This week’s podcast takes a look at a most anticipated new book which will be published next week. The Big House in Kerry: A Social History will be in bookshops after 25th November. It will also be available via our website at www.irishlifeandlore.com Twelve of Kerry’s fine historians contributed chapters for the book, each examining […]
David Slattery, who sadly passed away recently, was one of the most innovative tour operators of his generation. In the early 1960s he saw huge change beginning in the travel industry. He joined the family travel business in Tralee, which had begun trading as a shipping agency in the 1930s. He introduced new ideas which […]
Ted Crosbie sadly passed away on 9th October 2022. In recordings compiled between 2009 and 2011, he recalls his early life at Woodlands House, Montenotte, Cork; his schooldays and his studies at UCC; his rugby career; his love of sailing and his many adventures in the sport, and his long involvement with Cork Opera House. […]
Mairin Hughes, one of Ireland’s oldest citizens, resident in Mayfield Nursing Home in Dublin, takes a ride around The Phoenix Park in a car of the same age. We stopped off at a teashop on the way back to Mayfield Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Recently, Maurice O’Keeffe took a cycling trip along the coast roads of Clare and Galway. The first stop was to meet up with sisters-in-law Kitty and Margaret McNamara, married to McNamara brothers. who at one time lived on Scattery Island, and Michael Nolan who was involved in purchasing back the island in the 1980s.The, onwards […]
This is the first in a series of podcasts on life as it was on the islands off the west coast of Ireland.Featured in this podcast are: Beginish Island in Valentia Harbour in Co. Kerry with the legendary Gaelic Footballer Mick O’Connell. Illauntannig, one of the Seven Hogs which lie between Brandon Point and Kerry […]
In this podcast Michael Waldron, Curator of Collections and Special Collections at the Crawford Art Gallery, Cork speaks about assembling the collection of the paintings by Sean Keating, including An IRA Column which is kindly on loan from Aras an Uachtarain. You will hear him examine the study of composition, the story of the individuals […]
Heritage Week 2022 brought us to Kilcormac, Co. Offaly for the launch of an oral history project entitled “Capturing Their Story”. Recordings were compiled with a selected number of the local residents who provided wonderful and descriptive testimonies of life down through the years. The project came about due to a collaboration between Creative Ireland […]
Heritage Week 2022 was a busy week for Irish Life and Lore, spent up and down the country. Scurlogstown Olympiad Haymaking Festival in Kilmessan, Co. Meath was one of our destinations. An ancient 7 arch packhorse bridge is located nearby in the townland of Knightsbrook which is the focus of this week’s podcast.
Two gripping stories are to be heard in this podcast. The first voice you will hear is that of Eleanor Burke of Kenmare. She was the daughter of Rosalie Rice who, along with her mother Kathleen and brother John Joe, were steeped in republicanism. During the Civil War Kenmare was bitterly divided. Free Staters the […]
