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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May 1, 2026 • 42 secs
Hello! We're finally doing The Big Bag of Cannes Film Festival and by god it's going well so far, the fist date sold out so we've added a second show on the 08th of May
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We'll be live in Rascal's Brewery, Inchicore, talking about some of the bet films shot and set in D8 as part of the Culture Date with Dublin 8 festival
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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.
We had so much fun recording we went a little over, well about 30mins over so...
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April 24, 2026 • 5 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
Ruth Dudley Edwards - Patrick P...
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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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We'll have the final part on Headstuff+ this Thursday, so head over there for all the bonus / ad free content.
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Also we have LIVE SHOWS coming up in Dublin
06th May - 1926 Reeling in the Years
07th May - Big Bag of Cannes Film Festival
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April 16, 2026 • 25 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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If you want to hear the rest of our chat with Roger (including his first gig in London after the Queen died, divorce in the 90s, th...
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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 • 7 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 • 13 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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March 12, 2026 • 31 secs
Hello, we're back with another season of Shite Talk: An Irish History Podcast!
For the next few weeks we'll be jumping on the World Cup bandwagon with some football tales, like the Irishman who saved Barcelona F.C. and George Best (would have been 80 this April god save us).
It's also 110 years since the 1916 rising so we'll be covering some of the lesser talked about parts of that, as well as the recapping the first Census in ...
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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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