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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