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Early Modern History May 24, 2023

Intelligence and Espionage in the English Republic C. 1600-60

Alan Marshall

Hosted by Crawford Gribben
Alan Marshall's book Intelligence and Espionage in the English Republic C. 1600-60 (Manchester UP, 2023) is a richly detailed account of the ideas and activities in the early-modern 'secret state' and its …

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Interviews with scholars of Ireland about their new books.

British Studies May 2, 2023

A Mighty Fleet and the King's Power

The Isle of Man, AD 400 To 1265

Tim Clarkson

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
Situated in the middle of the Irish Sea, the Isle of Man is like a stepping-stone between the lands that surround it. In medieval times, it played an important role …
Irish Studies April 2, 2023

Democracy and Dissent in the Irish Free State

Opposition, Decolonization, and Majority Rights

Jason Knirck

Hosted by Aidan Beatty
Jason Knirck is the chair of the History Department at Central Washington University. He is a modern Irish historian who also teaches British and western European history. His research concerns …
Irish Studies March 29, 2023

Dindshenchas Érenn

Marie-Luise Theuerkauf

Hosted by Danica Ramsey-Brimberg
The purpose of the present volume, Dindshenchas Érenn (U College Cork, 2022), is to provide an accessible overview and entry into the complex literary creation known as Dindshenchas Érenn ‘History of …
Irish Studies March 27, 2023

Safety As We Watch

Anaesthesia in Ireland 1847-1998

Declan Warde, Joseph Tracey, and John Cahill

Hosted by Bridget English
The discovery of anaesthesia which could be administered safely to eliminate the pain of surgery and other medical and dental procedures is widely considered to be one of the greatest …
Irish Studies March 24, 2023

Animals and Sacred Bodies in Early Medieval Ireland

Religion and Urbanism at Clonmacnoise

John Soderberg

Hosted by Danica Ramsey-Brimberg
Clonmacnoise was among the busiest, most economically complex, and intensely sacred places in early medieval Ireland. In Animals and Sacred Bodies in Early Medieval Ireland: Religion and Urbanism at Clonmacnoise (Lexington …
Irish Studies March 20, 2023

Land and Liberalism

Henry George and the Irish Land War

Andrew Phemister

Hosted by Aidan Beatty
Andrew Phemister is Research Associate at Newcastle University. He has previously held postdoctoral positions in History at NUI Galway, the University of Oxford, and Edinburgh’s Institute for Advanced Studies in …
MIT Press Podcast March 19, 2023

Anti-Irish Prejudice in the Trial of Dominic Daley and James Halligan (Northampton, Massachusetts, 1806)

A Discussion with Bill Fowler, Michael Dukakis and Dick Brown

Bill Fowler, Michael Dukakis, and Dick Brown

Hosted by MIT Press
Bill Fowler, member of the editorial board of The New England Quarterly, Professor Dick Brown, and Governor Michael Dukakis discuss Brown's recent NEQ article, “'Tried, Convicted, and Condemned, in Almost …
Literary Studies March 17, 2023

Eliot and Beckett's Low Modernism

Humility and Humiliation

Rick de Villiers

Hosted by Morteza Hajizadeh
Humility and humiliation have an awkward, often unacknowledged intimacy. Humility may be a queenly, cardinal or monkish virtue, while humiliation points to an affective state at the extreme end of …
Irish Studies March 16, 2023

Bad Bridget

Elaine Farrell and Leanne McCormick

Hosted by Averill Earls
Child abandonment, theft, kidnapping, prostitution, bigamy, and murder! Bad Bridget is a must-read examination of crime and Irish emigrant women in the U.S. and Canada, written by Elaine Farrell and …
Almost Good Catholics March 16, 2023

Saint Patrick the Forgiver

The History and Legends of Ireland's Bishop

Ned Bustard

Hosted by Krzysztof Odyniec
Ned Bustard is the author of a new children’s book, Saint Patrick the Forgiver: The History and Legends of Ireland's Bishop (InterVarsity, 2023). We talked about the book, the life …
Media February 18, 2023

Unaccompanied Traveler

The Writings of Kathleen M. Murphy

Patrick Bixby

Hosted by Marci Mazzarotto
At the time of her death in 1962, Kathleen M. Murphy was recognized as “the most widely and most knowledgeably travelled Irish woman of her time . . . insofar …
Irish Studies February 8, 2023

America and the Making of an Independent Ireland

A History

Francis M. Carroll

Hosted by Ryan Shelton
On Easter Day 1916, more than a thousand Irishmen stormed Dublin city center, seizing the General Post Office building and reading the Proclamation for an independent Irish Republic. The British …
Sports February 4, 2023

Sport and the Home Front

Wartime Britain at Play, 1939-45

Matthew Taylor

Hosted by Keith Rathbone
Today we are joined by Matthew Taylor, Professor of History at De Montfort University, and author of Sport and the Home Front: Wartime Britain at Play, 1939-1945 (Routledge, 2020). In …
Poetry January 29, 2023

Hereafter

The Telling Life of Ellen O'Hara

Vona Groarke

Hosted by Hal Coase
Ellen O'Hara was a young immigrant from Ireland at the end of the nineteenth century who, with courage and resilience, made a life for herself in New York while financially …
Animal Studies January 28, 2023

Animals in Irish Society

Interspecies Oppression and Vegan Liberation in Britain's First Colony

Corey Lee Wrenn

Hosted by Kyle Johannsen
Irish vegan studies are poised for increasing relevance as climate change threatens the legitimacy and longevity of animal agriculture and widespread health problems related to animal product consumption disrupt long …
Irish Studies January 10, 2023

Ordinary Lives, Death, and Social Class

Dublin City Coroner's Court, 1876-1902

Ciara Breathnach

Hosted by Roberto Mazza
Ciara Breathnach's book Ordinary Lives, Death, and Social Class: Dublin City Coroner's Court, 1876-1902 (Oxford UP, 2022) focuses on the evolution of the Dublin City Coroner's Court and on Dr Louis …
Diplomatic History January 8, 2023

Unofficial Peace Diplomacy

Private Peace Entrepreneurs in Conflict Resolution Processes

Lior Lehrs

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
Unofficial Peace Diplomacy: Private Peace Entrepreneurs in Conflict Resolution Processes (Manchester University Press, 2022) by Dr. Lior Lehrs analyses the international phenomenon of private peace entrepreneurs. These are private citizens …
Early Modern History January 7, 2023

Fictions of Consent

Slavery, Servitude, and Free Service in Early Modern England

Urvashi Chakravarty

Hosted by Alexandra Ortolja-Baird
In Fictions of Consent: Slavery, Servitude, and Free Service in Early Modern England (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022),  Urvashi Chakravarty excavates the ideologies of slavery that took root in early modern …
Irish Studies December 26, 2022

Race, Politics, and Irish America

A Gothic History

Mary M. Burke

Hosted by Aidan Beatty
In this interview, she discusses her book, Race, Politics, and Irish America: A Gothic History (Oxford UP, 2023), which inserts successive Irish-American identities--forcibly transported Irish, Scots-Irish, and post-Famine Irish--into American …