Shite Talk: An Irish History Podcast

Hello! We've got our biggest live show coming up soon in the Laughter Lounge, Dublin, on the 30th of January 2025.

You can find tickets for the show here: 30th January 2025 - Laughter Lounge, Dublin.
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OR you can subscribe to our Patreon and get a DISCOUNT CODE for the live show which means you basically you get a free subscription.
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Part 1 of a tale about one of the hardiest men Kerry has ever produced, the Antartic explorer Tom Crean.

Tickets to our live show in January 2025 can be found over at LaughterLounge.com.

If you want bonus content, or want to support us outside of coming to a live gig, or get 20% of tickets for the live gig, sure go over and sign up to the Patreon!

Hello! Well, after five months, we're finally done with Bertie. This is a preview of the final Bertie episode where we talked about some of his biggest slip ups from the last decade. If you want to listen to the rest of the episode (along with all the other bonus stuff) you can find it on Patreon.
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We'll be back with our regular programming for the rest of the year but hopefully you all enjoyed the Bertie series, and please Vote Ahern 2025
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Hello, and welcome back for season 11! It's the 6th year of the podcast and to celebrate we're doing a deep dive series into one of the biggest figures from modern Irish politics, Bertie Ahern. Over the next few weeks we'll be putting out loads more Bertie and Bertie related episodes, some of which will be behind the Patreon, so if you want to get access to everything you can sign up now for a fiver - Patreon .
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And while you're clicking things why not follow us on Instagram to see video clips and find out about all our upcoming live shows, or just buy tickets direct from here - Shite Talk Live .
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Hellllo! For this weeks episode we had the wonderful Alison Spittle with us to talk about Belvedere house and a whole load of other Westmeath related bits!
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Alos while you're clicking links you can support us on Patreon or follow us on Instagram to see video clips and find out about all our upcoming live shows, or just buy tickets direct from here - Shite Talk Live
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Hellllo! And we're back in 2024 with a special episode about Harry Boland that I (Kevin) recorded with Kevin Dolan of The History of Ireland Podcast a few weeks ago. If you like this episode you can check out the rest of Kev's stuff on the Irish Civil War here.
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Alos while you're clicking links you can support us on Patreon or follow us on Instagram to see video clips and find out about all our upcoming live shows!
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Our just buy tickets direct from here - Shite Talk Live
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This week we had Katie Charlwood from the great Who Did What Now Podcast join us to talk about Tipp man George Thomas and his adventures in the Indian subcontinent.
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You can support us on Patreon or follow us on Instagram to find out about all our upcoming shows!
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We talk about the details of last weeks riot in Dublin. Just a heads up, this is a fairly grim epiosde with some graphic details

This week we had Ronan Carey from the fantastic Dream Gun Film Reads join us to talk about an Irish classic, John Crowley's Intermission.

You can see Dreamgun live in Smock Alley on Nov 29th - Dec 2nd, find tickets over here.

You can support us on Patreon or follow us on Instagram/tell all your friends or scream at random peiple on the street about us! Thanks.

Hello! It's part two of the Étaín story, now with more flies and even more incest.
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There's also a bonus part on Patreon so if you want to listen to that, and all the other stuff we have up there, you can find it here!
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Hello! We're back with another myth saga, this time Jason has done a deep dive into the wooing of Étaín, a weird tale of incest and...well mostly incest.
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There's also a bonus part on Patreon so if you want to listen to that, and all the other stuff we have up there, you can find it here!
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Hello! For this weeks episode we covered the love story between a young American lady and her Irish Navy boyfriend.
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If you want to find us on all social media, live dates, merch, and everything in between, you can do it all here!
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This week we recorded an episode about one of Ireland's greatest musical treasures, Joe Dolan, and as if that wasn't enough, we were joined by the Queen of the Dolonites herself, Justine Stafford!

