1000 Years from Home
Irish History Podcast
Fin Dwyer
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 20 April 2020
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
This show is 40 minutes of escapism from Covid-19. In the podcast I explore some of the history and historic places within two kilometres of my home in Kilkenny. This journey starts in the 19th century and takes you back 1,000 years. You will hear stories from a 19th century mental asylum, visit a medieval hospital, walk down a medieval street, hear the strange story of a dog whose death symbolised an epoch of Irish history and finish with the story of a forgotten hero.
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| 0:00.0 | May I have your attention please you can now book your train tickets on Uber and get |
| 0:08.0 | 10% back in credits to spend on your next Uber ride so you don't have to walk home in the brain again. |
| 0:15.0 | Trains, now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app. Hello and |
| 0:25.0 | welcome to the Irish History Podcast. My name is Finn Dwyer and this is a thousand years from home. |
| 0:32.0 | No matter where you are in the world now, |
| 0:34.0 | the stress and difficulties that COVID-19 has placed in our lives |
| 0:37.0 | is undoubtedly affecting you in some way. |
| 0:39.0 | So I thought a bit of escapism might be in order. |
| 0:42.0 | In this podcast, I'm bringing you to explore some of the great |
| 0:45.1 | history and historic places near my home in Kucchini City. Now COVID-19 related restrictions |
| 0:51.0 | mean I can only walk within two kilometers of my house but |
| 0:54.7 | there's some amazing places we're going to see. Over the next 40 minutes or so we'll cover |
| 0:59.6 | about a thousand years of history starting in a 19th century asylum, working our way down through medieval streets, |
| 1:06.1 | visiting the grave of a historic dog, taking in a medieval hospital, a famine graveyard, |
| 1:11.2 | and then finishing with a story of a forgotten hero. |
| 1:14.0 | Now before I kick off I want to say thanks to the patrons of the show as always |
| 1:18.0 | who are essentially the producers behind the Irish history podcast without their support I couldn't do it. If you want to |
| 1:24.6 | support the show and get the bonus content available only two patrons |
| 1:28.2 | including a new weekly bonus series on medieval life check out Patreon dot com |
| 1:34.0 | forward slash Irish podcast that's patreon |
| 1:37.5 | com forward slash Irish podcast |
| 1:41.0 | finally I want to say thanks to everyone who participated in the quiz last Saturday. |
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