Other Podcasts

The American Room Monaghan County Libraries through its Clones Library proudly presents our latest digital content, a one act radio play written and produced by Clones poet and author Ted McCarthy. It is 1966, and Jimmy Finnegan is making the return journey across the Atlantic, almost fifty years after he left in a hurry and…

In this podcast we are going to examine Irish poetry written between 1912 and 1922. Presented by Clones Poet Ted McCarthy featuring guest speakers. Available *here*

Author and Historian Eoin Swithin Walsh in this podcast examines the start of the Civil War in Kilkenny. This podcast examines the first two months of the Civil War in County Kilkenny. Things were happening on a daily, if not hourly basis. Nearly every corner of the county was affected in some way or other.…

Cathy Scuffil discusses the response to Dublin’s housing crisis after the collapse of tenements in Dublin’s Church Street in 1913. Pembroke Library in association with the Ballsbridge, Donnybrook and Sandymount Historical Society present a talk by Cathy Scuffil, Historian in Residence, Dublin South City “Dublin’s Housing Crisis in Troubled Times”. This online event took place…

A range of podcasts on Offaly and the Decade of Centenaries *here*

TURTLE BUNBURY’S GLOBAL IRISH PODCAST STORIES OF THE MEN AND WOMEN FROM IRELAND WHO LEFT THEIR MARK ON THE WORLD Ahead of St Patrick’s Day, author and historian Turtle Bunbury unveils a new podcast series for the 80 million people of Irish heritage around the world. Supported by The Irishman whiskey, Turtle Bunbury’s Global Irish…

In July 1921, Éamon de Valera was elected, unopposed, as Chancellor of the National University of Ireland (NUI). His first official event as Chancellor was a formal reception at UCD (then in Earlsfort Terrace) on 22 November 1921. As part of the programme to mark the centenary, NUI and the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies…