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Highlights from Talking History — 251 episodes
John Stuart Mill: A Life
The First Dail 1919-1921
Best of February Books - Part 2
Best of February Books - Part 1
'Rumi: A Life'
Gospel According to Mark
Best of December Books
'Oliver Goldsmith: A Life'
The History of St Petersburg
Best of January Books - Part 2
Cato the Wise
Best of January Books - Part 1
General Douglas MacArthur and the Korean War
Constance Markievicz: A Life
Best of November Books
Isaac Newton: A Life
The History of Norse Mythology
Best of September Books - Part 2
Best of October Books
Best of September Books - Part 1
The Cambridge History of Ireland: Volume 1-4
King Lear: A History of a Play
Willie Redmond: A Life
The Battle of Gettysburg
Best of August Books
Rats in the Desert: the Siege of Tobruk
Muhammad Ali: The boxer that changed the world
Best of July Books - Part Two
Best of July Books - Part One
The Influenza Pandemic of 1918
Hugo Chávez: A Life
Best of June Books
Best of May Books
'Virginia Woolf: A Life in Writing'
Sterling: A History
The Battle of Kinsale
The Tragic Story of Seneca
Ian Paisley: A Life
WW1: Flanders & The Somme with GTI Travel
Best of April Books
Best of March Books
Erik Satie: A Life
History Ireland Supplement: ‘1916-18 Changed Utterly'
A History of Dublin Castle
Best of February Books
Thomas Paine and words that changed the world
Bob Marley: A Life in Music
Best of January Books - Part Two
The iconic Marilyn Monroe
The Warsaw Uprising
Best of January Books
Mary Wollstonecraft: The Mother of Feminism
Capitalism: A Force For Good or Evil?
Conor Cruise O'Brien: Public Intellectual and Historian
Blaise Pascal: A History of an Intellectual Icon
Marlon Brando: The Life, The Legend
The British Raj: A History
History of Vietnam, Aviation and everything in-between
President Ronald Reagan's Visit to Ireland
The Aztecs - World's Greatest Civilization?
The Punic Wars
The Story of the World and other books
I divorce thee!
An island on the edge of the Old World
Cannibals, witches, and heartthrobs
1066, when England fell to the French
Castro's Cuba
The Purging of Muslim Spain & other books
Live from Cork: a history of the Rebel County
England expects that every man will do his duty
A history of financial speculation and other books
Dying in the mud of Agincourt
An ancient highway of trade
The history of Ireland's ancient gods, and other books
"The greatest playwright of the 20th century"
Violence, beauty, and revolutionising light
From Galway to India, the best history books
The voice of Scotland
Berlioz, a history in romantic music
Helping the world stay awake for centuries
From Grub Street to the small screen
The life and times of Johnny Cash
So good they named it twice
Thomas Aquinas, the Church's greatest thinker?
Why did Dickens write 'A Christmas Carol'?
1847, luxury, and the tale of the axe
The history of The Great Pyramid of Giza
The poetry and sexuality of Sappho
Countess Markievicz, murder, and the Irishmen in WWI
Irish foreign policy in the 1950s
What is Voodoo?
The great Scottish victory at Bannockburn
The Mind of the Revolution
What are the best war films?
Watergate on the silver screen
Life and death in Russian labour camps
William Bligh, more than the victim of mutiny
From Teddy to Bill, US Presidents of the 20th century
The first modern scientist
Justice in the wake of World War II
Commemorating the Somme
The history of London
From Hollywood to the Western Front
Did scandals outshine Pavarotti's singing?
Lawrence of Arabia - The Irish Connection
Frank Aiken: rebel, soldier, politician, and leader
Who were the druids?
Big Jim Larkin, hero or wrecker?
Should the Anglo-Irish Treaty have been accepted?
What's the history of Irish travellers?
Damascus, a beautiful city bathed in history & violence
Are the Irish the most oppressed people in history?
Why is the life of man "nasty, brutish, and short"?
From the first Blitz to rebels in the Abbey
The Forgotten Women of 1916
Schubert, a composer of love and contradiction
What were the samurai really like?
Democracy, where's it from and what's it good for?
"Arthur Griffith", Roman sex life, and other books
Raging Bull, how a masterpiece was made
Paul; persecutor, convert, apostle
Christmas reads from 'Talking History'
Was Edmund Burke Ireland's greatest thinker?
Eamon de Valera, hero or villain?
Is Jean Sibelius Finland's greatest composer?
