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Step into the sound of Ireland with My Irish Radio Music and Culture News — the official podcast of My Irish Radio, your 24/7 home for the best in Irish and Celtic music. Each episode brings you the latest news from Ireland’s vibrant music scene and cultural community — from new artist releases and upcoming festivals to stories celebrating Irish heritage across the globe. Whether you love traditional reels and jigs, rebel ballads, pub favorites, or Irish rock and pop, you’ll find it all here — along with updates on what’s happening in Irish culture today. 🎧 Listen 24/7 at MyIrishRadio.com for nonstop Irish and Celtic music — new and old, from Ireland and beyond. And here’s your chance to take part: 💚 Host your own show! Choose your playlist, share your passion, and make My Irish Radio — Your Irish Radio. Email myirishradio@gmail.com to get started. Keep the spirit of Ireland alive — in every song, every story, every show.

  1. 3D AGO

    What Makes Irishness Endure When The World Rushes In

    Pancakes, packed stadiums, and a Roman pot that won’t sit quietly in the sand—this week’s journey through Irish music and culture starts loud and ends profound. We pull on a thread that ties festival lineups with zero guitar heroes to a discovery that complicates centuries of schoolbook certainty, and along the way we ask what truly powers a confident culture. We dig into the split-screen music economy: Forbidden Fruit’s future-facing, high-tempo energy versus All Together Now’s nostalgia comfort, and why both thrive when money is tight. The Weekend’s second Croke Park date becomes a case study in the experience economy, where memories outcompete mortgages. On the ground, new singles from David Geraghty and Someone’s Sons show folk DNA evolving inside modern indie production, while touring announcements and scene updates reveal a living ecosystem from 200-cap clubs to stadium cathedrals. Policy sits at the heart of the story. The Basic Income for the Arts reopens, flipping project grants into people support—time, rent, and the right to fail. Fresh Culture Ireland funding and export backing for Irish acts at SXSW make the pipeline visible: soft power on stage turning into hard outcomes with agents, syncs, and global reach. We frame awards like Grammys as lagging indicators of a long strategy that starts with bold, sometimes “boring” investment decisions. Then the earth speaks. An intact Roman pot on a Dublin headland challenges the “Ireland was never Roman” narrative, hinting at trade and presence, not just drift. A Sligo fort yields over a thousand artifacts that let us smell the 17th century’s smoke and dinner. Kilmainham’s contraband prison photos shift the camera from the state to the prisoners, replacing myth with human texture. Add Vogue Williams as Grand Marshal, essays on post-Brexit identity, and Dorothy Cross named Saoi, and a throughline appears: Ireland is unafraid to mix pop with poetry, policy with party, excavation with experimentation. We call it cultural confidence: holding a Roman pot in one hand and a USB stick in the other, funding risk while honoring roots, and inviting the world to listen in. If this story resonates, follow the show, share it with a friend, and leave a quick review—then tell us: which side of the split-screen are you living on right now, discovery or nostalgia? Your source for Irish music and culture news! Tune in for the latest in Irish and Celtic music, festivals, and heritage. Listen 24/7 at MyIrishRadio.com — and host your own show! Email myirishradio@gmail.com From trad to rock — Ireland’s soundtrack lives here. Listen worldwide at MyIrishRadio.com Script compiled and read with voices from NotebookLM

