Is there a history of baseball in Ireland? There is, and its a remarkable story. From twenty thousand people in Croke Park to O'Malley Fields in Clondalkin, this podcast brings us on a journey acros the Atlantic and back again. Guest is Peter Kavanagh.

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You know the Londis on the corner of O'Connell Street and Parnell Street, but what about the history of the site? Once upon a time, Thomas J. Clarke's shop stood at 75A Parnell Street. This is the story of a Dublin newsagents which was dripping with sedition.

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 Dublin is a city famed for her bookshops, but what was in them? Throughout the twentieth century, censorship kept many of the greatest works of literature away from the shelves.

In this podcast, we explore where Irish censorship came from, and ask what it meant for a variety of writers. Who helped to end it, and what escaped the censor?

My guest is Aoife from the brilliant Censored Podcast. On Acast, it is available on all platforms, TCB listeners will love it.

Stay safe and wash your hands.

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Elizabeth Bowen was born in Dublin in 1899. Despite her Irish birth, she is primarily remembered as an Anglo-Irish writer, and for her brilliant accounts of London during the Blitz.

During the years of World War II, or the Emergency as we knew it, she made several trips to Dublin. Her accounts of this trip ended up on the desk of British state intelligence and Downing Street. She tells us much about Ireland during the war, where tea, the cinema and more besides was deeply missed.

Keep washing those hands and best wishes.

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In the 1960s Guinness moved equipment, manpower and a foundation stone from the Liberties to Lagos, to open a brewery in Nigeria.

The historic intersections of Ireland and Nigeria are sometimes surprising. Ireland engaged with Nigeria on a Colonial level, but then as one of the few white nations to embrace a newly independent Nigeria, when Seán Lemass attended the ceremonies honouring the new nation. This podcast explores some of this and more. 

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This show is dedicated to the memory of John Gallagher. Community activist, veteran of the battle to save Wood Quay, product of the Coombe. My thanks to historian Liz Gillis for her contributions.

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It is almost fifty years since the burning of the British Embassy on Merrion Square, following Bloody Sunday. Just how did Dublin - and the Republic more broadly - respond to the events in Derry, and what was different less than a decade later, at the time of the 'Battle of Ballsbridge' in 1981? 

Guest is Dr. Brian Hanley, author of The Impact of the Troubles on the Republic of Ireland 1968-1979: Boiling Volcano?

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 A bonus for listeners stuck indoors due to the current crisis, where we all should be, and a thank you for your continued support. April marks the centenary of the greatest General Strike in Irish history (13 April 1920), when the country came to a total standstill demanding the release of prisoners from Mountjoy. It's a great story involving the RAF, the Punchestown races, the Labour Party and a lot more. Next proper edition this Wednesday coming with Dr Brian Hanley. 

Has it come to this? Pirate radio in Ireland has a long history, but it has tended to focus on the so-called super pirates of the 1980s. What about the journey to that point? This story brings us from rebels to giggling schoolboys, and from Irish language activists to IRA pirate stations in Rathmines bedsits.

Keep washing those hands.

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