Bolívar, the great liberator
Sparta: a nation of heroes and myths
"The Mongol Empire" & other books with Talking History
Auschwitz, a place worse than hell
"To Hell and Back" & other books with Talking History
Schopenhauer: an exemplary pessimist
"the Great Citizen the First-Born Son of the New World"
John Coltrane, a jazz pioneer
Books: disease, Rome, and an oval ball
Steve Biko, living and dying for freedom
What history books should you read this summer?
More than just a war movie?
How did an English woman help create the Iraqi state?
Writing the history of a young church
The life, writings, and legacy of Jonathan Swift
The history and future of Ukraine
Gender, sex, and sexuality in modern Irish politics
The musical magic of Van Morrison
The life and designs of Eileen Gray
The ancient writings of the poet Ovid
The life and legacy of Sitting Bull
How should 1916 and Ireland's past be remembered?
Grant versus Lee
An Garda Siochana, the Guardians of the Peace
The Six-Day War, a short conflict with a lasting legacy
Richard Strauss, the Romantic Modernist
A Knightly Order's journey through the Mediterranean
What made Dante the father of the Italian language?
Stateless: Unrecognised at home and abroad
Was Erwin Rommel the 'last knight of Germany'?
The melodic genuis of Louis Armstrong
The Berlin Blockade, 1948-49
The History of the Red Cross
Michel Foucault and the philosophy of punishment
Daniel Defoe: writer, trader, dissenter, spy
Ataturk: The father of modern day Turkey
The Battle of Jutland, 1916
The Mona Lisa
The Armenian Genocide
Ancient Rome’s greatest poet
Richard Nixon and détente
The history of sugar: sweet or sour?
Marcel Duchamp, a one man movement?
The turning point of the American Civil War?
The life and legacy of Thomas Davis
Citizen Kane
The Empire of the Rising Sun
The life and work of Homer
The Suez Crisis
The Three Louis
An interview with Father Jack Finucane
Erasmus, the Reformation, and the salvation of the soul
Kursk: the greatest tank battle in history
The quest to create an Artificial Intelligence
Servant of God and social activist Dorothy Day
The art and life of Egon Schiele
Apocalypse Now, the movie and its legacy
Carl Jung and analytic psychology
Claude Debussy
Franz Boas the 'Father of American Anthropology'
Pianist and composer Sergei Rachmaninoff
The ANC and Apartheid
The Ypres Salient
Cocaine
The life and legacy of Rene Descartes
El Alamein, decisive battles on seas of sand, Part One
El Alamein, decisive battles on seas of sand, Part Two
Searching for the Northwest Passage, Part Two
Searching for the Northwest Passage, Part One
Frida Kahlo, an artist's life, Part Two
Frida Kahlo, an artist's life, Part One
The long and colourful history of Limerick, Part 6
The long and colourful history of Limerick, Part 5
The long and colourful history of Limerick, Part 4
The long and colourful history of Limerick, Part 3
The long and colourful history of Limerick, Part 2
The long and colourful history of Limerick, Part 1
The wanderings & writings of Robert Louis Stevenson, P1
The wanderings & writings of Robert Louis Stevenson, P2
Alfred Hitchcock, Part Two
Nina Simone, the life and music: Part Two
Nina Simone, the life and music: Part One
Machiavelli's 'The Prince', Part Two
Machiavelli's 'The Prince', Part One
The Irish and Atlantic Slavery, Part Two
The Irish and Atlantic Slavery, Part One
Alfred Hitchcock, Part One
William Wallace, Part Two
William Wallace, Part One
The Battle of Iwo Jima, Part Two
The Battle of Iwo Jima, Part One
Thomas Merton, Part 1
Thomas Merton, Part 2
Prometheus, Part Two
Prometheus, Part One
James Anthony Froude, Part Two
James Anthony Froude, Part One
Samuel Beckett
The Battle of Verdun
Leo Tolstoy
Sean O'Casey, A Life on Stage
Salvador Dali
Poynings' Law
The History of Anaesthetics
A History of the Single Market
Robert Emmet
T.Ryle Dwyer 'Michael Collins & The Civil War'
George Frideric Handel
Paul Winter 'Defeating Hitler', World War II
Vatican II
Saint Kevin
Orson Welles
Neanderthal Man
Jean-Paul Sartre
The Freemasons
Emperor Nero
History of Mecca
Confucius
Edward de Bruce
The History of Marriage
The History of Money
St Francis Of Assisi
The Wars of the Roses
The Life and Science of Isaac Newton
Attila the Hun
The Nine Years War