Galway Episodes

Almost five years ago, sean-nós singer and native Irish speaker MacDara Ó Conaola gave Irish Stew a tour of Inis Oírr, the smallest of the Aran Islands. Since then he has moved to the mainland, worked two very different jobs, taken a slice of Irish culture to Italy, and come home again. For our 170th episode, Martin catches up with MacDara back on the island, still as passionate about the language as ever. “I keep telling younger people, and just anybody really, that Irish can open a lot of d...