Best Dublin City Libraries Podcasts (2024)

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Exploring Whitefriar Street 17:11

1M ago17:11

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In this episode entitled Dublin your Knowledge, Dublin’s Historian in Residence for Children Dervilia Roche explores the local history of Whitefriar Street with the children of South City Community National School. This project led to the children making their own history podcast called 'Dublin your Knowledge', with help from Dervilia, comedy write…

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Curfews In Dublin 1:02:18

1M ago1:02:18

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In this episode entitled Curfews in Dublin 1920-1921, Dublin City Historian in Residence Elizabeth Kehoe talks about how the Covid pandemic led to a deeper research into the 1920-1921 curfew in Dublin, how it impacted people from all walks of life and industries, and how it was and still is used as a weapon of war.Interviewed by tour guide and hist…

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From Béal na Bláth to Arms Dump 1:02:31

3M ago1:02:31

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In this, the second of a two-part series on the Irish Civil War, Dublin City Historian in Residence Cathy Scuffil looks at events from Béal na Bláth to the Arms Dump.This episode was recorded as part of Dublin City Council’s Decade of Centenaries programme.By Dublin City Libraries & Archives

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From Treaty Talks to Fire at the Four Courts 38:54

3M ago38:54

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Welcome to the Dublin City Libraries podcast.In this, the first of a two-part series on the Irish Civil War, Dublin City Historian in Residence, Cormac Moore discusses events from the Treaty Talks to the Fire at the Four Courts.This episode was recorded as part of Dublin City Council’s Decade of Centenaries programme.…

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Fleapits, Palaces, and Multiplexes 32:05

3M ago32:05

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Welcome to the Dublin City Libraries podcast.In this episode, entitled Fleapits, Palaces, and Multiplexes Dublin City Historian in Residence Katie Blackwood explores the history of cinemas in Dublin.Listen to stories about the makeshift venues of the early days, the 1930s palaces of entertainment and the suburban cinemas of the mid to late twentiet…

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Prostitution in Dublin in the early 20th century 31:34

3M ago31:34

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Welcome to the Dublin City Libraries podcast.In this episode entitled Prostitution in Dublin in the early 20th Century, Dublin City Historian in Residence Mary Muldowney explores how prostitution became entangled with the cause of Irish Independence, as it was framed, not as a social issue, but as a symbol of degeneracy of the British Empire.Record…

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On Behan, On Dublin - in conversation with Peter Sheridan 1:00:53

8M ago1:00:53

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In this episode from the Dublin Festival of History 2023, Peter Sheridan marks the centenary of the birth of the writer Brendan Behan. Raised in Dublin’s north inner city and with strong connections to Dublin’s tenements, Behan is regarded as one of the greatest Irish writers and poets of all time. Sheridan discusses his engagement with the work of…

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From 8th Amendment to Repeal the 8th - with Mary Muldowney 42:49

9M ago42:49

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In this episode from the Dublin Festival of History 2023, Dublin City Council Historian in Residence, Dr Mary Muldowney, will discuss the 40th anniversary of the 8th Amendment to the Constitution, including a comparison with the successful campaign for Repeal of the 8th. The fifth anniversary of that Referendum was on May 25 and the signing of Repe…

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Harry Kernoff 1900-1974 - in conversation with Kathryn Milligan 42:41

9M ago42:41

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In this episode, from the Dublin Festival of History 2023, Kathryn Milligan discusses the work of artist Harry Kernoff. Born in London on the 9th of January 1900, Harry Aaron Kernoff was a prolific figure in twentieth century Irish art. Well regarded for his portraiture and landscape painting, Kernoff often focused on the depiction of Dublin, a cit…

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The evolution of Navan Road - in conversation with Enda Finnan 43:05

9M ago43:05

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In this episode, from the Dublin Festival of History 2023, Enda Finnan examines the Navan Road parish area and the transformation of the rural community and landscapes of the townlands of Greater Cabragh, Ashtown and Pelletstown from the 1920s to the 1960s. He connects the dots between migration and change of land ownership and development. Enda Fi…

