Best Malachi Martin Podcasts (2024)

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Maura Clare & Alice Carroll – Spirited Women of Irish Spirits 59:01

4d ago59:01

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Settle in for a spirited episode of Irish Stew with two pioneering women in the Irish spirits industry, Alice Carroll--the proud Limerick distiller and co-founder of Foxes Bow Whiskey, and Maura Clare--the Queen of Poitín and creator of the Smuggling Nun brand. They swap notes on their journey into the spirits business, the challenges and opportuni…

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S6E4: Michael Meade - From Banking to Brewing 56:43

19d ago56:43

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Michael Meade spent over 20 years on Wall Street and then stepped away from the pressured world of high finance to do something totally different. Some, in his circumstances, may have opted for plenty of time on the golf course and cracking open a few brews, that’s not the kind of person Michael Meade is. Intrigued by a visit to Ireland, Michael wa…

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S6E3: Allan Mulrooney – Surfing the Wave to the West of Ireland 56:56

1M ago56:56

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As Chief Executive of the Western Development Commission (WDC), Allan Mulrooney is a tireless advocate for the Western Region of Ireland, promoting social and economic development for the counties of Donegal, Leitrim, Sligo, Mayo, Roscommon, Galway, and Clare. Why go west? Allan points to the region's mix of the old and the new, how it fosters a wo…

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S6E2: Michael McKillop - Whiskey Distiller & Potato Purveyor 58:42

2M ago58:42

58:42

In the first of our “Irish Libations” series, we welcome Michael McKillop, who branched out from the 36-year-old Glens of Antrim Potatoes business to launch Glens of Antrim Distillery with its Lir line of Irish Whiskeys, amidst bucolic surroundings in Cushendall, Northern Ireland. We get a professional’s view of the growing, shipping, and marketing…

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S6E1: Discovering the Truth in Lies We Tell 1:08:45

2M ago1:08:45

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Launching Season Six, we go behind the scenes of the woman-strong Irish film Lies We Tell, a brooding tale of angels and demons, light and shadow, manners and mores, family secrets and family crimes, which The Guardian called “a tightly laced, elegantly cut gothic period drama.” A total rethinking of Irish writer Sheridan Le Fanu’s 1864 novel Uncle…

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S5E22: Dan Mulhall - Check-In - The Pilgrim Soul of WB Yeats 49:57

3M ago49:57

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When we last talked with Dan Mulhall, he was Ireland’s Ambassador to the United Stares. Since then, he retired after a 44-year career in diplomacy, but he’s been busier than ever as we learn in this check-in episode with Martin Nutty focused on his new book on W. B. Yeats. Recent invitations to New York University, Cambridge, and Harvard, provided …

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S5E21: Malachy Browne - Data-driven Journalist for the Digital Age 58:40

3M ago58:40

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With a computer programming background and an instinct for reporting, Malachy Browne is on the vanguard of a new form of data-driven news coverage that is revitalizing journalism. Co-founder and enterprise director of the New York Times Visual Investigations team, Malachy is pioneering the use of digital sleuthing, collecting and analyzing troves o…

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S5E20: Ted Smyth - Politics 2024 Check-In 46:04

4M ago46:04

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Ted Smyth, former diplomat and C-Suite and current President of the Advisory Board of Glucksman Ireland House NYU, joins Martin Nutty for a discussion on Irish and American politics. What does the recent November 2023 American mid term election presage for 2024? How differing are the American and Irish views on Gaza? How should we understand the re…

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S5E19: Fin Dwyer Check-In - A Lethal Legacy 49:09

4M ago49:09

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Fin Dwyer of Irish History Podcasts pays a return visit to Irish Stew. We last hosted Fin two years ago. Since then, Fin has continued to fascinate his listeners with in depth episodes on a broad range of Irish History topics. Despite this frenetic pace, Fin has found time to publish a book titled: A Lethal Legacy - A History of Ireland in 18 Murde…

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S5E18: Marybeth Shea - Montana Irish Translator of the Technical 1:05:49

5M ago1:05:49

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Join us in a westward journey to the Irish enclaves of Butte, Montana and on to a chicken coop on Maryland’s Eastern Shore as Marybeth Shea guides us along little-known paths of Irish migration and through little understood profession of technical communications. She describes herself as a humanist and cites her Catholic education, specifically wit…

