Shite Talk: An Irish History Podcast

Here's a Film Club episode to kick off a mini season of Collins, Dev, The Treaty, and the Civil War. Joining us for this week to talk shite about the Michael Collins movie is Tony Cantwell, from the Young Hot Guys podcast and the TV show Good Boy(go watch it on the RTE Player!). Then joining us live on March 6th for the live episode in The Laughter Lounge is Donal Fallon of Three Castles Burning! There we'll be discussing the life and times of Eamon De Valera, and wrapping up the series before we get back to another regular season of Shite Talk! . If you want to see clips from this episode you can follow Shite Talk on Instagram, TikTok, or YouTube and you can find tickets for our upcoming LIVE SHOW here: 06 March 2025 - Laughter Lounge, Dublin

We've got our biggest show to date coming up on the 06th of March and since it's the fifty year anniversary of Ireland's six-time-Taoiseach we're going to be doing a Dev special. . You can get tickets for the show here: 06 March 2025 - Laughter Lounge, DublinOr sign up for the Patreon to get a discount code for the show*: Patreon. *Basically if you're buying a ticket you can get free access to all our Patreon stuff . .

Here's a new recording of one of the episodes we did live last year; the story of Jimmy Hasty, the one armed football player. . If you want to see clips from this episode you can follow Shite Talk on Instagram, TikTok, or YouTube and you can find tickets for our upcoming LIVE SHOW here: 06 March 2025 - Laughter Lounge, Dublin. . . .

Happy 2025! We did a "Reeling in the Years" style review of 2024, this is the first part covering events from January to June, and part two will be up on the Patreon later this week. Part two is much more fun to be honest, the first half of the year had very little craic in it. . If you want to see clips from this episode you can follow Shite Talk on Instagram, TikTok, or YouTube and you can find tickets for our upcoming LIVE SHOW here: 06 March 2025 - Laughter Lounge, Dublin. Also, if ye fancy it, leaving reviews of the podcast on whatever app you listen on is something you can do to support us that's completely free and helps us a lot too. . Hope ye have a great 2025 and thanks for listening x . . .

This week we had Brinsley McNamara of Weird Ireland on to chat about all things Irish History. Brinsley's book Weird Ireland: An Unofficial Guide to the Island is on sale in all good bookshops! And a few of the bad ones too. You can follow Shite Talk on Instagram, TikTok, or YouTube and you can find tickets for our upcoming LIVE SHOW here: 06 March 2025 - Laughter Lounge, Dublin. If you want an add free version of the episode, as well as all the bonus stuff AND a discount on the LIVE SHOW tickets, you can get it all for a fiver on Patreon Also, if ye fancy it, leaving reviews of the podcast on whatever app you listen on is something you can do to support us that's completely free and helps us a lot too. Enjoy the episode!