Three Castles Burning

By Donal Fallon

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Subscribers: 935
Reviews: 9
Episodes: 100

Fergus
 May 18, 2021
always interesting and brilliantly narrated

Eoin Dunning
 Feb 23, 2021
Brilliant run through the history of Dublin. Full of humour and charm and manages to meld scholarly research with folk memory.


 Dec 17, 2020

Rob
 Nov 4, 2020
interesting and really enjoyable podcast

Ciarán Nestor
 Oct 29, 2020
Brilliant podcast with brilliant delivery. You won't look at the city the same way ever again. In a good way.

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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.

Episode Date
From The Nation to Shane MacGowan: Finding James Clarence Mangan (with Bridget Hourican and Warren Farrell)
Dec 20, 2024
Tonehenge: Edward Delaney's Wolfe Tone Monument
Dec 17, 2024
Night at the Museum
Dec 02, 2024
The Stained Glass Artist From a Dublin Tenement
Nov 29, 2024
Remembering The SFX Hall (with Paul Page and David Bell)
Nov 08, 2024
The Women of Bram Stoker’s Life: Memory, Folklore and Patriotism (with Marion McGarry and Eva Jane Gaffney)
Oct 30, 2024
Irish Food History: From B.C. Times to the Grogan’s Toastie
Oct 12, 2024
Paula Meehan: History and Poetry
Oct 06, 2024
Lee Miller: From Hitler’s Bathtub to The Palace Bar
Sep 26, 2024
Catriona Crowe in Conversation (Live at the Seán Corcoran Series)
Sep 14, 2024
The Moore Street Woman who Fought the Nazis (with Clodagh Finn and John Morgan)
Sep 05, 2024
Destination Anywhere: Getting Around the Hibernian Metropolis
Aug 31, 2024
A Sensation Once Again: Brian Warfield of the Wolfe Tones (Live at Mindfield, EP)
Aug 20, 2024
Olympic Glory: Jack B. Yeats and The Liffey Swim
Aug 10, 2024
Nothing Highfalutin: The Brilliance of Hilary Heron (with Billy Shortall)
Jul 30, 2024
On Tommie Potts and The Liffey Banks (with Martin Hayes)
Jul 12, 2024
Adoration and Protest: Orson Welles and Dublin
Jul 07, 2024
Red Roses For Me (with Spider Stacy and James Fearnley)
Jun 19, 2024
On a quiet street where old ghosts meet
Jun 13, 2024
Remembering The Dubliners (with Brian Hand and Phelim Drew)
May 29, 2024
The Anatomy of a Massacre
May 17, 2024
Portals, Clocks and Cows
May 15, 2024
The Isle of Wight on Emmet Road
Apr 26, 2024
The Battle of Tallaght: 'Yankee Fenians' and 1867
Apr 12, 2024
'Then Mount Jerome for the Protestants.'
Mar 30, 2024
The Divine Mission of Discontent (Jim Larkin Part II)
Mar 12, 2024
The Rising of the Moon (Jim Larkin Part I)
Feb 23, 2024
Before Mosley: The British Fascisti in Dublin
Feb 02, 2024
Flying Fists and Union Jacks
Jan 14, 2024
From Ten Till Dusk: 200 Years of the RHA (with Cristín Leach)
Dec 22, 2023
There Is a Light That Never Goes Out
Dec 19, 2023
Asylum: Inside Grangegorman
Dec 14, 2023
Napoleon's Toothbrush
Dec 11, 2023
Bringing Light to O'Connell Street (with Nicola Pierce)
Dec 08, 2023
'And Beckett plays the gong.'
Dec 01, 2023
Roger Doyle: The Godfather of Irish Electronic Music
Nov 11, 2023
The Irish Supernatural (with Kathy Rose O'Brien and Brian J. Showers)
Nov 05, 2023
Dead as Doornails
Oct 19, 2023
Other People's Lives (with Dermot Bolger)
Oct 06, 2023