If you want to find us on all social media, live dates, merch, and everything in between, you can do it all here!
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A little story about the Lion's Gate Bridge in Vancouver, Canada, and the Irish connections the Guinness family would rather forget!

If you're looking for us online go ahead and give a follow to Amy(@amywalshcomedy), Jason(@jasonbcomedy), Kevin(@kevlarcomedy), and the podcast(@shitetalkhistory).

This week we were joined by one half of the Dollop, the show our pod is loosely based on. Wait, what's the other term for loosely based? Yeah, that's it, directly pilfered.

Thankfully Gareth Reynolds was able to overlook that and we had a chat about Iron Michael Malloy, the most durable drinker and toughest assassinee Ireland has ever produced.

Go see Gareth perform live in Dublin in the Sugar Club on September 17th! Tickets Here!!

And to find us on all social media, live dates, merch, and everything in between, head on over to here!!

Hello! This week we chatted with comedian Paul Marsh about The Field, a 1990 film directed by Jim Sheridan that was based on a John B. Keane play about, well its about a field. It's a great film and we had a lovely time talking to Paul, so good we had to cut a load of extra bits out and stick them on the Patreon (along with all the other Film Club episodes), so if you want to listen to that / those the links are here -> STH
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Hello! This week we chatted with Cork comedian Rich Sheehy about his character Kevin Murphy (Cork's Biggest Liverpool Fan) and the time he lived beside the #1 suspect in the Sophie Toscan du Plantier murder, Ian Bailey. If you're in Edinburgh for the Fringe festival you should go see Richy's show! There's links for all that here.

And if you want to see our video content and all that you can find it here -> STH

Helllo! Its the final part of our series on Fionn MacCool, and this time he's looking for love. We'll be back to regualr boring history next week but until then, if you want to see our video content and all that, here are the links -> STH

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Helllo! Its Fionn part two ad we're hitting all the classics, the Salmon of knowledge, the Giant's causeway, eh...that one about the Aliens...and all the rest! We're back next week with the exciting conclusion of Fionn MacCool. Until then, if you want to see our video content and all that there, here are the links -> STH

Helllo! We're both back together in the same room and this week we recorded the first episode of our series on the Irish legend, Fionn MacCool / Fionn mac Cumhaill / Finn McCool / maybe it was Cu Chulainn all along.

If you want to see our video content and all that there, here are the links -> STH

Hello! This week is the third and last of our interview series (for now) and it’s with the artist Spicebag. I chatted with Mr Bag about the controversy over his eviction art earlier in the year, his connection to famine era artist Daniel MacDonald, and the general state of housing in Dublin at the minute.

If you want to see our video content and all that there then here are the links -> STH

Hello! Here's another interview we did for our summer holiday, it's Cork comedian and general all round sounder, Kyla Cobbler. If you enjoye this episode Kyla is making her Cork Opera House debut early next year and you can get tickets to see her here

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We're launching an interview series for the summer,and our first guest is Tipperary's own Will Fleury.

Will, outside of being a big Shite Talk fan, is known for being one of Ireland's best professional MMA fighters, so we sat down for a chat about a career that's seen him fight for major organisations all across the world, win a title in Abu Dhabi, have a horror experience fighting on TV show in South Africa, and all the bits in between!

You can follow Will over on his Instagram page here! @willfleurymma

To find us online or in person just head on over to here!

Hello! This week we've got the tale of Ronnie O'Brien, which is 100% not a football story.

Thanks everyone who came to the live show this week by the way, it was class x

You can follow us online / all that from the links here -> STH

This week we finished the story of Roger Casement, the last of the 1916 leaders to be executed.

Our live show is in Dublin next week on the 25th of May, the last few tickets (and the rest of our links) are all here -> STH

Hello! This week Kevin started telling Jason about one of Ireland's greatest heros, Roger Casement. In part one we covered his exploits in the Belgian colony of Congo and in part two we'll talk about his role in the Easter Rising of 1916. I've been excited about this one for a while so hope ye enjoy it!

