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Irish Left Archive Podcast

Irish Left Archive Podcast

Irish Left Archive

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Show overview

Irish Left Archive Podcast has been publishing since 2020, and across the 6 years since has built a catalogue of 69 episodes. That works out to roughly 75 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a monthly cadence.

Episodes typically run an hour to ninety minutes — most land between 59 min and 1h 19m — and the run-time is fairly consistent across the catalogue. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-language History show.

The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 2 months ago, with 3 episodes already out so far this year. The busiest year was 2021, with 19 episodes published. Published by Irish Left Archive.

Episodes
69
Running
2020–2026 · 6y
Median length
1h 12m
Cadence
Monthly

From the publisher

A podcast looking at Left politics in Ireland from the Irish Left Archive. We talk to activists, writers, historians, politicians and others involved in Left organisations and movements about their experiences of participating in Left parties and campaigns; Left publications and political documents they’ve been involved in; and the history and development of progressive politics in Ireland. We also look at the role of the Irish Left Archive and similar informal projects. The podcast is hosted by Ciarán Swan and Aonghus Storey.

Latest Episodes

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Eugene McCartan: Communist Party of Ireland

Mar 31, 20261h 28m

INLA: Deadly Divisions, with Charles Tuba

Feb 26, 20261h 50m

2025 Round Up

Jan 2, 202658 min

Madeleine Johansson: Red Network

Oct 30, 202557 min

Rebel Notes: Popular Music and Conflict in Ireland, with Stan Erraught

May 30, 20251h 7m

Hotel Lux: An Intimate History of Communism’s Forgotten Radicals, with Maurice Casey

Apr 30, 20251h 14m

The Party is Always Right: The Untold Story of Gerry Healy and British Trotskyism, with Aidan Beatty

Mar 30, 20251h 23m

Gearóid Ó Faoleán: The Provisional IRA in the Republic of Ireland

Feb 28, 20251h 8m

Niall McGuirk: Hope Collective

Jan 30, 20251h 40m

Until We Fall: Long Distance Life on the Left, with Helena Sheehan

Sep 25, 20241h 21m

Unfinished Business: The Politics of 'Dissident' Irish Republicanism, with Marisa McGlinchey

Aug 27, 202439 min

Sinéad Mercier: Environment and Just Transition

Jul 2, 20241h 0m

Spirit of Revolution: Ireland from below, 1917–1923

May 24, 20241h 4m

Camilla Fitzsimons: Spectacle of Defiance & Hope, Repeal, and Academics for Palestine

Mar 26, 20241h 19m

Jim Monaghan: LWR, Workers' League, Official Sinn Féin, People's Democracy, & the H-Block Armagh Committee

Jan 31, 20241h 3m

Politics & Cultural Influence

Dec 31, 202322 min

David Costelloe: Military History and The Troubles

Nov 30, 20231h 13m

A New Series and Project Update

Oct 31, 202328 min

Des Dalton: Republican Sinn Féin and Independent Republicanism

Sep 27, 20231h 11m

Dirty War in Dublin, with Brian Hanley

Aug 11, 20231h 7m
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