Irish Stew Podcast
Irish Stew the podcast for the Global Irish Nation featuring interviews with fascinating influencers proud of their Irish Edge. If you're Irish born or hyphenated Irish, this is the podcast that brings all the Irish together
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June 14, 2026
Sherlock Holmes & Terry Golway Join Irish Stew LIVE at New York's Most Fenian Pub
What's Sherlock Holmes doing in New York's most Fenian pub? That's the intrigue at the heart of Terror From America: A Sherlock Holmes Adventure, the debut novel from journalist and historian Terry Golway, and the question Irish Stew podcast cohosts Martin Nutty and John Lee set out to answer before a packed, raucous house at Ernie O'Malley's on the first of June. A Staten Island native with a Ph.D. in U.S. history from Rutgers and two decades of political reporting at the New York Observer, ...
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May 31, 2026
Kwame Daniels brings exuberant, immersive Frederick Douglass-inspired North Star from Belfast to New York
When Frederick Douglass left Belfast in 1845, only seven years after escaping slavery, he declared: "Wherever else I feel myself to be a stranger, I will remember I have a home in Belfast." That remarkable statement from a Black abolitionist finding radical welcome in a 19th-century Irish city is the beating heart of North Star, the immersive musical and theatrical experience that Northern Ireland-based DJ, broadcaster, and creative producer Kwame Daniels brings to New York's Irish Arts Cente...
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May 24, 2026
Encore for The Floating Hospital, Celebrating 160 Years of Service on June 2, 2026
While Team Irish Stew preps for its Fresh Stew LIVE before a paying (!) audience on June 1, past guest Sean Granahan and The Floating Hospital he leads are gearing up for June 2, the evening of their 160th anniversary Summer Gala. Given the charity's deep roots serving Irish and other impoverished newcomers to New York, John and Martin are revisiting their conversation with Sean to shine a fresh light on the Floating Hospital and its mission-critical fundraising effort. Sean is a Pennsylvania-bo
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May 10, 2026
Fresh Stew Preview: Irish Stew Going LIVE with Terry Golway
Balmy spring weather lured Irish Stew cohosts John Lee and Martin Nutty to Central Park to record this episode in an urban pine forest, steps from the site of Seneca Village where so many Irish immigrants once lived. Backed by a chorus of birdsong, the podcasters preview their most ambitious show yet: Fresh Stew LIVE, a podcast recording before a live audience with historian and now novelist Terry Golway on Monday, June 1st, at Ernie O'Malley's,140 E 27th Street, New York City. Tickets are on sa
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April 26, 2026
Three Films, Five Voices: Irish Stew Wraps the Capital Irish Film Festival
It’s a wrap for Irish Stew as the podcast-in-residence at the 2026 Solas Nua Capital Irish Film Festival in Metro DC with this episode of five conversations spanning three films: Saipan, Báite, and Conveyance. The Festival’s Opening Night feature Saipan unspools the drama that played out on that distant island between the manager of the 2002 World Cup-bound Irish football team Mick McCarthy, played by Steve Coogan and its star player Roy Keane acted by Éanna Hardwicke. Co-dir...
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April 12, 2026
Echoes Across the Atlantic: EPIC Museum’s Aileesh Carew in Philadelphia
Though the latest Irish Stew guest is Aileesh Carew, CEO and Museum Director of Dublin’s EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum, this interview takes place in Philadelphia, upstairs again at Fergie’s Pub. Both Aileesh and cohost John Lee came to the “City of Brotherly Love” for the Irish American Business Chamber and Network’s Ambassador’s Awards where Aileesh would accept the Uachtarán Award for EPIC as an organization that has shown exemplary leadership in philanthropic contribut...
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June 15, 2026
Transcript: Fresh Stew Live: Terry Golway in Conversation
IRISH STEW PODCASTFresh Stew Live: Terry Golway in ConversationErnie O’Malley’s, New York City • June 1, 2026Featuring readings from Terror From America performed by Mick Mellamphy Editorial NoteThis transcript …
Dec. 29, 2025
OTD: Peggy Cummins - Actor (1925 - 2017)
Peggy Cummins was born Augusta Margaret Diane Fuller to Irish parents in Wales on December 18th, 1925. She was raised in Killiney on the south side of Dublin. Her mother, Margaret Cummins was an accomplished actor. Peggy got her start in Dublin's Ga…
Oct. 3, 2025
OTD: Frank Pantridge - Pioneering Cardiologist (1916 - 2024)
Frank Pantridge was born to a farming family near Hillsborough, County Down, on October 3rd, 1916. In 1934, he was accepted to the medicine program at Queens University Belfast (QUB). Graduating in 1939, he volunteered for WWII service the day after…
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