This week Patrick covers the best in Irish and International history publications for October 2020. Books reviewed on the show include: 'The Bloodied Field: Croke Park. Sunday the 21st of November 1920' with Michael Foley, 'DCU 1980 to 1920' with Eoin Kinsella,  'Athassel Priory and the Cult of St Edmund' by Francis Young, 'The Alliance of Pirates: Ireland and the Atlantic Piracy in Early Seventeenth Century' with Connie Kelleher and 'The Decline and Fall of Democracy' with David Stasavage.