From Ancient Ireland to Westeros: A History o...

How did Ireland become an English-speaking country? Was it colonialism, the Great Hunger, the education system or emigration that drove the shift from Irish to English?In this episode, I am joined by Dr Nicholas Wolf to explore one of the biggest questions in Irish history: how I ...  Show more

“The Irish fight for liberty is the greatest epic of the modern age… those suffering together under British imperialism must learn to coordinate their effort before they can hope to be free.”These words from the Black radical Cyril Briggs captured how many people of colour viewed ...  Show more

"When dragons flew to war… everything burned. I do not wish to rule over a kingdom of ash and bone." Dragons - the most compelling of mythical beasts - are one of the most vivid creations of all human imagination, and their enduring resonance is captivatingly displayed by their r ...  Show more

We live in the golden age of dragons – they appear in Game of Thrones, most film adaptations of the works of J.R.R. Tolkein, and nearly everything tangentially related to fantasy. They date back millennia, appearing in every cultures mythology, from ancient Greece and India to me ...  Show more

Mes chers camarades, bien le bonjour !

Dans cette mini-série, nous explorons tous ces dragons qui, dans les mythologies grecque, japonaise, babylonienne et scandinave, crachaient du sang noir, du venin, de l’eau ou des vapeurs fétides. Eh oui, le dragon était parfois une ...

Mes chers camarades, bien le bonjour !

Dans cette mini-série, nous explorons tous ces dragons qui, dans les mythologies grecque, japonaise, babylonienne et scandinave, crachaient du sang noir, du venin, de l’eau ou des vapeurs fétides. Eh oui, le dragon était parfois une ...