There is a difference between the history and the stories we tell ourselves. Historian Mike Cronin talks to Dion Fanning about how altering the stories will take generations, and being an English academic writing on Irish history.
On Monday morning, Colm O’Gorman learned of the death of Bishop Brendan Comiskey, a man he had never met, but whose life was entwined with his own.
Muhammad Ali’s visit to Dublin to fight Al ‘Blue’ Lewis is a story of an extraordinary week. Dave Hannigan’s book The Big Fight details that adventure. He talks to Dion Fanning about a lost age, how Ireland changed Ali and his own time working with Vincent Browne at the Sunday Tribune.
The death of Pope Francis has ignited a debate about his legacy and the future of the Catholic Church. Fr Ricardo Da Silva joins Dion Fanning to discuss why his actions were often misunderstood.
The façade of a champion shutting themselves off from the world doesn’t apply to the Masters’ winner. Like other greats in sporting history, victory came to him when he played on emotion.
In cars, in counties, in teams remade from the sand up, Mick O’Dwyer chased something bigger — not just victory, but a vision.
Brian Stack was shot outside the National Stadium in 1983. He was the only prison officer in this state murdered by the IRA. His son Austin talks to Dion Fanning about his family’s search for justice and the failure of the investigation by the gardaí.
Author Paul Howard and former rugby international Gordon D’Arcy have combined for a new children’s book. But their careers have overlapped in ways that blend satire and reality for a long time.
Sinn Féin’s Conor Murphy has a long career in the republican movement, including being jailed for IRA membership in the 1980s. He talks about moving to the Oireachtas, his regrets about the past and his comments on the murder of Paul Quinn.
Martin Dillon has led an extraordinary career in journalism. He first exposed the reality of the disappeared. He talks to Dion Fanning about Sinn Féin, bringing John Hume and Gerry Adams together, and his new book.
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