Irish Stew Podcast
Episodes
S4E17: Michael Mellamphy – Irish Storyteller on Stage, Screen & Video Games
23 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Growing up with one foot in Dublin and the other in Cork, Michael “Mick” Mellamphy now has a foot in Ireland and one in New York, where he’s in ...
S4E16: Ted Smyth - Check In On The Political World
02 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Veteran diplomat and C Suite executive, Ted Smyth, joins Martin Nutty, on The Stew for the third time. With the conclusion of the final election of th...
S4E15: Peter Quinn - Da Bard of Da Bronx
19 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Speechwriter, novelist, essayist, and now memoirist Peter Quinn returns to Irish Stew to share tales from his home borough of New York City and beyond...
S4E14: Rosa Nutty: Authentic Lyricism in Song
05 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In a way we’ve been teasing this episode since our first, as we’ve treated you to a wee taste of Rosa Nutty’s music at the opening of every Iris...
S4E13: Check In - Gregory Harrington - Bonus Episode
28 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Gregory Harrington has stayed busy since our initial episode back in February 2022. Since that conversation, the accomplished violinist released a...
S4E11: Colm Bairéad and Cleona Ní Chrualaoi: Making Noise With "The Quiet Girl"
14 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In times past, the Irish language (Gaelic) was thought by some to be a mark of backwardness. In this episode, husband and wife team, Colm Bairéad and...
S4E10: Neil Jackman - Making Ireland's Ancient Past Present
31 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Our 50th episode comes to you on the most ancient of Irish holidays - Halloween or Oíche Shamhna (eee-ha how-na) in Irish/Gaelic. It is the night tha...
S4E9: Deirdre Ryan - Olympian raising the bar for Irish food
17 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Our 49th episode features one of our most global of guests–Deirdre Ryan, a world class athlete who competed for Ireland on the global stage and who ...
S4E8: Margaret Molloy: Marketer, Mentor, Connector & #BrandIreland Advocate
03 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
From a dairy farm in County Offaly to the C-Suite in a global branding agency, her university days in Ulster during The Troubles, her internship with ...
S4E7: Brian McDonald - An Irish-American Story of 9/11 & the FDNY
19 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It wasn’t planned this way, but we recorded our episode with writer Brian McDonald on Sept. 11, a date that looms large in his new book Five Flights...
S4E6: Flor MacCarthy - A Broadcaster in Pursuit of Unexpected History
08 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Flor MacCarthy was born in West Cork and shares memories of one of Ireland's most idyllic regions. Her childhood was one rich in the indulgence o...
S4E5: Aedín Moloney – Saying “Yes!” to a Life on Stage
25 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Growing up in a Dublin home with no TV, Aedín turned to books, reading them aloud, drawing out the characters, and letting the words wash over her, w...
S4E4: Elaine Ní Bhraonáin PhD - Irish Language, Irish In NYC & A Mother With A Story To Tell
11 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Our conversation with the warm and welcoming Elaine Ní Bhraonáin takes us from her childhood in South County, Dublin, to New York’s lively Irish s...
S4E3: Larry Kirwan – Rocking Renaissance Man from Black 47 to Broadway
27 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We’re not sure what’s more impressive—that Larry Kirwan originated and co-wrote the Broadway hit Paradise Square, or that his early band with Pi...
S4E2: John McCourt - Tracking James Joyce in Trieste
13 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Our Bloomsday episode with the engaging James Joyce scholar John McCourt takes us to Italy for the first time, specifically its outpost across the Adr...
S4E1: Mark Little - from RTÉ to journalism’s digital frontier
30 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Our new season of Irish Stew opens with trailblazing journalist Mark Little, a former RTÉ newscaster working to make sense of social media.Coming fro...
S3E17: Check In: Liza Donnelly - Bonus Episode
20 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Liza Donnelly: New Yorker Cartoonist & “Very Funny Ladies”Irish Stew’s favorite cartoonist is back to tell you about her just-published book...
S3E16: Check In: Ted Smyth - Bonus Episode
17 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We last spoke with Ted Smyth back at the start of 2021. A lot has happened in the world of politics in the intervening period. Ted’s experience on b...
S3E15: Check In: Jack Byrne - Bonus Episode
15 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We first sat down with Liverpudlian, Jack Byrne back in Season 2 when we talked about his first novel: Under the Bridge. You can catch that episode he...
