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'Me and My Researc'h is a brand new podcast series from History Hub which sees UCD MA in Public History student Josh Clarke sit down with researchers from UCD School of History to explore their work, and the ideas that inspire them. Epsiode 1 sees Josh in conversation with UCD historian Dr Frances Nolan.

This episode features a Military Welfare History Network conference keynote lecture by Professor Jessica Meyer. This paper was recorded at the Military Welfare History Network's 2025/26 Military Communities' Medical Welfare and Care History Conference Series. A series of three symposiums which were kindly supported by the Wellcome Trust through the Society for the Social History of Medicine and hosted by both the UCD Centre for War Studies and the University of Birmingham.

This episode features a Military Welfare History Network conference keynote lecture by Professor Jennifer Mittelstadt. This paper was recorded at the Military Welfare History Network’s 2025/26 Military Communities' Medical Welfare and Care History Conference Series. A series of three symposiums which were kindly supported by the Wellcome Trust through the Society for the Social History of Medicine and hosted by both the UCD Centre for War Studies and the University of Birmingham.

This episode features the renowned playwright and poet Frank McGuinness who gave a paper entitled "Living With Mortality - A Short Stay in Switzerland" on February 25th 2010 in the UCD Humanities Institute. Frank spoke about the issue of mortality as treated in drama from Greek theatre to contemporary work, including his adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts and his screenplay for the widely acclaimed and BAFTA nominated BBC drama "A Short Stay in Switzerland" which tells the story of Dr Anne Turner who chose to end her life in a Dignitas clinic in Switzerland in January 2006.

John Coakley's (UCD) keynote at Partitions and Borders - a comparative and interdisciplinary conference jointly organised by UCD and JNU which took place in UCD in 2018.

'The Origins and Importance of the GAA', episode 6 of 'Sport and Ireland: A History', with Prof. Paul Rouse. First recorded for Newstalk and published on History Hub in 2022.

This podcast was recorded at workshop 1 of LGBT Activism in Ireland, 1973-2023 - Looking Back, Going Forward. The project comprised of two workshops which were organised by Mary McAuliffe (Director, UCD Gender Studies), in partnership with the National LGBT Federation (NXF), and funded by Research Ireland New Foundations award. This podcast on the early years of LGBT Activism in Ireland featured poet Mary Dorcey (ISLM), psychologist and activist Ger Moane, Tonie Walsh (Irish Queer Archive), activists Ailbhe Smyth and Patricia Prendiville (ILGA-Europe), and Mary McAuliffe (UCD Gender Studies).

This podcast was recorded at workshop 1 of LGBT Activism in Ireland, 1973-2023 - Looking Back, Going Forward. The project comprised of two workshops which were organised by Mary McAuliffe (Director, UCD Gender Studies), in partnership with the National LGBT Federation (NXF), and funded by Research Ireland New Foundations award. Panel 3 was on 'Documenting the Movement. Queer Histories, Public and Personal Archives, Collective Memory' and featured: Paraic Kerrigan (UCD), Orla Egan (Cork LGBT Archive), Sara Phillips (Irish Trans Archive), Mary McAuliffe (UCD) and, Tonie Walsh (Irish Queer Archive). The panel was chaired by Ruth Baldacchino from UCD.

This podcast was recorded at workshop 1 of LGBT Activism in Ireland, 1973-2023 - Looking Back, Going Forward. The project comprised of two workshops which were organised by Mary McAuliffe (Director, UCD Gender Studies), in partnership with the National LGBT Federation (NXF), and funded by Research Ireland New Foundations award. Panel 2 was on 'Writing our Histories' and featured: Paraic Kerrigan (UCD), Sonja Tiernan (Irish Humanities Alliance) Orla Egan (Cork LGBT Archive) Sara Phillips (Irish Trans Archive). The panel was chaired by Morgan Wait from UCD.

