Episode 76 is the result of a recommendation from Paul Muldoon that Fender Jackson interviews University of Limerick's Orla Muldoon - no relation - and this is exactly what occurred.

Warning: Conversation includes some themes that some listeners may find upsetting including death, suicide and abuse, however overall this is a very positive conversation with a lot of reassurance and advice.

Topics consist of: introductions; Paul Muldoon; Orla’s day job; the impact of political violence on children and adults; Limerick regeneration; declining mental health in Northern Ireland post Good Friday Agreement; the “Disappeared”; political violence vs. ganglands violence; the Greysteel massacre of 30 October 1993 and the Loughinisland massacre of 18 June 1994; understanding trauma risk; educating young people not to get a box in the head and not to get sexually assaulted; blaming ourselves for trauma caused to us; Limerick; Frank McCourt; WHO’s Global Burden of Disease; Black Lives Matter; women who have been raped; being distressed because of circumstances; Orla’s diagnosis of depression; the stigma of depression; moving to a new place; being connected; the health benefits of joining groups; Dr Grace McMahon; the role of the collective in defining who we are; advice for people to get help; coping in difficult experiences; the stealthlike nature of depression; the Inverted-U theory; children and managing their emotions; making too much of things; life being stressful; the effects of Covid; the interconnectedness of global health and climate; WHO being unelected; conspiracists and inequality; Fender’s traumatic three months; post traumatic growth and other matters.

Relevant Links

The Social Psychology of Trauma

I’ve Overshared and it’s too late to Retract

https://www.ul.ie/research/prof-orla-muldoon

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Episode 75 is the first part of a conversation between Jack L aka Jack Lukeman and Fender Jackson as he completes his 'Echo On' tour in Town Hall Theatre, Galway.

Conversation includes introductions: Dolphin Music Group; music and business; being an independent; Randy Newman; Jacques Brel; The 27 Club; podcasting; songwriting; the positivity of music; happenings; performance of ‘Battle Of The Hawthorn Trees’; musical training; an analysis of Jack’s voice; busking around Europe; The Black Romantics; U2; Ronnie Wood & The Sofas; Conor Brady; John Lee Hooker; Leonard Cohen; Bruce Dickinson; Jimmy Page & Robert Plant; Arthur Brown; Elvis Costello & Steve Nieve; The Pogues; Trevor Horn and other topics.

Relevant Links

www.jacklukeman.com

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Episode 74 is dedicated to Gerry Enright, Kerryman, lover of life, literature and Dublin, with us from March 19, 1960 to July 8, 2019.

Episode 74 features guest interviewer Jerome Corby as he chats with attendants of the annual Drumcondra Joycean Jaunt on the 120th anniversary of Bloomsday.

Drumcondra Joycean Jaunters convened at the current day shrine of the Blessed Virgin in Our Lady’s Park on the banks of the Tolka, across from Fagan’s, to celebrate the day. They followed the short route taken by Stephen Dedalus to his home on Millbourne Avenue. There, under the shadow of the Drumcondra Library, they celebrated the day in the spirit of the first Bloomsday “jant” held 70 years ago in 1954, when amongst others, Patrick Kavanagh (whose first Dublin home was in Drumcondra), set out on a Ulyssesean pilgrimage.

The Ireland Podcast would like to express huge gratitude to Jerome for his efforts in the recording of this podcast. Jerome hosts his own podcast called ‘Country - What It Is’. Definitely worth checking out for all you lovers of American Country Music.

Editing by Fender Jackson. Featured song ‘Rose Of Tralee’ (Edward Mordaunt Spencer and Charles William Glover) performed by Fender Jackson and recorded on Bloomsday 2024.

Interviewees: Seán mac Gabhann; Paul Reardon; Kieran Rogers; Máire O’Dea; Margaret Cleary; Declan Roche; Fiona Dalton; Martin Groves; Clodagh Malone; Leo George Devitt.

Relevant Links

https://www.bloomsdayfestival.ie/event/drumcondra-joycean-jaunt-2/

https://jamesjoyce.ie/

https://www.bloomsdayfestival.ie/

https://open.spotify.com/show/36vYXjUXAhoKal1SldsNDq?si=c85776a0b45b4c83

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Episode 73 is a continuation of Bloomsweek as Fender Jackson interrogates an unsuspecting Jo Hamill just as she completes the installation of her ‘Gutter Words: Art Exhibition’ in the James Joyce Centre in this unusually short publication. 

