Wednesday, 26 June 2024

Moate Community Radio, Local Pirate Radio in 1980s Ireland

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As I research the use of community radio in Ireland in the 1980s for a new book, I discovered the stories of a number of the smaller pirate ...
Thursday, 28 March 2024

Raidio Carúilín - The Irishness of Radio Caroline including the Judge, the Port, the Owner and a Rebel

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  Sixty years ago, a Clondalkin born Dubliner, Ronan O’Rahilly became a legend and began a revolution of the airwaves. Ronan, who passed awa...
Friday, 22 March 2024

When Listening to Radio Caroline Brought You To An Irish Court

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When Mrs.  Kathleen Durnin from Dunleer in County Louth tuned into the offshore pirate radio station Radio Caroline in February 1965 little ...
Saturday, 6 January 2024

Radio News of the 1924 Curragh Mutiny

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  Two years before the launch of the national radio service 2RN, the power of radio and the dispersal of information was illustrated in Coun...
Wednesday, 1 November 2023

The Time For A Dedicated Independent Irish Radio Archive is NOW

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  We have harvested wood and bogs to heat and cook, we’ve tamed rivers to provide electricity and now we have harnessed the wind, the oceans...
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Saturday, 21 October 2023

IRISH PIRATE RADIO BLOOPERS

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We have all watched TV shows like 'It'll Be Alright On The Night' or 'TV Bloopers & Practical Jokes' but on radio yo...
Wednesday, 20 September 2023

A View From The Emerald Isle of France's Diamond, Mylene Farmer

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 Mylene Farmer Concert Review This is slightly different to my usual radio blog posts but in a round about way it is about the power of radi...