The History Show
RTÉ Radio 1Bringing the past to life! Discover how Ireland and our world was shaped as Myles Dungan and guests explore events ranging from medieval times to the recent past. Listen live Sundays at 6pm on RTÉ Radio 1.
Full Show Podcast - 4th May 2025
May 4 • 45m
Leaving Certificate History
May 4 • 34m
Testimony at the Border, 1925
May 4 • 9m
The Truth Recovery Process
Apr 27 • 21m
Full Show Podcast - 27th April 2025
Apr 27 • 49m
The Papal Conclave
Apr 27 • 11m
The Fenian Invasion of Canada, 1866
Apr 27 • 15m
Full Show Podcast - 20th April 2025
Apr 20 • 46m
Irish Nationalism in Britain, 1912-1922
Apr 20 • 20m
Full Show Podcast - 13th April 2025
Apr 13 • 47m
The Great Irish Fossil Hunt
Apr 13 • 13m
The Irish Expedition to Everest, 1993
Apr 13 • 10m
The Making of Eamon De Valera
Apr 13 • 23m
Full Show Podcast - 6th April 2025
Apr 6 • 48m
The Grangegorman Histories Project
Apr 6 • 10m
The Little Rock Nine
Apr 6 • 19m
Reading Espionage Fiction
Apr 6 • 16m
Joined in Butter: Irish home butter-makers
Mar 30 • 8m
Power and Powerlessness in Union Ireland
Mar 30 • 19m
Cottage Industry in Post Medieval Ireland
Mar 30 • 16m
Full Show Podcast - 30th March 2025
Mar 30 • 46m
Documents on Irish Foreign Policy 1969-1973
Mar 23 • 48m
The Lough Ree Monster
Mar 16 • 14m
Full Show Podcast - 16th March 2025
Mar 16 • 51m
Seumas MacManus
Mar 16 • 17m
T.K. Whitaker: Irishman of the 20th Century
Mar 16 • 17m
Full Show Podcast - 9th March 2025
Mar 9 • 45m
Filthy Queens: A History of Beer in Ireland
Mar 9 • 19m
Full Show Podcast - 2nd March 2025
Mar 2 • 50m
The Gaeltacht Civil Rights Movement
Mar 2 • 22m
The Mass Hunger Strike of 1923
Nov 10, 2024 • 11m
Jonathan Swift: Savage Indignation
Nov 10, 2024 • 31m
Full Show Podcast - 10th November 2024
Nov 10, 2024 • 44m
The Nastiest Presidential Elections in US History
Nov 3, 2024 • 1h 4m
The Irish in Multicultural Britain
Oct 27, 2024 • 18m
Full Show Podcast - 27th October 2024
Oct 27, 2024 • 45m
Dracula, Frankenstein and Ballyshannon
Oct 27, 2024 • 6m
The Convening of the Irish Boundary Commission
Oct 27, 2024 • 19m
Thomas Keneally on John Mitchel
Oct 20, 2024 • 17m
Full Show Podcast - 20th October 2024
Oct 20, 2024 • 52m
The Shooting of Richard Bertles
Oct 20, 2024 • 13m
Irish Food History
Oct 13, 2024 • 20m
Full Show Podcast - 13th October 2024
Oct 13, 2024 • 54m
Race, Politics, and Irish America
Oct 13, 2024 • 19m
Remembering our Community Midwives
Oct 13, 2024 • 12m
U.S. First Ladies: Making History and Leaving Legacies
Oct 6, 2024 • 14m
Full Show Podcast - 6th October 2024
Oct 6, 2024 • 55m
Lower than the Angels: A History of Sex and Christianity
Oct 6, 2024 • 18m
The Irish Jacobite Army
Oct 6, 2024 • 20m
Hotel Lux: An Intimate History of Communism's Forgotten Radicals
Sep 29, 2024 • 26m
Broken Archangel: The Tempestuous Lives of Roger Casement
Sep 29, 2024 • 35m
Full Show Podcast - 29th September 2024
Sep 29, 2024 • 1h 3m
Niall Quinn on the life of Oscar Traynor
Sep 22, 2024 • 1h 2m
Full Show Podcast - 15th September 2024
Sep 15, 2024 • 45m
On Board Air Force One on 9/11
Sep 15, 2024 • 12m
