telling the time in hours and minutes seems so natural.

We don't even question where it came from.

However, it's actually a very recent development.

For most of history, our ancestors didn't have clocks and understood time itself in a very different way.

In this podcast, we were going to journey back through the centuries to explore how our ancestors told the time.

It's a really interesting history.

Like in the medieval world the length of an hour changed every day.

We're going to look at how that worked and how Dublin in the 1870s had two separate time zones.

Hello and welcome to the Irish History podcast, my name is Finn Duwire.

Today's episode begins by returning to medieval Dublin 800 years ago,

where we'll take a look at the medieval city as it was and the way people lived their lives

to get an insight into how time was understood by our distant ancestors.

Then in the second part of the show we'll travel to Victoria Dublin after clocks had been invented but the city grappled with one major

problem. Every clock seemed to tell a different time.

Now while all this will make for a fascinating podcast,

this week also sees the launch of Part 3

of my exclusive supporter series on The Troubles with Dr. Brian Hanley.

Episode 3 in the series looks at the Battle of the Bogside in Derry and then the IRA

split of 1969 that would shape how the conflict developed.

If you're a patron of the show you can access that episode on Thursday at patreon.com

forward slash Irish podcast.

If you're not a supporter yet, but you would like to hear the series, you can support the

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