The Rolling Wave

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The Rolling Wave episodes

February 12, 2025 Ep.71 - Fiddle-player Martin Hayes
In this episode, Aoife is joined by fiddle-player Martin Hayes. Martin has chosen a selection of music for us to play on the programme, which, for him, are formative recordings and ones to which he returns all the time.
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40 min
September 23, 2024 Ep. 70 - Kathleen Loughnane
In this episode Aoife talks to Kathleen Loughnane about her work on the Patrick O'Neill manuscripts and about learning harp, playing with Dordán, her own approach to tunes, and the popularity of the harp today.
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36 min
September 07, 2024 Ep. 69 - The Willie Clancy Summer School in pictures with Tony Kearns
Photographer Tony Kearns has been taking photos at the Willie Clancy Summer School since 1992 and in this episode he talks about some of those pictures, the musicians in them and his own relationship with the summer school.
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29 min
August 30, 2024 Ep. 68 - Josephine Marsh - 111 Original Irish Music Compositions
Musician and composer Josephine Marsh has just published a new book of her compositions and in this episode she talks about the stories behind the tunes as well as her own route into music.
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32 min
May 31, 2024 Ep. 67 - Memories of Denis Murphy (Part 2)
The second of two programmes marking the 50th anniversary of the death of Sliabh Luachra fiddle player Denis Murphy. These programmes were made by Peter Browne and originally broadcast on RTÉ Radio 1 in 1995.
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45 min
May 24, 2024 Ep. 66 - Memories of Denis Murphy (Part 1)
The first of two programmes marking the 50th anniversary of the death of Sliabh Luachra fiddle player Denis Murphy. These programmes were made by Peter Browne and originally broadcast on RTÉ Radio 1 in 1995.
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46 min
May 17, 2024 Ep. 65 - Seán McElwain on the music of the Sliabh Beagh region
Aoife speaks with musician and writer Seán McElwain about his new book ‘Our Dear Dark Mountain with the Sky Over It’. The books tells the story of James Whiteside who collected music in the Sliabh Beagh region, an area on the border between Northern Ireland and the south straddling counties Fermanagh and Monaghan in the late 1900s.
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21 min
April 26, 2024 Ep. 64 - Lauren Ní Néill
In this episode Aoife meets harper and CEO of Harp Ireland, Lauren Ní Néill.
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32 min
April 19, 2024 Ep. 63 - Toner Quinn 'What Ireland can teach the world about music'
In this episode Toner Quinn talks to Aoife about his new book 'What Ireland can teach the world about music and other essays'.
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41 min
February 24, 2024 Ep. 62 - Legendary Donegal fiddle players
In this episode I'm joined by Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh and Dermot McLaughlin to talk about some of the great names in Donegal fiddle playing.
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45 min

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The Rolling Wave celebrates all that is great about Irish Traditional music. We speak to musicians, delve into archives, showcase new releases and visit some of the many traditional music festivals…