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S5E17: Mollie Guidera – Teaching Irish to Global Ireland 1:00:22

5M ago1:00:22

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So why learn Irish? "Studies have shown that learning your native language, learning any language, but especially your ancestral tongue, brings feelings of comfort and freedom. And especially when considering our past and our heritage, learning Irish is very revealing and very healing," says our latest guest Mollie Guidera, the Irish language teach…

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S5E16: Brian O'Sullivan - Imagining Iron Age Ireland…from New Zealand 58:50

6M ago58:50

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Join us as we travel from Ireland all the way to New Zealand to explore a vision of Ireland from centuries ago in our conversation with Brian O’Sullivan. He’s an author, cultural researcher, strategic analyst, and founder of Irish Imbas, the only Irish publisher specializing in fiction and non-fiction based on the ancient Irish cultural knowledge a…

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Confronting the Scream of the Ancient Beast 46:46

6M ago46:46

46:46

We had regular visitor Robert Marro back on the show talking about his ambitions to write a new book on his close friend Malachi Martin. Here is what he had to say: "I was a very close friend of Malachi for the last decade of his life until his untimely death on July 27, 1999. Countless people have told me that since I was Malachi's confidante who …

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S5E15: Kingsley Aikins - Exemplar of Global Ireland 1:07:39

6M ago1:07:39

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A Trinity College graduate in economics and politics, he represented Irish business abroad, led The Ireland Funds for almost two decades, and now Kingsley Aikins combines his fervor for networking and diaspora engagement in the mission of The Networking Institute. “Kinger,” as he’s known to his friends, talks of how rugby became his global passport…

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S5E14: Roger Clark – A Man for All Mediums 1:00:09

6M ago1:00:09

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From New Jersey to Sligo, Wales, London, Germany, to touring the globe and then to New York, Roger Clark stamps his passport as a leading citizen of the Global Irish Nation. And to millions around the world, he is an icon. An actor, filmmaker, voiceover artist of over 150 audiobooks, Roger’s claim to global fame is his performance-capture portrayal…

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S5E13: Naoíse Mac Sweeney: Demythologizing The West 57:12

7M ago57:12

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In this Global Irish conversation, we search for the true origins of Western Civilization with a most global of guests, Naoíse Mac Sweeney, author of The West: A New History in Fourteen Lives. Her father is from Cork City, her mother is Malaysian Chinese, she grew up in London, studied the Greek and Roman world, and is a professor of classical arch…

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Inside Sharon Rectory Part 4 0:34

7M ago0:34

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Having chatted to Emma on a previous episode we decided to take her up on her invitation to the Rectory and we thought we'd bring you along. PODCAST HERE Built in 1775 as a Church of Ireland rectory, Sharon Rectory was the site of a gruesome double-murder in 1797 when the Rev William Hamilton and his wife Sara Waller were ruthlessly murdered by the…

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Inside Sharon Rectory Part 3 0:34

7M ago0:34

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Having chatted to Emma on a previous episode we decided to take her up on her invitation to the Rectory and we thought we'd bring you along. PODCAST HERE Built in 1775 as a Church of Ireland rectory, Sharon Rectory was the site of a gruesome double-murder in 1797 when the Rev William Hamilton and his wife Sara Waller were ruthlessly murdered by the…

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S5E12: Jane Ferguson - No Ordinary Correspondent 1:02:08

7M ago1:02:08

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Growing up in The Troubles in Northern Ireland, Jane Ferguson spent most of her life reporting on the global troubles in Yemen, Somalia, Sudan, Iraq, Gaza, Syria, and Afghanistan, reporting for CNN International, Al Jazeera, PBS Newshour, The New Yorker and other outlets, always finding the human stories in inhuman wars and all revealed in her unfl…

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Inside Sharon Rectory Part 2 0:35

7M ago0:35

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Having chatted to Emma on a previous episode we decided to take her up on her invitation to the Rectory and we thought we'd bring you along. PODCAST HERE Built in 1775 as a Church of Ireland rectory, Sharon Rectory was the site of a gruesome double-murder in 1797 when the Rev William Hamilton and his wife Sara Waller were ruthlessly murdered by the…