If you want to see the video from this episode and / or by tickets to our live show in Dublin on the 25th of May, the links are all here - STH

Hello! This week we had the wonderful Des Bishop on to talk with us about two lads from Darndale!

You can check out upcomig gig for Des here, if you like our new logo it came from Joanne at JLDesigns which you should definitely check out here, and if you want to see the video from this episode and / or by tickets to our live show in Dublin on the 25th of May, the links are all here - STH

For the day that's in it we said we might as well do a story related to 4/20, so here's an episode Jason wrote to throw a little shine on a great man altogether, William Brooke O'Shaughnessy.

And as always you can find our links below, including the link to our live show in the Wild Duck in Dublin on the 25th of May - Shite Talk: Links

Hello! For this week's episode we had a very special guest via zoom, Mr. Fintan O'Toole! Fintan joined us for a great chat about his latest book and to talk shite about Ireland and the state of things in general. You can follow Fintan on Twitter here and buy his book "We Don't Know Ourselves" where ever you see a sign that says book shop.

We'd also like to give a shout out to a fellow Spreaker podcast, Working Class History! I talk a bit more about them at the start of this episode but it's a great podcast that you can (and should) check out here.

And as always you can find our links below, including the link to our live show in the Wild Duck in Dublin on the 25th of May - Shite Talk: Links

Hello! We had a great guest in for this weeks episode, the hilarious Owen Colgan! This is an episode we've had on the books for a while, the story of fighting man Dan "Dancin" Donnelly.

We filmed this episode in our new studio, you'll be able to see clips of it on instagram / youtube / somewhere soon enough! For more info on that you can follow us through the links below, you can also get tickets to our live show in May and / or join the patreon - Shite Talk: Links

A wild auld story from behind our Patreon paywall. We did this episode in the summer of last year, and if you like it, you'll love the rest of the content we've got over on The Patreonand all for just €5.

If you'd like to get tickets to our next Live Show in the Wild Duck, Dublin, on May 25th, get in touch via e-mail, or follow us on social media, head on over to here: Shite Talk: Links

The life and times of a mad man from Cavan.

For anyone who skips the intro, here's what ye missed:

1. You can find tickets to our next live show in Dublin on May 25th here: Shite Talk: Links

2. Thanks to everyone in Belfast who came to see us live in the Sunflower!

3. Apologies for any audio issues, we're figuring out this new studio we're making, but once it's ready we'll being doing video episodes as well as the best audio we've ever had!

If you want to see the test episode, sign up for the Patreon: Shite Talk: Links

Hello and welcome back to the second and final part of the Brendan Behan story. Just as a heads up, in this episode we cover Behan's decline which does include some graphic readings of sexual assault and other bleak enough stuff so bear that in mind.

We also put a bit of bonus stuff about the other Behans up on the patreon which you can find a link for below (as well as tickets to our gig in Belfast this Friday the 3rd of March)

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Hello and welcome to part one of us talking about the Borstal Boy, Brendan Behan. It was the man's birthday on the 9th of Febuary which means he would have been turning 100 this year, if he hadn't of died 59 years ago. Makes you think.

Part two will be out later this week and we've got some bonus stuff about the other Behan boys going up on the patreon as well, which you can sign up to here:

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Hello, we're off this week so here's an episode from out patreon from last year where we talked about a figure that's been in the news again recently, Charles Byrne the Irish Giant. We'll be back with a new episode next week, g'luck!

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Hellooo, this week we had our friend Gary White on to tell us about the Baloobas tribe and the Niemba ambush in the Belgian Congo, enjoy!

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The Ha'penny Comedy Club

This week Jason tells Kevin a story about a 'M'an who left a little place called Sneem to work on some pretty big schemes across the water.

It's Dame Judi Dench.


Shite Talk Patreon / Socials / Live Gigs

We decided to wrap up the whole FAI, Saipan, The Van saga by going through some of the aftermath of Saipan and what both men involved would get up to in the years following it.

