Hello and welcome to this week’s episode of Ireland Creates the podcast about Irish Storytellers.

I’m your host Aisling O’ Rourke I am a communications coach and lecturer in Media. I hope you’re having a great week.

If you are new here you can follow me on instagram @aislingmakesstories or connect with me on LinkedIn at Aisling O’ Rourke Communications Coach.

This week I am joined by a fellow Offaly native Brendan Fox who is leading a very exciting new project in the midlands.

I hope you enjoy listening to our chat. There are plenty more interesting stories in our back catalogue you can find out more about the podcast on Ireland Creates.com

Thanks to Claire Creative for our artwork and Peter Baxter at Create School for our theme tune.

If you would like help with finding clarity in your communications I can be contacted through www.aislingorourke.com Please don’t hesitate to get in touch.

But for now, remember a good story is 22 times more likely to connect with your target audience. I hope you have a great week. Until next time I’m Aisling O’ Rourke and I want to encourage you to share your story.

Hello and welcome to this week’s episode of Ireland Creates the podcast about Irish Storytellers.

I’m your host Aisling O’ Rourke I am a communications coach and lecturer in Media. I hope you’re having a great week. If you are listening to this from outside of this emerald isle things have started opening up again and hope abounds, I went into the hairdresser during the week and I was completely taken aback by just how nice it was to hear banter. I really do hope that we are on the road to recovery.

On this episode we hear from our first Journalist guest, an award-winning Courts Correspondent, Author and Galway native, a former colleague of mine and co-owner of @botownburgers Frank Greaney. I hope you enjoy hearing his story.

I want to thank Frank for being so generous with his time. I hope you enjoy listening to our chat. There are plenty more interesting stories in our back catalogue you can find out more about the podcast on Ireland Creates.com

Thanks to Claire Creative for our artwork and Peter Baxter at Create School for our theme tune.

If you would like help with finding clarity in your communications I can be contacted through www.aislingorourke.com Please don’t hesitate to get in touch.

But for now remember a good story is 22 times more likely to connect with your target audience. I hope you have a great week. Until next time I’m Aisling O’ Rourke and I want to encourage you to share your story.

Hello and welcome to this week’s episode of Ireland Creates. I’m your host Aisling O'Rourke I’m a communications coach and lecturer in Media and Photography. And this podcast is all about the art of storytelling. Each episode I speak with a guest who uses storytelling in their daily practice.

I hope you are having a great week and this podcast finds you safe and well.

If you are new here please do hit that follow button on your preferred podcast platform every click counts. I hope you enjoy the episode and remember there are plenty of episodes in our back catalogue for you to delve into. And if you would like to support the podcast you can do so on www.irelandcreates.com

And now onto today’s guest, this chat is a little longer than usual but I think when you hear Letizia Lopreiato’s story you will understand why. I hope you enjoy hearing from Letizia, I certainly enjoyed our chat. If you would like to find out more about her work you can follow on instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/letizia_lety_lopreiato/

If you would like help with finding clarity in your communications I can be contacted through www.aislingorourke.com

But for now, remember a good story is 22 times more likely to connect with your target audience. I hope you have a great week. Until next time I’m Aisling O’ Rourke and I want to encourage you to share your story.

Hello and welcome to this week’s episode of Ireland Creates. I’m your host Aisling O'Rourke I’m a communications coach and lecturer in Media and Photography.

I hope you are having a great week and this podcast finds you safe and well.

If you are new here please do hit that follow button on your preferred podcast platform every click counts. I hope you enjoy the episode and remember there are plenty of episodes in our back catalogue for you to delve into.

I want to thank all of you for your support, from your gifts to your donations I am blown away by your generosity and encouragement to keep this podcast on the virtual road.

In this week's episode, I speak to writer and educator Tracy Fahy. Tracy is an Irish Gothic writer and we speak about her latest book I spit myself out, her love of storytelling and teaching, and our joint interest in Type 1 Diabetes. 

On this week's episode of Ireland Creates Aisling speaks with Shia Conlon. 

Shia Conlon is an artist and writer currently based in Helsinki. Conlon works with photo, film, sculpture and writing. Much of his work has been centred around marginalized voices and about growing up in the landscape of working-class Catholic Ireland. His work has been exhibited in London, New York, Dublin, Helsinki, San Francisco amongst others. 

We spoke about Shia's recent transition as a transgender man and his role as an advocate in the queer community and how we need to think about storytelling as part of our own creative legacy. 

You can find out more about Shia on his Instagram here and you can follow Aisling here. If you would like to work with Aisling on your storytelling skills you can find out more about the training she offers at www.aislingorourke.com

Hello and welcome to this week’s episode of Ireland Creates, the podcast about Irish storytellers, both those that are based here in Ireland and those with a connection to this emerald isle.

I hope you are safe and well and that you had a nice break over Easter. I took a wee holiday from work if not an actual holiday over the last fortnight which luckily coincided with getting my AstraZeneca vaccine. So I am well rested and looking forward to a new season of Ireland Creates and I have some fantastic guests lined up to join us over the coming weeks.

As always please do support the podcast through my website www.IrelandCreates.com you can use the donate button to contribute towards the project, little or large every donation is gratefully received and thank you to those of you who have already donated.

