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The Golden Age of Irish Smuggling

2

Why Did Nazi Germany Bomb an Irish Village in 1940?

3

The Sinking of the Lusitania

4

Ireland’s Shipwrecks: History from the Depths

5

Broken Promises: Why Irish Independence Failed the Irish Language

6

Progress at Any Cost? The Dark History Behind Ireland’s Electrification

7

Hitler’s Irish Relatives: The Strange True Story

8

Living on the Wrong Side of History: My Family Secrets

9

The Irish Crown Jewels Robbery: Ireland’s Crime of the Century?

10

From White Settlers to Fascists: The IRA’s Troubling Allies

11

The Battle for Liverpool and New York: The Irish Revolution in the Atlantic World

12

Ogham: The Mystery of Ireland’s Oldest Writing

13

Taking the War to England: The IRA in Britain

14

A Conspiracy of Fear & Silence: The Maamtrasna Murders

15

Daily Life in the Middle Ages: Worse Than You Think [Listener Favourite]

16

Dublin Port Has Seen It All: 1,200 Years of History.

17

Solidarity, Suspicion and Conspiracy: Jews and the Irish Revolution

18

Drogheda & Beyond: The Terrifying Reality of Siege Warfare in Ireland

19

Forgotten Allies: How Egypt and India Supported the Irish Revolution

20

Operation Green: Hitler's Plan for Ireland

21

Divided Loyalties: The Irish Who Fought for Britain

22

The Irish Language: Why Ireland Became English-Speaking

23

A White Mans Nation? The Irish Revolution & Black Radicals

24

From the Banshee to Burial: The Strange History of Irish Funerals

25

Comrades in Arms? The IRA and Soviet Russia

26

Hidden Lives: The Gay Community in Post-Independence Ireland

27

The IRA & the Battle for America

28

Did Neutrality Save Ireland? Daily Life in Wartime Ireland

29

The Smugglers & Gun Runners: Who armed the IRA?

30

Brothers in Pain: New Series Preview

31

St. Patrick's Day Parades: Tradition or American Invention?

32

Éamon de Valera: Visionary or Victorian?

33

The Irish in America's Indian Wars: A Dark History

34

Wild Animals and Public Entertainment in Georgian Ireland

35

Why Didn't the Romans Invade Ireland?

36

The Ulster Special Constabulary - A Troubled History

37

The Mystery of St Brigid

38

Daily Life in a Medieval Irish Castle: What was it really like?

39

The Secret Sex Lives of our Ancestors

40

Railway of Death: The Irishman Who Survived Japanese Prison Camp in World War II

41

The Battle of Vinegar Hill: The Last Stand of the 1798 Rebellion?

42

The Battle of New Ross and the Scullabogue Massacre. Irish History’s Darkest Day?

43

Liberty or Death: The South Falls to the Rebels

44

Broken Silence: The Murder of Mary Doherty

45

The 1798 Rebellion Begins: Plots, Spies, and Informers

46

Hugh O’Flaherty & The Vatican Escape Line in World War II

47

The French Invasion: Ireland’s Year of Terror?

48

The Jackson Spy Affair: The Downfall of the Society of United Irishmen

49

Airbrushed from History: The Great Hunger in Dublin

50

The French Revolution & the Society of United Irishmen

51

The Rising Storm: The American War of Independence & Ireland

52

The Penal Laws: An Irish Apartheid?

53

1798: The Year Ireland Changed Forever

54

The Irish Immigrants Who Built Britain's NHS

55

Celebrating Conquest? Ireland’s Culture War over William the Conqueror

56

The Secret Life of May O’Callaghan: The Kremlin’s Irish Insider

57

Ireland's Liberator - The Life of Daniel O'Connell

58

Who Will History Remember?

59

Yola: A History of Ireland’s Lost Language

60

Irish Americans & The Troubles: Unwelcome Outsiders or Allies?

61

NORAID: Did Irish Americans Fund the Provisional IRA?

62

Irish Asylums: A Dark History We Don’t Talk About. Why?

63

Banned: The Hidden History of Contraception in Ireland (Listener Favourite)

64

[Classic Replay] A Criminal Conversation: Affairs & Divorce in 1920s Ireland

65

The Irish Wake: A History

66

Midwives & Mothers: A History of Birth in Ireland

67

Glenmalure & Memories of a Lost World - How Did Electrification Change Rural Ireland?

68

Glendalough & The History Tourists Are Never Told

69

A History of Ireland's Last Great Wilderness

70

Breaking Ireland's Bandit Country: The Wicklow Military Road

71

What happened to Ireland’s Protestant Community after the Revolution?

72

The IRA's Great Escape: Mountjoy Jail, 1925

73

Stories We Don't Tell: Realities of Surviving the Great Hunger

74

Typhoid Mary: Victim or Villain

75

Coffin Ships: What Famine Emigrants Endured [Classic Replay]

76

A History of Beer in Ireland

77

The Bloody Summer of 1170: An Epic of Siege, Invasion & Conquest in Medieval Ireland

78

1798, Magdalene Laundries, and Exploring an Irish bandit Country - Keeping You in the Loop!

79

Michael Collins: History Masked by Myths and Conspiracies

80

Irish Emigrants in Tsarist Russia: A History

81

St Brigid: Pagan Goddess or Christian Saint?

82

Hitler's Irish Translator: Nazi Sympathiser or Following Orders?

83

The Irish Catholic Church: How did it become so powerful?

84

Winston Churchill: The Irish View on a British Legend

85

Irish Lives in Victorian London: History and Influence

86

Why Didn't Irish People Eat Fish During the Great Hunger?

87

Why Was Life Expectancy So Low in Ireland Until 1900?

88

1719: The Irish Rescue of the Polish Princess Bride

89

Societal Collapse: Did It Happen in Irish History?

90

Your Prehistoric Ancestors: More Sophisticated than you think!

91

Stigma, Famine & Emigration: A History of Mental Health in Ireland

92

The Dirtiest City in Europe? Why Did Typhoid Thrive in Victorian Dublin?

93

Emily Anderson: The Forgotten Irish Woman of Bletchley Park

94

The Making of a Ghost Town - The Rise and Fall of the Irish Kings of Cotton

95

Who was the first Irish person to cross the Atlantic Ocean?

96

Resisting Nazi Occupation: Ireland's Forgotten World War II Heroes

97

Ireland in World War II: Neutrality, Nazi Collaborators or Secret Allies?

98

The Mystery Nazi Flight to Ireland - Who was really on board?

99

Exploring a 5,000 year old Tomb

100

The History of Guinness Explained: A more controversial beer than you think!