The History Show

RTÉ

Bringing the past to life! Discover how Ireland and our world was shaped as Myles Dungan and guests explore events ranging from medieval times to the recent past. Listen live Sundays at 6pm on RTÉ Radio 1.

  • 45 minutes 14 seconds
    Full Show Podcast - 2nd November 2025
    Irish-Americans in the Union military; and the collapse of the Boundary Commission a century ago
    2 November 2025, 6:00 pm
  • 21 minutes 45 seconds
    The Boundary Commission
    Marc McMenamin investigates who owns Lough Foyle; then Cormac Moore and Samuel Beckton join Myles to discuss the collapse of the Boundary Commission.
    2 November 2025, 6:00 pm
  • 21 minutes 48 seconds
    Green and Blue: Irish Americans in the Union Military, 1861-1865
    Damian Shiels joins Myles to discuss the Irishmen who fought for the Union in the American Civil War; and whose stories are revealed in forgotten U.S. pension files.
    2 November 2025, 6:00 pm
  • 58 minutes 11 seconds
    Full Show Podcast - 26th October 2025
    The Igoe Gang’s pursuit of Michael Collins; The Gaynor sisters’ legacy of compassion and care in 19th-century Ireland; and the mysterious case of the Victorian female detective
    26 October 2025, 6:00 pm
  • 23 minutes 36 seconds
    The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective
    At the West Cork History Festival, Myles speaks to Professor Sara Lodge about the real and imagined women who pioneered the detective story.
    26 October 2025, 6:00 pm
  • 11 minutes 33 seconds
    Compassion and Care in 19th-Century Dublin
    Ian Kenneally reports on the lives of sisters Sarah Atkinson and Anna Gaynor ('Sister Mary John), and their work helping the most vulnerable in Victorian Dublin.
    26 October 2025, 6:00 pm
  • 21 minutes 6 seconds
    The Igoe Gang: The Secret War In Dublin 1920-21
    Ultan Courtney joins Myles to discuss the shadowy police unit that hunted Michael Collins and his men during the Irish War of Independence.
    26 October 2025, 6:00 pm
  • 53 minutes 44 seconds
    The Ordnance Survey in Ireland
    Myles Dungan and guests explore the origins and legacy of the Ordnance Survey in Ireland. Featuring Finnian O’Cionnaith, Aengus Ó Fionnagáin, Paddy Prendergast and Catherine Porter.
    19 October 2025, 6:00 pm
  • 21 minutes 55 seconds
    Holy Men of the Electromagnetic Age: A Forgotten History of the Occult
    Raphael Cormack joins Myles to discuss the mystics, miracle-workers, and spiritual showmen of the interwar years.
    12 October 2025, 6:00 pm
  • 47 minutes 49 seconds
    Full Show Podcast - 12th October 2025
    The Jews who tried to escape to Northern Ireland on the eve of World War Two; and a forgotten history of the occult.
    12 October 2025, 6:00 pm
  • 24 minutes 14 seconds
    Northern Ireland, Vienna and the Holocaust
    Noel Russell joins Myles to discuss his book 'The Saved and the Spurned', which tells the story of Jews in Vienna who tried to escape to Northern Ireland just before WW2.
    12 October 2025, 6:00 pm
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