John Steinbeck's Irish Heritage
Sep 15, 2024 • 7m
The Irish in the Resistance
Sep 15, 2024 • 24m
Full Show Podcast - 8th September 2024
Sep 8, 2024 • 49m
Saint Brigid at 1500
Sep 8, 2024 • 20m
Blood And Thunder: Rugby and Irish Life
Sep 8, 2024 • 14m
Laurel and Hardy in Ireland
Sep 8, 2024 • 12m
The Quest for the Irish Celt
May 26, 2024 • 18m
Two Wives
May 26, 2024 • 8m
The Tailteann Games
May 26, 2024 • 11m
The Avignon Papacy
May 26, 2024 • 10m
Full Show Podcast - 26th May 2024
May 26, 2024 • 49m
Floyd Patterson
May 19, 2024 • 7m
Dublin's Modern Architectural History
May 19, 2024 • 27m
Jimmy Elliott
May 19, 2024 • 13m
Full Show Podcast - 19th May 2024
May 19, 2024 • 49m
Full Show Podcast - 5th May 2024
May 5, 2024 • 46m
The Irish Civil War Fatalities Project
May 5, 2024 • 23m
Marino 100
May 5, 2024 • 21m
The Princess Grace Irish Library
Apr 28, 2024 • 8m
Two Centuries of Disappearances in Ireland
Apr 28, 2024 • 34m
Long Island, Coney Island
Apr 28, 2024 • 4m
Full Show Podcast - 28th April 2024
Apr 28, 2024 • 49m
Full Show Podcast - 14th April 2024
Apr 14, 2024 • 41m
Lord George Hill
Apr 14, 2024 • 19m
One Photograph, Many Stories
Apr 14, 2024 • 21m
The Courts of Justice Act 1924
Apr 7, 2024 • 15m
Full Show Podcast - 7th April 2024
Apr 7, 2024 • 48m
Bury, Beaumont and Belvedere House
Apr 7, 2024 • 13m
George Mallory's Pursuit of Everest's Peak
Apr 7, 2024 • 19m
The Waterboys - Two Irishmen and the Politics of Water in California
Mar 24, 2024 • 46m
The Irish Land Commission Archive
Mar 17, 2024 • 45m
Joseph EA Connell
Mar 10, 2024 • 15m
Full Show Podcast - 10th March 2024
Mar 10, 2024 • 46m
Two Bishops, Two Paintings
Mar 10, 2024 • 6m
Dentistry in Ireland
Mar 10, 2024 • 18m
The Founding Father of Artificial Intelligence
Mar 3, 2024 • 15m
Full Show Podcast - 3rd March 2024
Mar 3, 2024 • 47m
The An Gaodhal Project
Mar 3, 2024 • 7m
The Diaries of Kathleen Lynn
Mar 3, 2024 • 22m
Full Show Podcast - 5th November 2023
Nov 5, 2023 • 46m
The Killing of Francis Murphy
Nov 5, 2023 • 24m
Harry Clarke's Geneva Window
Nov 5, 2023 • 7m
Comic Books in 1950s Ireland
Nov 5, 2023 • 12m
The Politics of Land, Part Two
Oct 29, 2023 • 50m
The Politics of Land
Oct 22, 2023 • 49m
The First Ascent of Everest
Oct 15, 2023 • 6m
Barristers in Ireland
Oct 15, 2023 • 21m
Full Show Podcast - 15th October 2023
Oct 15, 2023 • 54m
The Coffin Ship
Oct 15, 2023 • 24m
The Irish Coroner
Oct 8, 2023 • 23m
Ancestral Voices in Irish Politics: Judging Dillon and Parnell
Oct 8, 2023 • 22m
Full Show Podcast - 8th October 2023
Oct 8, 2023 • 46m
The Harlan Strauss Tapes
Oct 1, 2023 • 53m
The Drowned Village
Sep 24, 2023 • 49m
Full Show Podcast - 17th September 2023
Sep 17, 2023 • 46m
The Lost Irish Miners of Leadville
Sep 17, 2023 • 23m
The County History and Society Series
Sep 17, 2023 • 21m
From Rake to Radical: An Irish Abolitionist
Sep 10, 2023 • 22m
Funmi and Augustine
Sep 10, 2023 • 8m
Athlone's Nuclear Bunker
Sep 10, 2023 • 14m
Full Show Podcast - 10th September 2023
Sep 10, 2023 • 46m
William Webb Ellis
Sep 3, 2023 • 10m
Killester Garden Village
Sep 3, 2023 • 11m
