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Dec. 16, 2024

Barretstown’s Dee Ahearn Brings Serious Fun to Kids with Serious Illn…

Founded by actor/philanthropist Paul Newman in 1994 to “press play” for children affected by serious illness, Barretstown serves thousands of young people and families at its magical County Kildare castle and beyond with impa...

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Nov. 18, 2024

Cady Coleman – An Astronaut's Guide to Mission, Wonder & Making Chan…

Cady Coleman splashes down on Irish Stew to help us explore“The Final Frontier” through the pages of her new book, Sharing Space: An Astronaut's Guide to Mission, Wonder, and Making Change. Part memoir, part chronicle of the ...

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Nov. 11, 2024

S6E18: Cauvery Madhavan - The Inheritance

In this special check-in episode of the Irish Stew Podcast, host Martin Nutty welcomes back author Cauvery Madhavan to discuss her new novel, 'The Inheritance.' Cauvery shares the inspiration behind the novel, which weaves to...

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Aug. 19, 2024

S6E13: Julie Breathnach-Banwait - Irish Poetry From Tasmania

In this episode of Irish Stew, hosts John Lee and Martin Nutty welcome Julie Breathnach-Banwait, a poet and child psychologist. Julie shares her unique journey from her Connemara home ( Ceantar an nOlieán ) off the west coast...

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July 29, 2024

S6E12: Elizabeth Stack - Revitalizing the AIHS

This episode of Irish Stew features an in-depth discussion with Dr. Elizabeth Stack, the Executive Director of the American Irish Historical Society (AIHS). Dr. Stack discusses her journey from Listowel, County Kerry, to her ...

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July 1, 2024

S6E10: Vivienne Sayers O'Callaghan – Irish Instagram Influencer Conqu…

Vibrant Vivienne Sayers O'Callaghan is an Irish Gen Z entrepreneur, Irish language and culture advocate, and NYC social media influencer rapidly rising to the “top of the heap” as Frank Sinatra croons in “New York, New York.”...

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June 3, 2024

S6E8: Kate Kerrigan asks, Am I Irish Yet?

Writer, performer, and force of nature, born Morag Prunty, but best known by her pen name Kate Kerrigan whisks us from London where she grew up with an Irish identity to Ireland’s Wild Atlantic Way where she’s living with an …

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May 6, 2024

S6E6: Jackie Gilna – We Are Global Irish, from Canada to the World

Irish Stew goes to Canada for a most “Global Irish Nation Conversation” with Jackie Gilna, who’s been Irish in Dublin, Spain, the Netherlands, and now she's Irish in Canada's capital, Ottawa. And through a new venture, she's ...

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April 22, 2024

Maura Clare & Alice Carroll – Spirited Women of Irish Spirits

Settle in for a spirited episode of Irish Stew with two pioneering women in the Irish spirits industry, Alice Carroll--the proud Limerick distiller and co-founder of Foxes Bow Whiskey, and Maura Clare--the Queen of Poitín and...

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Feb. 26, 2024

S6E1: Discovering the Truth in Lies We Tell

Launching Season Six, we go behind the scenes of the woman-strong Irish film Lies We Tell, a brooding tale of angels and demons, light and shadow, manners and mores, family secrets and family crimes, which The Guardian called...

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Dec. 11, 2023

S5E18: Marybeth Shea - Montana Irish Translator of the Technical

Join us in a westward journey to the Irish enclaves of Butte, Montana and on to a chicken coop on Maryland’s Eastern Shore as Marybeth Shea guides us along little-known paths of Irish migration and through little understood p...

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Nov. 27, 2023

S5E17: Mollie Guidera – Teaching Irish to Global Ireland

So why learn Irish? "Studies have shown that learning your native language, learning any language, but especially your ancestral tongue, brings feelings of comfort and freedom. And especially when considering our past and our...

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Oct. 2, 2023

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, …

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Sept. 18, 2023

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, ...

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Sept. 4, 2023

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 hi...

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