I love telling stories. Either ones that I made up myself, or stories that actually happened. One of the most interesting stories I’ve stumbled across in the last months is the one of German WW2-spy Hermann Goertz, who was sent to Ireland in 1941, failed to find out anything interesting and finally committed suicide in Dublin castle. I just had nowhere to go with the story – until I approach the guys behind the extraordinary Storymap project. Storymap is mapping Dublin town through the stories of its people, recording storytellers telling their stories where they happened. And they cover all sorts of topics: history, anecdotal, personal, even the unnatural. One of the best and comprehensive records of urban Dublin today, in my eyes. In any way, here’s yours truly talking about Nazi spies in Ireland.

We actually found out that we recorded the story on the same day that Goertz died 65 years ago – you can read the Irish Times article from the following day here.