Barry Sheppard is joined by historian and critic Dr Niamh Puirséil, whose book 'Kindling the Flame: 150 Years of the Irish National Teacher's Organisation' examines the INTO from the age of the Fenians to Brexit, charting the development of one of Ireland’s oldest and most influential unions, as well as offering an in-depth look at education and society and the influence of church and state.

Professor Peter Gray, Dr Robyn Atcheson, and Dr Alan Fernihough from Queen's University Belfast join Barry Sheppard to discuss the Irish Famine. 

Barry Sheppard welcomes Professor of modern Irish history at University College Dublin, Diarmaid Ferriter to the show.  Professor Ferriter discusses his two books, 'On the Edge. Ireland’s Off-shore Islands: A Modern History' and 'The Border: The Legacy of a Century of Anglo-Irish Politics', both of which had been recently published at the time of the interview. 

(Originally broadcast in March 2019)

Barry Sheppard is joined by Professor Guy Beiner, historian from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, author of Forgetful Remembrance: Social Forgetting and Vernacular Historiography of a Rebellion in Ulster.  And Dr Peter Collins from St. Mary's University College Belfast, author of Who Fears to Speak of ’98: Commemoration and the Continuing Impact of the United Irishmen.

Professor Beiner and Dr Collins are speaking on remembering and forgetting the 1798 United Irishmen Rebellion. 

Barry Sheppard speaks to historian and broadcaster Donal Fallon and Economic Historian Dr Alan de Bromhead about the 1918 General Election in Ireland. 

(Originally broadcast for the 100th anniversary of the 1918 Election, in late 2018). 

Queen's Management School Economic Historian, Dr Graham Brownlow and Queen's School of HAPP, Prof. Fearghal McGarry join Barry Sheppard to discuss the Home Rule Crisis of 1912-1914.