The Ireland Podcast

Episode 107 has Fender Jackson doing a walkabout in the Game Of Thrones Studio Tour in Banbridge, County Down. You’ll be able to hear how Fender is amazed by this jewel in Ireland’s cinematic crown. Scroll to the bottom to see details on the prizes we’re giving away!Interviews include:Intro and competition - special thanks to Sara Dylan who plays Bernadette for the ident!Joseph Waters: Deputy Duty Manager;Sheena Davidson: Casual Studio Tour Guide;Lee the photographer;Wall placards; Props; Sandra in the Gift Shop;Elias and Jasmine from Lyon, France;Ian McAlpine and family from Canada (and down the road); Hazel from Taiwan; Joseph Waters: Deputy Duty Manager.Relevant Linkhttps://gameofthronesstudiotour.com/CompetitionThe Game Of Thrones Studio Tour is giving away:Tickets for 2Tickets and Afternoon Tea for 2To enter:Follow The Ireland Podcast on InstagramTag two friends in The Ireland Podcast / Game Of Thrones Studio Tour Instagram PostShare on Instagram storiesCompetition will close at 6pm on Monday 30th September (Belfast time). Winners will be announced on Tuesday 1st October.Psst… There’s be more Game Of Thrones interviews and prizes in the future so be sure to subscribe to The Ireland Podcast on your favourite podcast player!

Episode 104 is the concluding part of a conversation between Fender Jackson and Terri Hooley of Good Vibrations shop, label and film fame.Conversation includes: grief; the fire in North Arcade; winning awards; the film ‘Good Vibrations’; Glen Patterson; Terri’s opinion of the movie; the ‘Alternative Belfast Walking Tour’; Bob Dylan; protesting; the John Lennon story; how the movie came into existence; the musical moving from Belfast to New York; Stuart Bailie; Trouble Songs: Music And Conflict In Northern Ireland; Seventy-Five Revolutions; Terri’s health; Shane MacGowan; bringing the Nipple Erectors over for their first Belfast gig; Doolin Book Festival; Cait O’Riordan; Terri’s charitable work; being in need; Tools For Solidarity as well as other topics.We are very grateful to Terri for the generous time he gave for this interview. Warning: This episode contains strong language and adult themes.Face to face recording in Bangor at 2.38pm on Thursday 5th September.Relevant Linkshttps://stuartbailie.bandcamp.com/merch/terri-hooley-seventy-five-revolutionsEpisode 104. Terri Hooley: Good Vibrations - Part 1Spotify playlist to accompany this episodeAdditional Linkshttps://peopleskitchenbelfast.orghttps://www.toolsforsolidarity.com

Episode 105 is the conclusion of the conversation between Fender Jackson and his childhood friend, the author Stuart Neville.Conversation includes: finances; TV series; Limitless; Alan Glynn; Blue Lights; audiobooks; Brian Blessed; Mark Billingham; Bono; James Fearnley; Gerard Doyle; Alan Tarkington; Caroline Lennon; Bob Odenkirk; Tina Fey; His Dark Materials: The Golden Compass; Collusion; Ratlines; John Connolly; Lee Child; writing under the pen name Haylen Beck; Soho Press; Crown Publishing Group, subsidiary of Penguin Random House; the Covid impact; Here And Gone; Lost You; House Of Ashes; the 2 year life cycle of the process of book writing and publication; the summer crime and the Hallowe’en horror markets; how Stuart writes; Fun Lovin’ Crime Writers; Doug Johnstone; Bloody Scotland; Bill Loehfelm; Roland Gulliver; Val McDermid; Luca Veste; Chris Brookmyre; playing Glastonbury; being a luthier; Brian May; Eddie Van Halen; Music World; Roy Lambert; Fender Bullet; Fernandes Infinite Sustain; the book industry; ebooks; AI and other topics.Face to face recording in Armagh City, County Armagh at 12.45pm on Tuesday 3rd September 2024.Special thanks to Dr. James Morrow for the loan of his front room.Relevant Linkshttps://www.stuartneville.comAdditional LinksEpisode 103. Stuart Neville: Author - Part 1https://funlovincrimewriters.comSpotify playlist to accompany episode

Episode 104 is the first part of a conversation between Fender Jackson and Terri Hooley of Good Vibrations shop, label and film fame.Conversation includes: (re)introductions; Terri’s health; moving from East Belfast to Bangor; The Legendary Rocking Humdingers; Carlene Carter; Screaming Lord Sutch; Hallowe’en; early family life; losing his eye; first LSD trip; nearly getting killed by paramilitaries; starting up the shop; Teenage Kicks; Dougie Knight; The Outcasts; Rudi; transitioning from hippie to punk; Belfast charm; Terri’s attitude to money; being an anarchist-hippy; being the first person to be arrested under the 1965 Civil Disobedience Act of Northern Ireland; Caroline Music; Stiff Little Fingers; Gordon Ogilvie; Belfast Arts Lab; Davy Smith; Dave Shannon; studios and other topics.We are very grateful to Terri for the generous time he gave for this interview. Warning: This episode contains strong language and adult themes.Face to face recording in Bangor at 2.38pm on Thursday 5th September.Relevant Linkshttps://stuartbailie.bandcamp.com/merch/terri-hooley-seventy-five-revolutionshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terri_HooleyAdditional LinksSpotify Playlist for this episode