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Hello! We're back in 2023 with a story about the magic stone that Charles is going to use later this year to make sure everyone knows he's the king and how it's really our magic stone. Probably.

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Hello, fair play to ye all for making it through another year, to celebrate here's a special Christmas episode about the time the IRA stole a load of bullets. Enjoy and we'll see ye all in 2023 x

Saipan, 20 years on, we did a live episode in Little Whelans...Enjoy!

Tickets to our Belfast gig: HERE!!

Link to our Patreon for Part Two: HERE!!

For everything else check out our LINKTREE or get in touch via our INSTAGRAM!!

Hello, for this episode we jumped on the World Cup band wagon and Jason told Kevin about all the glorious WC and Euro memories from the past 100 years or so of Irish football. And this episode is basically a prelude to our live show this Wednesday the 14th of December in Whelans where we'll be talking about the main event in ROI football history, 20 years after the fact, the 2002 Saipan incident.

Tickets to our final show of the year, The Saipan Special - https://www.whelanslive.com/ticket/shite-talk/

Kevin tells Jason a story about a scientist who stumbles upon a very odd little island at the edge of Europe with a distrust trust of the police, a disassociation which the politicians, an interesting relationship with the church, and so sexually repressed that people write books on it. And beside that is Inisheer.

Sorry, Baile Beag...or Inis Beag.

It's Inisheer.


Links to live gigs:

Dublin - Whelans - https://tinyurl.com/Whelans-Gig

Belfast - The Sunflower - https://tinyurl.com/Belfast-Gig


Our Patreon - https://tinyurl.com/ShiteTalk-Patreon

This week we talked about the doctor of death from Antrim, John Bodkin Adams, with our wonderful guest from the Crimeland podcast, Julie Jay!

Follow Julie - https://www.juliejaycomedy.com/

Podcast links - https://linktr.ee/shitetalkhistory

Two short stories about Irish lads who ended up in far fetched, far off places. If you like the first two stories we had a third one about an Irish chap in Fiji with 48 kids on the Patroen!

Tickets to our gig in Belfast with Darren Matthews on November 24th in the Sunflower:

https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/shite-talk-an-irish-history-live-in-the-sunflower-with-darren-matthews-tickets-448714857217

This week we were joined by Stephen Mullan when we talked about the great Admiral William "Guillermo" Brown, a Mayo man done good in Argentina.

You should go follow Stephen on social media @thestephenmullan, then while you're there follow the podcast @shitetalkhistory and while you're at THAT, come see us live in Belfast:

https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/shite-talk-an-irish-history-live-in-the-sunflower-with-darren-matthews-tickets-448714857217

This week Kevin brings Jason a scary story for the festive season that's in it. Dublin's very own Al Gore. We'll have our Halloween/Banshee episode from our live gig in Cork up later today on the Patreon too! Find that over here:

https://www.patreon.com/shitetalkhistory

And if you're looking for tickets to our Belfast show on Novemeber 24th, you can find those here:

https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/shite-talk-an-irish-history-live-in-the-sunflower-with-darren-matthews-tickets-448714857217

Somehow we didn't think to do this episode during that whole pandemic thing, so we're timely as usual. But anyway, it's never too late, so here's an episode about ol' Mary Mallon, the superest of spreaders.

We have a live Halloween Special recording in Cork on Thursday October 27th in Couglans, get your tickets here - https://www.coughlans.ie/whats-on/comedy-cavern-shite-talk-live-podcast-11146296

For this episode Kevin told Jason all about the Dundalk's fastest man you've never heard of, Tommy Byrne.

We have a live gig coming up in Cork for Halloween, you can buy tickets here - https://www.coughlans.ie/whats-on/comedy-cavern-shite-talk-live-podcast-11146296

Welcome back to Shite Talk: An Irish History Podcast! Sorry for the summer break!