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Inside Sharon Rectory Part 1 0:46

8M ago0:46

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Having chatted to Emma on a previous episode we decided to take her up on her invitation to the Rectory and we thought we'd bring you along. PODCAST HERE Built in 1775 as a Church of Ireland rectory, Sharon Rectory was the site of a gruesome double-murder in 1797 when the Rev William Hamilton and his wife Sara Waller were ruthlessly murdered by the…

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S5E11: Jane Delury – Hedge Author Draws on Irish Roots 54:53

8M ago54:53

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Our Global Irish conversation with award-winning author Jane Delury centers on her second novel Hedge, a bildungsroman of an Irish American woman in her forties named Maude pursuing a career in the esoteric field of garden history, looking for clues in the past under the mounting challenges of the present. The theme of bringing a garden back to lif…

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S5E10: Luke McManus – Filming the Song of a Dublin Road 1:02:13

9M ago1:02:13

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Join us on a stroll along North Circular Road from Phoenix Park to the Dublin Docklands with our guide Luke McManus, the documentary filmmaker of the award-winning North Circular which opens in New York City on July 28th. Rendered in graphic black & white over a soundtrack of local North Circular musicians, the film gives voice to narratives from t…

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S5E9: Ruth Carden - The Bone Lady 1:00:11

9M ago1:00:11

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How can a kneecap bone change the history of Ireland? We answer that question during our conversation with Dr. Ruth Carden, a paleo zoologist with a particular interest in the animals that roamed Ireland over the last 50,000 years. Ruth's research focuses particularly on the skeletal remains of those animals, since that is all that usually remains …

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S5E8: Ambassador Fergal Mythen – Ireland’s Voice in the UN 54:23

10M ago54:23

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Our latest global Irish conversation goes behind the scenes of the globe’s most significant international organization, the United Nations, courtesy of Ireland’s Ambassador to the UN, Fergal Mythen. He didn’t rise to one of Ireland’s most significant diplomatic postings without an impressive diplomatic career behind him. Fergal has worked on Irish-…

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S5E7: Pauline Turley - The Muse of Irish Arts in NYC 1:03:13

11M ago1:03:13

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When Seamus Heaney wrote, “Walk on air, against your better judgement,” he could have been writing about Pauline Turley. From Newry to New York, Pauline has paired hard work with serendipity to arrive at her pivotal role charting the impressive trajectory on New York’s Irish Arts Center from a cramped tenement building to its expansive new home. Sh…

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S5E6: Doug Devaney - Plastic Podcaster 1:08:44

11M ago1:08:44

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Join us as we pick up the conversation with Doug Devaney who interviewed us last fall on The Plastic Podcasts. A talented podcaster, Doug’s also an actor, writer, journalist, and self-proclaimed "songster, funster, punster, hamster." In this episode we delve into the core concept of The Plastic Podcasts, which centers around the notion that “we all…

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S5E5: David Clinch – Making Media Matter 1:06:12

12M ago1:06:12

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By John Lee & Martin Nutty

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S5E4: Richard Donovan – Extreme Athlete Looking to the Stars 59:24

12M ago59:24

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For Richard Donavan running the grueling 26.2 miles of the Boston Marathon was only a way to stretch his legs before getting up the next morning to run across America…for the second time. Running seven marathons on seven continents in seven days sounds impossible, so he did it in under five. Richard is also the first person to run marathons at both…

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S5E3: Manchán Magan - Deep Rooted In Irish Culture 1:14:05

1y ago1:14:05

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For over 25 years Manachán Magan has been at the forefront of Irish cultural affairs. He first rose to public attention with the 1996 launch of Irish language television now known as TG4. Together with his brother Ruán, Manachán produced a ground breaking series of television programs exploring indigenous cultures across the globe Since those early…

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S5E2: Giovanni Buttigieg - Ambassador from “The Island of Malta & the Ireland of Malta” 56:50

1y ago56:50

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From “The Island of Malta and the Ireland of Malta,” Malta’s Ambassador to Ireland tells Irish Stew of the unexpected connections between the island nations of Ireland and Malta, especially for his hometown of Floriana. Ambassador Giovanni Buttigieg traces the Irish connection back to an 1895 visit to Floriana by an Irish Cardinal who went to Rome …

