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S3E10: Linda Bonnar, Checking In
CenterPieceNY - June 29, 2023 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsLinda Bonnar is a successful life coach and entrepreneur. She's also a former educator, and has built her services around both her experiences in the teaching profession, and her teenager years with mental health struggles in her hometown of Ballinasloe in County Galway in Ireland. During thos...
S3E9: Jennifer Muldowney, a Heart Grows Bigger
CenterPieceNY - May 29, 2023 17:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsJennifer Muldowney, from Dublin’s fair city, in Ireland, is an author, a podcaster, and a member of that exclusive set of people who has given a TED Talk. But for this vivacious young woman, all these glamorous activities are in support of her unique, creative, small-ish, and growing business, ...
S3E8: Denis Maguire, Life on the Peninsula
CenterPieceNY - April 26, 2023 09:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsWhen it comes to experiences, life is an embarrassment of riches. Even more so, if you're an adventurous, wandering type, which might be another way of saying 'if you're Irish'. Certainly Denis Maguire is, although he has gone about it in his own quiet way. As a thoughtful playwright, flimma...
S3E7: Corina Galvin, Quiet Influencing
CenterPieceNY - March 28, 2023 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsCorina Galvin calls County Mayo in Ireland her home. She's also been a New Yorker for almost three decades. And she has accumulated a lot of frequent flyer miles along the way. That's because her job in event planning and management puts her constantly up in the air, traveling all over the g...
S3E6: Jane McCooey and her Band of Sisters.
CenterPieceNY - February 28, 2023 10:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsJane McCooey thrives when she’s bringing people together to solve a problem, to the benefit of all. When Jane, from County Armagh in Ireland, is confronted with obstacles, she’s not afraid to reach out for help, and her first port of call is often to tap into the familiar power of sisterhood. ...
S3E5: Niall O'Leary–A Life By, And Of, Design.
CenterPieceNY - January 31, 2023 10:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsNiall O'Leary is best known as a performer of Irish dance in the New York area, and further afield. A lesser known fact about Niall is that he also has his own Manhattan-based architecture practice. The amazing thing about Niall is how he has managed to satisfy his innate need to create and de...
S3E4: A Sort of Christmas Carol
CenterPieceNY - December 20, 2022 10:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratings'Tis the festive season, and as yet another year ends, a time for self-reflection. So we thought we'd take a moment this Christmas to have a closer look at this podcast, delivered in the words of creator, producer and host Paul Finnegan, to explain why he does it, and to give you a walk-throug...
S3E3: Ray O'Hanlon, Stringer of Pearls
CenterPieceNY - November 26, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsRay O'Hanlon is a long-standing journalist, author and editor of the weekly Irish Echo news service, which has been a pillar of the Irish American identity since 1928. That's a stretch coming up on 95 years, and Ray has been with the Echo for more than one third of that time! Ray sees his wor...
Helen McNamara O'Shea: Healer at Heart
CenterPieceNY - October 27, 2022 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsIn this episode, Helen McNamara O'Shea tells us of the brave leap she made from a career as an accomplished doctor to that of a singer/songwriter. Given that Helen describes herself as 'ancient', which she is not by any means, it seemed, on the face of things, a switch that didn't make a whole...
S3E2: Helen McNamara O'Shea, Healer at Heart.
CenterPieceNY - October 27, 2022 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsIn this episode, Helen McNamara O'Shea tells us of the brave leap she made from a career as an accomplished doctor to that of a singer/songwriter. Given that Helen describes herself as 'ancient', which she is not by any means, it seemed, on the face of things, a switch that didn't make a whole...
S3E1: Donie Carroll, A Song of Freedom.
CenterPieceNY - September 27, 2022 09:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsCounty Cork, on Ireland's southern shore, is its biggest county, bigger than all the rest, all thirty one of them. Corkonians, as the people of Cork are known, are intensely proud of their heritage. They often claim, in all sincerity, that Cork City, not Dublin, is the true capital of Ireland...
Donie Carroll: A Song of Freedom
CenterPieceNY - September 27, 2022 09:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsCounty Cork, on Ireland's southern shore, is its biggest county, bigger than all the rest, all thirty one of them. Corkonians, as the people of Cork are known, are intensely proud of their heritage. They often claim, in all sincerity, that Cork City, not Dublin, is the true capital of Ireland...
Season Three Introduction: A Conversation with John Lee.
CenterPieceNY - September 16, 2022 09:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsSeason Three kicks off with a short conversation between CenterPieceNY host, Paul Finnegan, and fellow New York Irish podcaster, John Lee, to preview what's ahead. Check out Irish Stew, the podcast for the Global Irish Nation, co-hosted by John and Martin Nutty. ===============================...
S2E10: Eamon Harkin-This Is The Only Time We Live In.
CenterPieceNY - June 30, 2022 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsHere in the tenth and final episode of Season Two, we get to know Eamon Harkin, originally from Derry in Ireland, who has achieved celebrity in the world of DJs, and is taking dance culture and its community to a whole other level in Queens, the biggest borough in the city, and one that is not s...
S2E9: Amy Brett-The More Things Change...
CenterPieceNY - May 28, 2022 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsAmy Brett is a passionate and skilled event planner, an avid Gaelic footballer and a powerful fundraiser for great causes. And she's all 'Mayo for Sam', red and green, through and through. Based in Sunnyside, Queens, she's having the craic in New York. For many from previous generations, that...