S3E14: Dan Mulhall - Ambassador for Ireland & James Joyce
14 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Season III of Irish Stew concludes with our conversation with a very Global Irish citizen, Dan Mulhall, Ireland’s Ambassador to the United States an...
S3E13: Cady Coleman: Irish American Astronaut & Musician
28 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we reach for the stars with Irish American astronaut Dr. Cady Coleman, a veteran of two Space Shuttle missions and 159 days in orbit ...
S3E12: Gregory Harrington – Musical Explorer, Violin Virtuoso
14 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
From Carnegie Hall to Lambeau Field, Gregory Harrington elevates the Global Irish Nation Conversation through his music.Born in Dublin, based in New Y...
S3E11: John Greene & Maurice Casey - Telling the EPIC Story of Irish Emigration
31 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we explore the “roots” and “routes” of the Irish diaspora for a very “Global Irish Nation Conversation” with CEO Patrick G...
S3E10: Kristen Shaughnessy: Journalist, Storyteller, Anti-Ageism Advocate
17 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Despite growing up with no TV in a rural upstate hamlet, Kristen Shaughnessy would go on to become a fixture in New York TV news as reporter and ancho...
S3E9: Jennifer Petoff - A Traveling American Techie in Dublin
03 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Born in the Irish America hotbed of Buffalo, New York, Jennifer Petoff lives in Dublin now. Following a career that has taken unexpected twists. A ...
S3E8: MacDara Ó Conaola – Aran Islander Keeping Irish language & Music Vibrant
20 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On this serving of Irish Stew, we travel from Manhattan (pop. 1.6 M) to Inisheer (pop. 250) to explore the sights, sounds, haunting landscape, natural...
S3E7: Val Cummins PhD - Tapping the energy of Coastal Ireland
06 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Through her work on the award-winning The Coastal Atlas of Ireland and on harvesting the power of ocean winds, our guest Val Cummins is a compelling a...
S3E6: Colin Broderick - Searing Storyteller of the Irish
22 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Colin Broderick likes to tell stories, needs to tell them, be they dark, dank, and dangerous, be they bright, affirming, and knowing. It’s all ther...
S3E5: Clare McGee - Business Whisperer & Derry Girl
08 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Clare McGee wears multiple hats, most notably as a principal of Innovate-NI, a management consulting company established 2016 in Derry, Northern Irela...
S3E4: Paul Finnegan - Community Leader For the Irish in NY
25 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For Paul Finnegan it all goes back to his hometown of Galway City, “a small city but I refuse to call it a town” he says and a “crucible of many...
S3E3: Jim Walsh & Damian Shiels - Unearthing Diaspora History
11 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How much of our history would remain buried if not for a few intrepid explorers of the past? In this episode we explore little known Irish diaspora s...
S3E2: Natalie Nugent O'Shea - Passionate Purveyor of Irish Arts in America’s Midwest
27 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Natalie Nugent O’Shea takes us from St. Paul, Minnesota, around the world with Riverdance, to Dublin to start a family, and then back home to St. Pa...
S3E1: Vinny Warren - WASSUP with this Irish ad legend?
13 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
WASSUP?Season III of Irish Stew is WASSUP!We launch with an episode on the Irish ad man responsible for the memorable Budweiser commercial that had pe...
S2E14: Emer Rocke - Irish Diplomat & Irish Soft Power
02 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Emer Rocke gives an insider’s perspective on the lives of those most global of Irish citizens, the people of Ireland’s diplomatic corps. The Deput...
S2E13: Janet Behan - Actor, Playwright…and Brendan’s Niece
19 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Janet Behan carries on the family tradition of creativity in both her acting and writing. The London-born daughter of Dublin-born playwright Brian Beh...
S2E12: Cauvery Madhavan - Novelist connecting Ireland & India
05 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Cauvery Madhavan adds Indian spices to this serving of Irish Stew as we trace her journey from Chennai, India to Sligo, Ireland, to County Kildare, an...
S2E11: Fiona McEntee - American Immigration Attorney
21 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A legal advocate for immigration in America, Irish-born, Chicago-based Fiona McEntee is a recognizable media-friendly face and voice in the U.S. immig...
