Episodes
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Martin Hayes - Master Fiddler and Composer
Martin Hayes is a renowned Irish fiddler from Feakle who is known for his distinctive and soulful style that blends traditional Irish music with innovative interpretations. An iconic figure in Irish music, Hayes has won multiple All-Ireland Fiddle Championships and is celebrated for his...
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Jessie Lendennie - Poet and Founder of Salmon Poetry
Jessie Lendennie is a legendary figure in the world of poetry and publishing. Originally from Arkansas in the US now living near the Cliffs of Moher, she moved to Ireland in 1981 and co-founded Salmon Poetry, which has published over 700 volumes of poetry, well as a select list of literary...
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Steo Wall - Singer, Songwriter and Musician
Steo Wall is a well-known songwriter and musician who lives near Miltown Malbay. Steo has released two critically acclaimed albums, performed on the RTE Tommy Tiernan show, the Late Late show and Ireland’s Favourite Folk song. He has also been shortlisted for a RTÉ Radio1 Folk Award and performed...
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Áine Tyrrell - Singer, Songwriter and Musician
Áine Tyrrell is a singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist musician who grew up in Ballyvaughan and in Galway. She’s been living in Australia for over a decade now where she has toured extensively, worked closely with Indigenous artists, and developed a reputation as a fiercely grassroots and...
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Kieron Concannon - Musician, Ethnomusicologist, Sound Healer
Kieron Concannon is an Ogonolloe-based multi-instrumentalist, musician, martial artist, ethnomusicologist, sound healer, writer, composer and producer. Kieron grew up in Irish family in the English midlands. He worked in his father’s construction business before branching off to become a teacher....
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Olga Profutkina - Visual Artist and Doll Maker
Olga Profutkina is a visual artist living in Shannon and working with storytelling ideas through different materials and techniques including such rare art form as doll-making. Olga is originally from Russia and has a degree in Fashion Design from Limerick School of Art and Design and also has an...
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Daithí Ó Drónaí - Music Producer, Composer and Festival Curator
Daithí Ó Drónaí is an acclaimed Ballyvaughan producer, composer and festival curator who first became well known for producing electronic music inspired by Irish culture under the artist name 'Daithí'. Alongside Paul Noonan from Bellx1, Daith is one-half of the Houseplants band and curator of the...
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Áine O'Brien - Performance Artist, Singer, Musician, Actress, Curator
Áine O'Brien is a conceptual artist, actress, curator, singer, songwriter, musician, and performer based in Kilfenora. Her childhood was steeped in the tradition of storytelling, and she continues this art through her many different creative mediums. Aine is presently collaborating with a troupe…
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Dora Gola - Singer, Songwriter and Dancer
Dora is a force of nature. She’s a singer, songwriter, musician and dancer living in Lahinch. Dora moved to Ireland from Poland as a teenager and she shares some of her journey around this in what is a very rich conversation which includes her views on why authenticity is so important to Dora in...
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David Hope - Musician and Songwriter
David is a singer-songwriter from Shannon who oozes music and musicality. He has 5 studio albums to his name and he also has a rich and fascinating background in bringing music into youth and community settings, including care homes. This podcast is supported by Creative Ireland Clare and is also...
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Nóirin Lynch - Singer and songwriter
Nóirin is a singer and songwriter living in Spanish Point on the west coast of Clare. Nóirin is deeply immersed in the Irish folk tradition and has two albums out in the world. She’s also a great community person and as you’ll hear now, works hard to help create spaces for people to come together...
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Pat Ryan - Songwriter and co-founder of Anam Music
Originally from Kildare, Miltown Malbay-based Pat is a stalwart of the music scene around Clare, especially North West Clare. He is the co-founder of Anam Music, which hosts great intimate gigs for music lovers and he also runs Pat Ryan Music Services which helps artists with a range of...
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Deirdre Devally - Poet, Writer, Songwriter
Ennis-based Deirdre is a writer of poetry, prose and songs. Deirdre has been published extensively and has a very strong and clear voice on social issues. She’s had a fascinating journey along the way including 2 years in a Buddhist Monastery in LA. We talk about this and so much more in this...
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Harrison Gardner - Eco-builder, Teacher, Co-founder of Common Knowledge
Based near Inagh Harrison is a Co-Founder of Common Knowledge, a new non-profit organisation that is making waves. Common Knowledge focuses on sharing skills for a sustainable life. Originally from Australia, Harrison has worked all over the world and is particularly focused on how building and...
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Tara Darlene Smith - Writer
Originally from California, Tara is a writer living and working in north Clare, a place she truly loves. Writing has always been a great passion of Tara’s, something that helps her explore her emotional world and the world around her. In this episode, she shares with me how after considerable...
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Matthew Noone - Musician and Composer
Matthew is an Australian-Irish ex-indie rocker, improviser, composer, thinker and performer. Originally from Brisbane and now living in East Clare, he’s particularly well known for his devotion to Indian classical music which he brings to a range of disciplines including Irish traditional music,...
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Ceara Conway - Contemporary Vocalist and Visual Artist
Ceara Conway is an Irish Contemporary Vocalist and Visual Artist based in the Courthouse Studios in Ennistymon. She also works with the Clare Arts Office as a coordinator ( Arts and Disability and Artists in Schools ) and also as Creative Associate with the Arts Council. So plenty to discuss when...
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Ruth Marshall - Author, Storyteller, Poet, Crafter
Ruth Marshall in conversation with Ruairí McKiernan. Ruth is a poet, author, storyteller and crafter living in East Clare. Originally from Scotland, Ruth is passionate weaver between the worlds of arts, culture and heritage. She’s the author of Celebrating Irish Festivals about the traditional...
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Aisling Drennan - Visual Artist and Former Riverdancer
Aisling Drennan on Creative Souls of Clare podcast with Ruairí McKiernan. Aisling Drennan is an award-winning abstract artist from Lisdoonvarna who has been blazing a trail in the London art world for several years. Before focusing entirely on her art, Aisling toured the world as a dancer for...
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Shona Blake - Singer-songwriter & Musician
Miltown-Malbay singer-songwriter Shona Blake on Creative Souls of Clare podcast (audio/video). Shona's debut album is called Explore and is well worth checking out and her next album, A Woman Knows, is out very soon. Well worth checking out this conversation & stayed tune for more podcast…
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Ken O‘Sullivan - Documentary Filmmaker, Author, Ocean Advocate
Ken O'Sullivan with Ruairí McKiernan on Creative Souls of Clare podcast. Ken is a highly respected documentary film maker and author originally from Ennis and now living in Lahinch. Ken's excellent memoir is Stories from the Deep: Reflections on a Life Exploring Ireland's North Atlantic Waters.…
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Mark O‘Halloran - Writer and Actor
Mark O'Halloran is a multi-award winning writer and actor originally from Ennis, Co Clare. Mark has worked with all the major theatres in Ireland and is well known for his acclaimed films Adam and Paul, Garage, and Rialto as well as lots of other great work on stage and screen. Creative Souls of...
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Anne Casey - Poet
Sydney-based Miltown Malbay born poet Anne Casey on great new episode of the Creative Souls of Clare #podcast. Video versions + audio on all main podcast platforms www.pod.link/creativesouls & more coming soon. Anne is a multi award-winning poet and writer and a former journalist, magazine…
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Enda Gallery - Musician and Producer
Enda Gallery is a songwriter, multi-intrumentalist musician and respected producer living near Kilfenora, Co Clare. He also spends a lot of his time in Berlin. Enda's acclaimed debut album is titled The Journey to Zero and it's well worth checking out, as are his collaborations and productions…
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Tony Griffin - Writer, Charity founder, Former Sports Star
Tony Griffin is a writer, speaker, co-founder of the Soar Foundation which does amazing youth empowerment work throughout Ireland, and he’s a former sports star who played hurling for his native County Clare and he is the recipient of a prestigious all-star award. I talk to Tony on the day his…
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Jacinta Sheerin - Actor, Playwright, Drama Therapist
Playwright, Actor and Drama Therapist Jacinta Sheerin on the Creative Souls of Clare Podcast. On all audio platforms http://pod.link/creativesouls & video at YouTube: https://youtu.be/9eJyabidqGg Thanks to Creative Ireland for support. This podcast is also available to watch as a video on YouTube...
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Myriam Riand - Visual Artist
Myriam Riand is a Visual Artist from Ennistymon who grew up in France. You can watch the video version of this podcast on YouTube at https://youtu.be/EXHkxISt-ew or on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/hopehitching/videos Thanks to Creative Ireland for support. This podcast is also available to...
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Katie Theasby - Singer, Songwriter, Musician
Katie Theasby is a singer, songwriter and musician from Kilfenora. You can find the video version of the episode by searching Creative Souls of Clare on YouTube or on the Hitching for Hope Facebook page. Thanks to Creative Ireland for support. This podcast is also available to watch as a video on...
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Darragh McKeon - Writer
Darragh McKeon is a writer and former theatre director originally from County Offaly who now lives near Miltown Malbay. His acclaimed debut novel All That is Solid Melts Into Air uses the Chernobyl disaster as a backdrop and chronicles the collapse and ultimate end of the Soviet Union. At the…
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Grace Wells - Writer, Poet, Yoga Teacher
Grace Wells, a Writer, poet, gardener, re-wilder, mother, yoga teacher. Her debut children’s novel Gyrfalcon (O’Brien Press, 2002), which won the Eilís Dillon Best Newcomer Award and was an International White Ravens Choice. Her debut poetry collection When God has been Called Away to Greater...
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Tommy Hayes - Musician, Art Therapist and Founder Member of Irish Seed Savers
Tommy Hayes is known as one of the world’s greatest ever bodhrán players and has been at the forefront of traditional Irish music for over 30 years. He has been a member of legendary groups Stockton's Wing, Puck Fair, Altan and Liam O’Flynn and the Pipers Call Band. He was the original...
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Sara Foust - Artist and Gallery Owner
My guest in this episode is Sara Foust, a US-born artist who grew up in the American deep south, and who has ended up living and working in Ennistymon where she has a studio gallery. I spoke with Sara over Zoom and I found it fascinating to hear the stories of her unique upbringing, her time in…
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Anne Rynne - Singer, Songwriter, Musician and Community Stalwart
Ann is a singer, songwriter and musician from Miltown Malbay. She is from a well-known musical family and is also an inspirational community stalwart. This podcast is also available to watch as a video on YouTube and on Facebook. Also, check out the archives for more great conversations, and...