History Hub

History Hub

History Hub is for everyone who loves history. This podcast series is a collection of academic podcasts on a plethora of historical subjects. It ranges in scope from full recordings of academic research papers to informative contributions from professional historians discussing the details of specific historical events. Funded by UCD School of History, the series is a partnership with University College Dublin's History Hub website and multimedia hub.

Episodes

The Early Years of LGBT Activism (1970s-1990s).

July 9, 2025 • 84 mins
This podcast was recorded at workshop 1 of LGBT Activism in Ireland, 1973-2023 - Looking Back, Going Forward. The project comprised of two workshops which were organised by Mary McAuliffe (Director, UCD Gender Studies), in partnership with the National LGBT Federation (NXF), and funded by Research Ireland New Foundations award. This podcast on the early years of LGBT Activism in Ireland featured poet Mary Dorcey (ISLM), psychologis...
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Documenting the Movement. Queer Histories, Public and Personal Archives, Collective Memory - The History of LGBT Activism in Ireland.

June 25, 2025 • 78 mins
This podcast was recorded at workshop 1 of LGBT Activism in Ireland, 1973-2023 - Looking Back, Going Forward. The project comprised of two workshops which were organised by Mary McAuliffe (Director, UCD Gender Studies), in partnership with the National LGBT Federation (NXF), and funded by Research Ireland New Foundations award. Panel 3 was on 'Documenting the Movement. Queer Histories, Public and Personal Archives, Collective Memor...
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Writing our Histories - The History of LGBT Activism in Ireland.

June 20, 2025 • 53 mins
This podcast was recorded at workshop 1 of LGBT Activism in Ireland, 1973-2023 - Looking Back, Going Forward. The project comprised of two workshops which were organised by Mary McAuliffe (Director, UCD Gender Studies), in partnership with the National LGBT Federation (NXF), and funded by Research Ireland New Foundations award. Panel 2 was on 'Writing our Histories' and featured: Paraic Kerrigan (UCD), Sonja Tiernan (Irish Humaniti...
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History of LGBT Activism in Ireland.

May 29, 2025 • 60 mins
This podcast was recorded at workshop 1 of LGBT Activism in Ireland, 1973-2023 - Looking Back, Going Forward. The project comprised of two workshops which were organised by Mary McAuliffe (Director, UCD Gender Studies), in partnership with the National LGBT Federation (NXF), and funded by Research Ireland New Foundations award. This podcast on the History of LGBT Activism in Ireland featured poet Mary Dorcey (ISLM), Tonie Walsh (Ir...
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Ernest Blythe. Episode 5 of Recording the Revolution - The Harlan Strauss Tapes.

April 15, 2025 • 60 mins
In the final episode of 'Recording the Revolution', Conor and Harlan return back to the archive and pluck their final tape, which is Harlan's interview with Irish politician and managing director of the Abbey Theatre, Ernest Blythe. Ernest Blythe reflects on his early years in the IRB, the role he played in the Free State's execution of Anti-treaty IRA members and his views on the partition of Ireland. Ernest Blythe was interviewed...
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Maire Comerford. Episode 4 of Recording the Revolution - The Harlan Strauss Tapes.

April 2, 2025 • 58 mins
In this week’s episode of 'Recording the Revolution', Conor and Harlan are discussing Harlan's fascinating interview with Maire Comerford. One of two women who were interviewed by Harlan, Maire played a highly active role in the Irish revolution and can be described as one of the more radical, committed, and persistent revolutionaries from this period. Maire Comerford was interviewed on 14 March 1972.
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James M Dillon. Episode 3 of Recording the Revolution - The Harlan Strauss Tapes.

March 26, 2025 • 61 mins
In this week's episode of 'Recording the Revolution', Conor and Harlan are taking a look at Harlan's interview with James M Dillon, the former leader of Fine Gael from 1959 to 1965 and son of the Home Rule MP John Dillon. James Dillon sheds light on what life was like during the Irish Revolutionary period and talks about his time spent in the Dail from the 1930s onwards. James Dillon was interviewed by Harlan on 17 March 1973.
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Christopher Brady. Episode 2 of Recording the Revolution - The Harlan Strauss Tapes.

March 19, 2025 • 47 mins
In this week’s episode of 'Recording the Revolution', Conor and Harlan pluck their second tape from the archive and discuss Harlan's illuminating interview with the printer of the Proclamation of the Irish Republic, Christopher "Christy" Brady. Christopher Brady reminisces on his time spent in Liberty Hall, his conversations with James Connolly and the secrecy surrounding the printing of the Proclamation. Christopher Brady was inte...
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Anthony McElligott. Surviving Liberation - Jewish Camp Survivors 1945-1948 (Annual Holocaust Memorial Lecture 2025).

