The Stand with Eamon Dunphy
The Stand
The Stand with Eamon Dunphy is a current affairs, sport and culture podcast posting five or more episodes each week.Editor and Presenter - Eamon DunphyAs a former professional and international soccer player Eamon was capped 23 times for Ireland. He has been a writer and broadcaster for over 40 years and written five best selling books including an early memoir Only a Game?, U2’s biography Unforgettable Fire, Sir Matt Busby’s biography A Strange Kind of Glory, Roy Keane’s autobiography Keane, and most recently his own memoir, The Rocky Road.As a newspaper columnist Eamon has written for a number of newspapers, most notably the Irish Daily Star and the Sunday Independent. He was a contributor to RTÉ’s soccer panel for 40 years and was the editor and presenter of the drivetime radio show The Last Word for five years in the newly established Radio Ireland (now Today FM). Eamon launched The Stand in November 2016. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episodes
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Jan 17, 2024 • 31min
Repost: Ballymurphy to Derry – Eamon McCann on Paras' Massacres
Eamonn McCann talks to Eamon about the campaign to get justice for ten people murdered by the British Army in West Belfast in 1971, and what Boris Johnson's response to this week's findings can tell us about the British attitude to Northern Ireland.Originally posted on 13th May 2021 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jan 16, 2024 • 27min
Repost: Empire of Pain - The Secret History of The Sackler Dynasty
Author Patrick Radden Keefe talks to Eamon about his new book, Empire of Pain - The Secret History of The Sackler Dynasty.Originally posted on 8th June 2021 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jan 10, 2024 • 33min
Repost: Guide or Illusion - The Power of History
Diarmaid Ferriter, Professor of Modern Irish History at UCD talks to Eamon about the role history plays in understanding politics and society, Recorded on 27th September 2022. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jan 7, 2024 • 38min
Repost: From Prison to Power - Danny Morrison on his and Sinn Féin’s Journey North and South
Republican intellectual Danny Morrison talks to Eamon. Go to https://www.dannymorrison.com/ for more information on the books written by Danny mentioned in the podcast.Recorded 17th May 2022. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jan 4, 2024 • 34min
Repost: The Civil War that shaped our nation
Diarmaid Ferriter talks to Eamon about the ending and aftermath of the Civil War. Diarmaid is an author, columnist with the Irish Times and Professor of Modern Irish History in UCD.Recorded on 31st May 2023. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jan 2, 2024 • 29min
Repost: Who Owns Ireland? How we became tenants in our own land and what we can do about it
Journalist, author and broadcaster Matt Cooper joined Eamon last November to talk about his new book Who Really Owns Ireland?: How we became tenants in our own land - and what we can do about it. Published by Gill Books.Recorded on Monday 20th November 2023. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dec 24, 2023 • 47min
Repost: Special - Liam Brady talks to Eamon about his adventurous life in football - Part 2
In part 2 of a two-part special Liam Brady joins Eamon to talk about his life in football on the release of his autobiography Born to be a Footballer, published by Eriu.Recorded on Tuesday 14th November 2023. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dec 23, 2023 • 44min
Repost: Special - Liam Brady talks to Eamon about his adventurous life in football - Part 1
Earlier in the autumn Eamon met Liam to talk to him about his life in football on the release of his autobiography, Born to be a Footballer, published by Eriu.Recorded on Wednesday 18th October 2023. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dec 22, 2023 • 39min
Repost: Avi Shlaim on the Israeli / Palestinian Conflict - A Jewish voice on the history that has led to the present crisis
Professor Avi Shlaim spoke to Eamon earlier in the autumn. Professor Shlaim is an author and Oxford historian of modern Middle East history. He is Emeritus Professor of International Relations at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of the British Academy. Of the many books he has written about the Middle East his most recent is Three Worlds: Memoir of an Arab-Jew, published earlier this year.Recorded on Monday 16th October 2023 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dec 21, 2023 • 28min
Ep 1883: BP Fallon remembers Shane McGowan and Sinéad O’Connor, their lives and their work
Writer, photographer and musician BP Fallon joins Eamon to remember Shane McGowan and Sinéad O'Connor.Recorded on Tuesday 12th December 2023. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
