The Rolling Wave
The Rolling Wave
The Rolling Wave celebrates all that is great about Irish Traditional music. We speak to musicians, delve into archives, showcase new releases and visit some of the many traditional music festivals taking place around the country. The Rolling Wave podcast brings you some of our best interviews and features. For rights reasons the music here is shorter than in the original broadcast. To listen to t…Social links:
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The Rolling Wave - 13 September 2026
Traditional and Folk Music in Ireland with Aoife Nic Cormaic. Named after a famous traditional Irish tune.
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The Rolling Wave - 6 September 2026
Traditional and Folk Music in Ireland with Aoife Nic Cormaic. Named after a famous traditional Irish tune.
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Ep.71 - Fiddle-player Martin Hayes
In this episode, Aoife is joined by fiddle-player Martin Hayes. Martin has chosen a selection of music for us to play on the programme, which, for him, are formative recordings and ones to which he returns all the time.
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Ep. 70 - Kathleen Loughnane
In this episode Aoife talks to Kathleen Loughnane about her work on the Patrick O'Neill manuscripts and about learning harp, playing with Dordán, her own approach to tunes, and the popularity of the harp today.
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Ep. 69 - The Willie Clancy Summer School in pictures with Tony Kearns
Photographer Tony Kearns has been taking photos at the Willie Clancy Summer School since 1992 and in this episode he talks about some of those pictures, the musicians in them and his own relationship with the summer school.
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Ep. 68 - Josephine Marsh - 111 Original Irish Music Compositions
Musician and composer Josephine Marsh has just published a new book of her compositions and in this episode she talks about the stories behind the tunes as well as her own route into music.
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Ep. 67 - Memories of Denis Murphy (Part 2)
The second of two programmes marking the 50th anniversary of the death of Sliabh Luachra fiddle player Denis Murphy. These programmes were made by Peter Browne and originally broadcast on RTÉ Radio 1 in 1995.
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Ep. 66 - Memories of Denis Murphy (Part 1)
The first of two programmes marking the 50th anniversary of the death of Sliabh Luachra fiddle player Denis Murphy. These programmes were made by Peter Browne and originally broadcast on RTÉ Radio 1 in 1995.
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Ep. 65 - Seán McElwain on the music of the Sliabh Beagh region
Aoife speaks with musician and writer Seán McElwain about his new book ‘Our Dear Dark Mountain with the Sky Over It’. The books tells the story of James Whiteside who collected music in the Sliabh Beagh region, an area on the border between Northern Ireland and the south straddling counties Fermana…
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Ep. 64 - Lauren Ní Néill
In this episode Aoife meets harper and CEO of Harp Ireland, Lauren Ní Néill.
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