On this episode of Talking History, Patrick Geoghegan looks at the history of the Irish soldier, inspired by ‘The Irish Soldier’, a book of essays commissioned and edited by Thomas Bartlett, which gives a comprehensive insight into soldiering among Irish people for more than 1,000 years.

This week’s guests:

Thomas Bartlett MRIA, Professor Emeritus of Irish history at the University of Aberdeen

Dr Fionnuala Walsh, Associate Professor in Modern Irish History UCD

Eunan O’Halpin, Irish Historian and Professor Emeritus of Contemporary Irish History at Trinity College Dublin