The Gaelic Hour CHIN 97.9FM Ottawa

Wally Kirwan, Gerry Dunleavy, Brian Gavin, Damien Stack

Sun, 24 Feb 2013 16:34:57 GMT

Wally Kirwan talks about the planned Power Gathering in Waterford.

Gerry Dunleavy talks about the Russell Memorial Weekend Festival 2013, which is a remembrance ceremony to the Russell family, Micho, Packie, and Gussie Russell - the world famous traditional musicians, is taking place from Friday 22nd to Monday 25th of February 2013 in Doolin, Co. Clare.

Brian Ó Gáíbhín, Tionól na Gaeilge 2013 Cluain Dolcáin Ceol, Amhráin, Rince, Sean Nós, Lúibíní, Drámaíocht Ceiliúradh na nGael agus CRAIC den Scoth Áras Chrónáin Ionad Cultúrtha, Watery Lane Clondalkin Dublin 22, Cluain Dolcáin, Co. Dublin

Damien Stack on the Stack Family Gathering

Students at University of Ottawa Celtic Studies Program

Sun, 24 Feb 2013 16:31:14 GMT

Students at the University of Ottawa talk about their reasons and experience learning Irish.

Gwen McNamara, Eleanor McGrath, Dr Ruth Canning

Sat, 09 Feb 2013 00:38:29 GMT

Gwen McNamara Eleanor McGrath
SiarScéal is a historical, literary and bilingual festival inspired by the culture and heritage of County Roscommon, its rivers and lakes. SiarScéal celebrates the lives and history of the people of Roscommon, both nationally and globally, through the medium of poetry, prose, short stories, music and dance.

Kanata "Kanata an Irish Story" has been selected for the SiarSceal Festival in Roscommon.Eleanor will present as Guest Lecturer the film and her work in the Irish Canadian community. Canadian Ambassador Loyola Hearn is the Guest of Honour at the festival Searsceal

Dr Ruth Canning
Ruth Canning is a former Government of Ireland Scholar who completed a PhD in history at the National University of Ireland, University College Cork, in 2012. Her thesis, entitled “War, Identity, and the Pale: The Old English and the 1590s Crisis in Ireland”, examined the attitudes and actions of members of Ireland’s Old English Pale community during the Nine Years’ War (1594-1603). More recently, she has been appointed as a Marie Curie International Research Fellow by the European Commission, a post which she will hold jointly between Concordia University, Montreal, and University College Cork.

William Smyth, Niall Davis

Sun, 03 Feb 2013 15:13:36 GMT

The Atlas of the Great Irish Famine is possibly the most pivotal event/experience in modern Irish history. Its global reach and implications cannot be underestimated. In terms of mortality, it is now widely accepted that over a million people perished between the years 1845-1852 and at least one million and a quarter fled the country, the great majority to North America, some to Australia and a significant minority ((0.3 million) to British cities. Ireland had been afflicted by famine before the events of the 1840s; however the Great Famine is marked by both its absolute scale and its longevity. It is also better remembered because it was the most recent and best documented famine. This atlas comprising over fifty individual chapters and case studies will provide readers with a broad range of perspectives and relevant insights into this tragic event.

Niall Davis on mountain biking in Ireland

Jayne Shackleford, Mary & Rita Minehan, Cian Hughes, Maureen Watt, Michael G. Kelly

Sun, 27 Jan 2013 15:19:27 GMT

Mary & Rita Minehan - St Brigid Gathering
Come and join us as we celebrate the heritage and legacy of Brigid of (Kildare) Ireland in a series of events incorporating, workshops, music, peace and justice conference and a pilgrimage of St. Brigids Well. the traditions and customs associated with St. Brigid.

Cian Hughes
The ITLG Silicon Valley Comes to Ireland summit is a two day gathering of top executives, entrepreneurs and venture capital investors operating in Silicon Valley, Hollywood & US East Coast, who will travel to Cork to meet Ireland's top technology and innovative companies. It will comprise a series of keynote presentations, panel debates and company showcases that will provide delegates with an inside look at cutting-edge technology, business and political trends that are creating new exciting and profitable business opportunities.