Ireland and The League of Nations
Sep 3, 2023 • 24m
Full Show Podcast - 3rd September 2023
Sep 3, 2023 • 47m
The Irish Defence Forces, 1922–2022
Apr 30, 2023 • 31m
Full Show Podcast - 30th April 2023
Apr 30, 2023 • 58m
The Silent Civil War
Apr 30, 2023 • 10m
Robert Tressell
Apr 30, 2023 • 14m
Italy and the Irish During World War Two
Apr 23, 2023 • 18m
Full Show Podcast - 23rd April 2023
Apr 23, 2023 • 53m
The Yeats Sisters
Apr 23, 2023 • 18m
Snow Widows
Apr 23, 2023 • 14m
A Short History of Presidential Criminality
Apr 16, 2023 • 14m
Full Show Podcast - 16th April 2023
Apr 16, 2023 • 46m
Tara and the Ark of the Covenant
Apr 16, 2023 • 17m
Send us another Mary McCann
Apr 16, 2023 • 12m
Fighting over the scraps of the Union
Apr 9, 2023 • 12m
Full Show Podcast - 9th April 2023
Apr 9, 2023 • 47m
Harvard's Library of Voices
Apr 9, 2023 • 9m
Rediscovery of a Four Courts Field Gun
Apr 9, 2023 • 13m
Women and Military Service Pensions
Apr 9, 2023 • 11m
Mary M. and Sexual Violence: Ordinary Voices and the Irish Civil War
Apr 2, 2023 • 21m
Full Show Podcast - 2nd April 2023
Apr 2, 2023 • 46m
The Hard Border
Apr 2, 2023 • 12m
Civil War Executions in Athlone
Apr 2, 2023 • 11m
Greenmount Mill
Mar 26, 2023 • 18m
Full Show Podcast - 26th March 2023
Mar 26, 2023 • 49m
Liam Lynch: To Declare a Republic
Mar 26, 2023 • 29m
Contraception and Modern Ireland
Mar 19, 2023 • 24m
Ireland's Special Branch
Mar 19, 2023 • 24m
Full Show Podcast - 19th March 2023
Mar 19, 2023 • 49m
Kate Kennedy's Fight for Equal Pay
Mar 12, 2023 • 18m
A Rocket Engineer's Perspective on the Moon Landing
Mar 12, 2023 • 6m
Full Show Podcast - 12th March 2023
Mar 12, 2023 • 43m
The Golden Age of Irish Cinemagoing
Mar 12, 2023 • 17m
Full Show Podcast - 5th March 2023
Mar 5, 2023 • 46m
A History of Ireland's Military Archives
Mar 5, 2023 • 21m
Margaret Cousins of Ireland and India
Mar 5, 2023 • 23m
Flat County, Flat Earth
Feb 26, 2023 • 10m
Full Show Podcast - 26th February 2023
Feb 26, 2023 • 45m
The Assassination of Henry Wilson
Feb 26, 2023 • 25m
Reconstructing Saoirse in West Cork
Feb 26, 2023 • 7m
Christmas 1922
Dec 25, 2022 • 43m
Bethlehem - The Church of the Nativity
Dec 18, 2022 • 9m
Full Show Podcast - 18th December 2022
Dec 18, 2022 • 46m
The Men and Women of the Anglo-Irish Treaty Delegations
Dec 18, 2022 • 9m
Joseph MacDonagh
Dec 18, 2022 • 26m
Full Show Podcast - 11th December 2022
Dec 11, 2022 • 46m
Stories of the Revolution
Dec 11, 2022 • 8m
Spiritual Wounds: Trauma, Testimony and the Irish Civil War
Dec 11, 2022 • 25m
Richmond War Hospital
Dec 11, 2022 • 12m
The Establishment of The Irish Free State
Dec 4, 2022 • 46m
Persecution of Irish Speakers
Nov 27, 2022 • 17m
Full Show Podcast - 27th November 2022
Nov 27, 2022 • 48m
Elizabeth Shaw
Nov 27, 2022 • 22m
Explore Your Archive Week
Nov 27, 2022 • 7m
Irish Foreign Policy in the 1960s
Nov 20, 2022 • 20m
Full Show Podcast - 20th November 2022
Nov 20, 2022 • 50m
Irish Women in Religious Orders, 1530-1700
Nov 20, 2022 • 16m
The Song of the Peat Bog Soldiers
Nov 20, 2022 • 12m
The Guardians: 100 Years of An Garda Síochána
Nov 13, 2022 • 49m