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S5E1: Barbara Walsh – Pulitzer Prize Winning Teller Of Stories That Need To Be Told 56:29

1y ago56:29

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A Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, Barbara Walsh started her career in Galway as a newspaper photographer and has gone on to work for newspapers and magazines in Florida, Massachusetts, Maine, and New Hampshire. While at the Lawrence Eagle-Tribune, Barbara reported on the notorious murderer William Horton Jr. and Massachusetts’ flawed prison furl…

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S4E18: Brian McCabe – Defending the Community, from NYPD to AIHS 1:10:02

1y ago1:10:02

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He’s the quintessential New York Irish cop who rose up through the ranks from walking a beat to becoming a highly-ranked detective. He’s also a respected leader of New York’s Irish American community and a man at the center of a major controversy playing out now in New York as the American Irish Historical Society’s irreplaceable Beaux-Arts townhou…

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S4E17: Michael Mellamphy – Irish Storyteller on Stage, Screen & Video Games 55:54

1+ y ago55:54

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Growing up with one foot in Dublin and the other in Cork, Michael “Mick” Mellamphy now has a foot in Ireland and one in New York, where he’s in starring in Ronán Noone’s The Smuggler at the Irish Repertory Theatre, part of the Origin Theatre’s 1st Irish Festival he curated, on stages around NYC for Jan. & Feb. 2023. And he still made time to sit do…

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S4E16: Ted Smyth - Check In On The Political World 47:26

1+ y ago47:26

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Veteran diplomat and C Suite executive, Ted Smyth, joins Martin Nutty, on The Stew for the third time. With the conclusion of the final election of the US Midterm election season, it seemed like a good time to take the political temperature of not just the United States, but also of Northern Ireland and the Western European democracies. Ted is a me…

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S4E15: Peter Quinn - Da Bard of Da Bronx 1:05:07

1+ y ago1:05:07

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Speechwriter, novelist, essayist, and now memoirist Peter Quinn returns to Irish Stew to share tales from his home borough of New York City and beyond, captured in his new book, Cross Bronx: A Writing Life. Join us as Peter spins stories from his rise up through Irish American middle-class respectability in New York’s northernmost borough, The Bron…

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S4E14: Rosa Nutty: Authentic Lyricism in Song 58:15

1+ y ago58:15

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In a way we’ve been teasing this episode since our first, as we’ve treated you to a wee taste of Rosa Nutty’s music at the opening of every Irish Stew episode. Now we go beyond the snippet and follow Rosa through the emotional landscape she travels in song. Her first album after a five-year absence from the recording studio, World So Blue is gettin…

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S4E13: Check In - Gregory Harrington - Bonus Episode 32:37

1+ y ago32:37

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Gregory Harrington has stayed busy since our initial episode back in February 2022. Since that conversation, the accomplished violinist released a recording titled Gregory Harrington: Live From The Irish Repertory Join Martin Nutty as he chats with Gregory about the risks of recording beloved traditional Irish tunes as a classically trained violini…

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S4E11: Colm Bairéad and Cleona Ní Chrualaoi: Making Noise With "The Quiet Girl" 1:15:02

1+ y ago1:15:02

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In times past, the Irish language (Gaelic) was thought by some to be a mark of backwardness. In this episode, husband and wife team, Colm Bairéad and Cleona Ní Chrualaoi reveal how Ireland's native tongue provided entrée to the world of movie-making leading ultimately to the creation of An Cailín Ciúin (The Quiet Girl), Ireland's nominee for the Be…

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S4E10: Neil Jackman - Making Ireland's Ancient Past Present 1:09:17

1+ y ago1:09:17

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Our 50th episode comes to you on the most ancient of Irish holidays - Halloween or Oíche Shamhna (eee-ha how-na) in Irish/Gaelic. It is the night that celebrates the transition from the old to the new Celtic year. That transition point, between the present and the past, was a space where the Celts believed the spirits or pucaí (pook-ee) of the past…

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S4E9: Deirdre Ryan - Olympian raising the bar for Irish food 1:00:59

