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We kicked off Season 2 on February 1 with award winning journalist Shaunagh Connaire. I'd crossed paths briefly with Shaunagh a few years before and decided to reach out with an interview request using the Irish / fellow podcaster pretext - sketchy …

I got to know Ruth Cannon, BL via Twitter. In addition to her wonderful Irish legal history blog, Stories of the Four Courts, Ruth has an interest in old prints and maps of Dublin. It is an interest I share and prompted an extended exchange on Twitt…

My cohost John Lee, got to know Alison McKenna some years back when she was living in NYC. Alison lives in London now where she continues to ply her trade in the performing arts, but back in April 2016 she stood at the center of  the Centenary …

For regular listeners to the podcast, you probably know I'm a history nerd. I make no apologies for that and I frequently remark that the past is much closer and has a deeper influence on us than is readily recognized. If we are to predict what is t…

Ciarán Cannon kindly agreed to come on the podcast during it's early days and was, and is, the first elected official to appear on Irish Stew. We particularly wanted to talk to the TD from Galway East as he had served as Minister of State for…

I first met Geoff Cobb at a Society of Old Brooklynites event. Geoff had invited me to a talk he was giving on Walt Whitman and his time spent as editor of the Brooklyn Daily Times from 1857 - 1859. Geoff described how one of America's great poets, …

South Dakotan Jeffrey Hayzlett is many things, a serial entrepreneur, an author, a keynote speaker and happens to have Donald Trump's personal number on speed dial. My cohost John Lee had gotten to know Jeffrey during a pre Irish Stew tilt at the po…

When visitors to Ireland declare they’ve come in search of their roots, many native born Irish are perplexed by the quest. Why would a person from another country care about such things?The past can’t be changed and don’t these fol…

I’ve had a number of young women reach out to me to say how much they learned from this episode. Some wistfully expressed that they wish they had Aisling MacRunnels as a boss. Give the episode a listen and let me know what you think? As…

A little over a year ago John Lee and I decided to make a new podcast called Irish Stew. Since we were both newbies to the form, we needed some willing victims.... err... guests who would come on the show and be accepting of our rank inexperience. …