Shite Talk: An Irish History Podcast
Join Irish stand up comedians Jason Brennan and Kevin Larney as they take turns giving their best accounts of some of Ireland's silly, strange, and downright stupid tales from the past. For ad-free listening and access to our bonus content go to HeadStuffPodcasts.com and sign up for €5/mo + VAT.
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September 9, 2025 • 75 mins
Well, its the final run of Dev! In this one we cover his last two terms as Taoiseach, his run as President, and talk about his general impact on the country.
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September 3, 2025 • 90 mins
Hello! Here's part three of the Éamon de Valera series covering Ireland during WWII, the 1940s IRA, Churchill's drunken offer, and Hitler's condolence book. We'll be back with the fourth and final Dev episode on Monday!
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August 22, 2025 • 97 mins
Here's part two of three on Éamon de Valera, released on the day of Collins 103rd anniversary. In this episode we cover Dev's part in the Civil War, the creation of Fianna Fail in the '20s, and his wild political run in the '30s.
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August 11, 2025 • 107 mins
In honour of his 50th anniversary, and to balance out the Mick episodes, here's the first in our three part series on Éamon de Valera. In this episode we cover Dev's suspicious birth, his erstwhile Rugby career, and his role in the early struggle for independence.
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August 5, 2025 • 106 mins
In this week's episode Jason tells Kevin the story of the time Muhammad Ali spent a few weeks in Ireland before having a fight with Al 'Blue' Lewis in Croke Park!
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July 27, 2025 • 73 mins
In the 1980's John DeLorean opened a factory outside Belfast to make his now iconic vehicle, but in less than two years it gets shut down and John finds himself under investigation by governments on both sides of the Atlantic.
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July 26, 2025 • 17 mins
Here's a quick snippet of our Film Club episode with everyone's favourite critic, Brian Lloyd! Click on his name there and give him a follow!
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July 21, 2025 • 100 mins
In this week's episode Jason tells Kevin the story of Michael Flatley, having just read his autobiography.
Flatley is probably best known for his stage show Lord of the Dance, and his time with Riverdance, but here we talk more about his childhood and his time before world wide fame.
A construction worker, a musician, a lover and a fighter, someone should make a film out of his life. Speaking of films, in 2022 he finally re...
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July 14, 2025 • 74 mins
Here's the third and final part of Collins. We cover the last year of his life from the Truce in 1921, through the Anglo-Irish Treaty, to his death in August 1922.
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July 6, 2025 • 65 mins
Hello! Here is part two of our Collins triple, we talk about Mick's return after 1916, his rise during the War of Independence, and life up until the 1921 July truce.
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June 29, 2025 • 60 mins
Hello! We're back with season 13 and we're starting off with a few episodes on the Big fella himself, Michael Collins. For part one we talked about his family life, Mick's time in London, and his part in the 1916 Rising.
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June 24, 2025 • 2 mins
Shite Talk is back for a new season and we are joining HeadStuff Podcasts!
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February 19, 2025 • 62 mins
Here's a Film Club episode to kick off a mini season of Collins, Dev, The Treaty, and the Civil War.Joining us for this week to talk shite about the Michael Collins movie is Tony Cantwell, from the Young Hot Guys podcast and the TV show Good Boy(go watch it on the RTE Player!).Then joining us live on March 6th for the live episode in The Laughter Lounge is Donal Fallon of Three Castles Burning! There we'll be discussing the life an...
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January 20, 2025 • 31 secs
We've got our biggest show to date coming up on the 06th of March and since it's the fifty year anniversary of Ireland's six-time-Taoiseach we're going to be doing a Dev special..You can get tickets for the show here:06 March 2025 - Laughter Lounge, Dublin
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January 16, 2025 • 55 mins
Here's a new recording of one of the episodes we did live last year; the story of Jimmy Hasty, the one armed football player..If you want to see clips from this episode you can follow Shite Talk on Instagram, TikTok, or YouTube and you can find tickets for our upcoming LIVE SHOW here:06 March 2025 - Laughter Lounge, Dublin
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January 2, 2025 • 65 mins
Happy 2025! We did a "Reeling in the Years" style review of 2024, this is the first part covering events from January to June, and part two will be up on the Patreon later this week. Part two is much more fun to be honest, the first half of the year had very little craic in it..If you want to see clips from this episode you can follow Shite Talk on Instagram, TikTok, or YouTube and you can find tickets for our upcoming LIVE SHOW he...
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December 13, 2024 • 70 mins
This week we had Brinsley McNamara of Weird Ireland on to chat about all things Irish History.Brinsley's book Weird Ireland: An Unofficial Guide to the Island is on sale in all good bookshops! And a few of the bad ones too.You can follow Shite Talk on Instagram, TikTok, or YouTube and you can find tickets for our upcoming LIVE SHOW here:06 March 2025 - Laughter Lounge, Dublin
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December 7, 2024 • 53 mins
Here's an episode about James McClean and the Poppy fiasco thats been melting the heads of English football fans for about 12 years now.You can follow Shite Talk on Instagram, TikTok, or YouTube and you can find tickets for our upcoming LIVE SHOW here:06 March 2025 - Laughter Lounge, Dublin
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December 6, 2024 • 69 mins
With the results in we're doing one last review of the General Election and then we're done with politics (at least until next years Presidential election). . But if you want to hear more political bits (like Mattie McGrath) you can head over to Patreon..And / or you can follow Shite Talk on Instagram, TikTok, or YouTube and you can find tickets for our upcoming LIVE SHOW here:06th March 2025 - Laughter Lounge, Dublin
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November 28, 2024 • 79 mins
Hello! For this episode Kevin & Jason talked about the Leaders' debate, the campaign issues so far, and a final guess at who'll be in charge of the country next year. . If you want to hear more political bits (like Mattie McGrath) you can head over to Patreon..You can follow Shite Talk on Instagram, TikTok, or YouTube and you can find tickets for our upcoming LIVE SHOW here:06th March 2025 - Laughter Lounge, Dublin
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