1+ y ago1:00:59

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Our 49th episode features one of our most global of guests–Deirdre Ryan, a world class athlete who competed for Ireland on the global stage and who is now raising the bar for Irish food. Born in County Dublin, Deirdre studied business and Italian, then worked, studied and trained in Milan. To train and work in Germany, she learned to speak German a…

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S4E8: Margaret Molloy: Marketer, Mentor, Connector & #BrandIreland Advocate 1:02:10

1+ y ago1:02:10

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From a dairy farm in County Offaly to the C-Suite in a global branding agency, her university days in Ulster during The Troubles, her internship with Enterprise Ireland that brought her to New York, her work bringing foreign direct investment and thousands of jobs to Ireland, her MBA from Harvard Business School, her rise in the world of marketers …

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S4E7: Brian McDonald - An Irish-American Story of 9/11 & the FDNY 1:03:31

1+ y ago1:03:31

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It wasn’t planned this way, but we recorded our episode with writer Brian McDonald on Sept. 11, a date that looms large in his new book Five Flights Up, which traces the Irish American story of four generations of the Feehan family in the Fire Department of New York, the FDNY, a story which would tragically culminate with the terrorist attack on th…

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S4E6: Flor MacCarthy - A Broadcaster in Pursuit of Unexpected History 1:06:02

1+ y ago1:06:02

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Flor MacCarthy was born in West Cork and shares memories of one of Ireland's most idyllic regions. Her childhood was one rich in the indulgence of curiosity, filled with books, history, and fueled by a Russophile father. A Trinity College degree in French and Art History led unexpectedly to a career in journalism. Flor worked for 16 years at RTE, I…

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S4E5: Aedín Moloney – Saying “Yes!” to a Life on Stage 1:05:12

2y ago1:05:12

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Growing up in a Dublin home with no TV, Aedín turned to books, reading them aloud, drawing out the characters, and letting the words wash over her, which is how at age ten she managed to read James Joyce’s intimidating novel Ulysses. She was drawn to the rhythms and music in the words of the great writers, no surprise coming from a home with her av…

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S4E4: Elaine Ní Bhraonáin PhD - Irish Language, Irish In NYC & A Mother With A Story To Tell 1:03:49

2y ago1:03:49

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Our conversation with the warm and welcoming Elaine Ní Bhraonáin takes us from her childhood in South County, Dublin, to New York’s lively Irish scene, to bucolic Ballymoney on the north Wexford coast where she and her husband raise their three healthy children after three difficult pregnancies. She talks about being raised in a home where the pate…

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S4E3: Larry Kirwan – Rocking Renaissance Man from Black 47 to Broadway 1:14:20

2y ago1:14:20

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We’re not sure what’s more impressive—that Larry Kirwan originated and co-wrote the Broadway hit Paradise Square, or that his early band with Pierce Turner was banned from the notorious New York punk rock club CBGB for being “too demonic.” Larry talks of how his unusual childhood in Wexford and his need to maneuver through different points of view-…

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S4E2: John McCourt - Tracking James Joyce in Trieste 1:16:57

2y ago1:16:57

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Our Bloomsday episode with the engaging James Joyce scholar John McCourt takes us to Italy for the first time, specifically its outpost across the Adriatic Sea, Trieste. “There, I can safely say I discovered James Joyce,” McCourt says of Trieste. “Having encountered him occasionally in Ireland, I found myself in the city that had been his home for …

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S4E1: Mark Little - from RTÉ to journalism’s digital frontier 1:07:55

2y ago1:07:55

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Our new season of Irish Stew opens with trailblazing journalist Mark Little, a former RTÉ newscaster working to make sense of social media. Coming from a family where there was a daily scrum over who got the newspaper first, armed with “premature cynicism” and blessed with an insatiable curiosity for what made the world work, journalism beckoned an…

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S3E17: Check In: Liza Donnelly - Bonus Episode 24:45

2y ago24:45

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Liza Donnelly: New Yorker Cartoonist & “Very Funny Ladies” Irish Stew’s favorite cartoonist is back to tell you about her just-published book, Very Funny Ladies: an in-depth celebration of women cartoonists who have graced the pages of the famous magazine from the Roaring Twenties to the present day. And you learn that somewhere between way back th…

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