It’s the Season 2 finale of The Irish Passport podcast, and this one is a blockbuster. Naomi interviews Sinn Féin president Mary Lou McDonald about her concept of progressive Irish nationalism, and she believes its anti-colonial roots makes it fundamentally different to the nationalisms of continental Europe. Tim speaks to leading historians Richard English and Aidan Beatty to trace how Irish nationalism developed in the wake of the French revolution, and its complex relationship with questions of race and gender. Featuring a report on one of the island of Ireland’s newer identities: Northern Irish, as reporter Michael Lanigan captures the tensions of history hanging over a Republic of Ireland versus Northern Ireland soccer match.

This episode is sponsored by Tigh Neachtain pub in Galway. This sponsorship allowed us to hire an audio editor for this episode: thank you very much to Alan Meaney.