    18 min

  2. FEB 13

    How A Basic Income For Artists Can Spark A New Creative Golden Age

    Ireland’s cultural pulse is thundering, and the beat is bigger than headlines. We unpack how a billion-euro music industry, a permanent basic income for artists, and fresh funding for global promotion are reshaping creativity from side hustle to strategic sector. Then we flip the lens: libraries get saved with €90 million, archaeologists lift an intact Roman vessel in Dublin, and Sligo yields a cache that could rewrite timelines. Creation and preservation aren’t fighting for oxygen—they’re feeding each other. We go where the music hits. Kneecap’s “Liar’s Tale” turns Irish-language rap into a street siren, Sprints push the post-punk surge, and Ye Vagabonds deliver harmony-rich calm. From club-ready lineups at Forbidden Fruit to a Marlay Park sing-along with Mumford and Sons, the live calendar proves range is the market’s strength. Along the way, we honor Andrew Rankin, the heartbeat behind The Pogues’ beautiful chaos, and connect his percussive swagger to today’s fearless fusions. Screen and stage keep the momentum. Jessie Buckley’s Oscar run meets the audacious “Saipan” film, elevating a national sporting fracture to modern myth. Brenda Fricker receives the Freedom of Dublin, and Lord of the Dance marks 30 years of turning folk steps into spectacle. We also tackle policy contrasts: while the Republic funds artists and exports, campaigners in the North fight restrictive nightlife laws—proof that legal frameworks can make or break a scene. It all points to one word: confidence. Ireland is backing artists like researchers, exporting culture like a top-tier product, and preserving memory like core infrastructure. The big question we leave you with: if scarcity once sparked masterpieces, what does stability unleash—safer work or stranger brilliance? Listen, weigh the case studies, and tell us where you land. If this conversation hit a chord, follow the show, share it with a friend, and leave a quick review so more listeners can find it. Your source for Irish music and culture news! Tune in for the latest in Irish and Celtic music, festivals, and heritage. Listen 24/7 at MyIrishRadio.com — and host your own show! Email myirishradio@gmail.com From trad to rock — Ireland’s soundtrack lives here. Listen worldwide at MyIrishRadio.com Script compiled and read with voices from NotebookLM

    20 min

  3. FEB 10

    From Roman Pots To Rappers: Archaeology Just Spilled Tea On Irish Soft Power

    A quiet revolution is roaring out of Ireland, and the clues are everywhere: a vinyl chart “lockout” in the UK led by a politicized Irish-language rap trio and a thunderous folk collective, global Grammys wired by Irish engineers, and a live circuit stretching from sweaty festival tents to Croke Park and Carnegie Hall. We follow the signals and ask a bigger question: what happens when a small country treats creativity like a renewable resource and backs it with real policy? We dig into the mechanics behind the moment—how specificity and authenticity are translating into paid, physical demand; why technical talent embedded in global studios amplifies Ireland’s soft power; and how a billion-euro creative economy wins a new seat at the policy table. From the Ivor’s Academy establishing an Irish branch to advocate for songwriters’ rights to festival lineups that shatter clichés about “Irish music,” the ecosystem looks less like a trend and more like an operating model. Then we open the policy toolbox. The Basic Income for the Arts is no longer a pilot: 2,000 artists will receive 325 euro each week for three years. We frame it as R&D for culture, a safety floor that buys time to experiment, fail, and iterate toward the next wave of exportable work. But we don’t dodge the harder questions: does patronage blunt the edge that fuels insurgent art, or does security unleash even riskier ideas? Alongside these forward-looking bets, the past speaks up: a Roman pot found on a Dublin headland shakes old assumptions about isolation from the Empire, while Trinity College renovates the Long Room and digitizes the Book of Kells, future-proofing a national treasure. Across charts, studios, stages, and archives, the story coheres into a single takeaway: this is strategy, not magic. If you felt the ground shifting beneath Irish music and culture, you’re not imagining it. Subscribe, share with a friend who loves discovery, and leave a review with your answer to our closing question: does a safety net make art braver or safer? Your source for Irish music and culture news! Tune in for the latest in Irish and Celtic music, festivals, and heritage. Listen 24/7 at MyIrishRadio.com — and host your own show! Email myirishradio@gmail.com From trad to rock — Ireland’s soundtrack lives here. Listen worldwide at MyIrishRadio.com Script compiled and read with voices from NotebookLM