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Industrious Poor and Rolling Vagabonds - in conversation with Francis Thackaberry 43:28

9M ago43:28

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In this episode, from the Dublin Festival of History 2023, Francis Thackaberry explores the attitudes and responses to poverty in eighteenth-century Dublin. The citizens of prosperous Georgian Dublin, associated poverty with idleness, disease and moral decay and sought ways to prevent ‘foreign’ vagrants from ‘infesting’ the city. One response was t…

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May Tyrants Tremble: The Life of William Drennan - with Fergus Whelan 43:59

9M ago43:59

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In this episode, from the Dublin Festival of History 2023, Fergus Whelan remembers the revolutionary and poet Dr William Drennan (1754-1820). Dr Drennan, a onetime elder of the Dublin Unitarian Church congregation, was born the son of a unitarian minister and made his life’s work the building of ‘a Brotherhood of Affection to Break Down the Brazen …

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Vindicating Dublin: Dublin Corporation and 1924 - in conversation with Aodh Quinlivan 46:53

9M ago46:53

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In this episode, from the Dublin Festival of History 2023, Aodh Quinlivan illustrates the strained relationship between the Irish Free State and Dublin Corporation, which was central to his recent study. He examines how after the Civil War, the Corporation continued to irritate the central Government and how the dissolution of Dublin Corporation ca…

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From Rake to Radical: An Irish Abolitionist - In conversation with Anne Chambers 36:06

9M ago36:06

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In this episode, from the Dublin Festival of History 2023, Anne Chambers tells us about Lord Sligo - from a youth of hedonistic self-indulgence in Regency England, to a reforming, responsible legislator and landlord, Sligo became enshrined in the history of Jamaica as ‘Emancipator of the Slaves’ and in Ireland as ‘The Poor Man’s Friend’. Anne Chamb…

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Animals in 20th Century Dublin: In conversation with Ann Marie Durkan 40:11

9M ago40:11

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In this episode, from the Dublin Festival of History 2023, Ann Marie Durkan will introduce the maps she prepared, which locate animals and animal-related businesses in Dublin City in 1911. It provides an insight into how in 1901, 803 Dubliners worked as cattle dealers, drovers, farriers and vets, yet over the course of the 20th century most of thes…

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City of Books #45 Andrew Meehan 41:29

1y ago41:29

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Coming Out: Author Andrew Meehan On Discovering He Writes Love StoriesAndrew Meehan is nailing his colours to the mast. He writes love stories, he says – although it took him until his third and most recent novel to recognise it.It was only as he was working on his latest novel, Instant Fires, that realisation dawned.“Halfway through I discovered, …

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City of Books #42 Lia Mills And Catherine Dunne 42:16

1y ago42:16

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Hidden Truths in Reissued Classics“Fiction sometimes unearths truths – and truths we’re not even aware of knowing,” says novelist Catherine Dunne.She’s talking about her novel, A Name For Himself, and Lia Mills’s novel Another Alice, reissued in new editions as part of the Arlen House Classic Literature.Both were published originally in the 1990s, …

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City of Books #10 Colum McCann on Motorbikes, Motivation and Middle East 48:39

1y ago48:39

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Writer Colum McCann talks about his hope that his book, Apeirogon, may contribute to peace. It fictionalises the true story of two fathers, an Israeli and a Palestinian, who each lose a child in the conflict.Elsewhere in the interview, Colum says he can’t write poetry but is drawn to it, and talks about writers he has known including Frank McCourt …

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Beyond the Wall: East Germany’s rich political and cultural landscape 41:47

1+ y ago41:47

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In Beyond the Wall, acclaimed historian Katja Hoyer offers a kaleidoscopic new vision of this vanished country. Beginning with the bitter experience of German Marxists exiled by Hitler, she traces the arc of the state they would go on to create, first under the watchful eye of Stalin, and then in an increasingly distinctive German fashion. From the…

