Videos

Nov. 13, 2023

Preview: Brian O'Sullivan - Imagining Iron Age Ireland…from New Zealand

Preview: Brian O'Sullivan - Imagining Iron Age Ireland…from New Zealand

On all major #podcast platforms or at https://www.irishstewpodcast.com/BrianOSullivan Join us as we travel from Ireland all the way to New Zealand to explore a vision of Ireland from centuries ago in our conversation with Brian O’Sullivan. He’s an author, cultural researcher, strategic analyst, and founder of Irish Imbas, the only…

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Nov. 12, 2023

S5E16: Brian O'Sullivan - Imagining Iron Age Ireland…from New Zealand

S5E16: Brian O'Sullivan - Imagining Iron Age Ireland…from New Zealand

Join us as we travel from Ireland all the way to New Zealand to explore a vision of Ireland from centuries ago in our conversation with Brian O’Sullivan. He’s an author, cultural researcher, strategic analyst, and founder of Irish Imbas, the only Irish publisher specializing in fiction and non-fiction based…

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Nov. 1, 2023

Preview Kingsley Aikins - Exemplar of Global Ireland

Preview Kingsley Aikins - Exemplar of Global Ireland

A Trinity College graduate in economics and politics, he represented Irish business abroad, led The Ireland Funds for almost two decades, and now Kingsley Aikins combines his fervor for networking and diaspora engagement in the mission of The Networking Institute. “Kinger,” as he’s known to his friends, talks of how…

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Oct. 29, 2023

S5E15: Kingsley Aikins - Exemplar of Global Ireland

S5E15: Kingsley Aikins - Exemplar of Global Ireland

A Trinity College graduate in economics and politics, he represented Irish business abroad, led The Ireland Funds for almost two decades, and now Kingsley Aikins combines his fervor for networking and diaspora engagement in the mission of The Networking Institute. “Kinger,” as he’s known to his friends, talks of how…

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Oct. 16, 2023

Preview: Roger Clark – A Man for All Mediums

Preview: Roger Clark – A Man for All Mediums

From New Jersey to Sligo, Wales, London, Germany, to touring the globe and then to New York, Roger Clark stamps his passport as a leading citizen of the Global Irish Nation. And to millions around the world, he is an icon. An actor, filmmaker, voiceover artist of over 150 audiobooks,…

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Oct. 15, 2023

S5E14: Roger Clark – A Man for All Mediums

S5E14: Roger Clark – A Man for All Mediums

From New Jersey to Sligo, Wales, London, Germany, to touring the globe and then to New York, Roger Clark stamps his passport as a leading citizen of the Global Irish Nation. And to millions around the world, he is an icon. An actor, filmmaker, voiceover artist of over 150 audiobooks,…

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Oct. 2, 2023

Preview: Naoíse Mac Sweeney: Demythologizing The West

Preview: Naoíse Mac Sweeney: Demythologizing The West

In this Global Irish conversation, we search for the true origins of Western Civilization with a most global of guests, Naoíse Mac Sweeney, author of The West: A New History in Fourteen Lives. Her father is from Cork City, her mother is Malaysian Chinese, she grew up in London, studied…

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Oct. 1, 2023

S5E13: Naoíse Mac Sweeney: Demythologizing The West

S5E13: Naoíse Mac Sweeney: Demythologizing The West

In this Global Irish conversation, we search for the true origins of Western Civilization with a most global of guests, Naoíse Mac Sweeney, author of The West: A New History in Fourteen Lives. Her father is from Cork City, her mother is Malaysian Chinese, she grew up in London, studied…

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Sept. 20, 2023

Preview: Jane Ferguson - No Ordinary Correspondent

Preview: Jane Ferguson - No Ordinary Correspondent

Growing up in The Troubles in Northern Ireland, Jane Ferguson spent most of her life reporting on the global troubles in Yemen, Somalia, Sudan, Iraq, Gaza, Syria, and Afghanistan, reporting for CNN International, Al Jazeera, PBS Newshour, The New Yorker and other outlets, always finding the human stories in inhuman…

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Sept. 17, 2023

S5E12: Jane Ferguson - No Ordinary Correspondent

S5E12: Jane Ferguson - No Ordinary Correspondent

Growing up in The Troubles in Northern Ireland, Jane Ferguson spent most of her life reporting on the global troubles in Yemen, Somalia, Sudan, Iraq, Gaza, Syria, and Afghanistan, reporting for CNN International, Al Jazeera, PBS Newshour, The New Yorker and other outlets, always finding the human stories in inhuman…

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Sept. 4, 2023

Preview: Jane Delury – Hedge Author Draws on Irish Roots

Preview: Jane Delury – Hedge Author Draws on Irish Roots

Our Global Irish conversation with award-winning author Jane Delury centers on her second novel Hedge, a bildungsroman of an Irish American woman in her forties named Maude pursuing a career in the esoteric field of garden history, looking for clues in the past under the mounting challenges of the present.…