S2E9: Amy Brett-The More Things Change...
CenterPieceNY - May 28, 2022 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsAmy Brett is a passionate and skilled event planner, an avid Gaelic footballer and a powerful fundraiser for great causes. And she's all 'Mayo for Sam', red and green, through and through. Based in Sunnyside, Queens, she's having the craic in New York. For many from previous generations, that...
Claire McGovern and her Soft Power.
CenterPieceNY - April 28, 2022 09:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsClaire McGovern is a sustainable interior designer, art advisor and manufacturer, whose recent work uses Irish wool as its basis, a textile she has come to see as a 'miracle fiber' and after listening to this episode you'll think so too. Claire spent her formative years in a small enclave in so...
S2E8: Claire McGovern and her Soft Power.
CenterPieceNY - April 28, 2022 09:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsClaire McGovern is a sustainable interior designer, art advisor and manufacturer, whose recent work uses Irish wool as its basis, a textile she has come to see as a 'miracle fiber' and after listening to this episode you'll think so too. Claire spent her formative years in a small enclave in so...
S2E7: The Computer Club, Part I
CenterPieceNY - March 29, 2022 09:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsWe're taking a slightly different approach in this episode. We've gathered some thoughts and memories of several centerpieces, but the centerpiece of their lives in New York was, for a few years, a decade ago, a thing called 'The Computer Club'. The reason we are doing this now is because on...
S2E6: Martin Nutty, the Pensive Podcaster.
CenterPieceNY - February 26, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsMartin Nutty, all 6 foot 4 inches of him, burst onto the global Irish community scene in 2020 when he fetched up alongside the previously-minted local New York Irish community celebrity John Lee, to stand up the innovative Irish Stew podcast. From the throes of the pandemic in 2020 to the cu...
S2E5: Shelley Ann Quilty-Lake, the Unapologetic Advocate who Belongs.
CenterPieceNY - January 28, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsThey say that diversity is being asked to the dance, while inclusion is being asked to dance, but belonging is hearing your music play at the dance. To belong is a fundamental human need, but the road to true belonging continues to be a long one for many in the US. Shelley Ann Quilty-Lake, or...
S2E4: Breda Skeados and the Baker's Dozen
CenterPieceNY - December 30, 2021 05:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsBreda Skeados is the middle child in a family of thirteen siblings from the rural West of Ireland, all born in a twenty-year period between the 30s and 50s. Ten survive to this day. Even during that time, in her hometown of Dunmore, County Galway, families of this size were on the wane. In fa...
S2E3: Sophie Colgan–Speaking Truth to Power
CenterPieceNY - November 30, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsSophie Colgan is one of the finest examples of strong leadership on the rise today among the young in the Irish community of New York. Upon first arrival in the Big Apple in 2013, Sophie Colgan picked up on the background noise of goodwill that benefits all Irish people who come here, an almos...
S2E2: Jacqueline Kealy - from Tuam to the stage lights of New York City!
CenterPieceNY - October 28, 2021 09:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsWe know County Galway in Ireland has it share of towns (and a city!), each with their own character and traditions, but Tuam–along the northern edge of the county–stands apart in its creative take on the world. It is no surprise that such a free-thinking place, with its vibrant music and theatr...
S2E1: Adrian Flannelly - the Godfather of Irish talk radio in New York.
CenterPieceNY - September 30, 2021 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsSo we're all podcasters nowadays, but what is podcasting but radio on demand ? In this episode we hear the story of one of the great radio pioneers among New York's Irish community, who is still standing and still broadcasting after 50 years, who was plying his trade when it required serious wo...
Season Two Preview: A chat with Colm O'Regan
CenterPieceNY - September 23, 2021 09:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsTo kick off Season Two, host Paul Finnegan sat down with well-known Irish comedian, author, broadcaster, MC and podcaster Colm O'Regan. Of course, the marvels of the Internet allowed both chairs to be separated by the Atlantic Ocean. The topic? This podcast itself, and podcasting in general...
S1E10: Peter and Bryan Fahy, and a tribute to Galway City.
CenterPieceNY - June 29, 2021 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsWe have two guests this time around, young thirty-somethings and brothers, Peter and Bryan Fahy, originally from Salthill in Ireland's Galway City, who came to live in New York just only in the last ten years, but are in the States now for the long haul. But we also have a third guest: the City...
Peter and Bryan Fahy, and a tribute to Galway City.
CenterPieceNY - June 29, 2021 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsWe have two guests this time around, young thirty-somethings and brothers, Peter and Bryan Fahy, originally from Salthill in Ireland's Galway City, who came to live in New York just only in the last ten years, but are in the States now for the long haul. But we also have a third guest: the City...
S1E9: Sean Benson
CenterPieceNY - May 27, 2021 09:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsLegalizing the Irish. In the days before Monday October 14th 1991, thousands converged on a post office in Merrifield, Virginia. They had come from throughout the United States and represented countries the world over. They all had one thing in common. They were undocumented immigrants, and by ...
Sean Benson
CenterPieceNY - May 27, 2021 09:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsLegalizing the Irish. In the days before Monday October 14th 1991, thousands converged on a post office in Merrifield, Virginia. They had come from throughout the United States and represented countries the world over. They all had one thing in common. They were undocumented immigrants, and by ...
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