Shite Talk: An Irish History Podcast
Episodes
Zorro's from Wexford lad
07 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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)....
Shergar - Kidnapping Ireland's Favourite Horse
31 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 hors...
Arís - Paddy McCarthy - It's a long, long way to Argentina
26 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Don Patricio - A Proper Football Man
24 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 greates...
STFC - Studs w/ Killian Sundermann
19 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 foo...
St. Patrick
17 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Helllo! We're back with season 14 and we're starting off with a short, topical episode on the history of St. Patrick. . If you want to listen to ou...
New Season Coming Soon!
12 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 w...
Arís - The IRA Christmas Raid
18 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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, ...
Barry Lyndon w/ Colm McGlinchey
11 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Football Special w/ Ken Early
09 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 c...
IRA vs Guinness Book of Records
02 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 McWhirt...
Jonathan Swift
25 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Shite Talk History Live Podcast with Peter McGann!!
21 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Talking Shite W/Peter McGann
18 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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, Du...
Cowboy Special - DJ 'The Dodger' Carey - Part 1
11 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Michael D. Higgins
04 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Arís - Alice Kyteler - The First Witch of Ireland (HS+ Preview)
31 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 c...
Samhain Special w/ Katie Boyle
28 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
President 2025 - Connolly vs Humphreys
21 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Saipan - Part 2 (2002-????)
13 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 inste...
Palestine
06 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 histor...
Saipan - Part 1 (1996-2002)
29 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 before...
Arís - John Delaney - A Cowboy Special
26 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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. ...
Bonus Dev - Schrödinger's Bastard
19 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Butty Sugrue and the Underground World Champion Mick Meaney
15 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Éamon de Valera - President Dev (Part 4)
09 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 c...
Éamon de Valera - War Time Dev (Part 3)
03 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 condolenc...
Éamon de Valera - The Long Fella (Part 2)
22 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Here's part two of three on Éamon de Valera, released on the day of Collins 103rd anniversary. In this episode we cover Dev's part in the Civil War, ...
Éamon de Valera - George (Part 1)
11 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In honour of his 50th anniversary, and to balance out the Mick episodes, here's the first in our three part series on Éamon de Valera. In this episod...
Muhammad Ali in Croke Park
05 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's episode Jason tells Kevin the story of the time Muhammad Ali spent a few weeks in Ireland before having a fight with Al 'Blue' Lewis in...
The DeLorean
28 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the 1980's John DeLorean opened a factory outside Belfast to make his now iconic vehicle, but in less than two years it gets shut down and John fin...
Blackbird - Film Club
26 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Here's a quick snippet of our Film Club episode with everyone's favourite critic, Brian Lloyd! Click on his name there and give him a follow! And i...
Michael Flately - Lord of the Dance
21 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's episode Jason tells Kevin the story of Michael Flatley, having just read his autobiography. Flatley is probably best known for his ...
Michael Collins - The Death of the Big Fella (Part 3)
14 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Here's the third and final part of Collins. We cover the last year of his life from the Truce in 1921, through the Anglo-Irish Treaty, to his death in...
Michael Collins - The Rise of the Medium Fella (Part 2)
07 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hello! Here is part two of our Collins triple, we talk about Mick's return after 1916, his rise during the War of Independence, and life up until the ...
Michael Collins - The Young Fella (Part 1)
30 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hello! We're back with season 13 and we're starting off with a few episodes on the Big fella himself, Michael Collins. For part one we talked about h...
Film Club - Michael Collins w/Tony Cantwell
19 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Here's a Film Club episode to kick off a mini season of Collins, Dev, The Treaty, and the Civil War.Joining us for this week to talk shite about the M...
Jimmy Hasty - The One Armed Bandit
16 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Here's a new recording of one of the episodes we did live last year; the story of Jimmy Hasty, the one armed football player..If you want to see clips...
Talking Shite w/ Weird Ireland (Brinsley McNamara)
13 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week we had Brinsley McNamara of Weird Ireland on to chat about all things Irish History.Brinsley's book Weird Ireland: An Unofficial Guide to th...
James McClean vs The Poppy
07 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Here's an episode about James McClean and the Poppy fiasco thats been melting the heads of English football fans for about 12 years now.You can follow...
William Desmond Taylor - Hollywood's First Murder Mystery
13 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hello! We're back after an accidental hiatus and we've got a refreshed version of one of the first stories we ever covered, the murder mystery of the ...
Phil Lynott - The Ace With The Bass
13 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hello! This weeks episode is all about one of Ireland's all time rock stars, Thin Lizzy's Phil Lynott!We had the pleasure of recording this episode in...
