🎙️New episode! We talk to John Fay about Newshound, the daily news source on the North that he ran from 1996 until 2018.
🎙️New episode! We talk to former General Secretary of the Communist Party of Ireland, Eugene McCartan.
We are joined again by Charles Tuba for a discussion of INLA: Deadly Divisions, by Jack Holland and Henry McDonald.
New episode! A round up of the Irish Left Archive project in 2025.
🎙️New episode! We talk to activist and local councillor Madeleine Johansson of Red Network.
New episode! We talk to Stan Erraught about his book, Rebel Notes: Popular Music and Conflict in Ireland.
🎙️New episode!
We talk to Maurice Casey about his book,
Hotel Lux: An Intimate History of Communism’s Forgotten Radicals.
We talk to Maurice Casey about his book,
Hotel Lux: An Intimate History of Communism’s Forgotten Radicals.
🎙️New Episode! We talk to historian Aidan Beatty about his book, The Party is Always Right: The Untold Story of Gerry Healy and British Trotskyism.
🎙️New episode! We talk to historian Gearóid Ó Faoleán about his research into support for the Provisional IRA in the Republic of Ireland during the Troubles.
New episode! We talk to Niall McGuirk about Hope Collective, his involvement in playing and organising gigs, creating fanzines, the development of Hope Collective, the D.I.Y. philosophy and values underpinning it, and the community that it generated.
🎙️New podcast episode!
We talk to Professor Helena Sheehan about her book, *Until We Fall: Long Distance Life on the Left* and her experiences as an activist on the Left since the 1960s.
We talk to Professor Helena Sheehan about her book, *Until We Fall: Long Distance Life on the Left* and her experiences as an activist on the Left since the 1960s.
🎙️New episode!
We talk to Dr. Marisa McGlinchey about her book, Unfinished Business: the politics of 'dissident' Irish republicanism.
We talk to Dr. Marisa McGlinchey about her book, Unfinished Business: the politics of 'dissident' Irish republicanism.
🎙️ New episode! We talk to lecturer in environmental law & policy and PhD researcher Sinéad Mercier about her experience as an activist, approaches to climate policy, and a Just Transition.
🎙️ New episode! We speak to John Cunningham and Terry Dunne about the recently published book, Spirit of Revolution: Ireland from below, 1917–1923
🎙️ New episode!
We talk to activist and academic Camilla Fitzsimons about her research and activism, the Spectacle of Defiance & Hope, Repeal, and Academics for Palestine
We talk to activist and academic Camilla Fitzsimons about her research and activism, the Spectacle of Defiance & Hope, Repeal, and Academics for Palestine
🎙️New episode! We talk to Jim Monaghan about his political activism since the 1960s in various groups including the LWR, Workers' League, Official Sinn Féin, People's Democracy and the H-Block/Armagh Committee.
🎙New episode! Throughout the year, we asked podcast guests about books, films, music, events and media that they consider particularly influential on their politics. This episode brings together their responses.
🎙️New episode!
We talk to Dave Costelloe about the military history of The Troubles.
Dave writes at neverfeltbetter.wordpress.com, where you'll find his extensive series of articles on Irish military history from the earliest records almost to the contemporary.
We talk to Dave Costelloe about the military history of The Troubles.
Dave writes at neverfeltbetter.wordpress.com, where you'll find his extensive series of articles on Irish military history from the earliest records almost to the contemporary.
🎙️ New Episode!
This is an introduction to our next series of interviews and a round up of the Irish Left Archive project.
This is an introduction to our next series of interviews and a round up of the Irish Left Archive project.
In our latest episode, we talk to former Republican Sinn Féin President Des Dalton about his political background, Republicanism, Internationalism and the Left.
🎙️New episode!
We talk to historian Brian Hanley about his new podcast looking at the Irish Civil War, Dirty War in Dublin.
We talk to historian Brian Hanley about his new podcast looking at the Irish Civil War, Dirty War in Dublin.
🎙️New episode!
We talk to artist, activist and researcher Emma Campbell about combining art and activism, Alliance for Choice and the campaign for abortion rights in Northern Ireland, her solo art work and the Array Collective, and winning the Turner Prize.
We talk to artist, activist and researcher Emma Campbell about combining art and activism, Alliance for Choice and the campaign for abortion rights in Northern Ireland, her solo art work and the Array Collective, and winning the Turner Prize.
In 2021 we spoke to Sarah Clancy about her poetry and political activism and how the two inflect each other.
In this episode we discuss the Dublin Anarchist Bookfair with anarchist activist and trade unionist, Gregor Kerr.
The fair is back this year on Saturday 20th of May.
The fair is back this year on Saturday 20th of May.
🎙 New episode!
We speak to Dublin City Council historian-in-residence Mary Muldowney about left approaches to history and her work on oral history.
We speak to Dublin City Council historian-in-residence Mary Muldowney about left approaches to history and her work on oral history.
🎙 New episode!
We speak to two members of the Irish Anarchist Network about organising, direct action, contemporary Irish politics and countering the far-right.
We speak to two members of the Irish Anarchist Network about organising, direct action, contemporary Irish politics and countering the far-right.
