Ireland's Hidden Hand in History
Irish History Podcast
Fin Dwyer
4.7 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 14 December 2015
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Its Christmas and to celebrate I am releasing three podcasts this week. This episode looks at the Ireland's hidden hand in history - Irish people who you have never heard of but nevertheless played key roles in history. For example the first is a 50 year old Irish woman who tried to assassinate the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini in 1920s. Others include Eliza Lynch a cork woman who became the first lady of Paraguay in the 19th century and Joseph Kavanagh a leading figure in the French Revolution. This show also includes a competition and an update about my book on the Black Death.
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| 0:59.0 | Hello and welcome to the Irish history podcast. My name is Finn Duwara and this is the |
| 1:03.8 | this is the Christmas Special 2015. |
| 1:08.0 | This show is also number 75 in the series so I thought it's worth doing something different. |
| 1:14.3 | Originally I had intended to make an hour long episode, but the topics I was going to incorporate |
| 1:20.1 | are so different and varied. |
| 1:22.1 | I've decided to split it into three shows which will be released |
| 1:25.1 | over the following days. |
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