Rory Gallagher - The Greatest Guitarist You've Never Heard Of
27 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hello! This weeks episode is all about one of Ireland's all time great musicians, the guitarist's guitarist, Rory Gallagher.We had the pleasure of rec...
David Simon talks about The Big Fella (Patreon Preview)
19 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hello! A few weeks ago David Simon (of the Wire fame) went on a big twitter rant about Michael Collins and how he would have figured in to the Israel ...
Tom Crean - The Endurance (Part 2)
12 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hello! Here's the second and final part of the Tom Crean story, covering his time onboard The Endurance with Ernest Shackleton and his Trans-Antarctic...
Tom Crean - Kerry's Antarctic Explorer
04 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Part 1 of a tale about one of the hardiest men Kerry has ever produced, the Antartic explorer Tom Crean.Tickets to our live show in January 2025 can b...
W.B. Yeats w/ Shannon Basso Gaule
21 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hello! We are back, and for the first episode of season 12 we talked about everybody's favourite poet, wizard, and sex pest; William Butler Yeats.Join...
Bertie - Return of the King (Part 5)
14 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hello! Well, after five months, we're finally done with Bertie. This is a preview of the final Bertie episode where we talked about some of his bigges...
Bertie - The Celtic Pelican (Part 4)
07 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 re...
Bertie - The Mahon Tribunal (Part 3.5)
19 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Bertie - The Teflon Taoiseach (Part 3)
14 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 bi...
Ben Dunne & the McCracken Tribunal - Patreon Preview
27 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 reac...
Bertie - First Term & the Age of Tribunals (Part 2)
16 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Bertie - The Rise of Ahern (Part 1)
28 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 figure...
The Belvedere Yeti w/ Alison Spittle
13 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Harry Boland w/ Kevin Dolan (The History of Ireland Podcast)
03 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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...
The Raja of Tipperary w/ Who Did What Now Podcast
12 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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...
2023 Dublin Riots
01 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 Learn more about your...
Film Club - Intermission w/ Ronan Carey
17 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 D...
The Wooing of Étaín (Part 2)
08 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Hello! It's part two of the Étaín story, now with more flies and even more incest..There's also a bonus part on Patreon so if you want to listen to ...
The Wooing of Étaín (Part 1)
31 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 in...
For Ronan
18 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Hello! For this weeks episode we covered the love story between a young American lady and her Irish Navy boyfriend. .If you want to find us on all soc...
Joe Dolan w/ Justine Stafford
09 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 Que...
The Racist Vancouver Bridge w/ Amy Walsh
23 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A little story about the Lion's Gate Bridge in Vancouver, Canada, and the Irish connections the Guinness family would rather forget!If you're looking ...
Iron Mike Malloy w/ Gareth Reynolds
06 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
STFC - The Field w/ Paul Marsh
28 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 abou...
Talking Shite w/ Richy Sheehy
14 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 besid...
Fionn MacCool and the Pursuit of Diarmuid and Gráinne (Part 3)
31 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Helllo! Its the final part of our series on Fionn MacCool, and this time he's looking for love. We'll be back to regualr boring history next week but ...
Fionn MacCool and the Salmon of Knowledge (Part 2)
22 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Helllo! Its Fionn part two ad we're hitting all the classics, the Salmon of knowledge, the Giant's causeway, eh...that one about the Aliens...and all ...
Fionn MacCool and the Legend of the Dog Faced Woman (Part 1)
11 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Helllo! We're both back together in the same room and this week we recorded the first episode of our series on the Irish legend, Fionn MacCool / Fionn...
Talking Shite w/ Spicebag
09 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Hello! This week is the third and last of our interview series (for now) and it’s with the artist Spicebag. I chatted with Mr Bag about the controve...
Talking Shite w/ Kyla Cobbler
30 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Hello! Here's another interview we did for our summer holiday, it's Cork comedian and general all round sounder, Kyla Cobbler. If you enjoye this epis...
Talking Shite w/ MMA Fighter Will Fleury
22 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
NEWS NEWS NEWS NEWS NEWS!!!!We're launching an interview series for the summer,and our first guest is Tipperary's own Will Fleury.Will, outside of bei...
Time Magazine's Man of the Century
27 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Hello! This week we've got the tale of Ronnie O'Brien, which is 100% not a football story. Thanks everyone who came to the live show this week by the ...
Roger Casement - The Hung Revolutionary (Part 2)
18 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week we finished the story of Roger Casement, the last of the 1916 leaders to be executed. Our live show is in Dublin next week on the 25th of Ma...
