Montreal boasts the largest Bloomsday festival in Canada with event-filled days that stretch over five to six days.

Deirdre Finnerty - For over seventy years, Bessborough House, a grand country mansion on the outskirts of Cork city, operated as one of Ireland’s biggest mother and baby institutions.

Michele Holmgren: Canada to Ireland: Poetry, Politics, and the Shaping of Canadian Nationalism, 1788-1900 In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Irish writers played a key role in transatlantic cultural conversations

Patrick Murray Exec Director with a monthly review of Irish Movies. This month: Taking a look at KANOPY, the streaming service available through the local library www.irishfilmfestivalottawa.ca

Ambassador McKee talks of the process of "imagining " what Ireland could be as history unfolded

Gavin Foster: Civil War & the early years of the Irish Free State

Eamonn McKee: Irish Ambassador to Canada

Claudia Carroll, Actor, Author and Playwrite

John P. Kelly & Robin Guy

Marc MacLoughlin: BRANAR TÉATAR DO PHÁISTÍ, IRELAND