The History Show

The History Show

Bringing the past to life! Discover how Ireland and our world was shaped as Myles Dungan and guests explore events ranging from medieval times to the recent past. Listen live Sundays at 6pm on RTÉ Radio 1.

Episodes

November 2, 2025 45 mins
Irish-Americans in the Union military; and the collapse of the Boundary Commission a century ago
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Marc McMenamin investigates who owns Lough Foyle; then Cormac Moore and Samuel Beckton join Myles to discuss the collapse of the Boundary Commission.
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Damian Shiels joins Myles to discuss the Irishmen who fought for the Union in the American Civil War; and whose stories are revealed in forgotten U.S. pension files.
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October 26, 2025 58 mins
The Igoe Gang’s pursuit of Michael Collins; The Gaynor sisters’ legacy of compassion and care in 19th-century Ireland; and the mysterious case of the Victorian female detective
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At the West Cork History Festival, Myles speaks to Professor Sara Lodge about the real and imagined women who pioneered the detective story.
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October 26, 2025 11 mins
Ian Kenneally reports on the lives of sisters Sarah Atkinson and Anna Gaynor ('Sister Mary John), and their work helping the most vulnerable in Victorian Dublin.
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Ultan Courtney joins Myles to discuss the shadowy police unit that hunted Michael Collins and his men during the Irish War of Independence.
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October 19, 2025 53 mins
Myles Dungan and guests explore the origins and legacy of the Ordnance Survey in Ireland. Featuring Finnian O’Cionnaith, Aengus Ó Fionnagáin, Paddy Prendergast and Catherine Porter.
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October 12, 2025 47 mins
The Jews who tried to escape to Northern Ireland on the eve of World War Two; and a forgotten history of the occult.
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Raphael Cormack joins Myles to discuss the mystics, miracle-workers, and spiritual showmen of the interwar years.
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October 12, 2025 24 mins
Noel Russell joins Myles to discuss his book 'The Saved and the Spurned', which tells the story of Jews in Vienna who tried to escape to Northern Ireland just before WW2.
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October 5, 2025 45 mins
The untold story of a brutal murder in Donegal; and Pirates, power, and the seas around Medieval Ireland.
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Dr Simon Egan of Queen’s University Belfast explores how piracy, foreign fleets, and climate change transformed Ireland’s coasts in the 14th and 15th centuries.
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Historian Dr Angela Byrne joins Myles with the untold story of a brutal murder in Donegal.
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September 28, 2025 45 mins
Great Irish Wives; The Irish Priest Who Unearthed Rome's Past; and Irish links to professional American football
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September 28, 2025 15 mins
Ian Kenneally joins Myles to discuss some of the Irish and Irish-American figures who helped shape professional American football.
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Colm Flynn reports, he talks to Father Paul Lawlor at the Basilica of San Clemente in Rome.
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September 28, 2025 19 mins
Myles is joined by Nicola Pierce, author of the new book 'Great Irish Wives: Remarkable Lives from History'
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September 21, 2025 46 mins
The Irish Civil War as a case study in counterinsurgency; Woodrow Wilson's Sheep; and the markets and lost industries of Dublins Northside.
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September 21, 2025 14 mins
Myles is joined by Mary Muldowney, Dublin City Council Historian in Residence, who’ll be giving a number of talks as part of the upcoming festival.
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