Cork City Libraries: A Podcast Series

This podcast was written, produced and recorded by Niall O'Driscoll and Jack McCarron for The Southern Star (www.southernstar.ie). Special thanks to Donal and Daniel Gallagher, Strange Music Ltd and additional contributors Philip King and Con Downing.

Episode six of the Garda History Podcast.

Episode five discusses the operation of the Criminal Investigations Department in Oriel House during the Civil War.

Episode four discusses the history of women in policing in Ireland beginning with female RIC constables to the recruitment of women to An Garda Síochána in 1959.

Episode three of the podcast discusses the demographics of people who made up the initial cohort of an Garda Síochána.

Episode two describes the momentous events surrounding the policing Mutiny in 1922 which led to the decision to form the Civic Guard into an unarmed force.

Episode one describes the arrival of an Garda Síochána to Cork City in 1922 as the Civil War rages in County Cork.

Inspector James Hallahan of an Garda Síochána introduces the Garda History Podcast made in association with Cork City Libraries

This episode is a special episode to celebrate National Heritage Week, which runs between 14 - 22 August 2021. In this episode we bring you: part four in our step-by-step guide to researching your family tree by Johnathon Fehily, Mairéad Ní Ghráda agus An Triail le Deirdre Swain, an early history of the Lough by Michael Lenihan and an interview with William Wall by Donal O’Driscoll.

In this episode, as Cork City Libraries' Writer-in-Residence term comes to an end, we bring you a special episode featuring writings by members of the Cork Non-Fiction Group written during workshops with our Writer-in-Residence Tina Pisco. We feature: Thoughts on a day in spring by Jane Killingbeck, Enlightenment on a river in Prague by Sara O’Mahony, Perceptions and Facts an informal essay by Marie Guillot, Saving Planet Earth by Cecily Lynch and Lockdown Lessons as I say Goodbye by Tina Pisco.