Full Show Podcast - 6th November 2022
Nov 6, 2022 • 1h 0m
Culture and Citizenship: Tomás Ó Máille
Nov 6, 2022 • 23m
Irish Women in Business 1850 - 1922
Nov 6, 2022 • 21m
Frank Lawless
Nov 6, 2022 • 13m
The Housetry Podcast
Oct 30, 2022 • 7m
Irish Fairies – A Short History of the Sídhe
Oct 30, 2022 • 19m
Halloween Traditions
Oct 30, 2022 • 18m
Full Show Podcast - 30th October 2022
Oct 30, 2022 • 46m
Kathleen Clarke
Oct 23, 2022 • 21m
Ireland's Secret War
Oct 23, 2022 • 24m
Full Show Podcast - 23rd October 2022
Oct 23, 2022 • 46m
Beyond 2022: Ireland's Virtual Record Treasury
Apr 24, 2022 • 25m
Full Show Podcast – 24th April 2022
Apr 24, 2022 • 46m
Bill Stapleton and the Irish Recording Company
Apr 17, 2022 • 53m
The Ballycotton Job
Apr 10, 2022 • 19m
Ireland’s Helping Hand to Europe
Apr 10, 2022 • 15m
Full Show Podcast – 10th April 2022
Apr 10, 2022 • 46m
Syndrome K
Apr 3, 2022 • 9m
From Dublin's Botanic Gardens to the Killing Fields of Gallipoli
Apr 3, 2022 • 20m
Full Show Podcast – 3rd April 2022
Apr 3, 2022 • 48m
Civil War Memories
Apr 3, 2022 • 17m
Joseph E.A. Connell
Mar 27, 2022 • 24m
Full Show Podcast - 27th March 2022
Mar 27, 2022 • 48m
The Ballad of the Crimson Warrior
Mar 27, 2022 • 22m
The Sinking of HMS Wasp
Mar 20, 2022 • 6m
Full Show Podcast – 20th March 2022
Mar 20, 2022 • 47m
Máire Comerford
Mar 20, 2022 • 22m
The Crimean War
Mar 20, 2022 • 16m
Saint Patrick’s Day Riots in Toronto
Mar 13, 2022 • 6m
Family Histories of World War II
Mar 13, 2022 • 22m
The Andersonville Irish Project
Mar 13, 2022 • 18m
Full Show Podcast – 13th March 2022
Mar 13, 2022 • 49m
American Presence in Northern Ireland During World War 2
Mar 6, 2022 • 26m
The Irish All Around Us
Mar 6, 2022 • 12m
Death on Ireland's Eye
Mar 6, 2022 • 9m
Full Show Podcast - 6th March 2022
Mar 6, 2022 • 49m
Full Show Podcast - 27th Feb 2022
Feb 27, 2022 • 47m
The Garda Mutiny
Feb 27, 2022 • 19m
The First National Museum
Feb 27, 2022 • 16m
Frongoch – A Welsh Perspective
Feb 27, 2022 • 10m
Full Show Podcast - 20th February 2022
Feb 20, 2022 • 48m
The Irish Man Who Mapped Mount Everest
Feb 20, 2022 • 22m
Cumann na mBan Convention 1922
Feb 20, 2022 • 15m
Bardcore Music
Feb 20, 2022 • 8m
Full Show Podcast - 19th December 2021
Dec 19, 2021 • 1h 2m
Ernie O'Malley: A Life
Dec 19, 2021 • 25m
Fake News and the Irish War of Independence
Dec 19, 2021 • 16m
Irish Famine Emigrants in Canada
Dec 19, 2021 • 4m
Women of the Treaty
Dec 19, 2021 • 14m
History Books for Christmas
Dec 12, 2021 • 56m
The Anglo-Irish Treaty
Dec 5, 2021 • 48m
From Suir to Jarama
Nov 21, 2021 • 7m
The Scariff Martyrs
Nov 21, 2021 • 25m
Full Show Podcast - 21st November 2021
Nov 21, 2021 • 50m
Charlotte Brontë
Nov 21, 2021 • 15m
For King and Country
Oct 31, 2021 • 19m
Grave Robbing
Oct 31, 2021 • 16m
Downing Street Diary - The First Irish Proposals
Oct 31, 2021 • 9m
Full Show Podcast - 31st Oct 2021
Oct 31, 2021 • 47m
Full Show Podcast - 24th October 2021
Oct 24, 2021 • 51m
Harriet Tubman
Oct 24, 2021 • 9m
Kenmare - History and Survival
Oct 24, 2021 • 18m
Anna Parnell
Oct 24, 2021 • 22m
An Uneasy Truce
Oct 17, 2021 • 36m
