Michael Staunton's guest appearances

Michael Staunton

History Hub

The Abbey of St Thomas the Martyr: A Dublin City Council Medieval Symposium

Dublin Festival of History Podcast

Thomas Becket

Roy Foster

Diarmaid Ferriter

Andrew Roberts

Kevin Barry

Matthew Lewis

Richard Kearney

Glenda Gilmore

John Henry Newman

Janina Ramirez

George III

James III

James Holland

Rachael English

Marie Griffith

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Ireland is a nation obsessed with death. We find a thrill in the moribund, a strange enchantment in the drama of our dark past. It’s everywhere we look and in all of our beloved myths, songs and stories that have helped to form our cultural identity. Our wakes and ballads, our plays and famine sites, all of them and more come together to tell ourselves and the world who we are and what we have suffered to get here. Always fascinated by the Irish preoccupation with death and the rituals around it, Gillian sets out to explore this intriguing habit of ours, to be compelled to celebrate the macabre and relish the darkness of own mortality. In The Darkness Echoing she tours Ireland to find our most haunted and fascinating historical sites, to discover the stories behind them and reveal what they say about Ireland as a nation.Dr Gillian O’Brien is a Reader in Modern Irish History at Liverpool John Moores University. She is the author of Blood Runs Green: The Murder That Transfixed Gilded Age Chicago.Michael Staunton is a medieval historian and Associate Professor of History at University College Dublin.The Dublin Festival of History is brought to you by Dublin City Council, and organised by Dublin City Libraries, in partnership with Dublin City Council Culture Company. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ireland is a nation obsessed with death. We find a thrill in the moribund, a strange enchantment in the drama of our dark past. It’s everywhere we look and in all of our beloved myths, songs and stories that have helped to form our cultural identity. Our wakes and ballads, our plays and famine sites, all of them and more come together to tell ourselves and the world who we are and what we have suffered to get here. Always fascinated by the Irish preoccupation with death and the rituals around it, Gillian sets out to explore this intriguing habit of ours, to be compelled to celebrate the macabre and relish the darkness of own mortality. In The Darkness Echoing she tours Ireland to find our most haunted and fascinating historical sites, to discover the stories behind them and reveal what they say about Ireland as a nation.Dr Gillian O’Brien is a Reader in Modern Irish History at Liverpool John Moores University. She is the author of Blood Runs Green: The Murder That Transfixed Gilded Age Chicago.Michael Staunton is a medieval historian and Associate Professor of History at University College Dublin.The Dublin Festival of History is brought to you by Dublin City Council, and organised by Dublin City Libraries, in partnership with Dublin City Council Culture Company. Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

The Darkness Echoing: Exploring Ireland's Places of Famine, Death and Rebellion - Gillian O’Brien in Conversation with Michael Staunton

Podcast of Associate Professor Michael Staunton's paper recorded at Dublin City Council's medieval symposium on The Abbey of St Thomas the Martyr.

Michael Staunton. Thomas Becket and the Invasion of Ireland.