Revolution: Stories from Ireland Podcast

This story returns to a time when the Revolution was just around the corner. It’s from The West and was recorded in San Francisco. Music is by Martin Hayes + Dennis Cahill and the tune is MacAllistrom’s March.
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A friend who had a radio show on ClareFm discovered that Revolution [...]

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Mr. Jones: part 1

(This is fiction + I’ve split it into 2 parts for ease of reading online. I’ll post the 2nd. part later)
He’ll never stop drinking now. Do you think he will? I don’t, he’s too old to stop, he’s 72. I’m 69. I probably should have left him years ago, when I was younger. But women [...]

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Finito

Note: This is fiction, inspired by a lot of talk I’ve heard about therapy and therapists over the last few days…

Dr. Horace Steiner’s therapy room was warm and smelled musty, with a faint whiff of heating oil. His patient, Larry Ryan, lay on the couch sobbing and Dr. Horace let him be, inhaled deeply and [...]

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The Kilfenora Ceili Band — a century of great Irish music

Some of my earliest musical memories are of Kilfenora musicians playing in my father’s pub in Ennistymon in the 1950’s. Kilfenora was the home of my paternal grandmothers people, the Murphys, and so our ‘house’ was a natural ’stand’ or calling house for people from that parish when they came to town. The first time [...]

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Soft day, hard landing…

Just got back from San Francisco a few days ago. It always takes a while to settle into the flow of Ireland after the 18 hour journey, like dipping my toes in the water again…
 
First impression on driving from Shannon Airport was how quiet the road was…much fewer trucks than a couple of months ago, [...]

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