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Step into the sound of Ireland with My Irish Radio Music and Culture News — the official podcast of My Irish Radio, your 24/7 home for the best in Irish and Celtic music.
Each episode brings you the latest news from Ireland’s vibrant music scene and cultural community — from new artist releases and upcoming festivals to stories celebrating Irish heritage across the globe.
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What if the most radical move in a hyper-digital world is to choose limits on purpose? We dive into a week where Ireland’s past doesn’t just echo—it drives the beat. From the rule-of-three elegance behind International Irish Whiskey Day to a pristine Roman pot found on a Dublin headland, we trace the ways old rules shape new meaning and why that matters ahead of St. Patrick’s Day. We unpack how single pot still whiskey emerged from tax resistance to become a defining flavor, and why March 3 ...
Snow shut down the roads, but not the stories. Kevin Crawford of Lúnasa joins us from a blizzard-bound hotel to talk about six weeks of U.S. shows, moonshine left by a kindly janitor, and the art of keeping Irish traditional music fiercely alive. From early stops in Connecticut, Maine, and Rhode Island to a push toward Philadelphia, we travel the tour’s rhythms and hear how lineup shifts reshape the band’s sound without losing its heartbeat. We get into the real engine of Lúnasa’s longevity:...
A strange electricity runs through Ireland this week. We’re talking U2 choosing the Ukraine invasion anniversary to launch Days of Ash, a comeback that dodges comfort and aims straight at conscience. We’re also watching a street musician rewrite the ladder: Allie Sherlock turns busking into a world tour while Dermot Kennedy and Glen Hansard strip their sets down to wood, wire, and breath. The thread tying it together is intimacy—a demand for music that feels touched, not polished. &nbs...
Pancakes, packed stadiums, and a Roman pot that won’t sit quietly in the sand—this week’s journey through Irish music and culture starts loud and ends profound. We pull on a thread that ties festival lineups with zero guitar heroes to a discovery that complicates centuries of schoolbook certainty, and along the way we ask what truly powers a confident culture. We dig into the split-screen music economy: Forbidden Fruit’s future-facing, high-tempo energy versus All Together Now’s nostalgia co...
Ireland’s cultural pulse is thundering, and the beat is bigger than headlines. We unpack how a billion-euro music industry, a permanent basic income for artists, and fresh funding for global promotion are reshaping creativity from side hustle to strategic sector. Then we flip the lens: libraries get saved with €90 million, archaeologists lift an intact Roman vessel in Dublin, and Sligo yields a cache that could rewrite timelines. Creation and preservation aren’t fighting for oxygen—they’re fe...
A quiet revolution is roaring out of Ireland, and the clues are everywhere: a vinyl chart “lockout” in the UK led by a politicized Irish-language rap trio and a thunderous folk collective, global Grammys wired by Irish engineers, and a live circuit stretching from sweaty festival tents to Croke Park and Carnegie Hall. We follow the signals and ask a bigger question: what happens when a small country treats creativity like a renewable resource and backs it with real policy? We dig into the me...
Turn up the volume on a week where Ireland’s culture sings and argues at the same time. We open with a jolt: David Byrne headlining St. Anne’s Park, a statement that Dublin still hosts spectacle-rich, high-art pop. Then the floor drops—Neil Young’s canceled tour, including Cork, exposes how fragile the legacy-act economy has become, where one scratched date dents hotel bookings, restaurant covers, and local momentum. Who fills that gap? The shortlist for the Choice Music Prize hints at an ans...
Spring creeps in and Ireland gets loud. We open the week with Imbolc energy—Derry’s festival glow, sean nós sung with youthful fire, and a live scene that ranges from The Frames sweating it out in tiny rooms to intergenerational Wolfe Tones singalongs that shake arenas. Then we flip the lens: the Irish Chamber Orchestra teams with Abel Selaocoe to bend Baroque lines into African rhythm and voice, while festivals stack across the map and the forest becomes a stage for the Boomtown Rats. On th...
A fiddle can carry a life. Ashley MacIsaac joins us to chart a path from Gaelic lullabies and step dancing to rock radio, EDM mashups, and back again to Cape Breton kitchens where the piano thumps and the floorboards answer. We get into the real origin story: a grandfather who sang in Gaelic, a childhood on stages, and a family lottery win that bought the violin that set everything in motion. From there, the road widens—Sleepy Maggie breaks through, Mary Jane Lamond’s voice haunts the airwave...