S2E10: Paddy McGrath Olympic Hammer Coach
07 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dublin born Paddy McGrath represented his native country at the Sydney Olympics in 2000. For many, that pinnacle achievement would represent an end po...
S2E9: Fin Dwyer - Host of the Irish History Podcast
24 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Fin Dwyer has always been interested in history. He grew up in Castlecomer, Kilkenny surrounded by the vestiges of the past and so when he went to c...
S2E8: Peter Quinn - Interpreter of Irish America
10 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
With the republication of his epic novel Banished Children of Eve, the Bard of Hastings-on-Hudson Peter Quinn joins us for a sometimes serious, occasi...
S2E7: Sorcha Glackin: Storyteller of Sight and Sound
26 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Sorcha’s story takes us back and forth across the Irish Sea and Atlantic Ocean as she sets her course towards storytelling and journalism on radio a...
S2E6: Michael Dowling – Health Care Optimist
12 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Growing up in rural poverty in Co. Limerick, Michael Dowling was surrounded by a “cacophony of nos.”Fortunately for Dowling there was no better mo...
S2E5: Jack Byrne - Mystery Writer
29 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jack Byrne grew up in Liverpool, the son of post WWII Irish emigrants. In his first novel, Under the Bridge, Jack takes the Liverpool of his parent&ap...
S2E4: Turlough McConnell - Champion of Irish Culture in America
15 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A brick came through the window and an idyllic life in the Co. Donegal resort town of Buncrana was shattered as The Troubles spilled over from Derry w...
S2E3: Liza Donnelly: Visual Journalist, New Yorker Cartoonist, Speaker, Feminist
01 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
From when her mother gave her a book of James Thurber’s cartoons, Liza Donnelly has expressed her wit and rising political consciousness through pen...
S2E2: Ted Smyth: Diplomat, Corporate Executive, Influencer
15 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Viewing life as “something of a random walk,” Ted Smyth went from rural to urban, to international, from leadership roles in diplomacy to C-suite ...
S2E1: Shaunagh Connaire: Frontline Journalist and Podcaster
01 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Shaunagh Connaire is an award winning journalist who has reported from some of the most challenging and troubled spots on the globe. In her most recen...
S1E9: Ruth Cannon - Irish Barrister & Four Courts History Blogger
18 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Ruth Cannon BL is a Dublin based barrister specializing in property and probate law. Ruth acts as a guide in giving an introduction to both the the ...
S1E8: Alison McKenna - Actor, Producer, Culture Maker
04 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Alison McKenna shares tales from acting on the stages of the Abbey, Gate, and Royal Shakespeare Company, traces her journey as a producer for the thea...
S1E7: Damian Shiels - Historian & Battlefield Archaeologist
21 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
For 10 years, Damian Shiels has mined the American Civil War pension files to tell the staggering story of Irish participation in that conflict. This ...
S1E6: Ciarán Cannon - Former Irish Minister for the Diaspora
07 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ciarán Cannon is the elected TD (Irish Member of Parliament aka Dáil Éireann) for the Galway East constituency. Ciarán served as Minister of Sta...
S1E5: Geoffrey Cobb - New York Historian
23 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Geoff Cobb is a New York City school teacher, a blogger, a columnist and a historian with a focus on the lesser recorded histories of the personalitie...
S1E4: Aisling MacRunnels - Silicon Valley C Suite Executive
09 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Aisling MacRunnels came to America on an athletic scholarship in the 1980s. Hear Aisling's story detailing the windy route taken to the upper tie...
S1E1: Jeffrey Hayzlett - Digital Media Mogul
25 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Jeffrey Hayzlett is a former Fortune 100 C-Suite executive turned C-Suite Network CEO, keynote speaker, media entrepreneur, and TV & podcast host....
S1E3: Bill Schultz - Podcast Content Developer
25 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Bill Schultz, Executive VP/Content Development at Cadence13, has had a career spanning more than 30 years in the radio and podcast world. Our conver...
S1E2: Bridget Bray - Genealogy Expert
25 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Canadian by birth, New Yorker by choice, Bridget Bray recounts her genealogical journey from avocation to profession as she blows the dust off the top...
Irish Stew Preview
20 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Preview of Irish Stew the podcast for the Global Irish Nation featuring interviews with fascinating influencers proud of their Irish Edge. If you&apos...