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A Bohemian Sporting Life

Nov 14, 2023

The League of Ireland is commonly seen as a development league, one whose best players are signed at an early age, usually by larger, wealthier clubs from Britain, following a pattern established more than a century ago. But in this set of four case studies from the 1920s through to the twenty first century another...


Sep 28, 2023

Recorded live in the Joyce Tower museum during the Joycenight festival, host Gerard Farrell chairs a discussion on the events that took place in the Sandycove Martelloe tower that fractured the friendship of James Joyce and Oliver St. John Gogarty, gave rise to Stately plump Buck Mulligan and what all this has to do...


Apr 2, 2023

Conor Curran is the guest on this episode talking about his new book Soccer and Society in Dublin, charting the history of the sport in the capital as far back as the 1880s.