Jo is an artist, graphic designer and the Head of Art & Design in the Leeds School of Arts at Leeds Beckett University.

Conversation includes introductions; North Yorkshire; what is ‘Gutter Words’; what are “gutter” words; the history of the project as well as other topics.

Relevant Links

https://gutterwords.com

https://jamesjoyce.ie

https://www.bloomsdayfestival.ie

https://andyprisney.wixsite.com/andyprisney

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Episode 72 takes us to the James Joyce Centre at 35 North Great George’s Street, Dublin where Fender Jackson is given a tour by Dr. Josh Q. Newman. The centre was built in 1784 for Valentine Brown, 1st Earl of Kenmare, who used it as his townhouse.

Conversation includes: introductions; front of the James Joyce Centre; Lucia Joyce; David Nolan; artist and walkabout tour guide Jim Ward; Andy Prisney; the Maginni Room; Mamalujo exhibition; Ezra Pound; Finnegan’s Wake; Terence Killeen; the courtyard and door from 7 Eccles Street, the now-demolished home of Leopold Bloom; footleaf; Ulysses Mural by Paul Joyce; timeline; Jo Hamill’s installation; posters; Leah and Mrs. Bandmann Palmer; Tom’s Directory; National Library of Ireland; the old library; cupid the meme and Diane; Suzanne Freeman; Kenmare Room; Jacques-Émile Blanche; John McCormack; 'CONNEXIONS: The Sidewalks of Dublin' by Paula Pohli; Paul Léon Furniture; Joyce’s death mask; Volta room; the Rémi Rosseau exhibition and other topics.

Relevant Links

https://jamesjoyce.ie/

Additional Links

https://www.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/staff/dr-jo-hamill/

https://www.stoneyroadpress.com/books-and-poetry/the-dead

https://galwaytrails.ie/about-jim/

https://www.davidnowlan.com/

https://andyprisney.wixsite.com/andyprisney

https://www.paulapohli-art.com/connexions

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Episode 71 continues with the celebrations of Bloomsweek with another upcycling of an episode recorded in 2023 for The Galway Podcast - this time with Professor Brian Arkins. Brian is a Professor Emeritus of Classics at the University of Galway. He was educated at Clongowes Wood College and at University College Dublin, where he obtained an M.A. in Classics and a Ph.D in Latin. He is the author of 14 books and counting.

Just be mindful that any mentions of Brian’s upcoming lecture of course would have taken place last year. So mind the old ineluctable modality of the audible.

Also you will hear references to Aedín Moloney’s spellbinding performance of ‘Yes! Reflections Of Molly Bloom’. You can hear that conversation with Aedín on episode 70. That is definitely worth checking out to get a great insight into the closing of Ulysses.

Conversation includes: Brian’s education and background; structure; W.B.Yeats; Joyce and Aristotle; Dubliners; A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man; the humour in Joyce’s writing; Aedín Moloney’s performance of ‘Yes! Reflections Of Molly Bloom’; what did Stephen Dedalus do after Blooms Day?; Molly being an earth mother; Shakespeare’s influence; Homer’s influence on Ulysses; Brian’s career and his languages; Nora Barnacle; Joyce and alcohol; Joyce and catholicism; Joyce abroad; Dublin as a character; Joyce and Galway; Joyce’s employment; Joyce and cinema; France vs Ireland; censorship; cubism; Joyce’s depictions in cinema; Gerard Manley Hopkins; Desmond Egan and other topics. 

Relevant Links

Brian Arkins Lifetime Achievement Award

https://charliebyrne.ie/?s=Brian%20Arkins

https://www.peterlang.com/document/1057724

Additional Links

http://www.aedinmoloney.com

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Episode 70 is a continuation of the celebration of Bloomsweek with an upcycled conversation recorded in 2023 for The Galway Podcast between Fender Jackson and Aedín Moloney about her one woman production of 'Yes! Reflections of Molly Bloom'. 

Aedín discusses her take on the (in)famous soliloquy and why she believes it is actually very misunderstood and arguably quite asexual.

Aedín gives an insight to her collaboration of renowned author and fellow Joyce enthusiast, Colum McCann as well as the deeply personal involvement of her father, the late Paddy Moloney (Musician, Composer, Founder and leader of The Chieftains).

Aedín also reminisces about her childhood days in Galway and why bringing 'Yes! Reflections of Molly Bloom' to the west is a form of homecoming as well as part of her father's dying wish. 