March 14, 2025 • 74 mins
In this episode, a recording of Holocaust Education Ireland's Annual Holocaust Annual Memorial Lecture for 2025 by Prof. Anthony McElligott
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Crafting and Craftivism - Episode 5 of the Women's Grassroots Activism Podcast

March 13, 2025 • 32 mins
In this final episode, Dr Anna Muggeridge, Deirdre Connery of the Irish Countrywomen's Association (ICA) and Joan Houston of Soroptimist International Great Britain and Ireland (SIGBI), Northern Irish Federation, discuss crafting and 'craftivism' in the ICA and SIGBI. We consider the importance of crafting to women historically and today, how these organisations have promoted and celebrated women's craft skills, and importantly the...
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General Sean MacEoin. Episode 1 of Recording the Revolution - The Harlan Strauss Tapes.

March 12, 2025 • 60 mins
In our first episode of Recording the Revolution, Conor and Harlan sit down with Catherine O’Mahony, a producer at Scratch Films. Catherine and Aine O'Neill were working on a project several years ago when a source, Jim Dolan, told them about an interview transcript in his attic. Within days, Catherine and Aine had tracked down the interviewer Harlan Strauss and flew to Berlin to meet him, starting a new chapter in the history of t...
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Introduction to 'Recording the Revolution' with Heather Delaney and Dr Conor Mulvagh

March 11, 2025 • 24 mins
In this episode, series editor Heather Delaney talks to historian Dr Conor Mulvagh and finds out all about the Harlan Strauss tapes and why they are such an important archive.
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Stories of environmental activism - Episode 4 of the Women's Grassroots Activism Podcast

March 10, 2025 • 19 mins
In this episode, Dr Anne Logan, Chrissie Booth, Vice-Chair of the National Federation of Women’s Institutes (NFWI), and Lorna Blackmore, past regional President of the Soroptimist International Great Britain and Ireland (SIGBI) Southeast Region, discuss the myriad ways in which women’s organisations have campaigned, and continue to campaign, to protect and improve the natural environment. Topics we discuss include the formation of ...
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SIGBI campaigns and educational work against gender-based violence - Episode 3 of the Women's Grassroots Activism Podcast.

March 8, 2025 • 19 mins
In this episode, Dr Ruth Davidson, Caroline Auckland, former President of the Tunbridge Wells and District Soroptimists Club, Kent, and Eadaoin Lawlor, national past President of Soroptimists Republic of Ireland discuss how Soroptimists have campaigned to end Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG). We consider the ways this work is achieved through advocacy and campaigns around policy and education at local, national and global le...
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Cross-borders solidarity in Ireland, Northern Ireland and England and Wales - Episode 2 of the Women's Grassroots Activism Podcast.

March 5, 2025 • 25 mins
In this episode with Prof Caitríona Beaumont, Margaret Broome, former chair of the Federation of Women's Institutes of Northern Ireland (WINI), June Lawless, National Secretary of the Irish Countrywomen’s Association (ICA) and Dr Anne Logan (University of Kent and Women's Institute member) chat about what membership of a women’s organisation means to them. We also discuss the history of co-operation and friendship between the ICA, ...
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The ICA's long history of activism - Episode 1 of the Women's Grassroots Activism Podcast.

February 27, 2025 • 24 mins
The first episode of the Women's Grassroots Activism Podcast with Prof Caitríona Beaumont, Mary D'Arcy, President of the ICA, Breda Cahill, ICA Wexford Federation President and Deirdre Connery, member of Duncannon, Co. Wexford ICA guild, was recorded at An Grianan, Co. Louth. The ICA's An Grianan is Ireland’s first residential adult education college and opened in 1954. In this episode we chat about the history of the ICA and its a...
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St Brigit and the beginnings of Irish history - a panel discussion at UCD History.

January 31, 2025 • 43 mins
In this episode, 'St Brigit and the beginnings of Irish history' a panel discussion organised by UCD's Dr Fionnuala Walsh UCD for International Women's Day 2024.
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Hiram Morgan (UCC). Going Dutch - Ireland and the Low Countries 1491 to 1691 (Closing Plenary).

October 1, 2024 • 44 mins
Closing Plenary at the 2024 Tudor and Stuart Ireland Conference by Hiram Morgan (UCC). Going Dutch - Ireland and the Low Countries 1491 to 1691.
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Sarah McKibben (Notre Dame). Courtly Seductions - Reading a Bardic Love Poem in the 21st century (Opening Plenary).

September 23, 2024 • 47 mins
Opening Plenary at the 2024 Tudor and Stuart Ireland Conference by Sarah McKibben (Notre Dame). Courtly Seductions - Reading a Bardic Love Poem in the 21st century.
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Stephanie Wright. Dis/economies of welfare - war, disability and Francoist veterans of the Spanish Civil War (MWHN Conference Keynote).

September 16, 2024 • 50 mins
Podcast of Stephanie Wright's keynote at Military Welfare History Network 2024 Conference at the University of Leeds.
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