Shite Talk: An Irish History Podcast
A somewhat accurate retelling of Irish history stories. 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.
Episodes
May 7, 2024 • 67 mins
Here's the penultimate episode of the Bertie series, The Celtic Pelican. The wheels are coming off the county as the Celtic Tiger gets put down and replaced with a Celtic Pelican, right when the country needs him most, Bert is distracted by his own personal affairs and ends up stepping down as Taoiseach just before the economy implodes.
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If you want more context for the Mahon Tribunal / Sean Quinn & Anglo stuff you can head over...
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April 19, 2024 • 88 mins
Well hello, here's part 3.5 of the Bertie series, the Mahon Tribunal. We've been doing the rest of the Flood / Mahon Tribunal stuff behind the paywall so if you want to get the full story you can head over to the Patreon and get it all there for a fiver.
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You can follow us on Instagram to see video clips from each episode and ALSO you can find tickets for all of our upcoming live shows here - Shite Talk Live .
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You can follow us on Instagram to see video clips from each episode and ALSO you can find tickets for all of our upcoming live shows here - Shite Talk Live .
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March 14, 2024 • 113 mins
Hello, we're back with part three of the Bertie series and in this episode we talk about his second term in government and start seeing some of his big failings as a leader. Hope ye enjoy this episode and have a lovely St Patrick's weekend!
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You can follow us on Instagram to see video clips from each episode and ALSO you can find tickets for all of our upcoming live shows here - Shite Talk Live .
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You can follow us on Instagram to see video clips from each episode and ALSO you can find tickets for all of our upcoming live shows here - Shite Talk Live .
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March 7, 2024 • 1 min
Well hellllo, we're bringing the podcast on tour again and travelling across the island of Ireland talking shite with some of our favourite guests!Hopefully see ye for a pint soon x
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February 27, 2024 • 11 mins
Hello, here's a little preview of our Patreon cowboy special on Ben Dunne Jnr. We talk about how one mans wild weekend in Florida started a chain reaction which led to Bertie Ahern stepping down as Taoiseach some 16 years later.
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If you want to listen to the full Ben Dunne / McCracken story (as well as all the other bonus episodes we have) you can get it all for a fiver over on Patreon. <--- click here
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If you want to listen to the full Ben Dunne / McCracken story (as well as all the other bonus episodes we have) you can get it all for a fiver over on Patreon. <--- click here
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February 16, 2024 • 79 mins
Hello, and welcome back to the Bertie Bowl. Here's episode two of our Ahern series, in this one we cover his first term as Taoiseach (1997 - 2002) and the origin of the tribunals that eventually lead to him stepping down.
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We're also about to release the first tribunal spin off episode over on the patreon, so if you want to hear us tell the full McCracken / Ben Dunne story (as well as all the other bonus episodes we have up there i...
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We're also about to release the first tribunal spin off episode over on the patreon, so if you want to hear us tell the full McCracken / Ben Dunne story (as well as all the other bonus episodes we have up there i...
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January 28, 2024 • 105 mins
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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January 13, 2024 • 92 mins
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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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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January 3, 2024 • 71 mins
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 tick...
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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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December 12, 2023 • 65 mins
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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You can support us on Patreon or follow us on Instagram to find out about all our upcoming shows!
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December 1, 2023 • 42 mins
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
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November 17, 2023 • 60 mins
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.
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.
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November 8, 2023 • 38 mins
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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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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October 31, 2023 • 39 mins
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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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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October 9, 2023 • 81 mins
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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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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September 23, 2023 • 62 mins
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September 6, 2023 • 62 mins
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!!
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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!!
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August 28, 2023 • 72 mins
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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August 14, 2023 • 55 mins
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
And if you want to see our video content and all that you can find it here -> STH
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