Show Notes
Chat and live music from the musician who this year is marking the twentieth anniversary of his album 'Songs from a Deep Forest'. He also chats about combining music with teaching at the music school BIMM and the vibrant scene in Belfast
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More from Sunday with Miriam
A catch-up with the broadcaster/journalist who spoke to us earlier this year about the devastating effects of her alcohol addiction and beginning a new chapter in life; having addressed an Oireachtas committee about women and addiction, she starts a new column today in the Sunday Independent See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The folk legend from Co Down will be honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award at this year's RTÉ Radio1 Folk Awards . He chats about growing up in a very religiously and socially-divided northern Ireland, touring as The Sands Family, performing in the US, the tragic death of his brother Eugene and playing outside Stormont on the week of the Good Friday Agreement in 1998 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Chat with the broadcaster which ranges from first coming to public prominence by being a relative of Joe Biden, co-presenting the very popular podcast with Tommy Tiernan and Hector Ó hEochagáin, life changes, this year's Mayo GAA victory and her support for the Mayo/Roscommon Hospice
The author of 'Lessons in Chemistry' talks about her new book 'Peck & Peck' which is centred in the world of poetry publishing, and both the building in New York and the cast of owners and editors who run it See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
80 years ago a poem by Patrick Kavanagh was published, called ‘Dark Haired Miriam Ran Away’. It subsequently became the song ‘Raglan Road’ and Lise has been looking at the story of the poem/song and the woman who inspired it – beautiful medical student Hilda Moriarty - and she wonders why there aren't more statues of the great women of Ireland, past and present See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.