformation
Wed, 09 Jun 2021
63 - The burning of the Custom House, 25 May 1921
Tue, 25 May 2021
62 - Conceived in controversy—230 years of the Custom House
Fri, 14 May 2021
61 - Wexford in the Revolutionary Decade
Fri, 23 Apr 2021
60 - A History of Partition from the 1920 Government of Ireland Act to Brexit
Fri, 09 Apr 2021
59 - Crossbarry, Co. Cork—the biggest engagement of the War of Independence
Fri, 19 Mar 2021
58 - Clare in the revolutionary decade
Fri, 12 Mar 2021
57 - Limerick 6/7 March 1921 Curfew Murders
Sun, 07 Mar 2021
56 - Gaelic Ulster in the Middle Ages: history, culture and society
Mon, 15 Feb 2021
55 - Katharine O’Shea centenary—what if she and Parnell never met?
Fri, 05 Feb 2021
54 - ‘Spies and informers beware!’—intelligence and counterintelligence in the War of Independence
Wed, 20 Jan 2021
53 - Kildare in the revolutionary decade
Mon, 11 Jan 2021
52 - Wicklow in the revolutionary decade (part 2, South)
Fri, 01 Jan 2021
51 - Wicklow in the revolutionary decade (part 1, North)
Mon, 07 Dec 2020
50 - The Government of Ireland Act 1920—100 years of partition
Tue, 01 Dec 2020
49 - History, Memory and Bloody Sunday 1920
Wed, 18 Nov 2020
48 - Belfast and the North 1920-22
Mon, 09 Nov 2020
47 - Bloody Sunday 1920—the Tipperary Connection
Mon, 02 Nov 2020
46 - Commemorating Bloody Sunday in the Junior Cycle history classroom
Fri, 30 Oct 2020
45 - The West’s awake!–Revolution in Roscommon 1916-1921
Tue, 27 Oct 2020
44 - ‘In Mountjoy Jail one Monday morning…’—the Irish Revolution in ballad and song
Fri, 16 Oct 2020
43 - 'Eye of the storm?’—Dublin and the War of Independence
Tue, 29 Sep 2020
42 - 'Better a state without public records than public records without a state’?
Thu, 24 Sep 2020
41 - Nenagh and North Tipperary during the revolutionary decade
Mon, 21 Sep 2020
40 - The Irish Republic abroad in 1920—Dev in America
Tue, 01 Sep 2020
39 - IRELAND, EMPIRE AND THE SEA
Fri, 07 Aug 2020
38 - Terence MacSwiney—martyrdom, civil resistance & the Irish Revolution
Sat, 01 Aug 2020
37 - Cork—Crucible of the War of Independence
Mon, 06 Jul 2020
36 - Derry and the North-West, 1920–22—War of Independence or Communal Conflict?
Tue, 30 Jun 2020
35 - The Connaught Rangers Mutiny—1920, 1970 & 2020
Sun, 28 Jun 2020

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