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The Rolling Wave

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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 taking place around the country. The Rolling Wave podcast brings you some of our best interviews and features. For rights reasons the music here is shorter than in the original broadcast. To listen to the full version go to www.rte.ie/radio 1/the-rolling-wave and click on the relevant date. Listen live on RTÉ Radio 1 every Sunday night at 9pm.

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Feb 12, 2025 · 39 min
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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Sep 23, 2024 · 35 min
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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Sep 7, 2024 · 28 min
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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Aug 30, 2024 · 31 min
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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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May 31, 2024 · 44 min
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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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May 24, 2024 · 45 min
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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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May 17, 2024 · 21 min
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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Apr 26, 2024 · 31 min
Ep. 64 - Lauren Ní Néill
In this episode Aoife meets harper and CEO of Harp Ireland, Lauren Ní Néill. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Apr 19, 2024 · 40 min
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'. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Feb 24, 2024 · 44 min
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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Feb 24, 2024 · 41 min
Ep. 61 - 40 years of Cairdeas na bhFidiléirí
In this episode we're celebrating 40 years of the work of Cairdeas na bhFidiléirí in the company of some of its founding members and a host of great fiddle players. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Dec 22, 2023 · 43 min
Ep. 60 - Charlie Lennon
A special interview with composer, fiddle and piano player Charlie Lennon recorded in Stiúideó Cuan in Galway in advance of a concert in celebration of Charlie's music. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Dec 1, 2023 · 44 min
Ep. 59 - Zoë Conway and Jim McKillop
Zoë Conway joins Aoife to talk about her newly composed suite of music, From a Forest to a Fiddle and we also hear from Jim McKillop whose fiddle making process is documented and celebrated through music and film as part of this project. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Nov 9, 2023 · 37 min
Ep. 58 - Traditional Music and Jazz in the early 20th Century
In this episode Conor Caldwell talks about how jazz culture in Ireland in the early 20th century influenced Irish traditional musicians and made its way into the repertoire of players like John Doherty and others. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Oct 12, 2023 · 47 min
Ep. 57 - The Liffey Banks by Tommie Potts
In this episode we’re celebrating the iconic album The Liffey Banks from fiddle player Tommie Potts, first released in 1972 by Claddagh Records. With contributions from Seán Óg Potts, Martin Hayes, Aoife Ní Bhriain, James Kelly, and the voices of Garech de Brún, Paddy Moloney, Peadar O’Loughlin, Seán Potts and Tommie Potts himself. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Oct 6, 2023 · 46 min
Ep. 56 - Claddagh Records
In 2009 we broadcast an edition of The Arts Show on RTÉ Radio 1 celebrating 50 years of Claddagh Records. A new book by James Morrissey about Garech de Brún and Claddagh Records 'Real to Reel' has just been published and we thought it would be fitting to revisit this programme and these stories again today. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Sep 29, 2023 · 43 min
Ep. 55 - Karen Ryan
In this episode Aoife's guest is musician Karen Ryan, a member of the band The London Lasses who are celebrating 25 years together this year. Karen has chosen music from some of the legendary figures she met growing up learning Irish traditional music in London. This programme was first broadcast on the 24th of September 2023. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Sep 26, 2023 · 36 min
Ep. 54 - Jackie Daly
In this episode Aoife talks to accordion player and composer Jackie Daly about his life in music and especially about his new book of tunes ‘The Jackie Daly Collection’. This programme was first broadcast on July 23rd 2023. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Sep 26, 2023 · 27 min
Ep. 53 - Amhráin Anna John Chiot
Almost 100 years ago Donegal woman Anna John Chiot was visited by collectors from the Irish Folklore Commission. They recorded many songs from her and fiddle player Paul O’Shaughnessy has just published 128 of them in a new book which is accompanied by a cd featuring new recordings of some of the songs. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Sep 15, 2023 · 36 min
Ep. 52 - The Forde Collection
In this episode, we're talking about music collected in Ireland in the 1840s and recently published in The Forde Collection, edited by Nicholas Carolan and Caitlín Uí Éigeartaigh. Nicholas Carolan joins us to talk about William Forde and we have music from Mark Redmond, Eilís Lavelle and Jason McGuinness. First broadcast on 23rd April 2023. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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