The Last Rose of Summer is one of Thomas Moore's (1779 - 1852) most famous songs performed here by Rosa Nutty For more on Rosa Nutty - visit RosaNutty.com
Our new season of Irish Stew opens with trailblazing journalist Mark Little, a former RTÉ newscaster working to make sense of social media. Coming from a family where there was a daily scrum over who got the newspaper first, armed with “premature cynicism” and blessed with an insatiable curiosity for…
Quick preview of Irish Stew's Season 4. The first three episodes will feature: 1) Mark Little of Kinzen , a news technology company 2) John McCourt - James Joyce expert and author of Consuming Joyce 3) Larry Kirwan - the creative force behind the Broadway hit, Paradise Square
Some thoughts on Fintan O'Toole's 2021 book: We Don't Know Ourselves
Preview of our episode with Ambassador Dan Mulhall where we discuss his career and his recently published book Ulysses: A Readers Odyssey
An Irish Stew Shoutout from Martin Nutty for Song of Granite, a brilliant Irish language film directed by Pat Collins and shot in haunting black and white by Richard Kendrick. The film was Ireland's nominee for the 2017 Oscars Best Foreign Film Category. In the USA, the film can be…
Liza Donnelly: New Yorker Cartoonist & “Very Funny Ladies” Irish Stew’s favorite cartoonist is back to tell you about her just-published book, Very Funny Ladies: an in-depth celebration of women cartoonists who have graced the pages of the famous magazine from the Roaring Twenties to the present day. And you…
We last spoke with Ted Smyth back at the start of 2021. A lot has happened in the world of politics in the intervening period. Ted’s experience on both sides of the Atlantic in the worlds of diplomacy and corporate life make him a thoughtful and well informed commentator on…
We first sat down with Liverpudlian, Jack Byrne back in Season 2 when we talked about his first novel: Under the Bridge. You can catch that episode here: Jack Byrne: Mystery Writer. Now Jack is back with the second installment of his Liverpool Mystery Series - Across the Water (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09V1BBK5K?&_encoding=UTF8&tag=irishstewpodc-20&linkCode=ur2&linkId=5a4e83d487df21c163be079540dda996&camp=1789&creative=9325)…
Season III of Irish Stew concludes with our conversation with a very Global Irish citizen, Dan Mulhall, Ireland’s Ambassador to the United States and your guide to one of the classics of Irish literature through his recently published Ulysses: A Reader’s Odyssey. Join us as we tour the world with…
Preview of episode featuring astronaut Cady Coleman. You can get the full episode on all major podcast platforms or on our website: https://www.irishstewpodcast.com/CadyColeman/
In this episode, we reach for the stars with Irish American astronaut Dr. Cady Coleman, a veteran of two Space Shuttle missions and 159 days in orbit on the International Space Station (ISS). Cady says she’s one-quarter Irish on both sides, but that it adds up to much more than…
Full episode can be found at: https://www.irishstewpodcast.com/s3e12
From Carnegie Hall to Lambeau Field, Gregory Harrington elevates the Global Irish Nation Conversation through his music. Born in Dublin, based in New York City, he is redefining the classical violin virtuoso for the 21st century, pairing his expressive lyricism, tonal beauty, and impeccable musicianship with his uncanny ability to…
You can find the full episode at: https://www.irishstewpodcast.com/s3e11
In this episode we explore the “roots” and “routes” of the Irish diaspora for a very “Global Irish Nation Conversation” with CEO Patrick Greene and Historian-in-Residence Maurice J. Casey Ph.D. of Dublin’s EPIC: The Irish Emigration Museum, voted Europe’s leading tourist attraction the last three years running. Patrick shares how…
You can listen to the full episode at: https://www.irishstewpodcast.com/KristenShaughnessy
Video of the Irish Stew Anniversary Party from Jan 18, 2022 *Note: Unfortunately we had trouble with Turlough McConnell's Zoom stream which broke up. Apologies for being unable to capture his remarks in full Featuring: Kristen Shaughnessy, André Archimbaud, Rosa Nutty, Turlough McConnell, Brian McCabe, Bill Schultz, John Lee, and…
Despite growing up with no TV in a rural upstate hamlet, Kristen Shaughnessy would go on to become a fixture in New York TV news as reporter and anchor with the 24-hour news station New York 1. Kristen was on the frontlines of the non-stop news coverage of the 9/11…
You can get the full podcast episode at: https://www.irishstewpodcast.com/JenniferPetoff
Born in the Irish America hotbed of Buffalo, New York, Jennifer Petoff lives in Dublin now. Following a career that has taken unexpected twists. A holder of a Ph.D. in Chemistry from Stanford University, we talk about women in STEM and how Jennifer made her way to Dublin, where she…
Francis Edward Ledwidge (19 August 1887 – 31 July 1917) was an Irish poet from Slane, County Meath, sometimes known as the "poet of the blackbirds". He was later also known as a First World War war poet. He was killed in action in 1917 BEHIND THE CLOSED EYE I…
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On this serving of Irish Stew, we travel from Manhattan (pop. 1.6 M) to Inisheer (pop. 250) to explore the sights, sounds, haunting landscape, natural history, and vibrant culture of the Aran Islands with our affable tour guide—Irish language advocate and sean-nós singer, MacDara Ó Conaola. MacDara guides us over…