History Ireland

History Ireland

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.

Latest Episode

O’Connell 250—the Liberator reassessed (06.08.2025)

Previous Episodes

  • Housing in Ireland—a history of dysfunction? 13.06.2025
  • A Future For Our Past — Museums in the 21st Century 23.05.2025
  • Making sense of the 2020 and 2024 general elections 31.12.2024
  • ‘Our man in Moscow’—50 years of Irish/Russian diplomatic relations 07.10.2024
  • Is Irish History ‘sea-blind’? 04.10.2024
  • How many died—and how—in the Irish Civil War? 23.08.2024
  • ‘Garrison games’—Niall Quinn tackles Oscar Traynor 23.08.2024
  • The Life and Times of Brendan O’Regan 19.04.2024
  • St Brigit 1500—who was she? 09.02.2024
  • ‘Taking her place amongst the nations of the earth’?—Ireland and the League of Nations 17.11.2023
  • Iníon Dubh and Red Hugh O’Donnell 03.11.2023
  • The Irish Civil War on film 13.10.2023
  • The life and legacy of Theobald Wolfe Tone 15.09.2023
  • Belfast: The story of a city and its people 18.08.2023
  • The post-Civil War economy of the Irish Free State 11.08.2023
  • Change and continuity—the general elections of 1922 and 1923 21.07.2023
  • Labour and the Civil War 09.06.2023
  • Photographs as historical sources 02.06.2023
  • Memorialising the Civil War 19.05.2023
  • Archbishop John Charles McQuaid—a reassessment 07.04.2023

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