The League of Ireland is commonly seen as a development league, one whose best players are signed at an early age, usually by larger, wealthier clubs from Britain, following a pattern established more than a century ago. But in this set of four case studies from the 1920s through to the twenty first century another narrative is examined: the stories of footballers who have come into the League of Ireland from outside. 

Recorded live in the Joyce Tower museum during the Joycenight festival, host Gerard Farrell chairs a discussion on the events that took place in the Sandycove Martelloe tower that fractured the friendship of James Joyce and Oliver St. John Gogarty, gave rise to Stately plump Buck Mulligan and what all this has to do with Bohemian Football Club.

With expert guests Des Gunning, Graham Hopkins and Brian Trench

Conor Curran is the guest on this episode talking about his new book Soccer and Society in Dublin, charting the history of the sport in the capital as far back as the 1880s.

Fergus Dowd chats to Matthew Collins about football and the far right, the new book and TV drama based on his experience, and his fondness for Cork Cork.

A chat with Sam Robinson about Glentoran's 1914 tour of Europe and their triumph in the Vienna Cup and what happened to the footballers who returned to Belfast with War just months away.

Interview with Outside Write host Chris Lee about his new book "Defiant - the history of football against Fascism" covering everything from Italy in the 1920s, World War 2, the Balkans and Eastern Europe as well as football in South American under the dictatorships of the 1970s and 80s.

Interview with Northern Ireland amalgamated supporters chair Gary McAllister.

We chat to Dietrich, a prolific German author on football, about football history, Johann Cruyff, his time living in Ireland and the Bundesliga among other subjects

Fergus talks to writer Adrian Tempany about the Hillsborough disaster and the search for justice.