Full Show Podcast - 21st December 2025

David McCullagh on how Ireland quietly dismantled the Anglo-Irish Treaty - a peaceful revolution that transformed the Irish Free State into the Republic of Ireland.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Terry Prone joins Myles to discuss her recently published memoir "I'm Glad You Asked Me That: The Political Years"See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

David McCullagh on how the Anglo-Irish Treaty was undone; and Terry Prone on the art of communication in public life.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Damian Shiels joins Myles to discuss the Irishmen who fought for the Union in the American Civil War; and whose stories are revealed in forgotten U.S. pension files.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Marc McMenamin investigates who owns Lough Foyle; then Cormac Moore and Samuel Beckton join Myles to discuss the collapse of the Boundary Commission.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Irish-Americans in the Union military; and the collapse of the Boundary Commission a century agoSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ian Kenneally reports on the lives of sisters Sarah Atkinson and Anna Gaynor ('Sister Mary John), and their work helping the most vulnerable in Victorian Dublin.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Igoe Gang’s pursuit of Michael Collins; The Gaynor sisters’ legacy of compassion and care in 19th-century Ireland; and the mysterious case of the Victorian female detectiveSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

At the West Cork History Festival, Myles speaks to Professor Sara Lodge about the real and imagined women who pioneered the detective story.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ultan Courtney joins Myles to discuss the shadowy police unit that hunted Michael Collins and his men during the Irish War of Independence.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.