Irish Stew Podcast
Irish Stew, the podcast for the Global Irish Nation featuring interviews with fascinating influencers proud of their Irish Edge. If you're Irish born or hyphenated Irish, this is the podcast that brings all the Irish together Listen Notes
Episodes
96 episodes
S6E17: Michael Dowling - Talks Aging, Storytelling & Gun Violence
Healthcare thought leader Michael J. Dowling returns to Irish Stew to discuss his new book The Aging Revolution: The History of Geriatric Health Care and What Really Matters to Older Adults, the launch of Northwell Studios to tell stor...
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Season 6
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Episode 17
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42:36
S6E16: John Connell - Lessons From the Lambing Life
John Connell traveled far from Ireland in his 20s, and early in his career, his work yielded accolades in journalism and filmmaking. Yet happiness and contentment proved to be elusive. Returning to the family farm in Longford, one of Ireland's ...
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Season 6
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Episode 16
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56:14
S6E15: PJ Rigney - The Curious Mind Behind Irish Gunpowder Gin
Our Irish Stew Drinks Party is back with PJ Rigney, founder of The Shed Distillery--home of the breakout star of the burgeoning Irish gin category, Drumshanbo Gunpowder Irish Gin, along with its Sausage Tree Irish Vodka, and Drumshanbo Irish Wh...
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Season 6
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Episode 15
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55:21
S6E14: John Kearns – Relentless Writer
Irish Stew delves into the rich world of Irish American literature through the eyes and pen of guest John Kearns, a New Yorker by way of Philadelphia and a relentless storyteller in short stories, novels, plays, poetry, screenwriting, and song....
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Season 6
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Episode 14
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59:55
S6E13: Julie Breathnach-Banwait - Irish Poetry From Tasmania
In this episode of Irish Stew, hosts John Lee and Martin Nutty welcome Julie Breathnach-Banwait, a poet and child psychologist. Julie shares her unique journey from her Connemara home (Ceantar an nOileán) off the west coast of Ireland ...
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Season 6
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Episode 13
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59:43
S6E12: Elizabeth Stack - Revitalizing the AIHS
This episode of Irish Stew features an in-depth discussion with Dr. Elizabeth Stack, the Executive Director of the American Irish Historical Society (AIHS). Dr. Stack discusses her journey from Listowel, County Kerry, to her academ...
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Season 6
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Episode 12
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56:53
S6E11: Máirtín Ó Muilleoir: Building Bridges in Belfast, to Belfast
In New York for the annual New York New Belfast Conference, Máirtín Ó Muilleoir swung by the Irish Stew Global Headquarters for a transatlantic conversation with co-host John Lee.In this episode, the Belfast Media Group and Irish Echo p...
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Season 6
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Episode 11
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58:12
S6E10: Vivienne Sayers O'Callaghan – Irish Instagram Influencer Conquers NYC with Irish Culture & Craic
Vibrant Vivienne Sayers O'Callaghan is an Irish Gen Z entrepreneur, Irish language and culture advocate, and NYC social media influencer rapidly rising to the “top of the heap” as Frank Sinatra croons in “New York, New York.”Viv mixes l...
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Season 6
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Episode 10
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55:23
S6E9: Charles R. Hale - Untangling the Shadows at McSorley’s Old Ale House
Is this one of our author episodes or should it fall into our Irish Drinks category because your co-hosts have grabbed a table by the pot-bellied stove at New York’s legendary McSorley's Old Ale House for a conversation with author, cultural cr...
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Season 6
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Episode 9
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58:16
S6E8: Kate Kerrigan asks, Am I Irish Yet?
Writer, performer, and force of nature, born Morag Prunty, but best known by her pen name Kate Kerrigan whisks us from London where she grew up with an Irish identity to Ireland’s Wild Atlantic Way where she’s living with an English accent....
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Season 6
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Episode 8
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1:01:31
S6E7: A Shot at Glory: Eric Favors and the Pursuit of Olympic Dreams
In this episode, cohosts John and Martin dive into the world of Olympic shot putting with their guest, Eric Favors, an athlete representing Ireland. Born and raised in Rockland County, New York, with a rich Irish heritage, Eric shares h...
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Season 6
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Episode 7
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49:09
S6E6: Jackie Gilna – We Are Global Irish, from Canada to the World
Irish Stew goes to Canada for a most “Global Irish Nation Conversation” with Jackie Gilna, who’s been Irish in Dublin, Spain, the Netherlands, and now she's Irish in Canada's capital, Ottawa. And through a new venture, she's Irish all around th...