Awards scream from the headlines, but the real story lives between the stage lights and the shuttered doors. We dive into a pivotal week for Irish culture, where the RTÉ Choice Music Prize shortlist crowns artistic craft and a stacked 2026 release slate promises range: Loah’s genre-bending art-soul, Aisling Logan’s fresh textures, Dia Matrona’s guitar-charged rock, SOAK’s introspective indie, and Niall Horan’s stadium-ready pop. It’s a canopy of sound—diverse, ambitious, and undeniably export...
In celebration of Burns Night / Burns Supper. Robert Burns - To A Mouse and A Man's a Man for A' That - read by Colin Hay of Men At Work. Burns Night (or Burns Supper) is a celebration of Scotland’s national poet, Robert Burns (1759–1796), held each year on January 25, the date of his birth. It’s both a cultural tribute and a joyful excuse for Scots (and friends of Scotland everywhere) to gather, eat well, and revel in poetry, music, and national pride. Why it’s celebrated Robert Burn...
A snapshot like this doesn’t come around often: late January 2026, the island buzzing with Choice Music Prize speculation while cinemas sell out for a film about a training camp argument from 2002. We pull the lens tight on Ireland’s cultural present to hear the clash and harmony between heritage and hype—how CMAT’s sparkling country-pop confidence can sit alongside Amble’s warm, rooted storytelling and still feel unmistakably Irish. That same duality threads through reunions and reinventions...
The volume is up across Ireland: guitars snarl, pop choruses soar, and stages big and small buzz with fresh energy. Meanwhile, the systems underneath—schools, housing, and public trust—strain to keep pace. We bring these worlds together, mapping how high-velocity culture collides with slow-moving structures and asking what it will take for the road to catch the car. We start with the RTÉ Choice Music Prize shortlist and what it signals about the national mood: the crunch of post-punk from Sp...
Irish music is having a moment—bigger, braver, and more surprising than anyone predicted. We dive into the artists topping charts and stretching boundaries, from CMAT and Kneecap to the layered, cinematic debut of Rita Perry and the unexpected Irish spin on Midwest emo. Along the way, we map the studio as a playground for hybrid sounds—think folk textures fused with electronic sheen—and show how festivals like SIR in Dingle, The Next Big Thing across Dublin and Cork, and RTÉ 2FM Rising build ...
https://www.bostonserinog.com/ Sun on the beach, songs in the heart, and a band that treats tradition like a living passport. We sit down with Boston's Erin Og's Bobby Mullis—calling in from Nosara, Costa Rica—to trace a path from Boston pubs to European decks and back again. Bobby grew up just outside Boston in a big Irish family, fell hard for the Clancy Brothers, and learned the repertoire by ear before ever worrying about originals. That choice defines the band’s identity: they play the c...
Irish culture is moving with uncommon speed and clarity—trad bands storming streaming charts, packed live rooms humming from Dublin to abroad, and a confident voice shaping books and prestige TV. We connect the big picture: how grassroots energy, smart public investment, and global recognition are fusing into a genuine cultural surge rather than a passing trend. We start with the sound: 22 Irish acts landing in the top 100 streams signals a shift in listening habits and identity. Names like ...
Irish music is exploding on the world stage while Ireland doubles down on protecting its past—two stories that are shaping one powerful cultural moment. We pull together hard data, fresh releases, and heritage milestones to show how a small island is making a big, strategic impact. We start with the numbers behind 2025’s surge: Amble’s breakout album Reverie, Fontaine’s DC holding top-selling status for a second year, and the steady global pull of Hosier and CMAT. Then we jump into the creat...
A cultural surge is reshaping how the world hears and sees Ireland—rooted in tradition, wired for modern audiences, and powered by smart investment. We map the new landscape: indie and pop acts gaining global traction, folk projects reworking diaspora memory, and a funding engine deliberately expanding what Irish culture means on international stages. From Cardinals’ anticipated debut to Stella and the Dreaming’s milestone support slot with The Cure, we follow the real signals that a regional...
Irish music is having a moment—and not because it sounds like everything else. We dig into why global listeners are gravitating toward artists who wear their roots on their sleeves, from Fontaines D.C.’s gritty Dublin storytelling to CMAT’s witty, theatrical swagger. Streaming and social discovery reward the unmistakable, so accents, local references, and cultural specificity aren’t barriers anymore; they’re superpowers. That same energy pulses through festivals where Irish-language hip-hop o...
Irish music is roaring, and the numbers prove it. We kick off with a jaw‑dropper: Kneecap, the bilingual Belfast trio, outpaced the Beatles in Irish listenership. That single stat opens a bigger story about a confident, contemporary Irish identity that’s reshaping what the world hears—and how Ireland sees itself. From Fontaines DC’s two Grammy nominations to the enduring spell of Enya, we map a sound that stretches from gritty street poetry to luminous ambient calm, all buoyed by critics at h...
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