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Uki Goñi to discuss how Nazi War criminals escaped Europe via Dublin 53:22

1+ y ago53:22

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The large influx of fugitive Nazis and collaborators in post-WWII Argentina created an environment that normalised the presence of such heinous criminals in society and by doing so facilitated the crimes of Argentina’s own genocidal dictatorship in 1976-83. During the research for his book ‘The Real Odessa’ on the escape of Nazi war criminals, auth…

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Peter Taylor: Operation Chiffon; The Secret Story of MI5 and MI6 and the Road to Peace in Ireland 56:27

1+ y ago56:27

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On the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, Peter Taylor tells for the first time the gripping story of Operation Chiffon, MI5’s top secret intelligence operation that helped bring peace to Ireland. The conversation was hosted by journalist Susan McKay. The Dublin Festival of History is brought to you by Dublin City Council, and organised…

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'Monto: Madams, Murder and Black Coddle' by Terry Fagan 56:59

1+ y ago56:59

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Monto: Madams, Murder and Black Coddle chronicles the history and reminiscences in a part of Dublin rich in the memories of its people. Recently republished, this history of the Monto district from Terry Fagan of the North Inner-City Folklore Project draws on rich oral history collections from the area, explaining how Dublin’s Monto came to be, and…

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Mary Wollstonecraft and 15 Henrietta Street: By Fergus Whelan 42:31

1+ y ago42:31

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Historian Fergus Whelan will discuss the life of writer, philosopher, and advocate of women’s rights Mary Wollstonecraft, her impact on the life of Margaret King of 15 Henrietta Street, and the links that bound the two women, even after Wollstonecraft’s untimely death. This talk is a collaboration between 14 Henrietta Street and Na Píobairí Uillean…

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Dublin v. Cork: A Tale of Two Eighteenth-Century Cities - A Lecture by David Dickson 1:04:33

2+ y ago1:04:33

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Dublin City Library and Archive hosts a lecture with David Dickson, titled ‘Dublin v. Cork: A Tale of Two Eighteenth-Century Cities’ To citizens of Dublin, their city has always been unquestionably the most important urban centre in the country. To citizens of Cork, this has never been entirely accepted. In the eighteenth century both cities far ou…

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LGBTQ+ and Public History - Richard O’Leary, Maurice J Casey and Kate Drinane in Conversation with Sara Phillips 1:12:57

2+ y ago1:12:57

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Welcome to the Dublin Festival of History Podcast, brought to you by Dublin City Council. In this episode from the 2021 Dublin Festival of History, we hear from practitioners who have worked on LGBTQ+ in public history, from grassroots projects to archives and museums. The speakers are Richard O’Leary, Maurice J Casey and Kate Drinane. The moderato…

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If Ever You Go To Dublin Town - Kathryn Milligan and Nicola Pierce in Conversation with Donal Fallon 1:02:54

2+ y ago1:02:54

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Donal Fallon speaks to two writers who have written recent books on the history of Dublin. In O’Connell Street: The History and Life of Dublin’s Iconic Street, Nicola Pierce explores the people, the history, the buildings and the stories behind the main street in our capital. Kathryn Milligan’s Painting Dublin, 1886-1949: Visualising a Changing Cit…

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George III: The Life and Reign of Britain's Most Misunderstood Monarch - Andrew Roberts in Conversation with Lisa Marie Griffith 53:04

2+ y ago53:04

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George III, Britain’s longest-reigning king, has gone down in history as ‘the cruellest tyrant of this age’. Andrew Roberts’s new biography takes entirely the opposite view. It portrays George as intelligent, benevolent, scrupulously devoted to the constitution of his country and (as head of government as well as head of state) navigating the turbu…

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The Irish Assassins: Conspiracy, Revenge and the Murders that Stunned an Empire - Julie Kavanagh in Conversation with Roy Foster 48:22

