Historian Jane Ohlmeyer (Trinity College Dublin, author of Making Empire) maps her own life, from Zambia to Belfast, Trinity, Oxford and the great libraries of America. Then she maps the Irish across the empires: Spain, France, Denmark and Russia, Barbados and Cuba, Irish soldiers in Tangier, Irish speakers in Maryland,…
Historian Jane Ohlmeyer (Trinity College Dublin, author of Making Empire) on the Irish at their worst and their best in Iquitos, Peru: the rubber baron Fitzcarraldo, his O'Donnell right-hand man, and the town's mural of Roger Casement. Full episode: https://www.irishstewpodcast.com/jane-ohlmeyer?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=jane-ohlmeyer&utm_content=audiogram Rubber baron illustration: Benjamín Saldaña Rocca, La Felpa, 1908, via…
When Unionist leader Ian Paisley traveled from Belfast to Dublin and addressed the packed Long Room of the Trinity College Library, historian Jane Ohlmeyer was on edge. Paisley had telegraphed that he would close his remarks with Sir Edward Carson’s rallying cry “God save Ulster.” But then the former firebrand…
MacDara Ó Conaola, sean-nós singer from Inis Oírr, on the cold email that made Ireland the guest country at the Tocatì festival in Verona. Full episode: https://www.irishstewpodcast.com/macdara-o-conaola-returns/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=macdara-o-conaola&utm_content=audiogram #GlobalIrishNation #IrishPodcast #short
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…
Stephen Cotter, Managing Director of CIE Tours, on the framed photograph of Paddy Martin that turned Micheál Martin's three-minute visit to Ireland House into ten. Photo: CIE Tours Full episode: https://www.irishstewpodcast.com/stephen-cotter?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=stephen-cotter&utm_content=audiogram #GlobalIrishNation #IrishPodcast #short
The Today Show spotlighted Irish tourism last week in the U.S., but now it’s Irish Stew’s turnto tell the tale to its global audience through the eyes of Stephen Cotter, managing director of CIE Tours International, a company with over 90 years of history bringing people to experience Ireland and…
His first night in Paris, Irish jazz singer Austin O'Brien sang in six or seven jazz clubs. By morning, everyone knew there was a new singer in town. Full episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/2UT1LfbNo5Q Or listen at https://www.irishstewpodcast.com/austin-o-brien Photo: Charlotte Assad-Graziani IG @chaperchee_ #GlobalIrishNation #IrishPodcast #Shorts #short
It don't mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing. Fortunately, the latest Irish Stew guest has that swing. He’s transatlantic Irish jazz singer Austin O’Brien, out of Malahide, County Dublin, where Irish Stew cohost Martin Nutty calls home, Co-host John Lee saw that this Irish jazz artist was…
Catherine Flood explains why the Project Children archive found a permanent home at the Monaghan Peace Campus. From the Irish Stew episode with Catherine Flood and Linda Croston. Hear the full conversation: search "Irish Stew Podcast" wherever you listen, or visit irishstewpodcast.com #GlobalIrishNation #IrishPodcast #ProjectChildren
In 1975, three Catholic and three Protestant children from Northern Ireland stepped off a plane at JFK for a summer away from The Troubles. Fifty years later, their stories and the stories of the some thousands of children who followed are the focus of a new book: Project Children: The…
Andre Archimbaud on Inchydoney Beach: "The closest thing to seeing the face of God" New episode of Irish Stew is live now. Andre Archimbaud, a New York digital media veteran who found his Irish identity by choice rather than inheritance, joins Martin and John to talk networking, career reinvention, and…
Andre Archimbaud spent his life carrying three passports worth of heritage: a French surname, an Italian-American upbringing, and, buried a generation or two back, an Irish line he didn't know existed until a chance conversation set him straight. This episode, recorded at Ryan's Daughter on the Upper East Side, traces…
"I'm always scared on those kind of big days... but it's just trying to push through it and enjoy it." Gearóid Mcdaid, 2025 European Shortboard Surfing Champion, on the fear that never goes away when you're charging Mullaghmore and the safety crew that makes it possible. Full episode - European…
Gearóid Mcdaid, known across the surfing world as G-Man, grew up twenty minutes from Mullaghmore, County Sligo's fearsome slab wave, and now holds the 2025 European shortboard title with an eye on the 2028 LA Olympics. John and Martin caught him mid-vacation in New York, tucked into Georgie's Chelsea, right…
One year and a week since taking his new post, the Consul General of Ireland in New York Gerald Angley hosted the Irish Stew podcasters in his office high above Park Avenue for a behind-the-scenes look at Irish diplomacy in action while sharing his reflections on the first year on…
What does Alan Merriman actually look for in a founder? Not just intelligence. He wants storytellers, visionaries, people who can attract talent and, harder still, retain it. And he wants contradictions: confident but humble, a little cocky but coachable. A sharp 20 seconds on what venture capital is actually screening…
Why doesn’t a country good enough to produce Ryanair and Stripe have a normal venture fund industry? Alan Merriman spent three years lobbying the Irish government just to be allowed to launch one, and what he ran into along the way says more about Ireland’s capital gap than most economic…
Through its ongoing “Global Irish Nation Conversation” Irish Stew is all about connecting the worldwide Irish family, so sitting down with Dr. Martin Russell, one of the world's foremost diaspora engagement strategists, felt like a meeting of kindred missions. The proud Corkonian has spent nearly two decades turning diaspora theory…
This video does a great job in capturing the vibrancy of the night at Ernie O'Malley's when we decided to record an episode in front of a live audience. A good night was had by many, not bad for a Monday evening With thanks to Jimmy Higgins for the video…
Dubliner Adele Farrell speaks about Ireland's tradition of giving to charitable causes. You can find our full converation with Adele on all major podcast platforms by searching for Irish Stew Podcast or watch it right here on YouTube
From Crumlin and Tallaght to the City of Brotherly Love, Irish Stew spins another Philadelphia story, appropriately timed to America's Fourth of July celebration timed to the Declaration of Independence forged in Philadelphia 250 years ago. Recorded in advance at the Irish American Business Chamber & Network's Ambassador Awards Luncheon,…
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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…