Shite Talk: An Irish History Podcast

Jan 02 2025 158 ep. 64 mins 1.3k

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A somewhat accurate retelling of Irish history stories.

Join Irish stand up comedians Jason Brennan and Kevin Larney as they take turns giving their best accounts of some of Ireland's silly, strange, and downright stupid tales from the past.

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Reeling in the 2024 (Part 1)

Jan 02 2025 65 mins

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

Talking Shite w/ Weird Ireland (Brinsley McNamara)

Dec 13 2024 70 mins

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 yo

James McClean vs The Poppy

Dec 07 2024 53 mins

Here's an episode about James McClean and the Poppy fiasco thats been melting the heads of English football fans for about 12 years now.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 discoun

G.E. Special - Aftermath

Dec 06 2024 69 mins

With the results in we're doing one last review of the General Election and then we're done with politics (at least until next years Presidential election). . But if you want to hear more political bits (like Mattie McGrath) you can head over to Patreon..And / or you can follow Shite Talk on Instagram, TikTok, or YouTube and you can find tickets for our upcoming LIVE SHOW here:06th

G.E. Special - Leaders' Debate

Nov 28 2024 78 mins

Hello! For this episode Kevin & Jason talked about the Leaders' debate, the campaign issues so far, and a final guess at who'll be in charge of the country next year. . If you want to hear more political bits (like Mattie McGrath) you can head over to Patreon..You can follow Shite Talk on Instagram, TikTok, or YouTube and you can find tickets for our upcoming LIVE SHOW here:06t

General Election Special w/ James Moran (Celtic Ligers)

Nov 26 2024 90 mins

Hello! This week we'll be doing some special political episodes ahead of the General Election on Friday, first up is an episode Kevin recorded with James Moran of the Celtic Ligers podcast.. James is a great man but once we started talking we accidentally recorded for four hours, a lot of which is going up on Patreon..You can follow Shite Talk on Instagram, TikTok, or YouTube and y

William Desmond Taylor - Hollywood's First Murder Mystery

Nov 13 2024 58 mins

Hello! We're back after an accidental hiatus and we've got a refreshed version of one of the first stories we ever covered, the murder mystery of the Carlow-Hollywood director; William Desmond Taylor. We retold this story live in Carlow over the summer and got some updated information from local writer, and all round lovely man, Marc-Ivan O'Gorman. All the facts of the story coveri

Phil Lynott - The Ace With The Bass

Oct 13 2024 94 mins

Hello! This weeks episode is all about one of Ireland's all time rock stars, Thin Lizzy's Phil Lynott!We had the pleasure of recording this episode in the Rock and Roll Museum in Dublin, which we couldn't recommend more. The tour is great, and they have jam rooms for musicans to rent for 20 quid an hour, with amps and instruments already in there, feckin' steal.You can follow Shite

Rory Gallagher - The Greatest Guitarist You've Never Heard Of

Sep 27 2024 79 mins

Hello! This weeks episode is all about one of Ireland's all time great musicians, the guitarist's guitarist, Rory Gallagher.We had the pleasure of recording this episode in the Rock and Roll Museum in Dublin. The guides there gave us a load of extra info about Rory (and every other musician with even a sliver of Irish ancestry!), as well as showing us all the amazing memorabilia th

David Simon talks about The Big Fella (Patreon Preview)

Sep 19 2024 16 mins

Hello! A few weeks ago David Simon (of the Wire fame) went on a big twitter rant about Michael Collins and how he would have figured in to the Israel / Palestine conflict. We recorded a short episode of us reading / reacting to Simon's tweets and if you'd like to hear the rest of it, it's over on Patreon.You can read the original twitter thread here.You can follow Shite Talk on Ins