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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Patrick Leahy: John Tierney: Glen Hansard:
Music from Siobhan
Miller; The Commitments: Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova
Canadian historian Patrick Leahy: Carved in Stone: Preserving a Community’s Heritage
Supported by the Royal Irish Academy, Carved in Stone: Preserving a Community's Heritage is a National Heritage Week programme exploring how gravestones, memorial inscriptions and historic burial landscapes preserve the history, identity and collective memory of communities across generations.
Bringing together local history, archaeology, genealogy and cultural heritage, the programme reveals how communities have preserved their stories in stone—from local burial grounds in North Cork to the wider Irish diaspora in Canada.
The evening features two connected Heritage Week events, beginning with an illustrated presentation at Saint George's, Mitchelstown, followed by a guided exploration of Brigown Cemetery. Participants are welcome to attend either event individually or enjoy the full programme.
The opening event in Carved in Stone: Preserving a Community's Heritage, this illustrated presentation explores how Irish emigrants left enduring traces of their identity across the Atlantic.
In 1825, more than 750 people from the Cork, Limerick and Tipperary borderlands emigrated together to Canada as part of the Robinson Emigration. Many of these families settled alongside one another in Douro Township, where they were later joined by hundreds of relatives from home. Few communities in North America were so strongly connected to the slopes and valleys of the Galtees and Knockmealdowns.
Their gravestones preserve the names of home parishes, family connections and memories carried across the Atlantic. Through historical research and gravestone archaeology in both Douro and North Cork, supported by a Royal Irish Academy research grant, families such as the Condons of Brigown and the Mohers of Kilworth have been traced from the 1570s to the present day, revealing stories of migration, hardship, resilience and success.
Canadian historian Patrick Leahy and Irish archaeologist John Tierney combine video, Canadian gravestone displays, storytelling and historical research to examine legacies preserved in paper, stone, wood and memory.
https://www.ballyhouradevelopment.com/Event/carved-in-stone-preserving-a-communitys-heritage
Irish archaeologist John Tierney: The Historic Graves Project
The Historic Graves project is a community focused grassroots heritage project. Local community groups are trained in low-cost high-tech field survey of historic graveyards and recording of their own oral histories. They build a multi-media online record of the historic graves in their own areas and unite to form a national resource. The project outlines a system and sequence which helps to co-ordinate and standardise an historic graveyard survey.
Community groups are trained to use digital cameras and smartphones to survey historic graveyards.
Both new and old survey records are combined with locally recorded audio and video stories to form a multi media record of a graveyard.
By curating and publishing the survey records centrally the individual community graveyard surveys combine to form a national resource where the value of each survey is compounded by its association with others.
The website allows visitors from Ireland and across the globe to freely explore and search the growing database of multimedia records and stories.
It allows communities to self publish historic graveyard surveys and the related multimedia stories.
The surveys are being funded by a number of Local Development Partnerships through LEADER funds and are supported by Local Heritage Officers, County Archaeologists and Local Authorities.
People, institutions and organisations contribute to the project in three ways 1. voluntary works 2. permission 3. funding.
We now spend a lot of time working with community groups to get funding for training surveys and uploads. And starting in April 2018 we are asking people who use the website to crowdfund new surveys. Every penny (except Paypal charges) will go to new surveys.
The website and survey methodology have been designed and built by Eachtra Archaeological Projects.
The original design was by John Tierney and Maurizio Toscano, Eachtra’s GIS manager, built and developed the system. Since the early design stage various people have had an input into the development of the project and the associated website, including Finn Delaney and Robin Turk, both of Eachtra. Bernie Goldbach, Senior Lecturer in Creative Multimedia, at the Tipperary Institute, and Caimin O’Brien, Department of Environment archaeologist have also had inputs into its development. Caimin O’Brien encouraged us to develop the multimedia elements of the graveyard surveys and this dovetailed perfectly with the hyperlocal heritage teachings of Bernie Goldbach.
https://historicgraves.com/
Remembering Glen Hansard: Sharing an interview from November 2007:
Glen Hansard is an Irish singer-songwriter. Since 1990, he has been the frontman of the Irish rock band The Frames, with whom he has released six studio albums, four of which have charted in the top ten of the Irish Album Charts. In the 2000s, he was one half of folk rock duo The Swell Season before releasing his debut solo album, Rhythm and Repose, in 2012. His 2015 sophomore album Didn't He Ramble was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Folk Album.Primarily a musician, he has also acted and written music for film; he appeared in the BAFTA-winning film The Commitments (1991) and, notably, starred in the Irish music drama Once (2007) which earned him a number of major awards, including the Academy Award for Best Original Song for "Falling Slowly" with co-writer and co-star Markéta Irglová. The film was later adapted into an award-winning-musical theatre production.
Following the devastating news of Glen Hansard's untimely death earlier this week, a public wake will take place in the Baroque Chapel at IMMA, Royal Hospital Kilmainham, Dublin 8, on Monday 3rd August between 11am and 4pm. Glen will lie in repose for those wishing to pay their respects.
Glen's funeral will take place at St. Patrick's Cathedral, St. Patrick's Close, Dublin 8, on Tuesday 4th August at 1:30pm. The funeral will be open to the public, however access inside the Cathedral will be extremely limited given the numbers expected.
There will be a public address system in place outside the cathedral, however mourners are also encouraged to view online where the funeral will be streamed on RTE News and RIP.IE
https://glenhansard.com/