In 2021, Terry Dunne joined us to discuss his political background, and his historical sociology research in the area of agrarian agitation and his podcast, Peelers and Sheep.
Colm Breathnach talked to us about his experience in the Workers Party, as a local councillor in the 1990s, the split of Democratic Left, Irish Socialist Network and his subsequent activism in Scotland.
In our first series we spoke to activist, historian and author Conor Kostick about his political experience with the Socialist Workers' Party (SWP) and more recently with Independent Left.
Allan Armstrong spoke to us about his experience on the Scottish Left, the politics of Republicanism and Internationalism from Below, and linking movements in Scotland, Ireland and across these islands.
Aileen O'Carroll spoke to us about anarchism, the Workers' Solidarity Movement, campaigning – including water charges, abortion and Repeal, Shell to Sea, Reclaim the Streets and the Dublin Grassroots Network, and approaches to political organising.
We recently launched a new joint project with Irish Election Literature to bring together political material distributed at individual protests in Ireland to see the different political strands that come together in campaigns. To introduce the Snapshots of Political Action project, we were joined by Alan Kinsella.
In 2020 we spoke to Green Party councillor, Michael Pidgeon, about his experience of political campaigning and elections with the Greens.
In December, we spoke to Orla Egan and Megan Luddy O’Leary about their book, Diary of An Activist, an illustrated memoir of social activism in the 1980s and 90s in Cork.
Jess Spear spoke to us about her political activism in the US; campaigning with Socialist Alternative in Seattle; moving to Ireland, the foundation of RISE, and decision to join PBP; and the development of Rupture magazine.
In our first series, we spoke to John Goodwillie, who has been active on the left since the Young Socialists in the 1960s. We discussed his involvement in left organising with the SWM, the Socialist Labour Party and subsequently the Green Party.
Last year, Pádraig Mannion talked to us about his political experience since joining Official Sinn Féin in the 1970s and continued activism with The Workers' Party.
We recently spoke to Vincent Doherty about his political experience since the early 1970s, through the Official Republicans, International Marxist Group (IMG), Peoples' Democracy, the National H-Block/Armagh Committee during the Hunger Strikes, Sinn Féin and independent activism.
It is 20 years today since 100,000 people marched in Dublin in opposition to the invasion of Iraq.
In episode 28, we spoke to Roger Cole of the Peace and Neutrality Alliance who was involved in organising the march.
In episode 28, we spoke to Roger Cole of the Peace and Neutrality Alliance who was involved in organising the march.
Ber Grogan talked to us about the Abortion Rights Campaign, Together for Yes and the successful campaign to repeal the eighth amendment.
Catherine Stocker of the Social Democrats spoke to us about joining and building a new political party, policy formation, working with other parties in the repeal referendum campaign, and her experience as a local councillor.
Mark Fitzpatrick joined us last year to discuss his politicisation in the anarcho-punk scene in Cork, animal rights activism, hunt sabotage and veganism.
In 2020 we discussed Queer Archival Activism with Orla Egan, founder of the Cork LGBT Archive.
In October 2020, we spoke to historian Dr. Brian Hanley, co-author of "The Lost Revolution: The Story of the Official IRA and The Workers' Party" about the history of Official Republicanism since the 1960s.
Last year Mags O’Brien spoke to us about the divorce referendum campaigns of 1986 and 1995; her experience with the Freedom Flotilla to Gaza in 2011; her work as a tutor with the SIPTU College; and Left Lives in 20th Century Ireland Vol. 4 – Women, which was published last year.
In 2020, we spoke to Lynda Walker who has been active on the left in Belfast since the late 1960s, in the Communist Party, NICRA and Trade Unionism.
In 2020, we spoke to Danny Morrison - former Sinn Féin director of publicity, editor of Republican News and An Phoblacht, spokesperson for Bobby Sands during the 1981 Hunger Strikes, and writer of several books and novels.
New episode: We talk to Éirígí activist Mickey Moran about his political experience in anti-fascism, the Revolutionary Communist Group (RCG), joining Éirígí and their campaign focus, and the centrality of Republicanism to his politics.
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In our most recent episode, we spoke to academic and author Michael Flavin about his novel, One Small Step, which tells the story of a young boy from a Northern Irish catholic background growing up in Birmingham in the 1970s and the impact of the 1974 Birmingham bombings.
We've just finished moving the Irish Left Archive Podcast over to Castopod. Hopefully it will be a smooth transition, but if you have any issue or spot any problems, please let us know!
Today is the 51st anniversary of Bloody Sunday.
On the 50th anniversary last year, we spoke to Dr. Brian Hanley about reactions in the Republic of Ireland to the massacre in Derry.
On the 50th anniversary last year, we spoke to Dr. Brian Hanley about reactions in the Republic of Ireland to the massacre in Derry.
In our most recent episode, we spoke to academic and author Michael Flavin about his novel, One Small Step, which tells the story of a young boy from a Northern Irish catholic background growing up in Birmingham in the 1970s and the impact of the 1974 Birmingham bombings.
We're testing Castopod as a new way to host the Irish Left Archive Podcast. All going well, hopefully we can switch over soon.