2+ y ago48:22

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On a sunlit evening in 1882, Lord Frederick Cavendish and Thomas Burke, Chief Secretary and Undersecretary for Ireland, were ambushed and stabbed to death while strolling through Phoenix Park in Dublin. The murders were carried out by the Invincibles, a militant faction of republicans armed with specially-made surgeon’s blades. The murders ended wh…

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Northern Protestants: On Shifting Ground - Susan McKay in Conversation with Martin Doyle 1:12:47

2+ y ago1:12:47

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Twenty years on from her critically acclaimed book, ‘Northern Protestants: An Unsettled People’, Susan McKay talks again to the Protestant community in Northern Ireland. The book contains interviews with politicians, former paramilitaries, victims and survivors, business people, religious leaders, community workers, young people, writers and others…

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Four Killings: Land, Hunger, Murder & Family in the Irish Revolution - Myles Dungan in Conversation with Catriona Crowe 1:09:00

2+ y ago1:09:00

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Myles Dungan’s family was involved in four violent deaths between 1915 and 1922. Jack Clinton, an immigrant small farmer from County Meath, was murdered in the remote and lawless Arizona territory by a powerful rancher’s hired assassin; three more died in Ireland, and each death is compellingly reconstructed in this extraordinary book. Mark Clinton…

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Exploring Whitefriar Street 17:11

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Curfews In Dublin 1:02:18

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From Béal na Bláth to Arms Dump 1:02:31

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From Treaty Talks to Fire at the Four Courts 38:54

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Fleapits, Palaces, and Multiplexes 32:05

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Prostitution in Dublin in the early 20th century 31:34

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On Behan, On Dublin - in conversation with Peter Sheridan 1:00:53

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From 8th Amendment to Repeal the 8th - with Mary Muldowney 42:49

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Harry Kernoff 1900-1974 - in conversation with Kathryn Milligan 42:41

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The evolution of Navan Road - in conversation with Enda Finnan 43:05

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Industrious Poor and Rolling Vagabonds - in conversation with Francis Thackaberry 43:28

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May Tyrants Tremble: The Life of William Drennan - with Fergus Whelan 43:59

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Vindicating Dublin: Dublin Corporation and 1924 - in conversation with Aodh Quinlivan 46:53

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From Rake to Radical: An Irish Abolitionist - In conversation with Anne Chambers 36:06

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Animals in 20th Century Dublin: In conversation with Ann Marie Durkan 40:11

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City of Books #45 Andrew Meehan 41:29

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City of Books #42 Lia Mills And Catherine Dunne 42:16

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City of Books #10 Colum McCann on Motorbikes, Motivation and Middle East 48:39

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Beyond the Wall: East Germany’s rich political and cultural landscape 41:47

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Uki Goñi to discuss how Nazi War criminals escaped Europe via Dublin 53:22

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Peter Taylor: Operation Chiffon; The Secret Story of MI5 and MI6 and the Road to Peace in Ireland 56:27

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'Monto: Madams, Murder and Black Coddle' by Terry Fagan 56:59

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Mary Wollstonecraft and 15 Henrietta Street: By Fergus Whelan 42:31

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Dublin v. Cork: A Tale of Two Eighteenth-Century Cities - A Lecture by David Dickson 1:04:33

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LGBTQ+ and Public History - Richard O’Leary, Maurice J Casey and Kate Drinane in Conversation with Sara Phillips 1:12:57

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If Ever You Go To Dublin Town - Kathryn Milligan and Nicola Pierce in Conversation with Donal Fallon 1:02:54

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George III: The Life and Reign of Britain's Most Misunderstood Monarch - Andrew Roberts in Conversation with Lisa Marie Griffith 53:04

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The Irish Assassins: Conspiracy, Revenge and the Murders that Stunned an Empire - Julie Kavanagh in Conversation with Roy Foster 48:22

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Northern Protestants: On Shifting Ground - Susan McKay in Conversation with Martin Doyle 1:12:47

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Four Killings: Land, Hunger, Murder & Family in the Irish Revolution - Myles Dungan in Conversation with Catriona Crowe 1:09:00

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