Dublin in Maps: From the Soviet Union to D6W (with Joseph Brady)
Sep 27, 2023
Dónal Lunny: From Emmet Spiceland to Kate Bush
Sep 17, 2023
Jim Fitzpatrick: On Che, Phil Lynott and Sinéad O'Connor
Sep 04, 2023
From Jim Larkin to Alfred Hitchcock: The Life of O'Casey
Aug 30, 2023
Peig McManus: A Dublin Childhood and a Life Less Ordinary
Aug 16, 2023
"My body to Ireland, my heart to Rome...." (with Claire Halpin)
Aug 09, 2023
The Foggy Dew: From Father O'Neill to Sinéad O'Connor
Jul 31, 2023
From Lugs Branigan to Led Zeppelin
Jul 09, 2023
Motorcades and Martyr Graves
Jun 30, 2023
Roddy Doyle Interview: Taxi to Barrytown!
Jun 20, 2023
1954: The Birth of Bloomsday
Jun 15, 2023
Tatters Cullen and the Vanishing Suffragettes
Jun 04, 2023
From Skin-the-Goat to Buckshot Forster: The Phoenix Park Assassinations
May 25, 2023
Old Songs and New Revivals (with Macdara Yeates)
May 18, 2023
Ragged Trousers and Paint Brushes (with Jimmy Murphy)
Apr 25, 2023
From the Ormond Market to the Hacienda
Apr 17, 2023
Noël Browne and the Archbishop (with Robert Ballagh)
Apr 06, 2023
A Sort of Homecoming
Mar 26, 2023
The Beginnings of Dublin Theatre (with Arran Henderson)
Mar 15, 2023
Dublin: A Writer's City (with Chris Morash)
Mar 09, 2023
The Bogside and Fu Manchu: Dublin as Somewhere Else
Feb 28, 2023
The Fame and the Fall
Feb 19, 2023
The Young Brendan Behan
Feb 07, 2023
Exploring Lucia Joyce (with Joe Chester)
Feb 02, 2023
Diving Bells and Missing Elephants
Jan 12, 2023
"When Collins was killed The Terror began" (with John Dorney)
Jan 08, 2023
Soccer's Sinatra: Pele in Dalymount Park
Jan 02, 2023
From the Duke of Wellington to Kellie Harrington
Dec 16, 2022
Walking the Winter Lights (with Fergus Whelan)
Dec 01, 2022
An Inchicore Institution (with Dermot Looney)
Nov 25, 2022
From The Citizen to John 3:7 (with Siobhán Doyle)
Nov 18, 2022
Halloween Special: Hans Holzer and the Ghosts of Dublin
Oct 28, 2022
The Central Bank and Beyond: Sam Stephenson's Dublin
Oct 18, 2022
The Country Girl Returns
Sep 30, 2022
The History and Present of Housing (with Eoin Ó Broin)
Sep 15, 2022
31 August 1913
Aug 31, 2022
The Crumlin Kremlin
Aug 22, 2022
South William Street
Jul 24, 2022
Refugees Welcome?
Jul 12, 2022
Sites of Memory: Gay Dublin
Jun 26, 2022
Sylvia Beach and Us
Jun 15, 2022
The Stolpersteine of Donore Avenue
Jun 07, 2022
Dublin's First Female Councillor
May 27, 2022
Dublin since the 1970s (with Joseph Brady)
May 16, 2022
Thomas Kinsella from The Ranch
May 02, 2022
The Playboy Riots
Apr 25, 2022
The Calm Before The Storm
Apr 18, 2022
Doggerel for a Departed Dublin
Apr 10, 2022
Alderman Tom Kelly and The Tenters (with Cathy Scuffil)
Apr 02, 2022
From Misery Hill to Champions' Avenue
Mar 26, 2022
Moscow, Marino, Orwell Road
Mar 19, 2022
Harry Kernoff: Capturing Dublin (With Kathryn Milligan)
Feb 17, 2022
The Handover (With Kate O'Malley)
Feb 08, 2022
Kathleen Clarke: A Very Different Lord Mayor
Feb 01, 2022
Seizing The Rotunda
Jan 24, 2022
The Arrival of Television
Jan 16, 2022
“The Monarch of the Liberties and King of the Mob"
Jan 08, 2022
On Photography
Dec 31, 2021
Shaping the City and Suburbs (with Ruth McManus)
Dec 20, 2021
From Berlin to Dublin: Agnes Bernelle
Dec 09, 2021
A City of Bookshops
Dec 02, 2021