This podcast was recorded at workshop 1 of LGBT Activism in Ireland, 1973-2023 - Looking Back, Going Forward. The project comprised of two workshops which were organised by Mary McAuliffe (Director, UCD Gender Studies), in partnership with the National LGBT Federation (NXF), and funded by Research Ireland New Foundations award. This podcast on the History of LGBT Activism in Ireland featured poet Mary Dorcey (ISLM), Tonie Walsh (Irish Queer Archive), activist Ailbhe Smyth and Mary McAuliffe (UCD Gender Studies).

In this episode, a recording of Holocaust Education Ireland's Annual Holocaust Annual Memorial Lecture for 2025 by Prof. Anthony McElligott

In this final episode, Dr Anna Muggeridge, Deirdre Connery of the Irish Countrywomen's Association (ICA) and Joan Houston of Soroptimist International Great Britain and Ireland (SIGBI), Northern Irish Federation, discuss crafting and 'craftivism' in the ICA and SIGBI. We consider the importance of crafting to women historically and today, how these organisations have promoted and celebrated women's craft skills, and importantly the ways in which 'craftivism' has been used by women's organisations to raise awareness of complex and challenging issues and to engage in activism.

In this episode, Dr Anne Logan, Chrissie Booth, Vice-Chair of the National Federation of Women’s Institutes (NFWI), and Lorna Blackmore, past regional President of the Soroptimist International Great Britain and Ireland (SIGBI) Southeast Region, discuss the myriad ways in which women’s organisations have campaigned, and continue to campaign, to protect and improve the natural environment. Topics we discuss include the formation of the iconic ‘Keep Britain Tidy’ campaign by the NFWI in 1954 and the current NFWI campaign for ‘clean rivers for people and wildlife’. We also discuss SIGBI support for ‘toilet twinning’ and for solar-powered cooking devices to reduce deforestation and hopes for a future less dependent upon single-use plastic items.

In this episode, Dr Ruth Davidson, Caroline Auckland, former President of the Tunbridge Wells and District Soroptimists Club, Kent, and Eadaoin Lawlor, national past President of Soroptimists Republic of Ireland discuss how Soroptimists have campaigned to end Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG). We consider the ways this work is achieved through advocacy and campaigns around policy and education at local, national and global levels. We also discuss campaigns including the ‘Safe Home Safe Community Project’ and how SIGBI supports the United Nations ‘Orange the World’ campaign, launched in 2008 to end violence against women and girls.

In this episode with Prof Caitríona Beaumont, Margaret Broome, former chair of the Federation of Women's Institutes of Northern Ireland (WINI), June Lawless, National Secretary of the Irish Countrywomen’s Association (ICA) and Dr Anne Logan (University of Kent and Women's Institute member) chat about what membership of a women’s organisation means to them. We also discuss the history of co-operation and friendship between the ICA, WINI and the NFWI since 1918 that illuminates new understandings of Anglo-Irish relations in the twentieth century.

The first episode of the Women's Grassroots Activism Podcast with Prof Caitríona Beaumont, Mary D'Arcy, President of the ICA, Breda Cahill, ICA Wexford Federation President and Deirdre Connery, member of Duncannon, Co. Wexford ICA guild, was recorded at An Grianan, Co. Louth. The ICA's An Grianan is Ireland’s first residential adult education college and opened in 1954. In this episode we chat about the history of the ICA and its activities over the past 100 years to learn more about the contribution of this national women's organisation to Irish history, Irish society and to the everyday lives of women in Ireland.

In this episode, 'St Brigit and the beginnings of Irish history' a panel discussion organised by UCD's Dr Fionnuala Walsh UCD for International Women's Day 2024.

Closing Plenary at the 2024 Tudor and Stuart Ireland Conference by Hiram Morgan (UCC). Going Dutch - Ireland and the Low Countries 1491 to 1691.

Opening Plenary at the 2024 Tudor and Stuart Ireland Conference by Sarah McKibben (Notre Dame). Courtly Seductions - Reading a Bardic Love Poem in the 21st century.

Podcast of Stephanie Wright's keynote at Military Welfare History Network 2024 Conference at the University of Leeds.

Podcast of Geoffrey Hayes' paper at Military Welfare History Network 2024 Conference at the University of Leeds.