    15 min

  4. FEB 6

    Ireland Debates Street Signs While Musicians Remix The Future

    Turn up the volume on a week where Ireland’s culture sings and argues at the same time. We open with a jolt: David Byrne headlining St. Anne’s Park, a statement that Dublin still hosts spectacle-rich, high-art pop. Then the floor drops—Neil Young’s canceled tour, including Cork, exposes how fragile the legacy-act economy has become, where one scratched date dents hotel bookings, restaurant covers, and local momentum. Who fills that gap? The shortlist for the Choice Music Prize hints at an answer: a scene that’s wide, weird, and healthy. And Dead Goat, a supergroup forged from indie folk introspection, harmony purism, and gritty rock, turns creative claustrophobia into a lab where genres collide on purpose. While the stage thrums, policy stakes rise after dark. Free the Night’s legal challenge argues that licensing laws are strangling the very incubators that grow tomorrow’s headliners. Culture does not stop at 11 p.m., and when it’s forced to, the pipeline narrows. By contrast, daytime brings a frontline you can’t ignore: Belfast’s bilingual street sign threshold drops to 15 percent, turning lampposts into battlegrounds over identity, territory, and belonging. Vandalism cycles, tempers flare, and a simple nameplate becomes a referendum on who the city is for. We zoom out to symbols that travel. Saint Brigid becomes a banner for women-led trade missions in New York and Boston, recasting Irish heritage as leadership and craft instead of pub clichés. Back in Mayo, bishops unveil a new vocations monstrance at Knock, turning to ritual to answer a different kind of shortage. One gesture is outward and strategic; the other is inward and devotional. On screen, Saipan revisits a national split—perfection versus pragmatism—while A Quiet Love centers the Irish Sign Language community, reminding us that language can be a bridge even as script on street signs becomes a weapon. Across music, law, faith, and film, one question carries through: are we broadcasting or actually listening? Join us as we thread these signals together, from festival fields to council floors, and search for where real connection still breaks through. If this journey resonated, follow the show, share it with a friend, and leave a quick review—what signal stood out most to you? Your source for Irish music and culture news! Tune in for the latest in Irish and Celtic music, festivals, and heritage. Listen 24/7 at MyIrishRadio.com — and host your own show! Email myirishradio@gmail.com From trad to rock — Ireland’s soundtrack lives here. Listen worldwide at MyIrishRadio.com Script compiled and read with voices from NotebookLM

    15 min

  5. FEB 3

    From Ancient Books To Noisy Gigs: Ireland’s Cultural Crossroads

    Spring creeps in and Ireland gets loud. We open the week with Imbolc energy—Derry’s festival glow, sean nós sung with youthful fire, and a live scene that ranges from The Frames sweating it out in tiny rooms to intergenerational Wolfe Tones singalongs that shake arenas. Then we flip the lens: the Irish Chamber Orchestra teams with Abel Selaocoe to bend Baroque lines into African rhythm and voice, while festivals stack across the map and the forest becomes a stage for the Boomtown Rats. On the release radar, Belfast’s Kneecap throws down a challenge by titling their April album “FENIAN,” a raw act of reclamation that forces a reckoning with language and identity. Moorinne threads tradition through modern production, and Éabha Redmond aims for the avant-garde with “Solar Excess Sacrificial Ecstasies,” balanced by the warm comfort of The Irish Rovers’ Belfast Sessions. The result is a cultural range that feels contradictory yet deeply alive. We step out of the venue and into the archive as Trinity College commits €90 million to protect the Old Library and the Book of Kells—embracing high-end digitization and controlled access to keep a ninth-century masterpiece breathing. Northward, Belfast’s bilingual street signs spark pride and backlash, with hundreds of vandalism incidents exposing how public space still carries the weight of contested histories. Storm surveys add another layer, reminding us that preservation now means planning for weather as much as for time. Ireland’s impact travels, too: a Kerry engineer helps shape Kendrick Lamar’s Grammy-winning sound, and Peter Claffey leaps from rugby to a leading role in the Game of Thrones universe. A survivor-written play about mother-and-baby homes heads to Liverpool, carrying difficult truth to a city with deep Irish roots. Through it all, we keep returning to the central question: how do you honor a sacred past while making space for a noisy future? If this journey resonates, tap follow, share it with a friend, and leave a quick review. Then tell us: what feels like real heritage to you—the book behind glass or the argument on the street? Your source for Irish music and culture news! Tune in for the latest in Irish and Celtic music, festivals, and heritage. Listen 24/7 at MyIrishRadio.com — and host your own show! Email myirishradio@gmail.com From trad to rock — Ireland’s soundtrack lives here. Listen worldwide at MyIrishRadio.com Script compiled and read with voices from NotebookLM

