Episodes
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Miriam chats with John King, CNN's Chief National Correspondent who will be speaking this week at the NewsXchange conference in Dublin Full details: https://www.newsxchange.org/
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Chat with the American singer/songwriter, whose memoir 'Stories I Might Regret Telling You' was published earlier this year, and who perform at this year's Galway International Arts Festival Festival details: https://www.giaf.ie/ (for copyright reasons the full tracks featured during the interview cannot be made available in the podcast)
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Chat with Eileen Dunne, one of our best-loved newscasters, who recently retired after 42 years on our tv screens (and who will be a guest at the Hinterland Festival in Kells next week) Festival details: https://www.hinterland.ie/
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Miriam chats with RTÉ Europe Editor about his grandfather, Galway man Michael Connelly, who was a constable in the RIC and is the subject of his documentary 'His Hidden History' on RTÉ 1 tomorrow, Monday 12th June
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Home from Haiti, which is in the midst of a plague of kidnappings and murders, we hear from the brave Westport woman battling for the most vulnerable children, in the Special Needs Programme in the Little Brothers and Sisters orphanage near Port-au-Prince To donate: https://www.nph-ireland.org/
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Chat with leading actress Agnes O'Casey and director Lisa Mulcahy about their new Irish psychological thriller 'Lies We Tell', which premieres at this year's Galway Film Fleadh
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'An Uneasy Inheritance: My Family and Other Radicals' is an enthralling family memoir from The Guardian columnist, as she recounts her family’s highly privileged background and their fight against the British class system
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Following the release of their debut album ‘Reverie’, live music and chat with Ruth Dillon, Yvonne Tiernan and Julianna Erkkonen from the Galway-based folk Americano band Full tour details: https://theraines.ie/live-dates (for copyright reasons the full tracks performed during the interview cannot be made available in the podcast)
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Cara Dermody is the remarkable 12-year-old who will be sitting the Leaving Cert. Maths Paper 1 exam next week to raise funds for autism services in Ireland Support Cara’s Maths Challenge at Go Fund Me - https://www.gofundme.com/f/caras-extraordinary-maths-challenge/donate
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Miriam chats to the parents of Rylee O’Shea, a little girl born in Cork University Maternity Hospital last week who is especially precious, her mother having suffered 23 miscarriages over the previous two decades
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Ahead of his return to Ireland, chat with Steve Earle, the writer of ‘Galway Girl’ and multi-Grammy award winner who returns to Irish shores as part of his upcoming European tour Tour details & tickets: http://www.steveearle.com/
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Chat with the Dublin, Ireland and Manchester United football legend who is the subject of an RTÉ documentary ‘Kevin Moran: Codebreaker’ which airs 29th May
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Chat with Cork actress Siobhán McSweeney, who recently won a BAFTA for her role as Sr Michael in Derry Girls and next month will be on stage in Cork and Dublin in Samuel Beckett’s “Happy Days” Full details: www.landmarkproductions.ie/production/happy-days/
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Stephen Nolan, the BBC Northern Ireland presenter explains why he wanted to make his new documentary series ‘Feed Yourself Fitter’ in which he tries to learn to cook and understand healthy food
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Renowned pianist Barry Douglas brings his Camerata Chamber Orchestra - formed at the time of the Good Friday Agreement - to the National Concert Hall on 1st June for their 25th anniversary celebrations Full details: www.nch.ie
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This year the Mayo Roscommon Hospice Foundation celebrates it's 30th anniversary and Miriam is joined by Hospice CEO Martina Jennings and hospice supporter Laurita Blewitt (who is, of course, Joe Biden's cousin)
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Imelda May chats with Miriam about preparing for her theatre debut in 'Mother of All the Behans', Peter Sheridan's story of Brendan Behan’s mother Kathleen (it opens at Dublin’s 3Olympia from August 15th / www.3olympia.ie)
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Iarla Ó Lionáird teams up with pianist Cormac McCarthy and clarinetist Matthew Berrill in a special and unique nationwide concert series (May 20-Féile Binn Éadair, Howth, Dublin/May 21-Pavilion, Dun Laoghaire/June 9-Kenmare Butter Market/ June 10-Doolin Folk Festival/Aug 9-Fleadh Cheoil na hEireann, Mullingar
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One of Hollywood’s legendary film stars reflects on her long career and celebrates the 50th anniversary of her iconic film 'The Wicker Man'
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After the most important sunrise of the year, the 'Darkness Into Light' walk for Pieta, and following the death of her sister to suicide Sandy tells Miriam why it’s so important to reach out to someone struggling Samaritans Freephone: 116 123 Pieta House Freephone 1800 247 247 (or text the word HELP to 51444)
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