'Talking 'bout revolutions' - conversations across borders about women and revolution, with Dr Mary McAuliffe (UCD, Gender Studies), Prof Ingrid Sharp (Leeds), and Dr Corinne Painter (Leeds).

'My life wasn't much after' - women's voices in the Military Archives, with Dr Fionnuala Walsh (UCD), Dr Leeann Lane (DCU) and Professor Lindsey Earner-Byrne (TCD).

In this episode, a recording of Holocaust Education Ireland's Annual Holocaust Memorial Day Lecture for 2024 by Prof. Doris Bergen.

'Eire Saor agus Gaelach? - The Military Service Pensions Collection and the Irish language' by Dr Siobhra Aiken (QUB).

Featuring Dr Mary McAuliffe (UCD) Prof. Caitriona Beaumont (LSBU), Assoc. Prof. Jennifer Redmond (Maynooth), Orla O'Connor (NWC), Prof. Lindsey Earner Byrne (TCD) and poet Julie Morrissy.

The event was organised and funded under the auspices of the UCD College of Arts and Humanities Research Strand in Digital Cultures.

1923 - Hitler's Breakthrough Year, Holocaust Education Ireland November Pogrom lecture by Dr Mark Jones (UCD).

Live Podcast Recording at the 2023 Tudor and Stuart Ireland Conference - Pat Palmer (Maynooth) in conversation with Brendan Kane (UCONN).

The murder of Walter Rathenau and the survival of Weimar democracy. Mark Jones on the year 1923.

Early Modern Naval Healthcare in England, 1650-1750, by Matthew Neufeld (Saskatchewan).

War and Welfare in Austria in the Age of the Great War, by Dr Ke-Chin Hsia (Indiana, Bloomington).

Grannies, Guns, and Archives - Tracing revolutionary and post revolutionary women's lives, with Prof. Caitriona Beaumont, Dr Fionnuala Walsh and Dr Mary McAuliffe.

Writing LGBTQ histories from the medieval to the modern, with Dr Elva Johnston and Dr Mary McAuliffe.

St Patrick - The historical man and the popular myth by Dr Elva Johnston (UCD)

In this episode, a recording of Holocaust Education Ireland's Annual Holocaust Memorial Day Lecture for 2023 by Dr Felix Klein.

Lecture by Roger Moorhouse, co-organised by: Holocaust Eduction Ireland, The Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Ireland, UCD School of History, and TCD School of Histories and Humanities.

Lecture by Dr Anna Hajkova, jointly organised by UCD Centre for War Studies, Holocaust Education Ireland and UCD History Seminar Series in Gender History.

Sport and the Troubles and How TV brought GAA into homes, episode 11 of 'Sport and Ireland: A History', with Prof. Paul Rouse.

Sport in Ireland after Partition, episode 10 of 'Sport and Ireland: A History', with Prof. Paul Rouse.

Sport, Politics and War, episode 9 of 'Sport and Ireland: A History', with Prof. Paul Rouse.

'Denounced, belittled, trivialised' - Women's presence in sport, episode 8 of 'Sport and Ireland: A History', with Prof. Paul Rouse.

'The Commercialisation of Sport through History', episode 7 of 'Sport and Ireland: A History', with Prof. Paul Rouse.

'The Origins and Importance of the GAA', episode 6 of 'Sport and Ireland: A History', with Prof. Paul Rouse.

'Sport as imperialism. Teaching nationalism. Ireland and England's intertwining', episode 5 of 'Sport and Ireland: A History', with Prof. Paul Rouse.

'The history of football games and the myth of William Webb Ellis', episode 4 of 'Sport and Ireland: A History', with Prof. Paul Rouse.

'Cockfighting, bullbaiting and the death of traditional sports', episode 3 of 'Sport and Ireland: A History', with Prof. Paul Rouse.

'Sport before 1800', episode 2 of 'Sport and Ireland: A History', with Prof. Paul Rouse.

'Sport in Ireland: An historical introduction', episode 1 of 'Sport and Ireland: A History', with Prof. Paul Rouse.

Dr Marnie Hay (DCU) on the potentially perilous activities undertaken by adolescents during the years 1916-23 and the serious consequences these teenage activists faced.