    18 min
  6. Tradition Meets Disruption In A Culture That Refused To Fade - Ashley MacIsaac Interview

    JAN 30

    Tradition Meets Disruption In A Culture That Refused To Fade - Ashley MacIsaac Interview

    A fiddle can carry a life. Ashley MacIsaac joins us to chart a path from Gaelic lullabies and step dancing to rock radio, EDM mashups, and back again to Cape Breton kitchens where the piano thumps and the floorboards answer. We get into the real origin story: a grandfather who sang in Gaelic, a childhood on stages, and a family lottery win that bought the violin that set everything in motion. From there, the road widens—Sleepy Maggie breaks through, Mary Jane Lamond’s voice haunts the airwaves, and Ashley builds a career that pairs fearless crossover with grounded, traditional records. We talk instruments without the snobbery. Ashley tells the pawnshop tale of a mid‑1800s violin linked to a musician who played for Abraham Lincoln, then laughs about tearing it up on a $69 fiddle. The takeaway is timeless: it’s the driver, not the truck. He explains how streaming changed releases, why pressing a thousand CDs still matters, and how places like the Judique Celtic Music Centre keep the culture alive. The conversation turns to community too—Windsor, Detroit, Boston—where maritime families carried reels to auto plants and clubs, and where square dances stitched generations together. Ashley opens up about writing tunes in odd places with whatever’s at hand, naming melodies after moments, and even composing President Trump’s Reel to capture a headline in a bow stroke. He shares why he sings when the song needs it, and why his next project, Country Pride, finally has its moment: a country record from a gay Celtic fiddler who sees the roots of country and Cape Breton as branches of the same tree. Expect live snippets, Burns Night stories, and a reminder that tradition survives by moving. If you love Celtic music, folk culture, country roots, or just great storytelling, this one’s for you. Enjoy the episode? Follow the show, share it with a friend, and leave a quick review to help more listeners find these stories. Your source for Irish music and culture news! Tune in for the latest in Irish and Celtic music, festivals, and heritage. Listen 24/7 at MyIrishRadio.com — and host your own show! Email myirishradio@gmail.com From trad to rock — Ireland’s soundtrack lives here. Listen worldwide at MyIrishRadio.com Script compiled and read with voices from NotebookLM

