Shite Talk: An Irish History Podcast

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 Judi Dench. Shite Talk Patreon / Socials / Live Gigs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 and how it's really our magic stone. Probably. Shite Talk Patreon / Socials / Live Gigs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 everything else check out our LINKTREE or get in touch via our INSTAGRAM!! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 or so of Irish football. And this episode is basically a prelude to our live show this Wednesday the 14th of December in Whelans where we'll be talking about the main event in ROI football history, 20 years after the fact, the 2002 Saipan incident....

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 disassociation which the politicians, an interesting relationship with the church, and so sexually repressed that people write books on it. And beside that is Inisheer. Sorry, Baile Beag...or Inis Beag. It's Inisheer. Links to live gigs:Dublin - Whelan...

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 Julie - https://www.juliejaycomedy.com/Podcast links - https://linktr.ee/shitetalkhistory Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 chap in Fiji with 48 kids on the Patroen! Tickets to our gig in Belfast with Darren Matthews on November 24th in the Sunflower:https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/shite-talk-an-irish-history-live-in-the-sunflower-with-darren-matthews-tickets-448714857217 Learn...

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 should go follow Stephen on social media @thestephenmullan, then while you're there follow the podcast @shitetalkhistory and while you're at THAT, come see us live in Belfast: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/shite-talk-an-irish-history-live-in-the-sunflowe...

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 from our live gig in Cork up later today on the Patreon too! Find that over here:https://www.patreon.com/shitetalkhistoryAnd if you're looking for tickets to our Belfast show on Novemeber 24th, you can find those here:https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/shite-...

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 episode about ol' Mary Mallon, the superest of spreaders. We have a live Halloween Special recording in Cork on Thursday October 27th in Couglans, get your tickets here - https://www.coughlans.ie/whats-on/comedy-cavern-shite-talk-live-podcast-11146296...

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 Halloween, you can buy tickets here - https://www.coughlans.ie/whats-on/comedy-cavern-shite-talk-live-podcast-11146296 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 bunch of Scots, and a few Irish for good measure, in Edinburgh back in the 1800s. No better man to join us and explain everything we got wrong than Edinburgh comedian Ben Verth! Ben wrote the book on Burke and Hare, or technically it was a college dis...

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 all the other stuff we've been doing on Patreon, you can get it all for a fiver by signing up here! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

100 years ago today, on the 27th of July 1922, Frank Aiken (the future Tánaiste of Ireland) orchestrated the biggest jailbreak in Irish history when his battalion blew a hole in the side of the Dundalk Gaol. We got to record an episode about the jail break live from inside the Gaol (which is now the Oriel Centre) back in May and we're realising the audio for the centenary. If you've been missing u...

For the last episode of the season we jumped on the Stranger Things bandwagon and talked about Dublin's Hellfire Club. Thanks for listening to our shite for another season and we'll see ye all in September! But if you miss our voices you can follow the patreon here, you can follow us on instagram here and you can find out about our comedy club here!  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megapho...

We went to Amsterdam on holiday and met up with one of our favourite Irish internet personalities, Cork comedian Ronan Brosnan, AKA Shite Guides, AKA The Delivery Boy, AKA a very sound lad altogether. We discussed Amsterdam, Cork, the boring paintings of Johannes Vermeer, and the exciting thefts of the boring paintings of Johannes Vermeer by the Ra, AKA the IRA. You call follow Ronan's Youtube cha...

This is the recording from our live 100th episode / 3rd birthday show we did last month, thanks a million to everyone who came out for it, and a special thanks to our wonderful guest on the night, Donal Fallon! You can hear more of Donal's work on his own (much more successful) podcast, Three Castles Burning, and if you want to hear more of US you can sign up to our patreon to get access to all th...

This week we had Andrew Dorman on to tell us about the 18th century Irish army and the time the French invaded. Andrew's a fine man (and soon to be historical doctor) so go check out his comedy shows! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we had Damo Clarke on to talk with us about a Monaghan man who made it big in Tasmania back in the 1800s. Damo is one of the resident MCs of the Craic Den Comedy Club in Dublin which you should all check out if you're in town, but even if you're not, you can pretend you are by listening to their podcast here. And if you like listening to podcasts, why not listen to more of ours over on t...

This week we had Shane Clifford on to talk about Ireland's favourite saint, the man who found America (100% confirmed), and Kerry's finest son, St. Brendan the Navigator. Shane is a great man all together, you can find more of his stuff on IG here, on twitter here and on his own podcast here We also talked for far too long and ended up putting all our film and general shite talk on our patreon, wh...

We had Fiona Frawley on with us this week to talk to us about the teenage mecca of Dublin's early 2000s nightlife, Wezz Nightclub.  You can (and should) follow Fiona on IG here And you can get tickets to our last live show of the year here: James Joyce in the Wild Duck with Donal Fallon of 3 Castles Burning Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For this week's episode we're talking about the famous Corkconian lawman, John Philpot Curran. It's an episode we recorded a few weeks ago with Roger O'Sullivan and we're releasing it now because himself and Denis Len have just released the first episode of their new podcast, Unexplained Legends! So if you enjoy this show definitely go check them out. We've got two live shows left in Ireland for 2...

This week Kevin told Jason, and our guest Darren Matthews, all about the life and times of Edward Carson, the father of Ulster Unionism.  We've got two shows left in Ireland for 2022 so you should come see us in either: Dundalk - Dundalk Gaol for a retelling of the 1922 Jail Break Dublin - Wild Duck with Donal Fallon of 3 Castles Burning Also, go check out Jordan Robinson who joined us for the fir...

We were delighted to get the opportunity to record this episode about the 1913 lockout, live inside the historic Emmet Hall of Inchicore. The building was once owned by James Larkin and home to one of the striker leaders, and later one of the men executed for 1916, Michael Mallin.  If you want to hear more of ourselves and Donal Fallon you can come join us in the Wild Duck in Dublin on the 19th of...

Hello! For the first episode of Season 8 we had Des Bishop on to talk about the original Fenian bad boy (slash possible father of modern terrorism) Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa! We've got three shows left in Ireland for 2022 so you should come see us in: Carlow - Scragg's Alley with Shannon Basso Gaule Dundalk - Dundalk Gaol for a retelling of the 1922 Jail Break Dublin - Wild Duck with Donal Fallon o...