Welcome to the Irish Radio Canada Website.
We are proud to share our Internet Radio Station. In 2005 we commenced
On-Air broadcasting with CHIN 97.9FM producing and presenting The Gaelic
Hour as a weekly show. in Sept 2016 we launched this new format.
You can now enjoy a selection of music every day and we will be able to
expand on the number of hours of interviews, as time goes on.
I would like to encourage you to submit your music selection and
hopefully I can find what you like in my library.
The Archives section of the site will continue to provide access to the
Gaelic Hour shows since 2006. Twitter, Facebook page and group will
become more relevant in communicating and I hope to increase the use of
Instagram as time goes on.
If you have some suggestions, please visit the contact page and send on
your ideas.
The 11 years on air have been fun, but the effort in raising the large
sum required to buy the time has become more onerous and the online
station offers the opportunity to increase content and reduce costs.
You can listen to the station using a variety of tools. The player on
this page may be the simplest. The links below provide additional
choices of players. Also, you can use your Smart Speaker to ask Alexa or
Google for "Irish Radio Canada from TuneIn"
I hope you enjoy and continue to listen.
Austin.
Irish Radio Canada
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Irish Radio Canada is a not for profit
voluntary internet radio station. It is dedicated to promoting
Irish culture and music.
Every effort is made to be as accurate as possible in crediting artists etc. and should there be any inaccuracies, please contact us so we can correct.
We particularly welcome and invite new , as well as established artists to submit their music for inclusion in the playlists.
We hope you enjoy.
Subscribe to our Podcast HERE and receive the weekly magazine show directly to your player of choice.
Every effort is made to be as accurate as possible in crediting artists etc. and should there be any inaccuracies, please contact us so we can correct.
We particularly welcome and invite new , as well as established artists to submit their music for inclusion in the playlists.
We hope you enjoy.
Subscribe to our Podcast HERE and receive the weekly magazine show directly to your player of choice.
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The Magazine Show - At Home and
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Streams Daily at 8am & 1pm (EST)
Oct 26 2025 - Nov 1 2025
Streaming 8am & 1pm Podcasts and
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The Atlantic Pitch - David Conway, Mitchell Plunkett,Steve Kent
Dreamtown-Steve McKenna - Bodhran Maker Les Starkey
International Uilleann Piping Day-Muireann Ní Shé
Music from Carmel Gunning, Shaine, BrendanNolan, Muireann Ní Shé
The Atlantic Pitch - David Conway, Mitchell Plunkett,Steve Kent
Dreamtown-Steve McKenna - Bodhran Maker Les Starkey
International Uilleann Piping Day-Muireann Ní Shé
Music from Carmel Gunning, Shaine, BrendanNolan, Muireann Ní Shé
The Embassy of Ireland - Canada hosted The Atlantic Pitch — two unique exhibition matches at the Superdome in Ben Franklin Park in Ottawa, where Irish hurlers met Canadian baseball players on the field.
As part of Ireland’s new International Sports Diplomacy initiative, players from Canes Canada Atlantic Baseball and the Ottawa Patriots Baseball Team, supported by Baseball Ireland, joined forces with the Ottawa Gaels GAA and Éire Óg Ottawa Senior Hurling Club to learn the skills of both sports — baseball and hurling — in a fun, fast-paced double-header.
Stephen McKenna Director Dreamtown
Everyone knows Mickey Richards is a failure... Except Mickey Richards
An aging, failed rockstar, who still lives like he's in his 20s, sets out to reconnect with his estranged, musically gifted son, but his desperate attempts to impress him threaten to push them even further apart.
Mickey Richards, a delusional, aging rocker who never realized his dreams, lives a carefree, rock-and-roll lifestyle—spending his nights in bars, spinning tales about his glory days to a group of youths. Then there’s Gina Fox, the young bartender, the only one in the world who still believes in Mickey.
Mickey’s life has amounted to little more than a progression of minor chords. A failed marriage, a dead-end job, and a neglected relationship with his musically talented son, Alan. Determined to reconnect, Mickey decides it’s time to show Alan what he’s been missing, but Mickey’s clumsy attempts to impress Alan only drive a deeper wedge between them.
Caught between past dreams and present regrets, Mickey’s losing his grip. It’s time to face the music—and finally wake up from Dreamtown.
Les Starkey Bodhran Maker
Back in the mid-seventies my parents dragged me kicking and screaming to get some much-needed “culture”. This was an event to celebrate my mother’s Irish heritage and provide some brief respite for both my parents from the incessant “rock” blaring from my basement bedroom. The concert was not in a stadium but a real theatre and the band – The Chieftains.
I remember being completely surprised by the wonderful sounds coming from the Uilleann pipes and that odd looking drum. That drum just stuck in my head. The music was totally hypnotic but being a young teenager with a short attention span, I stuck with the mainstream heavy rock. However, after that experience, a seed had been planted. I had secretly obtained an LP of the soundtrack for the movie Barry Lyndon that I kept with a penny whistle brought from by my globe trotting Irish aunts. Safely hidden away, this seed took the better part of 16 years to germinate.
Almost 30 years to that day of culture – March 17, 2005 – I found myself standing in the wings of the stage at the historic Massey Hall with my prized O’Kane Bodhran tucked under my arm. It was a packed house on St. Patrick’s Day. As I heard Paddy Moloney calling my name before the sold out Chieftains crowd I was a teenager again, albeit a very different one. The seed of Irish culture my parents planted that day many years earlier had not only taken root but had grown to become my life.
The germination finally began in the early nineties. I was working for an Irish company and among the Irishmen parachuted in from head office was a guy who quickly became a close friend. Eugene was also an accomplished musician. He had no idea what he was doing when he complied with my request to bring back one of those ‘drums’ from one of his frequent trips home to Ireland to visit his wife and dog. So began a closeted, slow play back of every Chieftains TV appearance that I could tape on VHS. There were few resources back then to teach me how to play and no Internet. After many hours practice over a couple of years I could play fairly well….in slow motion!
It took me years of trial and error and frustration to figure out what new students of this instrument now come away with after only a few lessons.
Now it is my mission to foster appreciation of the Bodhran. When played well, and it can be, it adds a special dimension to all Celtic music. I believe that serious players of this instrument must go the extra mile to let people see past the cheap touristy, session crashing annoyance that is part of the reputation and embrace it as it truly is, the heartbeat of Celtic music. Just as importantly, I want to pass on my enthusiasm for this instrument to others so they may have the joy that I do from this.
International Uilleann Piping Day, a global celebration of the unique Irish pipes or ‘uilleann pipes’, will take place around the world on Saturday 1st November 2025.
Muireann Ní Shé has been immersed in Irish language, music and song since childhood. She attributes her main musical influences to local musicians as well as the old recordings of legendary musicians and singers who have gone before.
Muireann’s debut album, Éistigh Liomsa Sealad (2023), is a unique sound-world, where contemporary and traditional influences combine with the dominating sounds of the pipes and ethereal arrangements of sean-nós song. The album features an array of soulful collaborations with artists such as Aoife Blake, Macdara Ó Faoláin, Johnny McCarthy and Jake Kalilec.
Muireann has toured parts of North America, Asia and Europe extensively with various groups and as a soloist, while also being in much demand in Ireland as a performer and tutor.
