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

3 days ago - 54 mins

Talking History with Patrick Geoghegan

Thomas Cromwell: His Final Years

10 days ago - 53 mins

Talking History with Patrick Geoghegan

The Irish Lumières

17 days ago - 50 mins

Talking History with Patrick Geoghegan

Daniel O'Connell: 250 Years On

22 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

Best of May Books

Join Patrick for the best of Irish and International history publications for May 2022. Books covered on the show include: Periodicals and journalism in twentieth-century Ireland 2, the editors Mark O'Brien & Felix M. Larkin; The Songs of Elizabeth Cronin, Irish Traditional Singer, by Dáibhí Ó Cróinín; You Will Dye at Midnight: Victorian Threatening Letters, by Donal P. McCracken; Irish Lives in America by Liz Evers and Niav Gallagher; and Legacies of the Magdalen Laundries – Commemoration, gender, and the postcolonial carceral state, which is edited by Miriam Haughton, Mary McAuliffe and Emilie Pine.