Podcasts, Interviews, Online talks
In the stores of the National Museum, Gillian O’Brien & Brenda Malone chat about Michael Collins’ iconic slippers with Donal Fallon
The Last Nuns in Ireland, 2024, RTE documentary. Winner of Radharc Trust Award. In this extract, filmed in the Presentation Convent in Wexford, Gillian O’Brien and presenter Dearbhail McDonald discuss why so many women became nuns.
Dublin Festival of History - Gillian O’Brien in conversation with Michael Staunton about The Darkness Echoing
Cork World Book Festival: In conversation with Dr Danielle O’Donovan, about The Darkness Echoing
Show & Tell: the making of the ‘Changing Habits’ exhibition with Jessie Castle
A short reading from The Darkness Echoing filmed at Kennys Bookshop in Galway
Novel approaches to Dublin History: Historic Fiction and the City - a conversation with me, Lisa Marie Griffith, Juliana Adelman & the late and lovely Eibhear Walshe hosted by Trinity Long Room Hub. You can watch us chat away, or just listen to the audio, to the right (which might well be a much better idea!)
Podcasts
Click on the links below to hear me chatting about all sorts of things from the murder of Dr Patrick Cronin in Chicago, Britain’s first war on terror; why Dublin is one of the world’s greatest cities; how I write’; the Irish obsession with death; Dark Tourism and many other things.
Below I talk to BBC History Extra about Dublin as one of the world’s greatest cities, to the Dublin Gothic Podcast about Dark tourism, talk with Donal Fallon about Kilmainham Gaol on ‘Three Castles Burning’; with my colleague James Crossland about Britain’s first war on Terror; Anne Strainchamps about how the Irish Talk about Death on TTBOOK on NPR, about how I write with Ed Needham of Strong Words and a few podcasts about the sensational murder of Dr Cronin in Chicago in 1889 and the repercussions it had on Irish America (and Irish history)