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Sept. 3, 2023

S5E11: Jane Delury – Hedge Author Draws on Irish Roots

S5E11: Jane Delury – Hedge Author Draws on Irish Roots

Our Global Irish conversation with award-winning author Jane Delury centers on her second novel Hedge, a bildungsroman of an Irish American woman in her forties named Maude pursuing a career in the esoteric field of garden history, looking for clues in the past under the mounting challenges of the present.…

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Aug. 7, 2023

Preview: Ruth Carden - The Bone Lady

Preview:  Ruth Carden - The Bone Lady

What you'll find in the full episode - which is available on all major podcast platforms: How can a kneecap bone change the history of Ireland? We answer that question during our conversation with Dr. Ruth Carden, a paleo zoologist with a particular interest in the animals that roamed Ireland…

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July 25, 2023

S5E10: Luke McManus – Filming the Song of a Dublin Road

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. Rendered in graphic black & white over a soundtrack of local North…

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July 16, 2023

S5E9: Ruth Carden - The Bone Lady

S5E9: Ruth Carden - The Bone Lady

How can a kneecap bone change the history of Ireland? We answer that question during our conversation with Dr. Ruth Carden, a paleo zoologist with a particular interest in the animals that roamed Ireland over the last 50,000 years. Ruth's research focuses particularly on the skeletal remains of those animals,…

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June 28, 2023

Preview: Ambassador Fergal Mythen – Ireland’s Voice in the UN

Preview: Ambassador Fergal Mythen – Ireland’s Voice in the UN

Our latest global Irish conversation goes behind the scenes of the globe’s most significant international organization, the United Nations, courtesy of Ireland’s Ambassador to the UN, Fergal Mythen. He didn’t rise to one of Ireland’s most significant diplomatic postings without an impressive diplomatic career behind him. Fergal has worked on…

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June 25, 2023

S5E8: Ambassador Fergal Mythen – Ireland’s Voice in the UN

S5E8: Ambassador Fergal Mythen – Ireland’s Voice in the UN

Our latest global Irish conversation goes behind the scenes of the globe’s most significant international organization, the United Nations, courtesy of Ireland’s Ambassador to the UN, Fergal Mythen. He didn’t rise to one of Ireland’s most significant diplomatic postings without an impressive diplomatic career behind him. Fergal has worked on…

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June 13, 2023

Preview: Pauline Turley - The Muse of Irish Arts in NYC

Preview: Pauline Turley - The Muse of Irish Arts in NYC

When Seamus Heaney wrote, “Walk on air, against your better judgement,” he could have been writing about Pauline Turley. From Newry to New York, Pauline has paired hard work with serendipity to arrive at her pivotal role charting the impressive trajectory on New York’s Irish Arts Center from a cramped…

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June 11, 2023

S5E7: Pauline Turley - The Muse of Irish Arts in NYC

S5E7: Pauline Turley - The Muse of Irish Arts in NYC

When Seamus Heaney wrote, “Walk on air, against your better judgement,” he could have been writing about Pauline Turley. From Newry to New York, Pauline has paired hard work with serendipity to arrive at her pivotal role charting the impressive trajectory on New York’s Irish Arts Center from a cramped…

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May 28, 2023

S5E6: Doug Devaney - Plastic Podcaster

S5E6: Doug Devaney - Plastic Podcaster

Join us as we pick up the conversation with Doug Devaney who interviewed us last fall on The Plastic Podcasts. A talented podcaster, Doug’s also an actor, writer, journalist, and self-proclaimed "songster, funster, punster, hamster." In this episode we delve into the core concept of The Plastic Podcasts, which centers…

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May 17, 2023

S5E5: David Clinch – Making Media Matter

S5E5: David Clinch – Making Media Matter

For Dublin’s own David Clinch, media is serious business. He’s been working on the front lines of innovative journalism and the complete overhaul of the news business for the past 30 years. He jokes that he’s been called “the Zelig of the media,” an “accidental journalist” popping up in key…

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May 16, 2023

Preview: David Clinch – Making Media Matter

Preview: David Clinch – Making Media Matter

Full episode on all major podcast platforms or at IrishStewPodcast.com For Dublin’s own David Clinch, media is serious business. He’s been working on the front lines of innovative journalism and the complete overhaul of the news business for the past 30 years. He jokes that he’s been called “the Zelig…

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May 14, 2023

S5E5: David Clinch – Making Media Matter

S5E5: David Clinch – Making Media Matter

For Dublin’s own David Clinch, media is serious business. He’s been working on the front lines of innovative journalism and the complete overhaul of the news business for the past 30 years. He jokes that he’s been called “the Zelig of the media,” an “accidental journalist” popping up in key…

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May 2, 2023

Preview: Richard Donovan – Extreme Athlete Looking to the Stars

Preview: Richard Donovan – Extreme Athlete Looking to the Stars

For Richard Donavan running the grueling 26.2 miles of the Boston Marathon was only a way to stretch his legs before getting up the next morning to run across America…for the second time. Running seven marathons on seven continents in seven days sounds impossible, so he did it in under…

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