Maureen Watt's original message posted on the Ardrahan parish page on the website.
I am trying to locate the Kelly family that lived in Ardrahan North. My great grandmother was Ellen Kelly (born 1870-1872)daughter of John Kelly (born about 1844) and Honor Lyons Kelly (born about 1845). Honor and John were married in 1867. They owned a farm in this area from around maybe 1860's at least until the late 1960's when my aunt visited the remaining relative. Ellens' siblings were John, Martin, Delia and Honoria Kelly. I have located them in the 1901 census, but I can't tell where the house was located.

Michael Kelly Ardrahan.
Michael Kelly living still in Ardrahan. He knows the location of the family grave in the Protestant Church Graveyard on the Catholic side. There are also later family graves at Labane. Michael knows a lot of the family history and heard of the two sisters who emigrated to the states. He believes they were his great grand aunts.

Robbie Burns Special: Bobby Watt, Major Andrew Halliday, Bethany Bisaillion

Sun, 20 Jan 2013 14:25:25 GMT

A look at Burns traditions and Major Halliday talks about the Black Watch and the Band of the Scots Guards

Irish Ambassador to Canada Dr Ray Bassett

Mon, 14 Jan 2013 19:43:08 GMT

Ambassador Bassett has just returned from a visit to Ireland in a wide ranging review of 2012 and an outlook for 2013.

The Presidency of the Council of the European Union is responsible for the functioning of the Council of the European Union, the upper house of the European Union's (EU) legislature. It rotates between the member states of the EU every six months. The presidency is not an individual, but rather the position is held by a national government. It is sometimes incorrectly referred to as the President of the European Union. The presidency's function is to chair meetings of the Council, determine its agendas, set a work program and facilitate dialogue both at Council meetings and with other EU institutions.

Three successive presidencies, known as presidency trios, cooperate for an 18-month period to provide continuity by sharing common political programs. The 2011–2012 trio consists of Poland (1 July 2011 - 31 December 2011), Denmark (1 January 2012 - 30 June 2012) and Cyprus (1 July 2012 - 31 December 2012).

Ireland will hold the presidency for the first trio of 2013-2014 (1 January 2013 - 30 June 2013).

Maria Murphy, Tim Pat Coogan, Katheryn Miles

Mon, 14 Jan 2013 19:42:06 GMT

Maria Murphy talk about LucanFM Gathering event Nollaig na mBan.

Tim Pat Coogan has just published "England's Role in Ireland's Greatest TragedyThe Famine Plot"

During a Biblical seven years in the middle of the nineteenth century, Ireland experienced the worst disaster a nation could suffer. Fully a quarter of its citizens either perished from starvation or emigrated, with so many dying en route that it was said, "you can walk dry shod to America on their bodies." In this grand, sweeping narrative, Ireland''s best-known historian, Tim Pat Coogan, gives a fresh and comprehensive account of one of the darkest chapters in world history, arguing that Britain was in large part responsible for the extent of the national tragedy, and in fact engineered the food shortage in one of the earliest cases of ethnic cleansing. So strong was anti-Irish sentiment in the mainland that the English parliament referred to the famine as "God's lesson."

Kathryn Miles on her new book "All Standing The Remarkable Story of the Jeanie Johnston, the Legendary Irish Famine Ship" which recounts the journeys of this famous ship, her heroic crew, and the immigrants who were ferried between Ireland and North America. Spurred by All Standinga complex web of motivations—shame, familial obligation, and sometimes even greed—more than a million people attempted to flee the Irish famine. More than one hundred thousand of them would die aboard one of the five thousand aptly named “coffin ships.” But in the face of horrific losses, a small ship named the Jeanie Johnston never lost a passenger. Shipwright John Munn, community leader Nicholas Donovan, Captain James Attridge, Dr. Richard Blennerhassett, and the efforts of a remarkable crew allowed thousands of people to find safety and fortune throughout the United States and Canada.