IRISH STEW Podcast

LIVE at @Solasnuacht 2026 Capital Irish Film Festival with director Colin McIvor & producer Ruth Carter, whose psychological thriller No Ordinary Heist had just been screened before a packed house. The film doesn’t let go. Neither does the conversation irishstewpodcast.com/colin-mcivor-r…

Irish Stew making headlines in @IrishCentral!

One genealogy consultation at EPIC changed this Irish American’s view of her roots forever. irishcentral.com/epic-irish-fam…

West of Ireland Couple and Horses, painting by Gerard Dillon, Irish artist (1916-71).

"I had the whole script pasted on the backboard of my hotel room so I could see from start to finish where we were in the story," says Eleanor O'Brien of the Irish language film Báite, winner of the Capital Irish Film Festival Audience Favorite Award. irishstewpodcast.com/ciff-2026-wrap/

In our Capital Irish Film Festival finale, Film Ireland's Gemma Creagh says, "#GameOfThrones came into Northern Ireland and it was the biggest production that had ever been in Ireland. The impact was huge." irishstewpodcast.com/ciff-2026-wrap…

Just finished reading @cormacmoore’s book on the Boundary Commission. It’s very good. Shows how the odds were stacked against the nationalist side due to the ambiguous wording of Article 12 of the Treaty & the UK govt appointing the Commission’s chair. Free State side played its weak hand hand poorly. Eoin MacNeill comes across badly as does WT Cosgrave. Would Kevin O’Higgins have been a better Irish appointee to the Commission?

Three Films, Five Voices: Irish Stew Wraps the Capital Irish Film Festival. @Solasnuacht @RuanMagan @johnleemedia @FilmIreland irishstewpodcast.com/ciff-2026-wrap/

@EmmaCDeSouza See you there

And we're off. Over the next five days I'll be leading this year's Northern Ireland Emerging Leaders delegation in Washington DC and New York. Our schedule is absolutely packed. Excited for this year's cohort who will be presenting their policy papers.

Four days. Three films. Five voices. Irish Stew was back as podcast-in-residence at the @Solasnuacht Capital Irish Film Festival in Washington DC. We wanted to capture a flavor of what the experience had to offer. Give it a listen and let us know!

Battering ram used to evict the Bermingham family from their cottage on the Vandeleur estate in Kilrush, County Clare, Ireland. Photo thought to be by Timothy O'Connor (National Library of Ireland).

Every lighthouse in Ireland, with accurate timings, flash patterns and colours. Map by Neil Southall.

@jannetwalsh @IrishEcho @celticjunction

My Book - Here's the story of my Irish family, Ireland, Canada, and finally to rural Minnesota. My family found our way with faith to a new world in rural Minnesota, and we are still thriving. @IrishStewCast @IrishEcho #irishheritage #irishancestry facebook.com/share/p/15qiwL…

@DanMulhall Commemorated that epic event at the Irish Maritime Awards last week thanks to @IrishEcho & @newbelfast. And just finished this amazing account of it…

An Irish friend in Western Australia, Dave McKnight, attended the recent commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the escape of six Fenians on board the #Catalpa. He sent me this photo showing six pelicans flying in formation over the Catalpa monument at Rockingham near Perth.

Quite an event! Irish Maritime leaders saluted at inaugural awards irishecho.com/2026/4/irish-m… via @IrishEcho

The coldest beer in town? Farrell’s in Windsor Terrace #Brooklyn makes that claim! A film is in the works exploring the history of the bar called “Why Farrell’s?” @NY1 #NYC #Beer

@dublin_damo Did your horse come in at Leopardstown? 🏇

Flights booked to Japan for Christmas, it's a long way off, but I'm still giddy, Japan has always been top of my travel bucket list, but for years, I just couldn't afford it.

@DanMulhall Commentated that epic event at the Irish Maritime Awards last week thanks to @IrishEcho & @newbelfast. And just finished reading this amazing account of it…

Episode 45 of Transatlantic is live! We are off to the 18th century frontiers of Georgia & South Carolina, chatting about the remarkable life of an Armagh emigrant among the Muscogee (Creek) people, and the intimate relationships he maintained: shows.acast.com/transatlantic/…

@NiallStanage Such brilliant writing

I was just saying here a few weeks ago that the sharpness of “Yes Minister” hasn’t dulled at all in the decades since it was made. And here we are…