    37 min

  7. JAN 27

    From CMAT To BAFTAs: A Weekly Pulse Check On Irish Music, Film, And Heritage

    Awards scream from the headlines, but the real story lives between the stage lights and the shuttered doors. We dive into a pivotal week for Irish culture, where the RTÉ Choice Music Prize shortlist crowns artistic craft and a stacked 2026 release slate promises range: Loah’s genre-bending art-soul, Aisling Logan’s fresh textures, Dia Matrona’s guitar-charged rock, SOAK’s introspective indie, and Niall Horan’s stadium-ready pop. It’s a canopy of sound—diverse, ambitious, and undeniably exportable. We trace the roots that feed it. Ríona Healy’s Bonn Óir Seán Ó Riada win reaffirms the living pulse of trad, while the Irish Traditional Music Archive pushes Tommy Potts into the hands of a new generation. On the edge of discovery, tastemakers spotlight The Man Who Seeks Pleasure, Cardinals, The Ran, and Outstraight—names you’ll want on your radar before festival posters catch up. Then the beat shifts: Dublin’s Complex arts center and the Cooler jazz venue close, and we examine what that means for the pipeline. Jazz rooms are gyms for timing and listening; arts centers are labs for low-stakes failure. Remove those spaces and you remove the bottom rungs of the ladder. Meanwhile, the global wave builds. Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley drive BAFTA buzz off the back of a standout Hamlet adaptation, Trinity Irish Dance reimagines tradition for New York stages, and the literary scene sustains momentum with another Dylan Thomas Prize longlisting. Heritage investment arrives as Trinity’s Long Room undergoes major conservation—vital work that also spotlights a stark policy split: we safeguard the archive while losing the workshop. We close with a challenge: measure success not only by trophies but by square footage of creative space. If you care about the next CMAT or the next breakout actor, buy a small-venue ticket this weekend, share this episode with a friend, and help keep the factory humming. Subscribe, rate, and leave a review—then tell us: museum or factory? Your source for Irish music and culture news! Tune in for the latest in Irish and Celtic music, festivals, and heritage. Listen 24/7 at MyIrishRadio.com — and host your own show! Email myirishradio@gmail.com From trad to rock — Ireland’s soundtrack lives here. Listen worldwide at MyIrishRadio.com Script compiled and read with voices from NotebookLM

    19 min
  8. Robert Burns - To A Mouse and A Man's a Man for A' That - read by Colin Hay

    JAN 25

    Robert Burns - To A Mouse and A Man's a Man for A' That - read by Colin Hay

    In celebration of Burns Night / Burns Supper. Robert Burns - To A Mouse  and A Man's a Man for A' That - read by Colin Hay of Men At Work. Burns Night (or Burns Supper) is a celebration of Scotland’s national poet, Robert Burns (1759–1796), held each year on January 25, the date of his birth. It’s both a cultural tribute and a joyful excuse for Scots (and friends of Scotland everywhere) to gather, eat well, and revel in poetry, music, and national pride. Why it’s celebrated Robert Burns is cherished for capturing the voice of everyday people—love, hardship, humor, politics, nature, and freedom—often writing in Scots dialect at a time when that was seen as unfashionable. His work helped shape Scottish identity and is still deeply woven into modern culture. Famous pieces like “Auld Lang Syne,” “Tam o’ Shanter,” and “To a Mouse” are known worldwide, making Burns one of the most influential poets in history. Burns Night began shortly after his death, when friends gathered to honor his life. Those informal tributes evolved into the formal Burns Suppers held today. Bring on the Haggis! Your source for Irish music and culture news! Tune in for the latest in Irish and Celtic music, festivals, and heritage. Listen 24/7 at MyIrishRadio.com — and host your own show! Email myirishradio@gmail.com From trad to rock — Ireland’s soundtrack lives here. Listen worldwide at MyIrishRadio.com Script compiled and read with voices from NotebookLM

    4 min
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Step into the sound of Ireland with My Irish Radio Music and Culture News — the official podcast of My Irish Radio, your 24/7 home for the best in Irish and Celtic music. Each episode brings you the latest news from Ireland’s vibrant music scene and cultural community — from new artist releases and upcoming festivals to stories celebrating Irish heritage across the globe. Whether you love traditional reels and jigs, rebel ballads, pub favorites, or Irish rock and pop, you’ll find it all here — along with updates on what’s happening in Irish culture today. 🎧 Listen 24/7 at MyIrishRadio.com for nonstop Irish and Celtic music — new and old, from Ireland and beyond. And here’s your chance to take part: 💚 Host your own show! Choose your playlist, share your passion, and make My Irish Radio — Your Irish Radio. Email myirishradio@gmail.com to get started. Keep the spirit of Ireland alive — in every song, every story, every show.

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