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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June 17, 2026 • 53 mins
Here's our attempt at covering the recent riots in Belfast. I'll link these two articles we talked about in the episode though, I'd like to include more sources below but as the story is still updating daily it's probably better to just search it yourselves:
Police Warned about Targets
Wired Article on Online Network
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June 11, 2026 • 16 mins
We wrap up our George Best deep dive with a fifth and final episode as Jason tells Kevin all about the final years of the mans life.
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June 9, 2026 • 79 mins
Hello! Here's a episode we recorded back in January (so ignore the Ireland-at-the-world-cup chat) with internet historian and proud Kilkenny man, Davy Holden. We talked about our favourite revolutionaries, the best Irish historical movies, and why you should go visit Kilkenny.
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June 4, 2026 • 16 mins
Jason tells Kevin the fourth instalment of the Georgie Best story. Well, part of it anyway. About 15 mins of it give or take, but if you want the next 45mins you can find it behind the paywall at HeadStuff+
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May 26, 2026 • 18 mins
Jason tells Kevin the third instalment of the Georgie Best story. Well, part of it anyway. About 16 mins of it give or take, but if you want the next hour and a bit you can find it behind the paywall at HeadStuff+
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May 20, 2026 • 80 mins
Jason tells Kevin about George Best's career at Man United, before we get into all the good stuff on the behind the Paywall episode!
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May 14, 2026 • 6 mins
Here's the first few minutes of our bonus chat about the Connaught final and Arsenal's big game at the weekend
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May 12, 2026 • 57 mins
Part One of our mini-series on George Best, the greatest (*Irish) footballer to have ever lived.
*If you're from Cork it's OK to say it's Roy Keane.
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May 5, 2026 • 64 mins
We talked to our old friend Dr. Dorman about his new book, The British Army, Society and Soldiering in Ireland, 1699-1793.
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Also, our first two dates for the Culture fest have sold out but there's some tickets left for the last day of The Big Bag of Cannes Film Festival on the 08th of May
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April 28, 2026 • 57 mins
Joining us today is Kevin Brannigan, the Director the documentary NORAID: IRISH AMERICA AND THE IRA to chat about the film, the NORAID group, and a few tangents as always along the way.
This is technically a Film Club, but also the first one we've done with a guest who was involved in the making of the project, so it's going out of the regular feed.
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April 24, 2026 • 6 mins
Hello, here's the third and last part of Pearse, we talk a bit about the aftermath of 1916 for his family, some more about St. Enda's school, and then talk through each of the main hang ups people have about him.
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Pádraig Pearse - Various Works
Pádraig / Mary-Brigid Pearse - The Home Life of Pádraig Pearse
Colin Tobin - After I am Hanged my Portrait will be Interesting
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April 21, 2026 • 78 mins
Here's part two of the Pearse files covering the end of 1915, the lead up to the rising, his trial, and execution.
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06th May - 1926 Reeling in the Years
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April 16, 2026 • 26 mins
Hello, here's an episode we did recently with the wonderful Roger O'Sullivan where we talked about the mid 90's Rainbow Coalition.
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Roger is class at comedy and he's got a big Dublin show coming up on Friday the 17th of April which you should go to (Kev will be supporting him too as a bonus)
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April 14, 2026 • 85 mins
Here's part one of our series on Patrick Pearse / Pádraig Mac Piarais, arguably the figure head of the Easter Rising. In part one we cover from his birth up until 1915, part two will be 1916, the Rising, and the aftermath, and then part 3 will be behind the paywall because we'll be dealing with some of the .... allegations.
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April 7, 2026 • 100 mins
Hello, here's the story behind William Lambert, the man who inspired Zorro (well probably, but he's really interesting in his own right so who cares).
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March 31, 2026 • 86 mins
Hello! We've given up on football content, so instead here's a fun episode about Ireland's favourite horse.
(Just a trigger warning if you're a horse lover, this is one of those bad kidnapping stories)
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March 26, 2026 • 9 mins
Hello! Here's a revamped version of an episode from 2019 about another Irish man who helped start a different world class football team. By god we're good.
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Original Blurb: "This week Jason tells Kevin about Paddy McCarthy, a Tipperary man who took the boat to South America and became a major figure in Argentinian football. Also featuring some shite talk about Louth GAA, Mad Men and Kevin's knowledge of sport." - 10/12/2019
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March 24, 2026 • 59 mins
Given the big week of football coming up we're sticking with that theme as Jason tells Kevin about Don Patricio, Patrick O'Connell, one of the greatest footballing figures to come out of this island!
Not to give too much of the story away, but we'll be talking Man United betting scandals, Barcelona on the brink of collapse, and Ireland actually winning a tournament!
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March 19, 2026 • 14 mins
Hello, here's another Shite Talk Film Club with the amazing and very talented Killian Sundermann (he's on tour now go check him out).
It's football month this month so we decided to watch Studs, a 2006 classic where new manager Brendan Gleeson tries to help Emmet Rovers get out of a rut at the bottom of the league.
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March 17, 2026 • 49 mins
Helllo! We're back with season 14 and we're starting off with a short, topical episode on the history of St. Patrick.
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