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Philadelphia Sunday Irish Radio Show

Heard Live Every Sunday Come West Along the Road" with Marianne MacDonald from noon to 1 pm on WTMR

12/08/2024

Getting ready to go ont the air in a few minutes. Let me know where you're listening from at www.wtmrradio.com or www.gir.ie.

10/12/2024

Tomorrow's radio show is ready as I head off to the Philadelphia Ceili Group Irish Festival for the day. Tomorrow you will be hearing songs and tunes from Pólca 4, Trevor Sexton & Ger O Donnell, Nuala Kennedy, Rattle the Boards, Matt Murphy, Screaming Orphans, Craobh Rua, Dervish, Donie Carroll, the very talented Angland siblings from CCE Glenflesk and Karan Casey. I hope you can join me at noon Eastern time in the U.S. on www.wtmrradio.com or 5:00 Irish time on www.gir.ie

Enjoy this beautiful day and hope to see lots of listeners up at the Irish Center today!

10/05/2024

Tomorrow's Philadelphia Sunday Irish Radio Show is ready. It will feature songs and tunes from many of the performers at this year's Philadelphia Ceili Group Festival. You'll be hearing from Billy Mccomiskey, Joanna Clare, Tim Britton, John Byrne, Kevin McCloskey, the Consequences (Lexie Boatright), the Murphy Beds (Eamon O'Leary & Jefferson Hamer), Liz Hanley, John McGillian & Jimmy McGillian and more. I hope you can tune in at noon Eastern time to www.wtmrradio.com or 5:00 Irish time to www.gir.ie.

09/28/2024

Tomorrow's show is ready and was inspired by last Sunday's concert at the Irish Center with Seán Keane. He did some lovely covers of American songs and it got me thinking it was about time to do another "Crossover" show. You'll be hearing songs and tunes from Seán Keane, Dolly Parton with Mairead Ni Mhaonaigh, The Chieftains with Doc Watson, Ann Kirrane, The Everly Brothers, Ricky Scaggs with Paddy Glackin and Mark O'Connor, Mary McPartlan RIP, Damaris Woods and Elle Marie O Dwyer. I hope you can tune in at noon Eastern time on www.wtmrradio.com or 5:00 Irish time on www.gir.ie. See you on the air tomorrow!

09/21/2024

Tomorrow's Philadelphia Sunday Irish Radio Show is ready with songs and tunes for the turning of the season. You'll be hearing from Brenda Castles, Seán Keane, Arcady with Frances Black, The Consequences, Eleanor Shanley, Screaming Orphans, P.J. Murrihy, Johnny Connolly, Trasna (Trevor Sexton and Ger O Donnell), James Keane and Matt Murphy. We hope you can join us at noon Eastern time on www.wtmrradio.com or 5:00 Irish time on www.gir.ie.

09/07/2024

Tomorrow's Philadelphia Sunday Irish Radio Show is ready. We will be doing a tribute segment to Cyril O'Donoghue who sadly passed away in Co. Clare this week. We will follow that with songs and a radio interview with Seán Keane who will be appearing in Philadelphia at the Commodore John Barry Arts & Cultural Center "The Irish Center" on Sunday, Sept. 22nd. We'll hear from Dolores Keane, Edel Vaughan, Michelle Mulcahy and Nan Tom Taimín as well. I hope you can join me at noon Eastern time on www.wtmrradio.com or 5:00 Irish time on www.gir.ie.

*Photo by myself taken in July in Kilmackalloge, Co. Kerry. For some reason it reminds me of autumn.

08/31/2024

Tomorrow's Philadelphia Sunday Irish Radio Show is ready with music featuring songs relevant to Labor Day and some of the great Irish Labour organizers. You'll be hearing from Solas, Mary Courtney, The River Drivers, Dolores Keane, Christy Moore, Noel Shine & Mary Greene, the late Ronnie Drew, the late Mick Moloney and Eilís Kennedy. I hope you can join me at noon Eastern time on www.wtmrradio.com or 5:00 Irish time on www.gir.ie.

08/24/2024

Tomorrow's radio show is ready as we look forward to our last week of summer and sunny blue skies! We'll be listening to tunes and songs from Buttons & Bows, Mary Greene, Seán Keane, James Keane, Sean Tyrrell RIP, Fil Campbell & Tom McFarland, Arcady, The Casey Sisters, Tommy Sands, The Leitrim Equation and Polca 4. I hope you can join me at noon Eastern time on www.wtmrradio.com and at 5:00 Irish time on www.gir.ie.

