Shite Talk: An Irish History Podcast

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 social media, live dates, merch, and everything in between, you can do it all here!. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 Queen of the Dolonites herself, Justine Stafford! If you want to find us on all social media, live dates, merch, and everything in between, you can do it all here!. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 for us online go ahead and give a follow to Amy(@amywalshcomedy), Jason(@jasonbcomedy), Kevin(@kevlarcomedy), and the podcast(@shitetalkhistory). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 it, directly pilfered. Thankfully Gareth Reynolds was able to overlook that and we had a chat about Iron Michael Malloy, the most durable drinker and toughest assassinee Ireland has ever produced. Go see Gareth perform live in Dublin in the Sugar Clu...

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 about, well its about a field. It's a great film and we had a lovely time talking to Paul, so good we had to cut a load of extra bits out and stick them on the Patreon (along with all the other Film Club episodes), so if you want to listen to that / thos...

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 beside the #1 suspect in the Sophie Toscan du Plantier murder, Ian Bailey. If you're in Edinburgh for the Fringe festival you should go see Richy's show! There's links for all that here. And if you want to see our video content and all that you can find i...

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 until then, if you want to see our video content and all that, here are the links -> STH. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 the rest! We're back next week with the exciting conclusion of Fionn MacCool. Until then, if you want to see our video content and all that there, here are the links -> STH Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 mac Cumhaill / Finn McCool / maybe it was Cu Chulainn all along. If you want to see our video content and all that there, here are the links -> STH Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 controversy over his eviction art earlier in the year, his connection to famine era artist Daniel MacDonald, and the general state of housing in Dublin at the minute. If you want to see our video content and all that there then here are the links -> STH Learn...

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 episode Kyla is making her Cork Opera House debut early next year and you can get tickets to see her here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 being a big Shite Talk fan, is known for being one of Ireland's best professional MMA fighters, so we sat down for a chat about a career that's seen him fight for major organisations all across the world, win a title in Abu Dhabi, have a horror experie...

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 way, it was class xYou can follow us online / all that from the links here -> STH Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 May, the last few tickets (and the rest of our links) are all here -> STH Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 colony of Congo and in part two we'll talk about his role in the Easter Rising of 1916. I've been excited about this one for a while so hope ye enjoy it! If you want to see the video from this episode and / or by tickets to our live show in Dublin o...

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 like our new logo it came from Joanne at JLDesigns which you should definitely check out here, and if you want to see the video from this episode and / or by tickets to our live show in Dublin on the 25th of May, the links are all here - STH Learn mor...

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 altogether, William Brooke O'Shaughnessy. And as always you can find our links below, including the link to our live show in the Wild Duck in Dublin on the 25th of May - Shite Talk: Links Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 to talk shite about Ireland and the state of things in general. You can follow Fintan on Twitter here and buy his book "We Don't Know Ourselves" where ever you see a sign that says book shop. We'd also like to give a shout out to a fellow Spreaker pod...

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 fighting man Dan "Dancin" Donnelly. We filmed this episode in our new studio, you'll be able to see clips of it on instagram / youtube / somewhere soon enough! For more info on that you can follow us through the links below, you can also get tickets...

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 content we've got over on The Patreon and all for just €5.If you'd like to get tickets to our next Live Show in the Wild Duck, Dublin, on May 25th, get in touch via e-mail, or follow us on social media, head on over to here: Shite Talk: Links Learn more...

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 Dublin on May 25th here: Shite Talk: Links2. Thanks to everyone in Belfast who came to see us live in the Sunflower!3. Apologies for any audio issues, we're figuring out this new studio we're making, but once it's ready we'll being doing video episodes...

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 does include some graphic readings of sexual assault and other bleak enough stuff so bear that in mind. We also put a bit of bonus stuff about the other Behans up on the patreon which you can find a link for below (as well as tickets to our gig in Belfa...

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 have been turning 100 this year, if he hadn't of died 59 years ago. Makes you think. Part two will be out later this week and we've got some bonus stuff about the other Behan boys going up on the patreon as well, which you can sign up to here:Shite...

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, Charles Byrne the Irish Giant. We'll be back with a new episode next week, g'luck! Shite Talk: Links Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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!@shitetalkhistoryThe Ha'penny Comedy Club Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices