A finger on the pulse of WEXFORD, the Sunny South East of IRELAND. Listen to locals express their views. Enjoy interviews with some of WEXFORD'S most influential people. Hear discussions on Politics, Economics, Social Affairs, Art, Culture, Sport, the Environment and much more. Delight in SPECIAL GLOBAL FEATURES, DOCUMENTARIES, and SHORT STORIES. We INVITE YOU to share your opinions and HIGHLIGHT ISSUES that concern you. This podcast is run by Michael Freeman and Jim Corcoran. Michael is a director of "Three Sisters Press".
Episodes
Sunday Feb 05, 2023
Back by popular demand Liam Griffin. The man behind the Legend.
Sunday Feb 05, 2023
Sunday Feb 05, 2023
Phil Murphy, former Sports Editor for the 'People Newspaper Group', editor of the popular 'Ireland's Own Anthology ', horse racing pundit, and newspaper columnist, interviews his good friend, and sporting legend, Liam Griffin.
In this, (the first of three interviews) they discuss Liam's early years, his life in Rosslare, and how his parents helped mould him into the successful business man, family man and the sporting hero, he has become.
Wednesday Jan 25, 2023
I hour of Chamber Music
Wednesday Jan 25, 2023
Wednesday Jan 25, 2023
1 Hour of Uninterrupted CHAMBER MUSIC to chill out and relax to.
Enjoy!
Wednesday Jan 25, 2023
Ireland’s 14 Oscar nominations.
Wednesday Jan 25, 2023
Wednesday Jan 25, 2023
What a wonderful week it has been for the Irish Film Industry with 14 Oscar nominations.
What is all the more pleasing, is the fact that these nominations are the result of Irish talent. They are Irish films and not big budget Hollywood block busters, that came here to avail of generous tax breaks. They may be stripped back productions financially, but all the richer for it, because they rely on gifted storytelling, portrayed by gifted actors, who reveal the intricate pulse of this iconic nation. I love the fact this 'cinematic manna from Heaven' proudly carries 'made in Ireland' all over the products.
Thursday Jan 19, 2023
Composer Poet and Author Arnold Box
Thursday Jan 19, 2023
Thursday Jan 19, 2023
British born Arnold Bax was best known for his Orchestral Music. He was also a Poet and a Writer and spent many summers in Glencolmcille, Co. Donegal, where he learned to speak the Irish language. His work was inspired by the poets of the 'Celtic Revival' and he was particularly influenced by W. B.Yeats. He wrote poetry under the pseudonym Dermot O' Byrne and much of his poems lauded the fight for Irish freedom. He was knighted in 1937. He is buried in St. Finbarr's cemetery Cork.
Thursday Jan 19, 2023
My trip to Rottnest Island W.A.
Thursday Jan 19, 2023
Thursday Jan 19, 2023
Western Australia is blessed with an abundance of picture-postcard beaches stretching out for miles in opposite directions. White sands, starkly contrasting with the shimmering aquamarine Indian Ocean are indeed a sight to behold. But for me, Paradise was to be found not on those amazing beaches but off-shore, on the 19 sq. kilometres of Rottnest Island. Beaches stretching for miles are an awesome sight, and perhaps that is my problem. I find them intimidating. I like the intimacy of small beaches and sandy coves, places where you can discover another treasure around every headland. For me 'Rottnest' was a Paradise Island, a place where I felt a close affinity, that I was not just a grain of sand on some monstrous beach, lost in the vastness of it all. This island is intimate. I could almost feel its heartbeat, the subtle fragrance of its perfume resting on the air, its shallow breath on the fluttering leaves, its lullaby on the lapping waters of the coves and rocky outcrops. Yet one man's paradise can be another man's prison.
Thursday Jan 19, 2023
Relax too the strains of the acoustic guitar.
Thursday Jan 19, 2023
Thursday Jan 19, 2023
From the The Rosslare Podcast :
One hour of uninterrupted laid-back acoustic Guitar. Listen in your garden, on your walk, in your car, in your study, or in your bed. You decide.
Thursday Jan 19, 2023
Australia’s Dingo Baby Trial or Lindy Chamberlain’s horror.
Thursday Jan 19, 2023
Thursday Jan 19, 2023
Over forty years ago a mother, father and three children visited Uluru in the Northern Territories of Australia. They set up their tent in a nearby campsite. What occurred on the night of the 17th. of August 1980 still has people divided as to what really happened to their nine week old baby Azaria.
Thursday Jan 19, 2023
Thursday Jan 19, 2023
A quirky uplifting tale that will make you chuckle. From the book , 'the Density of Distant Thoughts '
Copyright James W. Corcoran.
Thursday Jan 19, 2023
Countess Markievicz a good Irish name?
Thursday Jan 19, 2023
Thursday Jan 19, 2023
Constance Georgine Gore Booth more commonly known as Countess Markievicz was an Irish Politician, Revolutionary, Nationalist, Suffragist and a Socialist. She was the first woman to be elected to the house of Parliament in London and was elected to the first Dail ( Irish parliament). Though considered one of the greatest Irish women of her day, she did not receive a state funeral, yet she is buried in Glasnevin Cemetery amongst the great political and military leaders of the last few centuries. The irony is she was born in England.
Thursday Jan 19, 2023
Irish Aborigines?
Thursday Jan 19, 2023
Thursday Jan 19, 2023
The colonial powers throughout history have always felt superior. Not only that, they tried to prove it!