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Recorded at the 2025 Capital Irish Film Festival in Washington DC, this episode features a conversation with two Irish women who have both made significant transitions into film from other careers. Kathleen Harris , a former Irish Times video journalist, discusses her environmental documentary Birdsong , which won the 2025 CIFF Audience Award for Favorite Irish Feature. Denise Deegan , a novelist, talks about her award-winning short, The Innkeeper . Birdsong follows ornithologist Seán Ronayne as...

The Smuggler is back and rhyming its way through Ireland, so we updated our earlier episode with actor Mick Mellamphy with news of his Irish tour of Ronán Noone’s award-winning one-man tour de force this July. Set on a wealthy American island enclave and performed in rhymed verse, The Smuggler follows Irish immigrant Tim Finnegan as he’s pulled into the local criminal underworld after a fatal crash stirs tensions between locals and migrants. It's a raucous, interactive experience, with the edge ...