Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc is the author of several studies on the Irish revolution, both local and national, but he is currently working on a study of one of the most controversial aspects of the revolution: The Disappeared.

Incredibly, this story begins in Dublin's north inner-city. In the later stages of the Rising, sixteen civlians were brutally killed in and around their homes, with six of the bodies deliberately hidden. This was the North King Street Massacre. Here, we go through the tragic events.

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A shorter, extra edition of the podcast focused on the current debate around statues, looking at some of Dublin's more contested memorials but also with some ideas going forward. 

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The story of the anti-slavery movement in Ireland is the story not only of Frederick Douglass and O'Connell, but decades of activism. This podcast touches on the Hibernian Anti-Slavery Association, the great Equiano who visited Dublin in the 1790s and more besides.

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The Palace on Fleet Street has remained much the same through the decades, despite the streets around it being transformed several times over. The pub is forever associated with names like Flann O'Brien, R.M Smylie and Harry Kernoff, but what was it about this pub that attracted such literary minds- and where were the women? Donal is joined by Willie Ahern of The Palace.

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Love Pints, Hate Covid.

For many, the 1988 Millennium is little more than a milk bottle in the press, but the year had a transformative effect on the capital. From Molly Malone to new public parks, much was added to the city, but how much truth was in it all?

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1988 logo design by: www.paulguinan.com 

It is fifty years this week since the death of Arkle, considered the greatest race horse of them all.

His story is deeply entangled with Dublin - from Rathcoole jockey Pat Taaffe to a Guinness advertising career, and from Tolka Park to Dominic Behan.

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It is impossible to understand Luke Kelly without having a grasp of the British folk revival. Many of the songs that made Luke a household name with The Dubliners were learned in the folk clubs of England, while Luke also moved in radical political circles that shaped his worldview, like the Young Communist League. Ronan Burtenshaw (editor of Tribune Magazine and author of an article on Luke's radicalism) joins us.

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Wash your hands - fight Covid19.

(Reupload, glitchy software issue beyond my control. Thanks!)

Hi all, something different this week. A chat with Modernist.ie (see www.instagram.com/modernist.ie )

We're celebrating all things Dublin design - from forgotten Guinness ad campaigns to record sleeves, and from Dublin Bus to the poolbeg chimneys.

Wishing you all the best.

www.threecastlesburning.bigcartel.com  - launching this Saturday at noon.

Oliver Sheppard's The Death of Cúchulainn sits in the window of the General Post Office. It is my favourite piece of twentieth century art in Dublin. Surprisingly, it predates the Easter Rising, and has even inspired murals in Loyalist Belfast. Inspired by its appearance on the new Fontaines DC LP cover, this edition of the podcast explores Sheppard's masterpiece.

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The story of the Society of United Irishmen in Dublin is a story of subversion and a story of dissent. Historian Fergus Whelan, author of a new biography of leading United Irishman William Drennan, joins Donal Fallon to discuss the United Irishmen's origins, their ideology and to answer a central question: How shaped were they by Protestantism and Protestant identity?

Contains the familiar (Wolfe Tone) and the unfamiliar (Oliver Bond) on a journey through a different Dublin.

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