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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December 18, 2025 • 60 mins
Hello! We're running a bit behind schedule this week with all the Christmas celebrations so here's an old episode about the IRA Christmas raid which, as well as being festive, ties into the Dev series from earlier in the season.
Original Blurb: "Hello, fair play to ye all for making it through another year, to celebrate here's a special Christmas episode about the time the IRA stole a load of bullets. Enjoy and we'll see ye all ...
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December 11, 2025 • 96 mins
Hello! Here's an episode from last year that we're sticking out again cause it's the 50th anniversary of Barry Lyndon (I think, wikipedia says it was 11th Dec 1975 but also might have been July? Who knows).
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It was with our friend Colm McGlinchey, a great comic and MC at The Comedy Crunch and Anseo, go check them out!
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December 9, 2025 • 61 mins
We're delighted to say, this episode is sponsored by Football Special! The makers of Donegal's greatest drinks / football merch, and you can use the code ShiteTalk for 10% off on their whole website: www.football-special.com
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Hello! We've got a general football special episode today, and who better to talk football with than Ken Early of Second Captains. We ...
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December 2, 2025 • 58 mins
Hello! Here's a festive episode about everyone's favourite Christmas book, the Guinness Book of Records, and it's origins with Ross and Norris McWhirter (and the provisional IRA)
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November 25, 2025 • 108 mins
Hello! In honour of the Swift festival this week here's our episode on the life and times of Jonathan Swift. If you want to hear more about his works and satire we've got a live show TONIGHT (25th Nov) in the Workman's as part of the festival - Last Tickets Here
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November 21, 2025 • 49 secs
Come see us do a live podcast with Special Guest Peter McGann next week in Dublin as part of the Jonathan Swift Festival!
We'll be in the Workmans Club as part of Craic Den Comedy on Tuesday November 25th!
Tickets HERE!!
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November 18, 2025 • 68 mins
This week we were going to do a Film Club about Gullivers Travels to promote our live show with Peter McGann on November 25th in The Workmans Club, Dublin as part of the Jonathan Swift Festival...(TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE) ...
But then the film was awful, so we chat about film, Irish media, bits of Gulliver's Travels, and a whole lot of nonsense instead!
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November 11, 2025 • 71 mins
You probably all know the story by now, but come along with us as we go through the rise, the fall, and the further fall of one of Ireland's greatest ever sport stars.
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Come see us live in Dublin on November 25th(and if you're reading...
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November 4, 2025 • 87 mins
After 14 years Michael and Sabina are leaving Áras an Uachtaráin so here's a brief (as in under 6 hours) episode about the life and times of Micky D.
This BMX photo is from Michael Donnelly if you want to check him out, and you can see all the other photos / videos mentioned in this episode over on our IG / TikTok.
We've also got a live show coming up in Dublin on the 25th of November as part of the Johnathan Swift festival, and...
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October 31, 2025 • 12 mins
Here's a preview of an old episode from 2019 that we've re-edited with some audio software to make it sound less like it was recorded in a cave. You can listen to the rest of it, along with all the other bonus stuff, over
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Also, we're down in Kilkenny tomorrow night, 01st of November, as part of the Home of Halloween Festival telling some haunted Irish tales, come by and say hello!
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October 28, 2025 • 51 mins
It's Samhain once again so this week we had a chat with the amazing Katie Boyle about some lesser known Irish spirits and fairies.
Katie's bringing her solo show to the Ambassador on November 08th, you can get tickets here
And we've got our own live shows coming up which you can find out about here - LIVE SHOWS:
Kilkenny - 01st of November
Dublin w/ Peter McCann - 25th of November
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October 21, 2025 • 127 mins
The country is heading to the polls this Friday to decide the 10th President of Ireland so we wanted to do a run down of the 2025 race so far;
Conor McGregor, small pharma, 20k on Hermès bags, 3k of stolen rent, Syria, and Fox Hunting, by god this election has it all.
We'll have another episode out on HeadStuff+ this Thursday covering the final week of the Áras race which you can listen to here, alongside all our other bonus st...
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October 13, 2025 • 75 mins
Part 2 of Saipan and the Roy Keane vs Mick McCarthy fiasco.
Little bit of house keeping, from next week onwards we'll be releasing on Tuesday instead of Monday!
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We've got a few line shows and stuff coming up you can find out about here - LIVE SHOWS
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October 6, 2025 • 104 mins
Hello, this week we're doing an episode on the early Irish-Palestine relations.
The past two years have been a particularly bleak time in the history of the region but we wanted to take a look at some of the early connections and similarities between Ireland and Mandatory Palestine from the 1920s on and maybe show why so many Irish people strongly identify with the people of Palestinian.
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September 29, 2025 • 68 mins
This week we're taking a look back at Saipan and the Roy Keane vs Mick McCarthy debacle, and the only way to do that is by going back six years beforehand to figure out what the hell was going on that led to one of the greatest tragedies Irish sport has ever witnessed.
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September 26, 2025 • 15 mins
Hello! With Ireland breaking our hearts in the qualifiers at the minute, and a Saipan movie on its way, we're back talking about football this week.
We'll have a full Saipan episode out soon, but while we were recording that it got us thinking about the man who started it all, John Delaney.
Here's a clip from an episode we did on Don John back in 2020, and you can hear the rest of the reedited version over on Headstuff+. ...
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September 19, 2025 • 10 mins
Hello! Here's a short teaser for the final episode in our De Valera series.
Over on Head Stuff+ we did more of a deep dive into his birth (and his dad), the so called "Dev's Vice Act" (which led to a good Dundalk man getting fined for shifting), Dev's relationship with the physicist Erwin Schrödinger, and his ultimate legacy with the Mother & Baby homes, Haughey, and Bertie.
If you want to hear the rest of this episode, as wel...
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September 15, 2025 • 69 mins
If you listened to our Muhammad Ali In Ireland episode you'll already be familiar with strongman, showman, publican, promoter and all around great man himself, Butty Sugrue.
Here we delve a little deeper into Butty's extraordinary life, and chat about Mick Meaney, Butty's employee who buried himself underground in London in an attempt to set a world record!
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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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