*Photo below taken from Helen's Bar, Kilmackillogue Pier and shows the original townland for my Murphy ancestors.

08/17/2024

Tomorrow's Philadelphia Sunday Irish Radio Show is ready with Listener Favorites and Requests. Lots of listeners gave great suggestions last week so I'm including as many as possible. I hope you'll enjoy listening to tunes and songs from Altan, Johnny McEvoy, Katie Theasby, Planxty, Mary McPartlan RIP, Robbie O'Connell, Ryans' Fancy, Don Stiffe, Joanie Madden and Liam Clancy RIP. You can listen at 12:00 Eastern time on www.wtmrradio.com.

08/10/2024

Tomorrow's Philadelphia Sunday Irish Radio Show is ready and will feature a plethora of Irish "Supergroups" including Arcady, Bothy Band, the Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem, De Danann, the Fureys, the High Kings, Lunasa, Moving Cloud and Van Morrison with the Chieftains and more. I hope you can join me at noon Eastern time on www.wtmrradio.com!.

*Photo below shows the Kilmackillogue harbour in Co. Kerry taken a few weeks ago by yours truly as the sun set at 10:00 PM.

08/03/2024

Tomorrow's Philadelphia Sunday Irish Radio Show is ready, with inspiration from a few sources. You'll be hearing songs and tunes from Late in the Night (Christy Barry, Cyril O'Donoghue and Conor McCarthy), Gabriel Donohue, John Prine & Mary Staunton, Sliabh Notes, Dervish with Imelda May, Enda Haran, Niamh Ní Charra, De Danann with Maura O'Connell, Christie Hennessy and Patrick Street. I hope you can join me at noon Eastern time on www.wtmrradio.com or 5:00 Irish time on www.gir.ie.

Photo below taken by yours truly in July, portrays a boreen in Kilmackillogue, Co. Kerry on a beautiful sunny day!

07/27/2024

Tomorrow's Philadelphia Sunday Irish Radio Show is ready. We will pay tribute to two artists whose passings were remembered this week, Mick Moloney and Sinead O'Connor. We'll also be hearing more from the two new CDs from Altan and Oisín Mac Diarmada. We'll also be hearing from Robbie O'Connell, The Grehan Sisters, Pólca 4 and more. I hope you can tune in at noon EDT on www.wtmrradio.com or ask Alexa, Siri, etc. to tune to WTMR 800 AM. In Ireland you can go to www.gir.ie at 5:00 to catch the show.

*Photo is of the view of Glanmore Lake from Josie's Lakeview Restaurant in Lauragh, Co. Kerry, just off the Healy Pass taken by yours truly a few weeks ago.

07/20/2024

Tomorrow's radio show is ready and as promised last week it features songs and tunes from the counties going to the two All-Ireland finals this week. We'll be hearing from the Kilfenora Céilí Band, Ann Kirrane and Gerry Lynch (rip) representing Co. Clare. From Cork we'll hear from the Allow Ceili Band, Donie Carroll and Elle Marie O Dwyer for the Clare-Cork Hurling final taking place tomorrow. Moving to the Galway-Armagh Football final taking place next Sunday, we'll hear from Cherish the Ladies, Dolores Keane and Don Stiffe for Galway and Briege Murphy, Cillian Vallely and Paddy Reilly for Armagh. I hope you can join me at noon EDT on www.wtmrradio.com or 5:00 Irish time on www.gir.ie. Hopefully Michael Bradley who managed to get tickets to the match tomorrow will keep us updated on the score!

Photo taken on July 10 at the top of the Healy Pass where Co. Cork meets Co. Kerry. Photo credit: Marianne MacDonald

07/13/2024

Home from Ireland and it took me hours to get my show for tomorrow ready! I received a few new CDs in the mail and brought one home with me. You'll be hearing from the new Altan CD, the new CD from Oisín Mac Diarmada, Elle Marie O Dwyer, Enda Haran, Mick Brown, Mary Black & Jimmy McCarthy and the late Danny Quinn. A bit of a mix of old and new taking place at noon EDT on www.wtmrradio.com or at 5:00 Irish time on www.gir.ie. I hope you can join me!

Photo taken by yours truly outside Helen's Bar, Kilmackillogue where we were doing B&B for several glorious days of beautiful weather, lovely meet-ups with friends and cousins and copious amounts of fresh seafood and gorgeous pints of Murphy's stout! ;)

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Sunday	12pm - 1pm

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