
Sure, It’s Only History
Sure, It’s Only History
History. It happened. Someone should probably talk about it.
Sure, It’s Only History is a podcast hosted by Billy Galligan — a Dublin man living in Georgia who has absolutely no business presenting a history podcast and is doing it anyway. Sure why not.
From the events that shaped Ireland to the moments that derailed the rest of the world entirely, this show covers it all. Wars, disasters, rebellions, bad decisions, good intentions gone horribly wrong, and the occasional triumph against the odds — told the way history should always have been told. Over a cup of tea, with a raised eyebrow and nobody taking themselves too seriously.
Is it historically rigorous? More or less.
Is it entertaining? That’s the plan.
Will there be an Irish angle on absolutely everything? Almost certainly.
New episodes whenever Billy gets around to it — which, given everything else he has going on, is an act of God in itself.
Episodes (27)

The Curse of Cromwell: Ireland’s Conquest and Confiscation

The Wicked Bible: One Missing Word, One Huge Mistake

The Invisible Invader: Smallpox and the Fall of Tenochtitlan

The Plantation of Ulster: Dividing the Land

The Flight of the Earls and the Wild Geese

The Charge of the Light Brigade: A Wrong Turn into the Valley of Death

The Norman Invasion of 1169: The Invitation That Changed Ireland

The Zimmermann Telegram: The Secret Message That Wasn't

Brian Boru and the Battle of Clontarf

The Vasa: When a King’s Ego Sank Sweden’s Great Warship

Feathers, Fiascos and the Great Emu War

When London Burned: The Great Fire and Its Fallout

From Dublin to Georgia: A Leap Across the Atlantic

Irish America Before the Famine

Ireland’s Famine Escape and the Coffin Ships

Bridget, the Irish Maids Who Powered America

Irish Power Brokers: How Immigrants Built City Machines

From Coffin Ships to Tammany Hall

How Irish Immigrants Built American Cities

How Irish America Helped Fund Peace and Power

The Bog Landing That Changed Aviation

Upside Down Over the Atlantic: Alcock and Brown’s Wild Flight

The £10,000 Atlantic Dare That Sent a Bomber into a Bog

Kilmainham’s Turning Point: Executions, Myth, and Memory

The GPO Takes Dublin by Surprise

Dublin in Flames: The Easter Rising’s Deadliest Days