On this week’s episode I’m joined by a fellow Offaly person who is building a name for himself in the country music scene. I hope you enjoy Colin Kenny’s story.

If you liked hearing from Colin you can follow his work over on his Facebook page

That’s it for this week’s episode of Ireland Creates thank you for listening and supporting the podcast. If you liked this episode please do share it with your family and friends. You can follow me on instagram @Aislingmakesstories and remember to #shareyourstory #IrelandCreates #creativity #storytelling 

Hello and welcome to this week’s episode of Ireland Creates the podcast about Irish storytellers, both those that are based here in Ireland and those with a connection to this emerald isle.

I hope you are safe and well this week, I don’t know about you but seeing the sun finally coming out has certainly lifted my spirits.

I want to give a big shout out to and congratulations to one of our recent guests on the podcast Clare Lyons. Clare has just been selected as one of 5 Irish artists to join Futures, Co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union, Futures is a platform focused on amplifying emerging talents in photography. Clare was put forward by PhotoIreland and is joined on the list by Aoife Herrity, Audrey Gillespie, Jialin Long, and Mark Duffy. Congratulations to all of you it’s a fantastic opportunity.

I also want to thank those of you who have responded to my callout for guests on the podcast, the invitation remains open and I look forward to hearing from you. You can drop me a line at [email protected]

This week's guest is singer-songwriter and educator Edel Meade from Tipperary. 

I hope you enjoyed hearing from Edel please do go to edelmeade.com  and Bandcamp to find out more about her and to purchase Brigids and Patricias.

Ireland Creates will be back with its next episode on Thursday, April 15th in the meantime please check out the back catalogue, follow me on Instagram and remember to share your story.

Hello and welcome to this week’s episode of Ireland Creates a podcast about Ireland’s storytellers.

I’m your host Aisling O’ Rourke.

If this is your first time listening, thank you for joining us. Each week I speak with a creative based here in Ireland or with a connection to Ireland about their lives, their creative practice and what storytelling means to them. This is episode 16 so I would encourage you to check out the back catalogue, it’s full of conversations with a selection of Ireland’s talented creators.

On last week’s episode, I asked you to get in contact with me to suggest future guests and emphasised the importance of making the podcast as inclusive as possible and I’d like to thank those of you who got in touch with me to suggest a number of people so I have a great list of future guests for Ireland Creates but that offer remains open, you can contact me through my website www.aislingorourke.com or on Instagram @aislingmakesstories.

This week I speak with Noelle Brown, she has done amazing work as an artist and an adoption rights activist and I hope you go to the Abbey Theatre’s you tube channel to check out her latest project Home Part 1. 

Well, that’s it for this week, I’ll be back next week with another episode of Ireland Creates, in the meantime stay safe and remember to share your story.

Hello and welcome to this week’s episode of Ireland Creates episode 15 of this podcast talking to the storytellers behind the story.

In this episode, I speak with Dublin based painter Denise French about starting off in college at the age of 40 while taking care of three small children and how her practice has grown and developed in the years since.

I personally love the emotive nature of Denise’s paintings and so it was a pleasure to sit down with her virtually and have a chat.

This week we marked international women’s day 2021 and as you may remember from the last episode for the month of March I’ve decided to feature female artists, to help do my bit to support women creators.

However, I know that’s not enough. I want to make Ireland Creates a podcast that represents the wealth of talent that we have in Ireland, storytellers originally not from Ireland but have made this wee green isle their home, to storytellers from the LGBTQ  community, minority groups and more. I want this to be an inclusive podcast where storytellers living in Ireland or with a connection to Ireland have a chance to share their story regardless of their origins, sexual orientation or backgrounds.

So if you know of a storyteller based here that you would like to hear featured on Ireland Creates please get in touch with me through my website www.AislingORourke.com and let me know.

And please do remember you can back the podcast on Patreon here.

Thanks again to Denise French for speaking to me you can check out her work on www.denisefrench.net or look for Denise French Artist on Instagram or Facebook.

Our theme tune is by CreateSchool.ie

Have a great week, remember to share your story.

Hello and welcome to this week’s episode of Ireland creates the podcast about Ireland’s storytellers across all artforms.

Today we turn to the world of photography, but before we get into today’s episode I want to thank those of you who have decided to back Ireland Creates. As you know I recently launched the podcast on Patreon the platform that supports creators right around the world share their work. So if you like what you hear and want to keep this show on the road please do go onto www.patreon.com/irelandcreates

One of the things I love about creating this podcast is the community that’s building up around it, from those of you who message me to say you listen each week to the fabulous guests I get to speak with for each episode. I thoroughly enjoy hearing from you so please do feel free to message me through my website www.AislingORourke.com or on Instagram @Aislingmakesstories.

This month I have decided to celebrate female artists as we are in March the month of International women's day and I’m delighted to say that over the month we will hear from visual artists, a performance artist and a musician among others. Traditionally women do not speak as much about their work and so I am focusing on women this month to encourage all women to speak loud and proudly about their creative practice.

And now onto today’s guest a woman who has become known for her distinctive photographic storytelling techniques Clare Lyons.

I hope you enjoyed hearing Clare’s Story I would highly recommend you check out her work.

Thanks for listening and remember to check out  www.patreon.com/irelandcreates to support the podcast.

I’ll be back next week with another episode of Ireland creates in the meantime remember to share your story.