"In writing The Playboy of the Western World, as in my other plays, I have used one or two words only that I have not heard among the country people of Ireland, or spoken in my own nursery before I could read the newspapers."
Why did Synge's masterpiece cause such trouble in the Dublin of 1907, and was it really a 'riot' or something else?
Shaping the City and Suburbs (with Ruth McManus)
From Berlin to Dublin: Agnes Bernelle
A City of Bookshops
Frank McDonald: A Fighter For Dublin
From The Four Courts to The Quiet Man: Ernie O'Malley (Part 2)
Bohemian Revolutionary: Ernie O'Malley (Part 1)
The Hellfire Club: Fact and Folklore
(Episode 100) Eustace Street: A Street of Ideas
Merchant's Arch Then and Now
Benches of Reflection
Bang Bang Shoots The Buses
Factory Girls: The Working Lives of Dublin Women
A School For Young Radicals
"Long Live the Rolling Stones!"- Dublin,1965
A Rush and a Push and the Land Is Ours
Fig Rolls, Charles Haughey and the Road to IMMA
The Great Escapes: George Gilmore, Mountjoy and Dundrum
The Dublin That Never Was: Abercrombie and Others
Forza Azzurri: A Busy Night in Dublin 7
It's the End of the War as We Know It (With Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc)
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Irish Songs with Ken Murray
History Obscura
Historycal: Words that Shaped the World
The Rest Is History
Rachel Maddow Presents: Ultra