To kick off Season 9 we have a tale about two Irishmen murdering a bunch of Scots, and a few Irish for good measure, in Edinburgh back in the 1800s. No better man to join us and explain everything we got wrong than Edinburgh comedian Ben Verth!

Ben wrote the book on Burke and Hare, or technically it was a college dissertation, but who comes to this podcast for facts?

You can find Ben somewhere at a gig in Ireland, or over @BenVerth on the socials.

Or if you're looking for us online we're over @shitetalkhistory, Jason Brennan @jasonbcomedy, and Kevin Larney @kevlarcomedy.

Enjoy!

Here's the opening bit of a recent episode we did on Patreon about Tipp's finest TD, Mattie McGrath. If you want to hear the rest of this episode, and all the other stuff we've been doing on Patreon, you can get it all for a fiver by signing up here!

100 years ago today, on the 27th of July 1922, Frank Aiken (the future Tánaiste of Ireland) orchestrated the biggest jailbreak in Irish history when his battalion blew a hole in the side of the Dundalk Gaol. We got to record an episode about the jail break live from inside the Gaol (which is now the Oriel Centre) back in May and we're realising the audio for the centenary. If you've been missing us talking shite we've been releasing episodes all month over on the patreon, you can join here for a fiver to get access to all our bonus content! Also you can follow us on Instagram or Eventbrite to find out about upcoming live events (including the next one at the Edinburgh Fringe)

For the last episode of the season we jumped on the Stranger Things bandwagon and talked about Dublin's Hellfire Club. Thanks for listening to our shite for another season and we'll see ye all in September! But if you miss our voices you can follow the patreon here, you can follow us on instagram here and you can find out about our comedy club here!

We went to Amsterdam on holiday and met up with one of our favourite Irish internet personalities, Cork comedian Ronan Brosnan, AKA Shite Guides, AKA The Delivery Boy, AKA a very sound lad altogether. We discussed Amsterdam, Cork, the boring paintings of Johannes Vermeer, and the exciting thefts of the boring paintings of Johannes Vermeer by the Ra, AKA the IRA. You call follow Ronan's Youtube channel over at Shite Guides, and check out his music as The Delivery Boy with his Minimum Wage Mixtape. You can find us over on the Shite Talk Instagram, Twitter, or on The Facebook.

This is the recording from our live 100th episode / 3rd birthday show we did last month, thanks a million to everyone who came out for it, and a special thanks to our wonderful guest on the night, Donal Fallon! You can hear more of Donal's work on his own (much more successful) podcast, Three Castles Burning, and if you want to hear more of US you can sign up to our patreon to get access to all the bonus content here!

This week we had Andrew Dorman on to tell us about the 18th century Irish army and the time the French invaded. Andrew's a fine man (and soon to be historical doctor) so go check out his comedy shows!

This week we had Damo Clarke on to talk with us about a Monaghan man who made it big in Tasmania back in the 1800s. Damo is one of the resident MCs of the Craic Den Comedy Club in Dublin which you should all check out if you're in town, but even if you're not, you can pretend you are by listening to their podcast here. And if you like listening to podcasts, why not listen to more of ours over on the patreon!

This week we had Shane Clifford on to talk about Ireland's favourite saint, the man who found America (100% confirmed), and Kerry's finest son, St. Brendan the Navigator. Shane is a great man all together, you can find more of his stuff on IG here, on twitter here and on his own podcast here We also talked for far too long and ended up putting all our film and general shite talk on our patreon, which you can sign up to here And (this is the last time we'll plug it!) you can get tickets to our last live show of the year here: James Joyce in the Wild Duck with Donal Fallon of 3 Castles Burning - Thursday the 19th of May

We had Fiona Frawley on with us this week to talk to us about the teenage mecca of Dublin's early 2000s nightlife, Wezz Nightclub.  You can (and should) follow Fiona on IG here And you can get tickets to our last live show of the year here: James Joyce in the Wild Duck with Donal Fallon of 3 Castles Burning

