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Mar 16

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Yes, it is almost our national feast day, so have a great Saint Patrick’s Day one and all!  We are consistently making little tweaks to the site and you will notice a few slight graphic changes on the home page – Voices from Ireland – this week.  Also we have moved this News Page into the browser at the top of the screen for easy access to our updated posts.  News for this week: We welcome poet Mary Branley to podcasts.ie and you can hear an interview with Mary in our Featured Poets Section, also we have readings from poet Pádraig J Daly and Author Kate Kerrigan uploaded this week, we also have a newly added Mayo’s Heritage programme the theme this week is Island Life and you can check that out on Weekly Shows and whilst your there you will also notice a new edition of Artbeat Archive this week featuring an interview with visual artist Sean McSweeney first recorded in 2006.

We are heading to Cork on Thursday for some recordings to add to the website so watch this space for more updates later in the week.

Mayo’s Heritage Week 6

Mar 16

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Mayo’s Heritage Week 6: Island Life: This week we choose three very special Irish islands off the Mayo Coast as our Theme for Mayo’s Heritage – We Visit Clare Island with Poet Ger Reidy, Achill Island with John McHugh Director of the Customs House Studios and we return to Ger Reidy for our final excerpt from A Heritage Tour of Inishturk.

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Mayo’s Heritage Week 5

Mar 16

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Mayo’s Heritage Week 5: Irish Churches – This week we look at the theme of churches and we visited many Abbey’s, Cathedrals and Churches on the Heritage Tour, but this week we look at Belmullet’s Sacred Heart Church with Poet Edith Geraghty, Mullranney Church with Local Historian Jackie Rumley, Tourmakeady Church with Historian Micheal John Casey and finally St Mary’s Church in Cong with Professor Des McHale.

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Mayo’s Heritage Week 4

Mar 16

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Mayo’s Heritage Week 4: Saints: On this weeks show we look at the theme of Irish Saints, we start with Saint Movee and visit Kilmovee with the late Historian Seosamh McGowan, then we move to West Sligo to Saint Farnan’s Shrine with our tourguide Author Jack Harte and finally we look at Saint Patrick with a tour of Aughagower in County Mayo with Poet Ger Reidy.

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Mayo’s Heritage Week 3

Mar 16

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Mayo’s Heritage: Week 3: Irish Estate Houses – On this week’s tour we visit some estate houses in Mayo and County Roscommon – We visit Moore Hall with the Director of the Mayo education Centre Art O Suilleabhan, Drim Bawn Estate in Tourmakeady with Michael John Casey and Clonalis House in Castlerea with Author Jack Harte.

 
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Mayo’s Heritage Week 2

Mar 16

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Mayo’s Heritage: Week 2: Irish Rivers: This week we look at the linking theme of rivers through our series A Heritage Tour, we visit Foxford and the weir with our tourguide the late JJ O Hara, we visit Dromore West in County Sligo with Author Jack Harte and finally Broadhaven Bay in Belmullet with Poet Edith Geraghty.

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Mayo’s Heritage Week 1

Mar 16

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Mayo’s Heritage Week 1: Trains: In this week’s programme we link the theme of Trains on our tours of Mayo’s Heritage – We travel to Swinford with our Tourguide Brid O Connell Co-Ordinator of the Siamsa Sraide Festival, we stop at Manuella with Irish Historian Steve Dunford and finally we arrive at Claremorris Train Station with Poet John Corless.

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Performances added this week.

Mar 12

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Just a quick post to let you know we have added a few unique performances for you this week on Charlie McGettigan’s page you can hear Valentine and Feet of a Dancer and on Thom Moore’s page The Scholar and Cavan Girl. 

Enjoy these unplugged recordings by clicking on the play files available on each page.

The Salmon of Knowledge

Mar 10

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This new take on a well known favourite Irish Mythological story reminds us of the magic and mystery that is evoked from these handed down tales.  In this story we find out about Fintan the Salmon of kowledge and what happens to him when the Druid Finegas comes into his story and how the young scholar Demna becomes such an important figure in our mythology.

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The Salmon of Knowledge was re-adapted and read by Sinéad McClure.

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Art Ó Súilleabháin and Bladair

Mar 9

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Continuing our celebration of Seachtain Na Gaelige here at Podcasts.ie, we met with the Director of The Mayo Education Centre Art Ó Súilleabháin who told us about a brand new iniative for the Irish Language called Bladair – This revolutionary new web presence where you can Bladair and blog as Gaelige.  This is a fascinating place to practice your Irish or to learn some cupla focal and we have teamed up with Bladair so that over the coming weeks Podcasts.ie and Bladair will be recording some of the blogs so that you will not only able to hear them here but you may even be heard reading your own blog -, go on have a go, you only need to use a couple of Irish words !

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To find out more about Bladair, visit the website here to get all the details.

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