This episode is dedicated to the memory of Sinéad O'Connor.
The Foggy Dew is in itself a historic document. Written in 1919, this story of the Easter Rising and the contrasting World War has gone around the world. This episode of the podcast explores the song and its meaning, and how it came to bring together the incredible talents of The Chieftains and Sinéad O'Connor.
The Rising of the Moon (Jim Larkin Part I)
Before Mosley: The British Fascisti in Dublin
Flying Fists and Union Jacks
From Ten Till Dusk: 200 Years of the RHA (with Cristín Leach)
There Is a Light That Never Goes Out
Asylum: Inside Grangegorman
Napoleon's Toothbrush
Bringing Light to O'Connell Street (with Nicola Pierce)
'And Beckett plays the gong.'
Roger Doyle: The Godfather of Irish Electronic Music
The Irish Supernatural (with Kathy Rose O'Brien and Brian J. Showers)
Dead as Doornails
Other People's Lives (with Dermot Bolger)
Dublin in Maps: From the Soviet Union to D6W (with Joseph Brady)
Dónal Lunny: From Emmet Spiceland to Kate Bush
Jim Fitzpatrick: On Che, Phil Lynott and Sinéad O'Connor
From Jim Larkin to Alfred Hitchcock: The Life of O'Casey
Peig McManus: A Dublin Childhood and a Life Less Ordinary
"My body to Ireland, my heart to Rome...." (with Claire Halpin)
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