In this episode, we'll be exploring two of the most iconic Irish presidential elections, 1990 and 1997.

Featuring Dr John Walsh, School of Education, Trinity College Dublin, and Prof Kevin Rafter, Full Professor of Political Communication at DCU.

In this episode of Talking History, we discuss the life, death and legacy of author and statesman Thomas More, who was beheaded by Henry VIII.

Featuring: Dr Joanne Paul, senior lecturer in early modern history at the University of Sussex, and author of ‘Thomas More: A Life and Death in Tudor England'; Prof Lucy Wooding, professor of history at the University of Oxford and author of ‘Tudor England: A History’; Dr Alexandra Gajda, Associate Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Oxford; and Prof Richard Rex, Professor of Reformation History at the University of Cambridge.

Featuring: Landscapes of Kingship in Early Medieval Ireland AD 400-1150, by Dr Patrick Gleeson, Senior Lecturer in Early Medieval Archaeology at Queen's University Belfast; Death to Order: A Modern History of Assassination, by Prof Simon Ball, Professor of International History and Politics at the University of Leeds; and After the Train: Irishwomen United and a Network of Change, by academic Rebecca Pelan and IWU's Evelyn Conlon.

In this episode, we hear about the remarkable life and legacy of Ireland's first female botanist, Ellen Hutchins.

Featuring: Madeline Hutchins, who runs the Ellen Hutchins Festival and is Ellen's great-great-grandniece; Clare Heardman, co-founder and co-organiser of the Ellen Hutchins Festival; Virginia Teehan, CEO of The Heritage Council; Dr Colin Kelleher, keeper of the herbarium at the National Botanic Gardens; and Dr Eoin Lettice, lecturer in Plant Science at UCC.

The life and legacy of one of Ireland's most influential historians, with Neasa MacErlean, author of ‘Telling the Truth is Dangerous: How Robert Dudley Edwards changed Irish history forever’; the memoirs of a maverick Republican, with Dr Owen O’Shea, historian and author of 'One Man’s Ireland – Memoirs of Dan Mulvihill'; and the origins of the Limerick Lions, with author Des Ryan.

In this episode of Talking History, we'll discuss the man who helped make Henry VIII, until Henry VIII turned on him - as we bring you the real Thomas Cromwell, on the 485th anniversary of his death.

Featuring Gareth Russell, historian and author; Dr Laura Flannigan, Junior Research Fellow in History at St John’s College, Oxford University; Dr Joanne Paul, Honorary Associate Professor in Intellectual History at the University of Sussex; Dr Paul Cavill, senior lecturer in early modern British history at the University of Cambridge; and Professor David Kenny, Head of the School of Law at Trinity College Dublin.

In this episode: Ireland's forgotten film pioneers, the Horgan brothers of Youghal, and how three visionary siblings captured a rapidly changing Ireland.

Featuring: Darina Clancy, director and producer, and author of ‘The Horgan Brothers – The Irish Lumieres’; Prof Ruth Barton, Professor In Film Studies at Trinity College Dublin; and Dr Denis Condon, Lecturer in Film at the Departments of English and Media Studies at Maynooth University.

To mark the 250th anniversary of the birth of Daniel O'Connell, Newstalk's Talking History debates his life, his legacy and how he should be remembered.

Featuring: Prof Christine Kinealy, Professor of History at Quinnipiac University, and author of Daniel O'Connell and Anti-Slavery and an expert on O'Connell, Frederick Douglass, and the Famine; Prof Davide Mazzi, Professor of English Language, Translation and Linguistics and Head of the Department of Studies on Language and Culture at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy; and Prof Maurice Bric, Emeritus Professor of History at UCD, and Director of the Daniel O'Connell Summer School.

In this episode: a profile of Ireland's longest-serving Minister for Justice, Gerald Boland, with Prof Stephen Kelly, Professor of Modern History and British Irish Relations at Liverpool Hope University; counter-insurgency strategies in the Civil War, with author Dr Gareth Prendergast; and how women changed the study of foreign languages in Ireland, with Dr Phyllis Gaffney, French Adjunct Researcher at UCD.

In this episode: Crusader Criminals - the knights who went rogue in the Holy Land, with Dr Steve Tibble, honorary research associate at Royal Holloway, University of London; the forgotten history of the occult, with Raphael Cormack, Assistant Professor of Modern Languages at Durham University; and how Ireland's sea connections brought new ideas, technologies and cultures to this land, with Geraldine Stout, archaeologist.