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Irish History Podcasts

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    AerynSun
    Registered Users Posts: 544 ✭✭✭AerynSun


    Thanks so much for this! Episode 10 super useful right now for my Social Theory class. I couldn't access it on SoundCloud for some unknown reason, but I found it here:

    Episode10: The history of the southern Irish economy since partition with Conor McCabe.
    http://nearfm.ie/podcast/the-history-show-episode-ten/


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    brennan1979
    Registered Users Posts: 171 ✭✭brennan1979


    AerynSun wrote: »
    Thanks so much for this! Episode 10 super useful right now for my Social Theory class. I couldn't access it on SoundCloud for some unknown reason, but I found it here:

    Episode10: The history of the southern Irish economy since partition with Conor McCabe.
    http://nearfm.ie/podcast/the-history-show-episode-ten/

    Thank you very much AerynSun. It's great to get feedback and I'm delighted that you were able to find it useful. There seems to have been a problem with Souncloud earlier but it working again now.


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    atilladehun
    Registered Users Posts: 1,583 ✭✭✭atilladehun


    Cool,

    I'll have a listen later


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    brennan1979
    Registered Users Posts: 171 ✭✭brennan1979


    New Episodes:

    Episode 19 - The Irish Parliamentary Party with Conor Mulvagh.
    https://soundcloud.com/nearfm/the-history-show-episode-19

    Episode 20 - The presenter discuss The 1922 Postal Strike. In the second half of the show we look at graphic novels about Irish history with Gerry Hunt.
    https://soundcloud.com/nearfm/the-history-show-episode-20

    Episode 21 - Interview with David Convery, the editor of a collection of essays entitled Locked out - A Century of Irish Working - class life.
    https://soundcloud.com/nearfm/the-history-show-episode-21

    Episode 22 - Interview with Pádraig Lenihan about population changes in Ireland from the Ulster Plantations to the Great Famine.
    https://soundcloud.com/nearfm/the-history-show-episode-22


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    Worztron
    Registered Users Posts: 8,680 ✭✭✭Worztron


    Just heard of this podcast recently on another Boards thread. Very interesting.

    Mitch Hedberg: "Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something."



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    brennan1979
    Registered Users Posts: 171 ✭✭brennan1979


    Thank Worztron. Really appreciate the feedback. Since I first wrote the OP, we now have a website and we're on iTunes.

    http://irishhistoryshow.ie/

    https://itunes.apple.com/ie/podcast/the-irish-history-show/id975768634


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    Worztron
    Registered Users Posts: 8,680 ✭✭✭Worztron


    brennan1979 wrote: »
    Thank Worztron. Really appreciate the feedback. Since I first wrote the OP, we now have a website and we're on iTunes.

    http://irishhistoryshow.ie/

    https://itunes.apple.com/ie/podcast/the-irish-history-show/id975768634

    Hi Brennan.

    I found the podcast on the podbay website and don't use itunes because I use GNU/Linux so listen to the podcast on an open-source software called gPodder. :)

    Mitch Hedberg: "Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something."



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    touts
    Registered Users Posts: 6,483 ✭✭✭touts


    Anyone listening to the other Irish History podcast http://irishhistorypodcast.ie/ by Fionn O'Dwyer?

    It's probably a good companion to this "Irish History Show" as the two don't generally overlap since up to now it has been mainly on about things like the Norman Invasion. I find it quite good but it can be frustrating as O'Dwyer seems to lose interest in topics and disappear for weeks or just drop them completely close to them being finished.

    He was talking about the High Kings, Vikings etc for months and had some very good shows. Then it became a bit erratic on when it would publish as he was doing other stuff and then he just dropped it completely and skipped ahead 200 years to the Norman invasion. Another 4 or 5 shows and he could have finished that segment up to the Normans.

    But then the shows on the Norman invasion were really good. At times they were a little erratic on the publishing schedule as again he was working on other stuff (the guy has to make a living and his erratic is still far more regular than the likes of 10 American Presidents). Recently however it seems that the Normans have been dropped completely before being finished and he has moved on to the history of a coal mine in Kilkenny.

    It's really good in places but god it's really really frustrating that he seems to lost interest in topics and so many stories have been just left hanging. I know a podcast like that is a HUGE commitment by the presenter so I feel bad criticizing the guy but If I recommend this show I also have to be upfront with a warning about this podcast. Still even with that warning I'd recommend both the main segments (The High Kings & Vikings and The Normans) for anyone interested in Irish History.


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