Film Episodes
Filmmaker Ruán Magan – making the invisible visible
Award-winning director, producer, and writer Ruán Magan joins Irish Stew for a timely conversation ahead of his double appearance at this weekend’s Solas Nua Capital Irish Film Festival, where he’ll present two very different...
In Time: Dónal Lunny, Nuala O’Connor’s Film Chronicle of the Enigmati…
Filmmaker Nuala O’Connor joins Irish Stew cohosts Martin Nutty and John Lee for a “Global Irish Nation Conversation” on her documentary In Time: Dónal Lunny , her filmic tone poem in black and white on the enigmatic innovator...
Irish Women in Film II
In this conversation recorded at the 2025 Capital Irish Film Festival, host Martin Nutty sits down with two trailblazing Irish filmmakers who are pushing boundaries in their respective genres. Aislinn Clarke discusses her gro...
Irish Women in Film I
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 ...
Declan Curran - From YouTube to Film Festivals
In this episode, host Martin Nutty chats with Declan Curran, actor, writer, and producer of the acclaimed short film Dear Imelda . Declan traces his creative path from creating teenage comedy sketches on YouTube to crafting a...
The Irish Question: A Film on Brexit, History, and Unity
This episode of the Irish Stew Podcast features a discussion with documentary filmmaker Alan Gilsenan and journalist John Walsh about their film 'The Irish Question.' The film delves into the recent history of Ireland, the ...
LIVE at 1st Irish Festival, Act II: John Duddy & Ciaran Byrne, Northe…
Former champion boxer John Duddy from Derry and one-time construction worker Newry’s own Ciaran Byrne share their unlikely paths to acting on stage and in film in part two of our first live podcast recording for Origin Theatr...
Celebrating Irish Cinema: Conversations with Mary Robinson & Eva Birt…
For the 2nd year in a row, Irish Stew hosts Maedhbh Mc Cullagh, the director of the Capital Irish Film Festival, who discusses the festival's offerings, the audience's response, and the challenges and rewards of organizing su...
S6E1: Discovering the Truth in Lies We Tell
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...
S5E21: Malachy Browne - Data-driven Journalist for the Digital Age
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...
S5E10: Luke McManus – Filming the Song of a Dublin Road
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. Ren...
Colm Bairéad and Cleona Ní Chrualaoi: Making Noise With "The Quiet Gi…
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 t...
S3E6: Colin Broderick - Searing Storyteller of the Irish
Colin Broderick likes to tell stories, needs to tell them, be they dark, dank, and dangerous, be they bright, affirming, and knowing. It’s all there in his new film A Bend in the River , his highly personal tale of a writer r...
Episode S2E7: Sorcha Glackin: Storyteller of Sight and Sound
Sorcha’s story takes us back and forth across the Irish Sea and Atlantic Ocean as she sets her course towards storytelling and journalism on radio and TV for RTE, Newstalk, BBC and CBS. With a step into the unknown she landed...