The History Show
RTE Ireland
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.
Location:
Dublin, Ireland
Networks:
RTE Ireland
Description:
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.
Language:
English
Episodes
Full Show Podcast - 2nd November 2025
11/2/2025
Irish-Americans in the Union military; and the collapse of the Boundary Commission a century ago
Duration:00:45:14
The Boundary Commission
11/2/2025
Marc McMenamin investigates who owns Lough Foyle; then Cormac Moore and Samuel Beckton join Myles to discuss the collapse of the Boundary Commission.
Duration:00:21:45
Green and Blue: Irish Americans in the Union Military, 1861-1865
11/2/2025
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.
Duration:00:21:48
Full Show Podcast - 26th October 2025
10/26/2025
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
Duration:00:58:11
The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective
10/26/2025
At the West Cork History Festival, Myles speaks to Professor Sara Lodge about the real and imagined women who pioneered the detective story.
Duration:00:23:36
Compassion and Care in 19th-Century Dublin
10/26/2025
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.
Duration:00:11:33
The Igoe Gang: The Secret War In Dublin 1920-21
10/26/2025
Ultan Courtney joins Myles to discuss the shadowy police unit that hunted Michael Collins and his men during the Irish War of Independence.
Duration:00:21:06
The Ordnance Survey in Ireland
10/19/2025
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.
Duration:00:53:44
Full Show Podcast - 12th October 2025
10/12/2025
The Jews who tried to escape to Northern Ireland on the eve of World War Two; and a forgotten history of the occult.
Duration:00:47:49
Holy Men of the Electromagnetic Age: A Forgotten History of the Occult
10/12/2025
Raphael Cormack joins Myles to discuss the mystics, miracle-workers, and spiritual showmen of the interwar years.
Duration:00:21:55
Northern Ireland, Vienna and the Holocaust
10/12/2025
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.
Duration:00:24:14
Full Show Podcast - 5th October 2025
10/5/2025
The untold story of a brutal murder in Donegal; and Pirates, power, and the seas around Medieval Ireland.
Duration:00:45:22
Pirates, Power, and the Seas Around Medieval Ireland
10/5/2025
Dr Simon Egan of Queen’s University Belfast explores how piracy, foreign fleets, and climate change transformed Ireland’s coasts in the 14th and 15th centuries.
Duration:00:21:06
Finding Mary: The untold story of an Inishowen murder, 1844
10/5/2025
Historian Dr Angela Byrne joins Myles with the untold story of a brutal murder in Donegal.
Duration:00:23:11
Full Show Podcast - 28th September 2025
9/28/2025
Great Irish Wives; The Irish Priest Who Unearthed Rome's Past; and Irish links to professional American football
Duration:00:45:56
Ireland and the NFL
9/28/2025
Ian Kenneally joins Myles to discuss some of the Irish and Irish-American figures who helped shape professional American football.
Duration:00:15:30
Joseph Mullooly: The Irish Priest Who Unearthed Rome's Past
9/28/2025
Colm Flynn reports, he talks to Father Paul Lawlor at the Basilica of San Clemente in Rome.
Duration:00:08:44
Great Irish Wives
9/28/2025
Myles is joined by Nicola Pierce, author of the new book 'Great Irish Wives: Remarkable Lives from History'
Duration:00:19:56
Full Show Podcast - 21st September 2025
9/21/2025
The Irish Civil War as a case study in counterinsurgency; Woodrow Wilson's Sheep; and the markets and lost industries of Dublins Northside.
Duration:00:46:36
Dublin Festival of History
9/21/2025
Myles is joined by Mary Muldowney, Dublin City Council Historian in Residence, who’ll be giving a number of talks as part of the upcoming festival.
Duration:00:14:22