Clonmel Exchanges Podcast, Loving and Leaving Clonmel
This exciting new podcast project mentored by renowned podcaster Siobhán McHugh engages Tipperary writers Barrie Peterson, Dylan Lyons, Eileen Heneghan, Eve O’Mahony, Marie Walsh, Paul Harrison, Rosaleen Quinlan, Suzanne Walsh, and Theresa Jones to interview those who have loved and left Clonmel to make new lives around the world.
It was created by Artistic Director Rebecca Lenehan with podcast consultant Siobhán McHugh and Tipperary Museum Curator Marie McMahon. Technical production is by Michal Durik, with original music composed by Eamon O’Malley.
Clonmel Junction Arts Festival is principally funded by the Arts Council and Tipperary County Council.
The Clonmel Exchanges Podcast Project is a partnership project with the Tipperary Museum of Hidden History.
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Please click below for transcripts of each podcast episode:
- Writer Eve O’Mahony speaks to Róisín Hahessy, who moved to Brazil in 2015 and is now based in Portugal.
- Writer Dylan Lyons speaks to Padraic Slater, who is now based in Vancouver, Canada.
- Writer Rosaleen Quinlan speaks to Una McDonald, who is now based in Toronto, Canada.
- Writer Suzanne Walsh speaks to Colm Breathnach, who is now based in Nebraska, USA.
- Writer Eileen Heneghan speaks to Aileen Slattery, who is now based in Sydney, Australia.
- Writer Barrie Peterson speaks to Kathleen O’Dwyer, who is now based in Sydney, Australia.
- Writer Marie Walsh speaks to Stephen McMahon, who is now based in the UK having spent 20 years in China.
- Writer Theresa Jones speaks to Ciara Laste, who is now based in London in the UK.
- Writer Paul Harrison speaks to Desmond Doyle, who is now based in a tiny Alpine village in Austria.
