Undercover Irish

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Undercover Irish is a podcast about Ireland's history, language, placenames and the stories that often get left out. Named one of the Irish Examiner's Top 10 Irish Podcasts of 2025. Episodes explore everything from forgotten places and revolutionary history to Gaeilge, Irish words and names, emigration, folklore and the links between Ireland and the wider world. Undercover Irish; Uncovering Ireland's Hidden Curriculum.

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Episodes

Cork's Kilmainham Ep. 4: The Firing Squads Return

Cork's Kilmainham Ep. 3: The Chain, the Cell and the Hunger Strike

Cork's Kilmainham Ep. 2: 1916, Thomas Kent, Tadhg Barry and the Hidden Grave

Cork's Kilmainham Ep. 1: From Famine to Fenians, From Cork to the Catalpa

What Irish Surnames Remember — Part 2: The Names That Came Ashore

What Irish Surnames Remember — Part 1: Ó, Mac, Ní & Nic

When Ireland Speaks in a Woman's Voice: From Ériu to Elmes

What Irish County Names Really Mean: Part 2

What Irish County Names Really Mean: Part 1

Ireland and the Sea

Ireland's Darkest Placenames II: Memory in the Landscape

Ireland's Darkest Placenames; The Landscape Remembers

From Famine Ships to Maple Leafs: Irish Identity in Canadian Sport

London Irish, Boston Celtics & the Names We Carry

This Irish Town Name Means "Push Forward" - Here's Why (Ngũgĩ, Spenser & Buttevant Explained)

Cork vs Tipperary 1741 — The First Match Report Was A Poem in Irish

How The Great Hunger Brought Irish Sporting Identity Abroad; Liverpool, Celtic And More

GAA Club Names Explained: Mythology, Rebels & Irish Identity

The Mountains of Pomeroy: A Love Song from a Broken Land

How One Town with Four Names Maps Different Irelands

The Story Behind Óró, Sé do Bheatha Bhaile: From Jacobite Song to 1916 Rebel Anthem

Why Britain Still Owns Part of Cyprus — And What Ireland Has To Do With It

Henry Browne Hayes: From Vernon Mount to Vaucluse (Part 2)

Henry Browne Hayes: Power, Privilege and The Abduction of Mary Pike (Part 1)

Courtaparteen: Ireland's Lost Village Hidden in a Forest

Spancil Hill: An Irish Ballad And The Heartbreak Of Emigration

Roy Keane And Bishop Brennan; Guerrilla Gaeilge 2

Hunger, Gorta, Troscadh: Cultural Memory, Political Resistance, and Brehon Law

An Irish Christmas: Brush the Floor and Clean the Hearth

Guerilla Gaeilge: The Irish Hidden in Our English (Hiberno-English, Irish Language Survival, and Hidden Gaeilge Grammar)

An Irish Guerrilla Commander and "The Murder Machine"

The Irish Way to Understand Time

Erased Leader: Margaret Buckley and Ireland's Counter-Revolution

How the Irish Language Finds Connection in the Dark: Samhain and Uaigneas

How Cork's Streets Became a Battleground for Ireland's Identity

How A GAA Crest leads us to the Battle of Fontenoy

How Ice Cream is linked to the Presidential Election

Ireland as a Body: Place Names, Mythology, and Indigenous Worldviews

Building Up And Tearing England Down; The Social History In A Ballad

The Truth about Munster and Meath: Uncovering Ireland's Lost Directions

An Bata Scóir and Its International Reach

Skorts, Shorts and the Three Stripe Affair That Rocked Cork GAA – Part 2

Skorts, Shorts and the Three Stripe Affair that rocked Cork GAA Part 1

Let Erin Remember: The Crimes Against Lough Neagh

Ireland was ahead of the Stoics, Mindfulness, and CBT; Cognitive Behavioural Therapy within Gaeilge