Three Castles Burning
Episodes
Walking the Winter Lights (with Fergus Whelan)
01 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Each year, Dublin City Council hosts the Winter Lights festival, lighting up key buildings and sites around Dublin. Myself and historian Fergus Whelan...
An Inchicore Institution (with Dermot Looney)
25 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dermot Looney has spent years working away on a history of Saint Patrick's Athletic. The final product, which includes a beautiful introduction by Bri...
From The Citizen to John 3:7 (with Siobhán Doyle)
18 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What can we learn about a subject by looking at 100 objects? Thanks to Siobhán Doyle, author of a new study 'A History of the GAA in 100 Objects', fo...
Halloween Special: Hans Holzer and the Ghosts of Dublin
28 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Hans Holzer was a well-known broadcaster and author in the United States, perhaps the most famous 'ghost hunter' of his day. In 1965 and 1966, he made...
The Central Bank and Beyond: Sam Stephenson's Dublin
18 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Sam Stephenson (1933-2006) is one of the most important - and divisive - architects in the history of the Irish capital. As the Central Bank returns t...
The Country Girl Returns
30 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A young Edna O'Brien fell in love with Dublin. The city would shape her life and her work. It brought love, lust, learning. Now, at 91, her play Joyce...
The History and Present of Housing (with Eoin Ó Broin)
15 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Housing is today the issue of issues in Ireland, but what can we learn from looking back? Over the course of a century, the Irish state has had succes...
31 August 1913
31 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When standing in front of Clery's today, and beside the Larkin statue, it is difficult to imagine this was once the site of a brutal police riot in 19...
The Crumlin Kremlin
22 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In recent weeks, a headstone was unveiled in Deansgrange Cemetery honouring Kathleen and Stephen Behan. The parents at 70 Kildare Road in Crumlin, the...
South William Street
24 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
From The Rag Trade to The Castle Lounge, South William Street has come on a great journey. Now, the street is set for significant change. This journey...
Refugees Welcome?
12 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of the podcast is dedicated to the memory of Mícheál Ó Doibhilín. In 1922, thousands of people from Belfast and other northern ...
Sites of Memory: Gay Dublin
26 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In Temple Bar, a plaque honours the Hirschfeld Centre. At Bow Lane East, an aging sign is all that remains of Incognito, a gay sauna that made it to...
Sylvia Beach and Us
15 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In June 1962, Sylvia Beach was in the last months of her life. She unveiled a tower in Sandycove as a museum to James Joyce. Without her, would the wo...