Episode 12: The Beautiful Game

Belfast's streets erupt into bloodshed with 30 dead in the space of 5 days. Historian Éamon Phoenix tells Tara and Declan how his grandfather survived World War I only to come close to being killed in the sectarian violence blighting the city. Please be advised that some listener ... Show More

Treaty talks are reaching a critical point in London. In Belfast, Tara and Declan delve into the past at the Linenhall Library, while in Cork listener Robert Bogue has been learning about his grandfather's time in the Irish police. Meanwhile, Declan's hungry... 

Amid death and violence across the island of Ireland at this time, one incident stands out. The McMahon family is targeted one night by a gang believed to have been made up of RIC men, led by DI John Nixon. Tara and Declan hear how the Cavan man came to be linked to a number of k ... Show More

Who is Malcolm MacArthur, the suspected killer found hiding in the Attorney General’s home?Warning: This episode contains some violence.__CREDITS:Narrated by Adrian Dunbar Written by Paul WalkerArchive producer: Declan Smith Music: Jeremy Warmsley Mix engineer: Peregrine AndrewsD ... Show More

In the wake of The Regency, Gardai are on high alert around the city, as retaliation attacks begin to take place on a near weekly basis. With The Kinahans gone into hiding, their foot soldiers carry out a series of brutal murders on Hutch allies. An underfunded police force strug ... Show More

Things escalate between the Hutch and Kinahan gangs after the murder of Gary Hutch. A Lanzarote hit attempt on The Monk sends things to a boiling point.Then the event that changed everything… A boxing weigh-in at The Regency Hotel in Dublin goes south when a hit team storms the b ... Show More

This episode, from Northern Ireland, looks at events near Portadown during the period of just a few days at the height of the Troubles. Three terrorist attacks saw nine innocent civilians killed in a series of revenge attacks at the Central Bar in Gilford and at the homes of the ... Show More

An Irish Army Captain goes on holidays – a strange kind of holiday. To a city where he knows there is likely to be ‘trouble’. He arrives as a three-day street battle, now known as 'the Battle of the Bogside', begins. And it changes everything (Ep1/9)Companion TV documentary to th ... Show More

Another murder, this time of a gay man, feeds into the rumours that continue to swirl around Malcolm MacArthur.Warning: This episode contains some strong language and graphic violent scenes.__CREDITS:Narrated by Adrian Dunbar Written by Paul WalkerArchive producer: Declan Smith M ... Show More

The shocking Stuart shooting incites a massive dragnet for a Black man in a striped track suit. Armed with “stop and frisk” powers, police tear through the Mission Hill neighborhood. Virtually every young Black male is a suspect. Boston is gripped by fear. Race, class, crime and ... Show More

In this week's episode Paul and Kate head back to turn-of-the-century Northern California, where a suspicious man enters the picture of a well-off farming family. A single evening becomes the focus of our attention as tensions come to a head between everyone involved.See Privacy ... Show More

When IRA bombs tear through two pubs in Birmingham and kill 21 innocent people, Detective Superintendent George Reade knows he has to act fast to find the perpetrators. But for Paddy Hill and five friends - on their way to Ireland for a funeral - this is the start of a torturous ... Show More