The Genealogy Show – Boys Names For All Ages -Series 14 Episode 5

Posted on February 4, 2021 by Steven A

Paulines Poems with Rob, Emma, Mike Barry, Jasna – 03.02.21

Posted on February 3, 2021 by Steven A

What better way to unwind than to join the Craol 2018 award winning show with Pauline Skehan and friends for poetry, chat and song. An accomplished poet, This week Pauline is joined weekly by Rob Hopkins Emma, Mike,Barry and Jasna.

Radio Beams – Kilfenora Ceile Band John Lynch tells us about them

Posted on February 2, 2021 by Steven A

Radio Beams this week story 3.30pm on www.rcb.ie is the story of the centaury old Kilfenora Ceili Band. John Lynch tells the story. John grandfather played with the band.
The Kilfenora band played in hundreds of venues around Ireland and played in Glastonbury twice and along with the USA.
Still going strong entertaining audience and still producing albums.

Posted on February 1, 2021 by Steven A

Message for Lá Fhéile Bríde from Uachtarán Michael D. Higgins, President of Ireland

“On St. Brigid’s Day, Lá Fhéile Bríde, the people of Ireland traditionally celebrate the beginning of Spring, heralding as it does the arrival of longer and warmer days, and the beauty of new beginnings as the natural world reawakens.

Throughout the centuries, the day of veneration of St. Brigid, which itself was inspired by the Celtic celebration of ‘Imbolc’ associated with the fertility goddess Brigid, has been an opportunity for people to make a symbolic journey, either tangibly, as a pilgrimage to a holy well, or more symbolically, re-connecting with the sacredness of the land and the splendour of the sky.

It is from this tradition that Lá Fhéile Bríde has evolved to become, in contemporary times, a celebration of the creativity, genius, courage and achievement of Irish women.

The first of February is the day when we celebrate the life of St. Brigid, who in earlier and ancient times was known as the goddess Brigid, a powerful woman and the patroness of, among other things, healing, the arts, fertility, and agriculture.

St. Brigid was a woman who rejected the conventions of her time, who dedicated herself to innovation in the realm of education, and who, in seeking to ensure that her voice was heard in a male-dominated world, had to summon an extraordinary courage, transcend obstacles, and not just survive but put a new version of things in place. How appropriate, then, our invoking her is for our present circumstances.

Generations of Irish women have benefited from her inspiration and legacy. Today, as we recall her story with admiration, may we also resolve to seek inspiration in her example, to pursue our ideal of equality, universal respect for rights, and a better world for all our citizens, male and female.

We do so, as we seek strength together in such values as solidarity, care, compassion and kindness, and in the knowledge that our resolve has been sorely tested in the past year. For some the mustering of courage has been harder than others. They must be in a special place in our collective thoughts and actions.

Since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, thousands of people have lost their lives to the virus. Many of those they left were without the intimacy of their passing or the opportunity to grieve as they would wish. Countless people too have seen their lives radically altered, their livelihoods curtailed and the social bonds, from which they drew comfort and joy, ruptured.

It is appropriate that we all pause to acknowledge the distress of all those for whom the pandemic has brought such pain and loss, and all those who are now experiencing loneliness and isolation from the contacts with those who previously sustained them.

We must all recognise, that while the justified and necessary measures to protect public health, and to which we must give an ever greater effort, it is equally important to be sensitive to the undeniable fact that they have had a profound impact on so many, and for some more than others.

And so, as we celebrate the courage and commitment of St. Brigid in her day, we in our day pay tribute to all of those who, in their different ways, continue to put their lives at risk as they continue their important work, for the benefit of all of us their fellow citizens.

Future generations will recall, I am sure, and feel grateful for, the enormous debt of gratitude we owe to all those workers who have responded to the pandemic with such courage, “misneach”, such care, “cúram”, and with a spirit of solidarity, “dlúthpháirtíocht”.

As we prepare to move into the brighter, warmer days of Spring, with the renewed hope that it brings, the reality of the present, the present we share, is that the winter of the Covid pandemic is still upon us, and continues. The dark days of the pandemic will continue to challenge us for some time, and while lockdown fatigue is very real and palpable for so many, we must continue our journey within and muster up courage.

