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32. Irish Mountain Men: Pioneers of the American West?
One of the most enduring stereotypes of early US history is the Mountain Man. This figure often appears as the tough and resourceful frontiersman fam…
4 months ago
31. Clare to Connecticut: One Family’s Escape from the Great Hunger
What can a micro-history of emigration, the story of a single townland, or even a single family, reveal about the wider Irish emigrant experience? In…
4 months, 1 week ago
30. Phelan & Collender: The Irishmen Who Built an American Billiards Empire
Michael Phelan, born in Castlecomer, Co. Kilkenny, rose to prominence as one of America's most gifted billiards player and showmen. In New York he en…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
29. The Irish in Wisconsin
Wisconsin isn't the first state that springs to mind when it comes to the Irish American Diaspora. But though often more associated with Germans (and…
5 months ago
28. Irish Placenames in the USA
In this episode, Fin and Damian trace the Irish legacy scattered across the American map through the placenames they left behind. The journey takes t…
5 months, 1 week ago
27. The Red Branch: Dynamite, Death & Diaspora in 1880s San Francisco
In the early 1880s, crates of California dynamite found their way to London — not for trade, but for terror. Irish revolutionaries in the United Stat…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
26. America's Most Notorious Grave Robbery: Patrick Jones & the AT Stewart Case
In 1878, one of the most infamous crimes in Gilded Age America stunned and captivated the nation: the corpse of Alexander Turney Stewart — an Irish i…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
25. Heiresses of the Wild Atlantic Way: American Fortunes, Irish Families
When most people think of American heiresses marrying into the British or Irish aristocracy, they might picture Cora Crawley from Downton Abbey—the w…
6 months ago
Transatlantic 3.0: Cracking the Consistency Code
We had an unplanned break in the show, but we’re back with a streamlined Transatlantic, having finally unlocked the secrets of recording across sever…
6 months, 1 week ago
24. The Fenians AKA When Irish Americans invaded Canada
One of the most famous Irish American organisations is the Fenians. In this episode, Damian and Fin are joined by Brennan MacDonald to explore the hi…
8 months, 2 weeks ago