Podcasts

Talking History with Patrick Geoghegan

This unique and lively history show delves into some of the world's most important political, social and cultural events and the intriguing personalities behind them. Presented by Dr Patrick Geoghegan of Trinity College Dublin, Talking History unravels the gritty, sometimes uncomfortable, side of our past, and what we can learn from it.

Latest episodes

Limerick and the British & Irish Lions

2 days ago - 54 mins

Talking History with Patrick Geoghegan

Thomas Cromwell: His Final Years

9 days ago - 53 mins

Talking History with Patrick Geoghegan

The Irish Lumières

16 days ago - 50 mins

Talking History with Patrick Geoghegan

Daniel O'Connell: 250 Years On

21 days ago - 52 mins

Talking History with Patrick Geoghegan

How The Free State Won The Irish Civil War

a month ago - 52 mins

Talking History with Patrick Geoghegan

Best of June Books

a month ago - 48 mins

Talking History with Patrick Geoghegan

100 Years of Surrealism

Marking the international touring exhibition 'Imagine: 100 Years of International Surrealism', Patrick Geoghegan finds out what this movement meant to the art world and its global significance still today. Joining him is Dr Felicity Gee, Senior Lecturer in Modernism and World Cinema at the University of Exeter, and Vice President of the International Society for the Study of Surrealism; Dr Matthew Affron, curator for modern and contemporary art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art who is leading the surrealism exhibition there; Professor Alyce Mahon, the University of Cambridge’s Department of History of Art specialist in Modern and Contemporary Art History and Theory; and Dr. Tara Plunkett, Lecturer/Assistant Professor at the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics, at University College Dublin.