For this week's episode we're talking about the famous Corkconian lawman, John Philpot Curran. It's an episode we recorded a few weeks ago with Roger O'Sullivan and we're releasing it now because himself and Denis Len have just released the first episode of their new podcast, Unexplained Legends! So if you enjoy this show definitely go check them out. We've got two live shows left in Ireland for 2022 so you should come see us in either: Dundalk - Dundalk Gaol for a retelling of the 1922 Jail Break Dublin - Wild Duck with Donal Fallon of 3 Castles Burning Also, if you want to listen to more of the live episodes (and the bonus, cowboy and film club stuff) you can find it all on our Patreon

This week Kevin told Jason, and our guest Darren Matthews, all about the life and times of Edward Carson, the father of Ulster Unionism.  We've got two shows left in Ireland for 2022 so you should come see us in either: Dundalk - Dundalk Gaol for a retelling of the 1922 Jail Break Dublin - Wild Duck with Donal Fallon of 3 Castles Burning Also, go check out Jordan Robinson who joined us for the first Edward Carson reading when we did it live in the Sunflower, Belfast!

We were delighted to get the opportunity to record this episode about the 1913 lockout, live inside the historic Emmet Hall of Inchicore. The building was once owned by James Larkin and home to one of the striker leaders, and later one of the men executed for 1916, Michael Mallin.  If you want to hear more of ourselves and Donal Fallon you can come join us in the Wild Duck in Dublin on the 19th of May by getting tickets here! Also, a huge thanks to D8 Development and Lauren Tuite for setting us up in the newly renovated hall, if you live around the area you should definitely follow them to see the great work they're doing for Inchicore.

Hello! For the first episode of Season 8 we had Des Bishop on to talk about the original Fenian bad boy (slash possible father of modern terrorism) Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa! We've got three shows left in Ireland for 2022 so you should come see us in: Carlow - Scragg's Alley with Shannon Basso Gaule Dundalk - Dundalk Gaol for a retelling of the 1922 Jail Break Dublin - Wild Duck with Donal Fallon of 3 Castles Burning

We were joined by Mob Theatre's Stephen Bradley and John Spillane to talk about the life and times of the great Danno O'Mahony, Ireland's first ever Pro Wrestling Champ! For tickets to our 3-Year-Birthday/100th Episode Special with Donal Fallon click on over to here, and for all our other gigs in Mullingar, Carlow, and Dundalk head this way.

For the last proper episode of season 7 Kevin told Jason all about the exploits of Horace de Vere Cole, the master prankster of Cork.  We had a class time last night doing our live show in Cork (the audio will be up on the patreon soon) but if you're reading this today, Saturday the 5th of March, come see us both do stand up in the CoCo Comedy Club in Cork tonight! You can get tickets here

We decided to release the second ever episode of our Film Club for free this week to give you all a taste of what's behind that sweet, sweet Patreon paywall. Joining us for this episode is Entertainment.ie's Movie Editor, Brian Lloyd (@BrianMLloyd) as we head back to 1981 for John Boorman's 'Excalibur' as we try to figure out what the hell was going on in this film.  The Film Club's third episode will be behind the Patreon as usual, so if you want to hear us break down 'Leap Year' later this week you know where to find us!

For this weeks episode Kevin told Jason about the time the people of Ireland got taken for a spin by a stamp salesman We're doing a live show in Sin E, Dublin on the 19th of February (this Saturday) and you can get tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/260269482027

This week Jason tells Kevin all about Irish nationalist Thomas Francis Meagher and his role in the Young Irelander rebellion Get tickets to our lives shows in Dublin & Cork here: https://linktr.ee/shitetalkhistory The title picture was colourised by reddit user u/packersfanmw87

This week Jason tells Kevin the story of the time time Munster Rugby faced the almight All Blacks in Thomond Park, 1978...and also every other time the sides met, which weren't as fun.