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Season 6
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Episode 6
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53:44
S6E5: Maura Clare & Alice Carroll – Spirited Women of Irish Spirits
Settle in for a spirited episode of Irish Stew with two pioneering women in the Irish spirits industry, Alice Carroll--the proud Limerick distiller and co-founder of Foxes Bow Whiskey, and Maura Clare--the Queen of Poitín and creator of the Smu...
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Season 6
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Episode 5
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59:01
S6E4: Michael Meade - From Banking to Brewing
Michael Meade spent over 20 years on Wall Street and then stepped away from the pressured world of high finance to do something totally different. Some, in his circumstances, may have opted for plenty of time on the golf course and cracking ope...
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Season 6
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Episode 4
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56:43
S6E3: Allan Mulrooney – Surfing the Wave to the West of Ireland
As Chief Executive of the Western Development Commission (WDC), Allan Mulrooney is a tireless advocate for the Western Region of Ireland, promoting social and economic development for the counties of Donegal, Leitrim, Sligo, Mayo, Roscommon, Ga...
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Season 6
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Episode 3
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56:56
S6E2: Michael McKillop - Whiskey Distiller & Potato Purveyor
In the first of our “Irish Libations” series, we welcome Michael McKillop, who branched out from the 36-year-old Glens of Antrim Potatoes business to launch Glens of Antrim Distillery with its Lir line of Irish Whiskeys, amidst bucolic surrou...
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Season 6
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Episode 2
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58:42
S6E1: Discovering the Truth in Lies We Tell
Launching Season Six, we go behind the scenes of the woman-strong Irish film Lies We Tell, a brooding tale of angels and demons, light and shadow, manners and mores, family secrets and family crimes, which The Guardian called ...
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Season 6
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Episode 1
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1:08:45
S5E22: Dan Mulhall - Check-In - The Pilgrim Soul of WB Yeats
When we last talked with Dan Mulhall, he was Ireland’s Ambassador to the United Stares. Since then, he retired after a 44-year career in diplomacy, but he’s been busier than ever as we learn in this check-in episode with Martin Nutty focused on...
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Season 5
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Episode 22
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49:57
S5E21: Malachy Browne - Data-driven Journalist for the Digital Age
With a computer programming background and an instinct for reporting, Malachy Browne is on the vanguard of a new form of data-driven news coverage that is revitalizing journalism.Co-founder and enterprise director of the New York Times ...
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Season 5
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Episode 21
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58:40
S5E20: Ted Smyth - Politics 2024 Check-In
Ted Smyth, former diplomat and C-Suite and current President of the Advisory Board of Glucksman Ireland House NYU, joins Martin Nutty for a discussion on Irish and American politics. What does the recent November 2023 American mid...
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Season 5
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Episode 20
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46:04
S5E19: Fin Dwyer Check-In - A Lethal Legacy
Fin Dwyer of Irish History Podcasts pays a return visit to Irish Stew. We last hosted Fin two years ago. Since then, Fin has continued to fasc...
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Season 5
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Episode 19
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49:09
S5E18: Marybeth Shea - Montana Irish Translator of the Technical
Join us in a westward journey to the Irish enclaves of Butte, Montana and on to a chicken coop on Maryland’s Eastern Shore as Marybeth Shea guides us along little-known paths of Irish migration and through little understood profession of techni...
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Season 5
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Episode 18
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1:05:49
S5E17: Mollie Guidera – Teaching Irish to Global Ireland
So why learn Irish?"Studies have shown that learning your native language, learning any language, but especially your ancestral tongue, brings feelings of comfort and freedom. And especially when considering our past and our heritage, l...
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Season 5
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Episode 17
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1:00:22
S5E16: Brian O'Sullivan - Imagining Iron Age Ireland…from New Zealand
Join us as we travel from Ireland all the way to New Zealand to explore a vision of Ireland from centuries ago in our conversation with Brian O’Sullivan.He’s an author, cultural researcher, strategic analyst, and founder of Irish Imbas,...
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Season 5
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Episode 16
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58:50
S5E15: Kingsley Aikins - Exemplar of Global Ireland
A Trinity College graduate in economics and politics, he represented Irish business abroad, led The Ireland Funds for almost two decades, and now Kingsley Aikins combines his fervor for networking and diaspora engagement in the mission of The N...
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Season 5
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Episode 15
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1:07:39