Two clouds, one guest. Every person and place he mentions, and the words he used most. Can you guess who joins us on the upcoming episode of Irish Stew? We reveal him tomorrow.

Two clouds, one guest. Every person and place he mentions, and the words he used most. Can you guess who joins us on the upcoming episode of Irish Stew? We reveal him tomorrow.
Sherlock Holmes vs. the Fenians. Irish Stew guests Terry Golway and Ted Smyth on Terry's novel Terror from America at Glucksman Ireland House, NYU last night.
Second photo: Delaney Sweet
Alone in an empty apartment during COVID, Irish jazz singer Austin O'Brien took a hard look at himself. He tells us what he found on Irish Stew.
Photo: Charlotte Assad-Graziani
Mid-song, Austin O'Brien felt a mistake coming. Then, he says, his late father was behind him: "You're going to be okay." A moving moment on Irish Stew.
Photo: Charlotte Assad-Graziani
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Recording at the Van Gelder Studio in New Jersey, where jazz history was made: "We're in Disneyland for a jazzman." Austin O'Brien on the new Irish Stew.
Photo: Charlotte Assad-Graziani
Austin O'Brien's father bought a house with £6,000 in cash from the boot of his car. Just one of the stories the Irish jazz singer shares on Irish Stew.
Photo: Charlotte Assad-Graziani
One night, six or seven Paris jazz clubs, and a new singer in town by morning. Irish jazz singer Austin O'Brien on the new Irish Stew.
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An Irish jazz singer who hears music like a picture. Austin O'Brien is on the upcoming episode of Irish Stew. It drops at midnight New York time, so make sure you're following us on your favorite podcast platform. #GlobalIrishNation #IrishPodcast #SpéirGhorm
Two clouds, one guest. Every person and place he mentions, and the words he used most. Can you guess who joins us on the upcoming episode of Irish Stew? Reveal later today. #GlobalIrishNation #IrishPodcast #SpéirGhorm
"If you want to get to know someone super intimately, you just move an archive across the world."
Linda Croston on shipping 50 years of Project Children to Monaghan.
New Irish Stew: www.irishstewpodcast.com/croston-flood/
350-plus people, five days, 11 events in Monaghan for Project Children's 50th. The team behind it: two volunteers.
"Everyone thinks we had a big team."
New Irish Stew: www.irishstewpodcast.com/croston-flood/
For those that are fond of things #Viking and in #Dublin, former guest Neil Jackman will be speaking at the Festival of History about his exciting work in #Waterford
Remember when the whole internet argued about the color of a dress? Former guest @marklittle.bsky.social asks how we get that web back in The Last Good Day on the Internet.
He's in Nenagh this Saturday at 8pm: www.nenagharts.com/?p=15497
Third generation, fourth generation, never been to Ireland. Linda Croston on what the Mulcahy Scholarship shows young Irish Americans about where they came from.
New Irish Stew: www.irishstewpodcast.com/croston-flood/
Our co-host Martin worked on Capel Street before leaving Dublin for America in the 1980s. The Northside and Southside divide was always there, but on recent visits it has seemed more pronounced. Una Mullally in the Irish Times on one evening on that street 👇
23,000 children left Northern Ireland for a summer in America with Project Children. Catherine Flood reckons another 43,000 wanted to.
New Irish Stew: www.irishstewpodcast.com/croston-flood/
"Cothaigh do spiorad agus d'anam." Nourish your spirit and soul.
Martin's brother Stiofán ended his Inishbofin trip alone on the Cloonamore cliffs, watching Atlantic waves break for half an hour.
In Irish and English:
What struck Linda Croston when she landed in New York from West Cork: an Irish community that looks after its own and gives back to its own.
New Irish Stew: www.irishstewpodcast.com/croston-flood/
"The name alone is almost like it's meant to be."
Catherine Flood on why the Project Children archive found its home at the Monaghan Peace Campus.