Simms City (with Gayle Cullen Doyle and Eoin Ó Broin)
More than just a resident of Oliver Bond House, Gayle Cullen Doyle is a vital voice within her community, advocating for and representing her neighbou...
A Christmas Carol and Fenian Fears: Charles Dickens in Dublin
On three occasions, Charles Dickens would speak in Dublin. Each time huge crowds came to hear him speak in the Rotunda, with the crowds spilling out i...
Modernist Mausoleum or Masterpiece? The US Embassy in Ballsbridge (With Cormac Murray)
Cormac Murray is the author of a new study of the US Embassy in Ballsbridge. A visual feast, it explores one of Dublin's most unusual buildings in its...
The Making of a Brewery (with Ned Guinness)
The story of Guinness is one of great success, yes, but also turbulence. Together with historian Antonia Hart, Ned Guinness has produced a family hist...
Lord Leitrim, John Twiss and the songs of our year (with Michael Steen)
Lord Leitrim, John Twiss and the songs of our year (with Michael Steen) This edition of the podcast is dedicated to the memory of Manchán Magan. S...
Castle Island Colossus: Remembering Con (With Roy Curtis and Brendan Conroy)
At a packed Oak Room in the Mansion House, a celebration of the life of the journalist Con Houlihan last Saturday brought the audience on a journey in...
Grainne Shaffrey in Conversation: On Cities, Towns and Our Built Environment
Shaffrey Architects was established in 1967 by Patrick and Maura Shaffrey. Based on Ormond Quay,the practice has made a real and meaningful contributi...
Brian Kerr in Conversation: Drimnagh, Libya and Beyond
Brian Kerr's voice is instantly familiar as a broadcaster, and his contribution to Irish football is extraordinary. Born in 1953, his first coaching r...
Famine Soup: Alexis Soyer, Trevelyan and The Great Hunger in Dublin
Padraic X. Scanlan is the author of Rot: A History of the Irish Famine. Framing the crisis in Ireland within the broader picture of Empire, this book ...
Fighting the Flames: Captain James Robert Ingram
In 1860, a blaze in the Kildare Street Club led to the death of three workers and the destruction of an institution. Together with other fires of the ...