Culture and conflict: a historical tour of Dublin

Welcome to the History Extra podcast. To mark St. Patrick's Day, today we're going to revisit an episode of our History's Greatest Cities series, exploring the historic city of Dublin. And if you enjoy the episode, don't miss the new series of History's Greatest Cities launching next Tuesday. We'll include all the details of that.

in the description to this episode, but for now I'll hand you over to your guys to Dublin, Paul Bloomfield and historian Gillian O'Brien. And Paul started by asking Gillian about her connection to Dublin and what makes the city so exciting. Well I'm from very close to Dublin and grew up with you know trips to Dublin most weekends and went to university. in Dublin and I've always had a fascination with the city, which I have spent quite a lot of time researching. And I think it's sort of the multi-layered aspect to the city that you can dip it at various points.

There's the literature, there's certainly drama and warfare and conflict. And it's a city that hasn't always been comfortable with its own identity. And I think that's really interesting in how it struggled with its identity and I think is somewhat more comfortable with it now than it was in the past. Well it's interesting you talk about identity, which is often linked with names and of course Dublin's name has a a a long history as well.

We already have this episode, so unlocking it is cheap and permanent: the full transcript (62 minutes, 10,570 words), segment and word-level timestamps, and .txt, .srt, .vtt and word-level JSON downloads, as many times as you like, forever.

No account needed, we create one from your checkout email. With credits it is 1 credit; packs start at 5 episodes for $3.49, and monthly plans are cheaper still.