Roger Casement - The James Bond of the Congo (Part 1)
09 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Hello! This week Kevin started telling Jason about one of Ireland's greatest heros, Roger Casement. In part one we covered his exploits in the Belgian...
The Darndale Two w/ Des Bishop
01 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Hello! This week we had the wonderful Des Bishop on to talk with us about two lads from Darndale!You can check out upcomig gig for Des here, if you li...
The Irish Godfather of Ganja - Dr. William Brooke O'Shaughnessy
20 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For the day that's in it we said we might as well do a story related to 4/20, so here's an episode Jason wrote to throw a little shine on a great man ...
Fintan O'Toole - We Don't Know Ourselves
15 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Hello! For this week's episode we had a very special guest via zoom, Mr. Fintan O'Toole! Fintan joined us for a great chat about his latest book and t...
Dan Donnelly w/ Owen Colgan
04 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Hello! We had a great guest in for this weeks episode, the hilarious Owen Colgan! This is an episode we've had on the books for a while, the story of ...
The Aer Lingus Hijacking
23 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A wild auld story from behind our Patreon paywall. We did this episode in the summer of last year, and if you like it, you'll love the rest of the con...
Dr. Francis Tumblety (probably Jack the Ripper)
09 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The life and times of a mad man from Cavan.For anyone who skips the intro, here's what ye missed:1. You can find tickets to our next live show in Dubl...
Brendan Behan - The Quare Fellow (Part 2)
28 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Hello and welcome back to the second and final part of the Brendan Behan story. Just as a heads up, in this episode we cover Behan's decline which doe...
Brendan Behan - The Borstal Boy (Part 1)
20 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Hello and welcome to part one of us talking about the Borstal Boy, Brendan Behan. It was the man's birthday on the 9th of Febuary which means he would...
Charles Byrne, the Irish Giant
12 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Hello, we're off this week so here's an episode from out patreon from last year where we talked about a figure that's been in the news again recently,...
Going Baloobas with Gary White
05 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Hellooo, this week we had our friend Gary White on to tell us about the Baloobas tribe and the Niemba ambush in the Belgian Congo, enjoy!@shitetalkhis...
Kerry's James Bond - William Melville
29 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week Jason tells Kevin a story about a 'M'an who left a little place called Sneem to work on some pretty big schemes across the water.It's Dame J...
The Stone of Destiny
15 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Hello! We're back in 2023 with a story about the magic stone that Charles is going to use later this year to make sure everyone knows he's the king an...
The IRA Christmas Raid
30 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Saipan Special Live - Part One
22 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Saipan, 20 years on, we did a live episode in Little Whelans...Enjoy! Tickets to our Belfast gig: HERE!!Link to our Patreon for Part Two: HERE!!For ev...
The Irish Football Special
11 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Hello, for this episode we jumped on the World Cup band wagon and Jason told Kevin about all the glorious WC and Euro memories from the past 100 years...
A Backwards Little Island Off the Coast of Europe
01 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Kevin tells Jason a story about a scientist who stumbles upon a very odd little island at the edge of Europe with a distrust trust of the police, a di...
Dr. Death with Julie Jay
20 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week we talked about the doctor of death from Antrim, John Bodkin Adams, with our wonderful guest from the Crimeland podcast, Julie Jay!Follow Ju...
The Lost Boys
12 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Two short stories about Irish lads who ended up in far fetched, far off places. If you like the first two stories we had a third one about an Irish ch...
William Brown the Admiral of Argentina with Stephen Mullan
05 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week we were joined by Stephen Mullan when we talked about the great Admiral William "Guillermo" Brown, a Mayo man done good in Argentina. You sh...
The Dolocher - Dublin's Own ManBearPig
29 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week Kevin brings Jason a scary story for the festive season that's in it. Dublin's very own Al Gore. We'll have our Halloween/Banshee episode fr...
'Typhoid' Mary Mallon - The Superest of Spreaders
20 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Somehow we didn't think to do this episode during that whole pandemic thing, so we're timely as usual. But anyway, it's never too late, so here's an e...
The F1 man from Dundalk, a Tommy Byrne story
09 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
For this episode Kevin told Jason all about the Dundalk's fastest man you've never heard of, Tommy Byrne. We have a live gig coming up in Cork for Hal...
The Burke & Hare Murders with Ben Verth
27 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to Shite Talk: An Irish History Podcast! Sorry for the summer break!To kick off Season 9 we have a tale about two Irishmen murdering a bu...
TD Mattie McGrath: A Cowboy Special
09 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Here's the opening bit of a recent episode we did on Patreon about Tipp's finest TD, Mattie McGrath. If you want to hear the rest of this episode, and...