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241. The Troubles: War in the Streets of Northern Ireland (Ep 1)
Mar 27, 2025What were The Troubles and why did they lead to 30 years of violence and division in Northern Ireland? How were Irish Catholics inspired by the American Civil Rights movement in 1969? Why did the Brit...
240. Ireland’s Fight For Freedom: The Irish Civil War (Ep 3)
Mar 25, 2025In the aftermath of the Irish War of Independence in 1921, Michael Collins is sent to London to meet Winston Churchill, David Lloyd George and other British officials to negotiate a treaty. After we...
239. Ireland’s Fight For Freedom: The Rise of The IRA (Ep 2)
Mar 20, 2025The Irish republicans who led the Easter Rising of 1916 are tried for treason by the British government, and sentenced to death. Some are so unwell they have to be tied to a chair to be killed, and th...
238. Ireland’s Fight For Freedom: The Easter Rising (Ep 1)
Mar 18, 2025The 1916 Easter Rising was a definitive moment in 20th-century Irish history. Its memory was evoked throughout The Troubles, with republicans wearing commemorative Easter Lily badges to honour the rev...
237. The Great Famine: The Irish Exodus to America (Ep 2)
Mar 13, 2025The legacy of the Great Famine continues to shape not only Ireland, but the Irish diaspora in America, Canada, and the UK. In the mid-1800s, starving families fled the country in search of survival, g...
236. The Great Famine: The Blight Strikes Ireland (Ep 1)
Mar 11, 2025How did the memory of the Great Famine shape Irish identity? Could it have been prevented? From 1845 to 1852, a disease decimated potato crops across Ireland. Farmers of small plots who relied entire...
235. The Viceroy, The Psychopath, and The Merchant: The Irish in Empire (Ep 3)
Mar 06, 2025Ireland may have been England’s first colony but, by the 17th century, Irishmen were carving out their own imperial legacies in India. Gerald Aungier, an ambitious East India Company official, saw Bom...
234. Battle of the Boyne: Clash of Two Kings (Ep 2)
Mar 04, 2025The Restoration reinstates the monarchy in England, Scotland & Ireland, and Irish Catholics believe that they will get their lands back for their loyalty to the king. And when the openly Catholic King...
233. Blood and Betrayal: Oliver Cromwell's Irish Invasion (Ep 1)
Feb 27, 2025His statue may stand proudly outside the Houses of Parliament in London, but in Ireland, Oliver Cromwell is remembered as “the Devil from over the Sea” for the bloodshed he unleashed there from 1649 t...
Legacy: Genghis Khan
Feb 26, 2025After victory in China, Genghis Khan goes west and takes on the Khwarezmians, surprising his enemy with a daring assault. He conquers all in his path and now controls the biggest empire the world has ...