This is a crossover, bonus episode we did with Brian O'Toole & James Cadden from the Brian & James Fuck Each Other podcast where we talked about Michael Collins the movie, Carlow living and our dreams for a new republic. You can check out the BJ-FEO podcast where ever you're listening to this one: https://myurls.co/brianandjamesfuckeachother

This week Kevin tells Jason all about Dublin's George McElroy, a distinguished WW1 fighter pilot and flying Ace

This is a bonus Sunday episode that we recorded a few weeks ago where we talked with Vietnamese born / Dublin based comic Nghĩa Mai about a few of the connections between Ireland and Vietnam. You can find more from Nghĩa on IG @nmaicomedy and twitter @nmai_comedy

This week Jason tells Kevin all about Ireland's most famous sea beasts; from Fionn mac Cumhaill's Caoránach to Killarney's Muckie, and all the Oilliphéists in between. Also, happy new year to ye all!

For our Christmas special Kevin tells Jason the story of the 7th largest bank robbery in the history of robbing banks. Merry Christmas everyone, hopefully if you're stuck in quarantine with covid this will distract you for a bit! Omicron is only a wee bollix.

This week Jason tells Kevin all about local Carlow man, Beauchamp Bagenal. Described as an Irish rake, buck, duellist and politician, he was known (for a time) as the most handsome man in Ireland.

It's time for an old mythological Irish story you've probably all heard before too many times but, likes us, have more than likely forgotten, if not some of the details, the complete story entirely other than...SWANS!!! We're also doing a live gig in Kilkenny tomorrow (the 9th of December) where we'll be talking about Arthur MacMurrough Kavanagh, definitely one of the most interesting subjects we've covered yet. We'll be joined on the night with another local man, comedian Mike Rice! If you wanna come see us then here's the tickets: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/shite-talk-an-irish-history-podcast-live-in-kilkenny-with-mike-rice-tickets-207124764747

To finish off season 6 we're doing an episode about the Orange Order, as suggested to us on Patreon by Monica Neuhauser!  We're also delighted to announce that (with Jason's return to Ireland) we'll be doing some live shows over the next few weeks, the first of which will be a Halloween Special in Sin E on the 30th of October!

This week Jason told Kevin about the legend of Buile Shuibhne aka Mad Sweeney, the wandering King. We also did a bonus episode about the Annals fo the Four Masters (the ancient book this story comes from) which you can listen to over on our patreon.

This week Kevin tells Jason about the great schism of Ballygawley and it's knock on effect on Tyrone GAA

This week we had our first ever guest spot where Isabelle Duff came on and told the two of us about the moral panic in 1960s Ireland caused by the arrival of mini skirts

This week Kevin tells Jason all about Lady Arabella Denny of Kerry and her work on the Magdalen Asylums

This week Kevin told Jason all about James F O'Connell, a Liberties man who became a unwitting pioneer in the world of body art

This week Jason told Kevin about Carlingford man Thomas D'Arcy Magee, from his time with the Young Irelanders to his role in Canadian politics

Jason finishes the story of Brendan Bracken and his role in WWII

This week Jason tells Kevin about Brendan Bracken, a Tipperary man who wormed his way into power at Churchill's side

Kevin tells Jason about the history and antics of Ireland's favourite human crisp

We're back and Jason is starting off season 6 with a story about a pint drinking, ghost chatting, 19th century poet by the name of James Clarence Mangan

Here's a teaser for the 3rd and final episode of the Quinn trilogy, Revenge of the Quinn. We talk about what happened after Quinn lost control of his company, the post recession fallout for the bankers (Sean Fitzpatrick and David Drumm) as well as the current state of affairs in Quinn county with Kevin Lunney. You can get access to the full episode for €5 over at www.buymeacoffee.com/shitetalkhistory OR www.patreon.com/shitetalkhistory