Irish Stew Podcast
Irish Stew the podcast for the Global Irish Nation featuring interviews with fascinating influencers proud of their Irish Edge. If you're Irish born or hyphenated Irish, this is the podcast that brings all the Irish together
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Nov. 1, 2026
Making Empire and the Irish with Historian Jane Ohlmeyer
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 paused and added, significantly, “and the other provinces as well.” It wasn’t quite “God save Ireland,” but to Jane and everyone in that room, it was a step in the right direction. T
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Oct. 25, 2026
Back on the Aran Islands with MacDara Ó Conaola
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
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Oct. 18, 2026
Sampling the “Secret Sauce” of CIE Tours Success with Managing Director Stephen Cotter
The Today Show spotlighted Irish tourism last week in the U.S., but now it’s Irish Stew’s turn to 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 beyond. With cohost John Lee flying solo this time, the episode explores CIE Tours’ unlikely origins in the International Eucharistic Congress of 1932, the dynamics of its Irish Government ownership
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Oct. 11, 2026
Malahide to Montparnasse to Manhattan with Irish Jazz Singer Austin O’Brien
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 playing at a New York outpost of the Malahide bar Gibney’s. he contacted Austin who invited him out to New Jersey for his recording session at the legendary Van Gelder Studio, where some of the greatest ...
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Oct. 4, 2026
Honoring Project Children with Catherine Flood & Linda Croston
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 Legacy by Derry author Jane Buckley. Launching Tuesday, October 13 at the Monaghan Peace Campus, the book is the centerpiece conversation Irish Stew co-hosts John and Martin had with Catherine Flood and Linda C
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Sept. 27, 2026
You Are What Your Mother Is: Andre Archimbaud's Unlikely Irish Story
Andre Archimbaud spent his life carrying three passports worth of heritage: a French surname, an Italian-American and Irish-American upbringing. While André's Irish identity may be masked by his last name, there is little doubt about the depth of that legacy. This episode, recorded at Ryan's Daughter on the Upper East Side, traces how Archimbaud came to understand that inheritance at a deeper level. It started years earlier at a bar in Washington Heights, where a stranger, several drinks in,
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June 15, 2026
Transcript: Fresh Stew Live: Terry Golway in Conversation
IRISH STEW PODCAST Fresh Stew Live: Terry Golway in Conversation Ernie O’Malley’s, New York City • June 1, 2026 Featuring readings from Terror From America performed by Mick Mellamphy Editorial Note This transcript was generated with AI …
Dec. 29, 2025
OTD: Peggy Cummins - Actor (1925 - 2017)
Peggy Cummins was born Augusta Margaret Diane Fuller to Irish parents in Wales on December 18th, 1925. She was raised in Killiney on the south side of Dublin. Her mother, Margaret Cummins was an accomplished actor. Peggy got her start in Dublin's Ga…
Oct. 3, 2025
OTD: Frank Pantridge - Pioneering Cardiologist (1916 - 2004)
Frank Pantridge was born to a farming family near Hillsborough, County Down, on October 3rd, 1916. In 1934, he was accepted to the medicine program at Queens University Belfast (QUB). Graduating in 1939, he volunteered for WWII service the day after…
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