Relevant Links

http://www.aedinmoloney.com/

https://www.yesreflectionsofmollybloom.com/

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Episode 69 marks the first of a series promoting the life and works of James Joyce with Fender Jackson interviewing Dr. Josh Q. Newman from the James Joyce Centre in Dublin.

Conversation includes: introductions; early attraction to Joyce’s work; Josh’s career path; the historiography of Joyce’s work including the nationalist movements at the time; Darina Gallagher; The Maginni Room and Denis J. Maginni; a history of the James Joyce Centre; Valentine Browne; the Georgian Preservation Society; finances; Senator David Norris; the types of visitors; Joyce in other languages; coming to Joyce from abroad after having lived in Ireland for a number of years; advice for people who have not yet got Joyce; the Joyce Project; Ulysses being an encyclopaedic novel; 1798 Rebellion; Joyce’s library; American academics and patrons; Richard Ellmann; Joyce and censorship in Ireland; Joyce’s employment abroad; patrons; Edith Rockefeller; Harriet Shaw Weaver; Margaret Anderson; Ezra Pound; royalties; the different publications of Ulysses; translations; Joyce’s health and his death; his wife Nora Barnacle and their children; Stephen Joyce; the James Joyce estate; Joyce’s style of writing and his impact on literature; neologisms; Joyce’s connection with cinema; The Third Man; Bloomsday; Mummers of Fingal; Happenings Ireland; Breathe and Bloom as well as other topics.

Relevant Links

https://www.bloomsdayfestival.ie/ 

https://jamesjoyce.ie/

Additional Links

https://www.joyceproject.com/

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Episode 68 champions Niall Teague and his wonderful music as he teams up with his musical partner Padraic Joyce for the third Galway Folk Festival.

Conversation includes: introductions; booking and playing a gig in Taibhdhearc; performance of ‘Achill Island’; drones and social media; Achill Island; Keem Bay; Keel Beach; midges; The Ponderosa; Maghera and all the McKennas; Ormeau Road and Belfast; Environmental Science; performance of ‘Martin & Tom’; right hand guitar technique; Andy Irvine; sweat and plectrums; performance of ‘Lost On The Wander’; Fender’s piano; Padraic Joyce; Gaelic in their music; Liam Ó Maonlaí and the improv; Akira The Don; Galway Folk Festival; finding your voice as a singer; Neil Young’s ‘After The Gold Rush Album; Tom Waits on ‘Jesus Blood Never Failed Me Yet’; John Lennon; John Devlin; 

Relevant Links

https://www.facebook.com/niallteagueandpadraicjoycemusic

https://www.niallteagueandpadraicjoycemusic.com

https://www.instagram.com/nialljamesteague/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OaALsYvYZY

Additional Links

https://galwayfolkfestival.com/

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/58Jzyl9CGts0f7vw58S7n2?si=b66c47a3bee54403

Correction: The most western point of Ireland is Dunmore Head. Located on the Dingle Peninsula in County Kerry, Dunmore Head is part of the stunning and rugged landscape of the Wild Atlantic Way. The coordinates for Dunmore Head are approximately 52.0996° N latitude and 10.4718° W longitude. 

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Episode 67 features Seán Keane in conversation with Fender Jackson in the run up to the third Galway Folk Festival running from 5th to 9th June 2024.

Conversation includes: introductions; other jobs; McConnells; Geordie Hanna; early fleadhs; McConnells; the musicality of the Keane Family; Seosamh Ó hÉanaí; Seosamh Mac Donncha; Geordie Hanna; Len Graham; Cathal McConnell; Northern vs. Connemara vs. West Cork; Paddy Tunney; Arty McGlyn; ornamentation; Arty McGlynn; Seán being turned off and then onto the guitar; tuning up; doing rightly; maintaining credibility and spanning genres; Elvis; 'Gratitude' album with the RTÉ Orchestra; arranger Gavin Murphy; conductor David Brophy; separating from the orchestra and David’s heroic stagecoaching; Galway Folk Festival; Gary Monroe; sneezing; sean-nós; ballads; Raglan Road; Lyric FM; John Creedon; John Kelly; Laurie Anderson; learning lyrics; Del Boy and other topics. 

Also there’s some musical performances with some musical accompaniment from Fender.

Relevant Links

https://www.seankeane.com

https://galwayfolkfestival.com

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0lhTGc9ZkzSKoUjDpojA1G?si=85ab65adee634f18

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