Downing Street Diary - Negotiations Begin
Oct 17, 2021 • 10m
Full Show Podcast - 17th October 2021
Oct 17, 2021 • 48m
Dan Breen's Wedding
May 9, 2021 • 12m
Granagh Ambush
May 9, 2021 • 10m
The Irish Women's Liberation Movement
May 9, 2021 • 26m
Full Show Podcast - 9th May 2021
May 9, 2021 • 50m
North Strand Bombing
May 2, 2021 • 6m
The Reverend Daniel Murphy Archive
May 2, 2021 • 20m
Full Show Podcast - 2nd May 2021
May 2, 2021 • 49m
How America's Door was Closed to the Irish
May 2, 2021 • 21m
Ireland and Empire
Apr 18, 2021 • 24m
Full Show Podcast - 18th April 2021
Apr 18, 2021 • 50m
Harry Houdini in Ireland
Apr 18, 2021 • 12m
The Irishman Who Designed The White House
Apr 18, 2021 • 12m
Influenza Pandemic
Apr 11, 2021 • 17m
Full Show Podcast - 11th April 2021
Apr 11, 2021 • 48m
War and Peace in a Docklands Hotel
Apr 11, 2021 • 23m
Global Irish Revolution
Mar 21, 2021 • 10m
Al Smith
Mar 21, 2021 • 12m
Full Show Podcast - 21st March 2021
Mar 21, 2021 • 47m
Bad Bridget
Mar 21, 2021 • 23m
Birth of the Border
Dec 27, 2020 • 16m
Full Show Podcast - 27th December 2020
Dec 27, 2020 • 49m
Curious Journey
Dec 27, 2020 • 32m
Glenn Miller
Dec 13, 2020 • 6m
The Lifeboat Mona
Dec 13, 2020 • 12m
Full Show Podcast - 13th December 2020
Dec 13, 2020 • 48m
Tomi Reichental
Dec 13, 2020 • 9m
The Burning of Cork
Dec 13, 2020 • 19m
DB Cooper
Nov 29, 2020 • 10m
Full Show Podcast - 29th November 2020
Nov 29, 2020 • 48m
The Hunger
Nov 29, 2020 • 17m
Women and the Irish Revolution
Nov 29, 2020 • 18m
Bloody Sunday 1920
Nov 22, 2020 • 48m
Charles de Gaulle in Ireland
Nov 8, 2020 • 13m
Kevin Barry
Nov 1, 2020 • 30m
Full Show Podcast - 1st November 2020
Nov 1, 2020 • 49m
The Tenters
Nov 1, 2020 • 18m
Irish War of Independence in Roscommon
Oct 25, 2020 • 6m
Full Show Podcast - 25th October 2020
Oct 25, 2020 • 49m
Cholera and Vampire Legends
Oct 25, 2020 • 19m
Uinseann MacEoin Oral History Collection
Oct 25, 2020 • 21m
Margaret MacCurtain Remembered
Oct 18, 2020 • 27m
Full Show Podcast - 18th October 2020
Oct 18, 2020 • 49m
Women and Irish Foreign Affairs
Oct 18, 2020 • 21m
Full Show Podcast - 11th October 2020
Oct 11, 2020 • 50m
Against The Odds
Oct 11, 2020 • 16m
Monumental Women
Oct 11, 2020 • 9m
An Alien Ideology
Oct 11, 2020 • 22m
Full Show Podcast - 24th May 2020
May 24, 2020 • 49m
Margaret Skinnider
May 24, 2020 • 21m
The Forgotten Fallen
May 24, 2020 • 17m
The Stasi
May 24, 2020 • 8m
The Lea-Wilsons and The Taking of Christ
May 17, 2020 • 14m
Full Show Podcast - 17th May 2020
May 17, 2020 • 47m
War of Independence Munitions
May 17, 2020 • 12m
1691
May 17, 2020 • 19m
Here's The Thing - Mary Robinson Photo
May 10, 2020 • 6m
Templemore Miracles
May 10, 2020 • 15m
The Inventor of the Mobile Phone
May 10, 2020 • 14m
Women's Soccer
May 10, 2020 • 12m
Full Show Podcast - 10th May 2020
May 10, 2020 • 50m
Three Killings
May 3, 2020 • 47m
Full Show Podcast - 26th April 2020
Apr 26, 2020 • 49m
Sister Kate McCarthy
Apr 26, 2020
Operation Green
Apr 26, 2020
Investigating War of Independence Murders
Apr 26, 2020
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