Moving through such moments of darkness, it is important to celebrate the light that comes from our common determination to see out the challenge. Just as the seasons change, this crisis, too, will pass. As an old Caribbean song puts it ‘time heals everything’. How long it will take, and how high the price is that we will pay for it, depends, to a large extent, on how we react today, and in the weeks ahead.

Spring and springtime offer rebirth, rejuvenation, renewal, resurrection and regrowth. May we all find it.

So, today, on Lá Fhéile Bríde, as we move closer to the Spring Equinox, let us hold firm in solidarity and take solace in the transformations that Spring will bring and the joys of Summer which, although we still have some distance to travel to them, are surely awaiting us.

Beir beannacht.”

The Genealogy Show – GAA, Part 2 Over The Bar. Series 14 Episode 4

Posted on January 28, 2021 by Steven A

Paulines Poems with Pauline Rob and Emma

Posted on January 27, 2021 by Steven A

What better way to unwind than to join the Craol 2018 award winning show with Pauline Skehan and friends for poetry, chat and song. An accomplished poet, Pauline is joined this week by Rob, Emma.

Radio Beams – Laura Foley on growing hemp in Carrigaholt (CBD Oil)

Posted on January 26, 2021 by Steven A

Radio Beams show on Tuesday (26th January 21 ) is about the growing of hemp in Carrigholt in west Clare. We speak to one of the owners Laura Foley who with her partner Daniel Lyons developed this project on a small bit of land. Where the extract CDB oil from the plant. CDB is now widely used and is approved by the HSE.

The Genealogy Show – GAA The Back of The Net – Series 14 Episode 3

Posted on January 21, 2021 by Steven A

Paulines Poems with Pauline, Rob, Lisa, Emma, Jasnan, Ken

Posted on January 21, 2021 by Steven A

What better way to unwind than to join the Craol 2018 award winning show with Pauline Skehan and friends for poetry, chat and song. An accomplished poet, Pauline is joined weekly by Rob Hopkins and makes for an enjoyable half hour show.

Radio Beams – Freda Shannon Burke on the loss of her husband Joe.

Posted on January 20, 2021 by Steven A

Radio Beams this week story is from Freda Shannon Burke from Miltown Malbay.
She talks about her training as a nurse in England yearning to come home to work.
She did and found love in her middle forties to Joe Burke who was in his middle fifties also from Miltown Malbay.
They got married in 2016. Two years after Joe got very sick suddenly and it was discovered he had brain tumour. He ended up passing away in Cahercalla hospital after four weeks
Freda tell of her heart break of losing her true love.

The Founder of Ford, A Far Cry from Cork Ancestry by Cian O Dea, Nicholas O Halloran, Maeve Keyes, Cuan O Foghlu

Posted on January 14, 2021 by Steven A

Paulines Poems

Posted on January 13, 2021 by Steven A

The Genealogy Show – The Business of Brewing – Guinness Family Affairs by The Genealogy Wolves on places with Merriman Research – Series 14 – Episode 1

Posted on January 7, 2021 by Steven A

Radio Beams – Josie O Brian, Street Homlessness

Posted on January 6, 2021 by Steven A

Christmas Special with Brian Davis with guest Shane Angland

Posted on December 24, 2020 by Steven A

Paulines Poems Christmas Special

Posted on December 23, 2020 by Steven A

Reflections

Posted on December 21, 2020 by Steven A

The Genealogy Show Series 11, Ep 13 Deeds Not Words Part 2 – Martin Moore 16th Century Kerry

Posted on December 17, 2020 by Steven A

Radio Beams – Larry Brennan on the lanes and bow ways of Ennis

Posted on December 15, 2020 by Steven A

Radio Beams story this week is about the new book written and produced by Larry Brennan The Lanes and Bow ways of Ennis.
It is part of the Clare Roots Group of 36 books produced since it set up in 2006.
We get a great insight to the conditions of thousands of people living in hovels and over crowded dwellings in the lanes and bow ways of Ennis. Until at the beginning of the last century houses were build in St Michael Villas, Hermitage, Turnpike etc. to take people out of these conditions.

Radio Beams story this week is about the new book written and produced by Larry Brennan The Lanes and Bow ways of…

Posted by RCB Radio- South West Clare on Tuesday, 15 December 2020

The Genealogy Show Series 11, Ep 12 Deeds Not Words, 16th Century Kerry – Martin Moore

Posted on December 10, 2020 by Steven A

Raidio Corca Baiscinn Keeping You in the Loop

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