meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
Do Go On

553 - The Ireland Shakespeare Forgery

Do Go On

Matt Stewart, Jess Perkins & Dave Warneke

History, Comedy, Fact, Facts

4.92.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2026

⏱️ 122 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Back in the 1790's, Samuel Ireland's son, William Henry, came to him with an exciting discovery - he had found a document belonging to the one and only William Shakespeare! But where had he found it? And could there be more??


This is a comedy/history podcast, the report begins at approximately 08:39 (though as always, we go off on tangents throughout the report).


For all our important links: https://linktr.ee/dogoonpod

 

Check out our other podcasts:

Book Cheat: https://play.acast.com/s/book-cheat

Prime Mates: https://play.acast.com/s/prime-mates/

Listen Now: https://play.acast.com/s/listen-now/

Who Knew It with Matt Stewart: https://play.acast.com/s/who-knew-it-with-matt-stewart/

Jess Writes A Rom-Com: https://shows.acast.com/jess-writes-a-rom-com


Our awesome theme song by Evan Munro-Smith and logo by Peader Thomas


Do Go On acknowledges the traditional owners of the land we record on, the Wurundjeri people, in the Kulin nation. We pay our respects to elders, past and present. 


REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING:

https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Henry-Ireland

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ireland_Shakespeare_forgeries

https://www.huntington.org/watch-read-listen/verso/real-fake-shakespeare-forgeries-william-henry-ireland

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vortigern_and_Rowena

https://archive.org/details/confessionswill00irelgoog/page/n93/mode/2up?q=%22mr+H%22



Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

Hello and welcome to another episode of Do Go On. My name is Dave Warnakey and as always, I'm here with Matt Stewart and Jess Berkins. Hi. Dave, you left a beat there, but not a big enough beat. That was on you. You got, like, because you never leave a beat there, and then I, when I realized you were leaving a beat, I jumped in, and when I jumped in, you moved on. I got to let you know. Do you want to go again? I set you up. Join a go again from the top. From the top.

0:40.9

Hello, welcome another. when I jumped in, you moved on. I got to let you know. Do you want to go again? I set you up.

0:39.2

Do you want to go again from the top?

0:40.6

From the top.

0:52.6

Hello, welcome another episode of Jugo. My name is everyone here with that's you and Jess Spoken. Hey, Dave. How's it going? I left a little pause in there, Matt. He didn't jump in that time. Why are you saying hi to Dave? I don't know, he said hi to me Hi Matt

0:53.6

Hi, Jess

0:54.3

Okay

0:54.7

Great to be here

0:56.4

I just I hate it when we fight Dave. I don't know. He said hi to me. Hi, Matt. Hi, Jess.

0:54.4

Okay.

0:55.4

Great to be here.

0:56.9

I just, I hate it when we fight.

0:58.8

Well, that's why we never have. Because I don't like it either. Yeah. Hey, why want me to explain this show? Yeah. Sure. What we do here is we take it in terms to report on a topic which is often suggested to us by one of the listeners who may have also voted for it on our Patreon. Then we take the idea away that the topic we research it, we write a little report on, bring it back to the group in the form of a report. I've said the report twice there. That's okay. But it's just as our turn to do the report this week, Matt and I genuinely have no idea what you're going to talk about. We normally fuck around a bit at the top. You've just jumped straight in today. I think this is great. This is, because new listeners might listen through this episode. You know what I mean? Because I think we do a lot of episodes that new lists are like, nah. Yeah, well, I think it's the same rule applies to us as that I apply to watching a new TV shows, that you've got to give it three episodes. And then if I'm still like, I'm bored and I hate these insufferable idiots, then I'll stop. Yeah, okay, right. And then you think the torture is over. That's right. Jess, it's your turn, though, to report on a topic. To torture.

2:02.8

And we get onto the topic with a question.

2:03.8

That is correct.

2:11.2

My question is, which is the only country in the world that uses a musical instrument as its official national emblem?

2:13.3

Oh, national emblem. Oh, national emblem.

2:15.6

It'd be like some sort of horn, I reckon.

2:16.3

Okay.

2:16.7

Or a loot, you know, like a national... Oh, Ireland, the harp. Correct! That was great. That was good to hear the thinking out loud there. Yeah. And when he went... Well, because I... Here's the thing. If we do any kind of trivia game together, I answer with my gut and not a lot of thought. and then Matt will think something through in front of me. And I go, oh, that's actually a really good point. That was good. But this time when he went, it's a horn. I was like, he's gone the wrong way. He's never going to figure it out. I said to myself, I said, whoa. And then he figured it out pretty quickly, actually.

2:51.6

So it's Ireland.

2:52.7

And that's the only one.

...

Transcript will be available on the free plan in 16 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Matt Stewart, Jess Perkins & Dave Warneke, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Matt Stewart, Jess Perkins & Dave Warneke and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.