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Three Castles Burning

Donal Fallon

Three Castles Burning is a social history podcast, dedicated to the story of the Irish capital. Dublin is a city of many stories, Three Castles Burning tells some of the more forgotten ones.

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100 episodes

  1. From The Sack 'Em Ups to the Anatomy Act: Body Snatching in Dublin Graveyards (with Warren Farrell) 54:38
  2. The Dublin of Magill Magazine: From Merrion Row to the Ballymun Towers 37:25
  3. Before the Olympia: Dan Lowrey's Palace of Varieties 30:52
  4. A Tribute to Frank McDonald (1950-2026) 35:32
  5. Executioners: The Pierrepoint Family 33:12
  6. Madame Tussaud and Dublin: Guillotines and Escape Cars 28:39
  7. Bia Duit: Food in Dublin in 1904 (Live at The Signal House) 56:35
  8. A Vision for Irish Theatre: Deirdre O'Connell (with Sabina Higgins) 43:13
  9. Cold War Football: Yugoslavia in Dalymount Park 32:44
  10. Citizen or Lord? The Life of Edward Fitzgerald (with Fergus Whelan and Annie Hughes) 1:06:33
  11. Back to the Census: The Story of Us (with John Gibney) 31:56
  12. Stephen's Green Shopping Centre: Dandelions and Developers 24:22
  13. Unquiet Ghost: The Bones of Roger Casement (with Rory Carroll) 31:16
  14. More Pricks Than Kicks: The Dublin of Samuel Beckett 31:04
  15. Quiet Revolutionary: The Life of Éamonn Ceannt 31:59
  16. Drowning the Shamrock? The Gaelic League and the War on Pubs 29:59
  17. Little Wonder: David Bowie's Secret Gig at The Factory (with Ray O'Donoghue) 44:12
  18. Census City: Dublin 1926 31:04
  19. Before the Summer of Love: Emmett Grogan's Dublin Adventure 30:14
  20. From Rutland to Parnell: The Story of a Dublin Square (With Elizabeth Kehoe) 28:51
  21. When Earley Met Gandon: Bringing Light to the Custom House 30:27
  22. Simms City (with Gayle Cullen Doyle and Eoin Ó Broin) 46:46
  23. A Christmas Carol and Fenian Fears: Charles Dickens in Dublin 18:31
  24. Modernist Mausoleum or Masterpiece? The US Embassy in Ballsbridge (With Cormac Murray) 32:05
  25. The Making of a Brewery (with Ned Guinness) 30:28
  26. Lord Leitrim, John Twiss and the songs of our year (with Michael Steen) 30:06
  27. Castle Island Colossus: Remembering Con (With Roy Curtis and Brendan Conroy) 57:36
  28. Grainne Shaffrey in Conversation: On Cities, Towns and Our Built Environment 1:00:56
  29. Brian Kerr in Conversation: Drimnagh, Libya and Beyond 55:29
  30. Famine Soup: Alexis Soyer, Trevelyan and The Great Hunger in Dublin 34:58
  31. Fighting the Flames: Captain James Robert Ingram 33:16
  32. Tipperary So Far Away: Remembering Seán Treacy on Talbot Street 29:22
  33. Mohair Suits in the National Ballroom: The Showband Era 31:33
  34. 'A Perfect Prodigy of Moral Horrors' - The Donnybrook Fair 35:11
  35. Porter Wars: Patriotism and Pints (with Christina Wade) 34:11
  36. From 'Peelers' to Gardaí: How the Dublin Metropolitan Police and An Garda Síochána merged (with Paul Maher) 52:39
  37. The Animal Gangs: An Irish Peaky Blinders? 37:02
  38. Streets Broad and Narrow: Tony Gregory and Molly Malone 32:11
  39. Blueshirt Bluster? The March on Dublin 32:37
  40. Leo Burdock and Ivan Beshoff: Fish, Chips and Revolution 23:00
  41. The End of Monto: A Century On 1:23:39
  42. The Dawning of the Day: Last Orders at the Early House 32:05
  43. A Complete Unknown? When Dylan came to Dublin 28:38
  44. Traditional Singing from Dublin (with Macdara Yeates) 30:58
  45. From The Nation to Shane MacGowan: Finding James Clarence Mangan (with Bridget Hourican and Warren Farrell) 35:17
  46. Tonehenge: Edward Delaney's Wolfe Tone Monument 31:54
  47. Night at the Museum 35:16
  48. The Stained Glass Artist From a Dublin Tenement 56:50
  49. Remembering The SFX Hall (with Paul Page and David Bell) 41:02
  50. The Women of Bram Stoker's Life: Memory, Folklore and Patriotism (with Marion McGarry and Eva Jane Gaffney) 1:03:02