Patrick Geoghegan
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1,107 appearances
10 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 7 Aug
Patrick Geoghegan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You mentioned how loved Napoleon was by his troops.
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I wonder what they made of Wellington or what m Wellington made of them because there's that famous quote that I think he backtracked a little from about how uh they were the scum of the earth, and I wonder what was his view of the troops and maybe what was his view of the the significant number of Irish who were in the army.
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Michael, it's very interesting to look at the contrast between Wellington and Napoleon as military leaders.
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One of them seems to be improvisational, charismatic, aggressive.
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The other, Wellington, more cautious, disciplined, deeply methodical.
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And it seems to be a brilliant way of counteracting the genius of Napoleon to approach, to not to try and match his style, but to try and and defeat it in a very different
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Different way.
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And Michael, is part of the brilliance of Wellington the way he studies the methods of of Napoleon?
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It's clear that he respected him, but that he also understood his weaknesses.
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He understood how how Napoleon might overextend himself or make mistakes.
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Well, tonight we are talking about Wellington, his military career, and his relationship with Ireland.
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We're going to take a quick break now, but when we come back, we'll be refighting the Battle of Waterloo and finding out about the winning of Catholic emancipation.
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So stay with us here on News Talk.
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Welcome back.
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We're talking history, and tonight we are talking about Wellington, his military career and his relationship with Ireland.
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My brilliant panel of experts, Dr.
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Sheila McGuckian, is an historian and lawyer.
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She is a
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Phil from Oxford and a PhD from University College Dublin, and her recently published book is The Wonderful Anglesey in Ireland, 1828 to 1833.
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Gareth Glover is a former Royal Navy officer and one of the leading military historians of the Napoleonic Wars, with more than forty years spent studying Wellington and his armies, and his books include Wellington's Cavalry, Waterloo Myth and Reality, and the multi-volume The Waterloo Archive.
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