Episode 103 is very much a continuation on from Episode 100 and 101 with Fender chatting with his childhood friend, fellow musician and award winning writer Stuart Neville.Conversation includes: (re)introductions; early years; first friends from across the political divide; the commonality of music; Iggy Pop; Van Halen vs. Velvet Underground; musical blindspots; rock songs with recorders; playing in bands in Armagh; Stuart as a music producer; Milltown Cemetery attack; Corporals killings; needing to get away, and then back again; the romanticisation of the Troubles vs. the actual misery; Greysteel massacre; Stuart’s venture into writing; ‘The Twelve’ aka ‘The Ghosts Of Belfast’; rewrites; literary agent Nat Sobel; James Ellroy; perfect being the enemy of the good; the expectations put upon the genre writer; Colin Bateman; Geoff Mulligan; Soho Press; The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, who optioned Stuart’s book; winning the LA Times Book Prize; becoming a full time writer; Steve Kavanagh and other topics.Face to face recording in Armagh City, County Armagh at 12.45pm on Tuesday 3rd September 2024.Relevant Linkshttps://www.stuartneville.comAdditional LinksEpisode 105. Stuart Neville: Author - Part 2Stuart on The Late Late Show with Craig FergusonSpotify Playlist to accompany this episode

Episode 102 is the strengthening of bridges that unites these groups of islands through a cross-community conversation between Linda Ervine agus An Feannadóir (and Fender Jackson). NB The first couple of minutes of this episode are in Gaelic and then it switches to English.Conversation includes: introductions in Gaelic and then in English; early years; the backdrop of the Troubles; living in Belvoir; Linda’s left wing father; The Price sisters on hunger strike; travelling; The Tommy Tiernan Show; first Gaelic lessons; An Droichead; identifying Catholics and Protestants; making headlines; ‘Presbyterians and the Irish Language’; ‘Hidden Ulster: Protestants and the Irish Language’; Gaelic links to the Orange Order, Presbyterian Church and Church of Ireland; Hidden History of Protestants & The Irish Language; maintaining a positive attitude in spite of all obstacles; every word spoken in Irish being a brick in the bridge that unites us as a group of islands; John Hume; being British and Irish; Carmel Hanna; Heather Wilson and Stephen McCarthy; the boredom of the Troubles; Acht na Gaeilge; nursery school; what Linda and Turas does; teaching English vs. Irish; An Cultúrlann; Jim Allister; “curry my yoghurt”; philanthropists and heroes, as well as other topics.Thank you to Malachi O'Doherty, Lillis O'Laoire, Irish With Mollie agus Seán Ó hEaráin for their questions.Face to face recording in Skainos Centre, Newtownards Road, Belfast at 3.15pm on Wednesday 4th September 2024.Relevant Linkshttps://turasbelfast.comBuy something from the Turas shopAdditional Linkshttps://presbyterianhistoryireland.com/history/presbyterians-and-the-irish-language/https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hidden-Ulster-Protestants-Irish-Language/dp/1873687354Hidden History of Protestants & The Irish Language

Episode 101 is the second part of an interview with Fender Jackson by his old friend and former fellow bandmate, the esteemed Dr. James Morrow reflecting back on 100 episodes of The Ireland Podcast.Conversation includes: Adam Clayton; Bono; Mick Jagger; Irish diaspora artists; Kate Bush; John Lydon; Kevin Rowland; Boy George; Wuthering Heights; In Dreams by Roy Orbison; David Bowie; Sense Of Doubt; Brian Eno; Oblique Strategies; John Cale; Robert Fripp; Reeves Gabrels; Mike Garson; Tony Scullion; Garron; Paul Brady; Paul Charles; Game Of Thrones; the imposter syndrome; Noel Edmonds; leaving the bins out; the relaxed, long-form interview; Tony Hancock; no video as well as other topics.Relevant Linkswww.theirelandpodcast.comAdditional Linkshttps://open.spotify.com/playlist/7n9YLV83HBp3cpC7bs4v5pFace to face recording in Armagh City, County Armagh at approximately 8.18pm on Monday 2nd September 2024.

Episode 100 is the first part of an interview with Fender Jackson by his old friend and former fellow bandmate, the esteemed Dr. James Morrow reflecting back on 99 episodes of The Ireland Podcast.Conversation includes: (re)introductions; the history of The Ireland Podcast; the journey of most podcast episodes; the first interviewee; the origin story of The Ireland Podcast; the dying embers of Gaelic as a first language in the Sperrin Mountains; Fender interviewing family members about 25 years ago; PlayLouder.com; John Cale; Seán Gallagher from Derry; Seán Óg McKiernan; listener feedback; Liz Hackett watching Rugby in Australia; Gerry Mulholland, aka Jarir Al-Majar; Sam Henry the musicologist; imposter syndrome; Elvis Costello; David Bowie; Fender Jackson; The Pixies; the duty of the archivist; deciding who to interview; Nirvana; editing as well as other topics.Relevant Linkswww.theirelandpodcast.comAdditional Linkshttps://open.spotify.com/playlist/7n9YLV83HBp3cpC7bs4v5pFace to face recording in Armagh City, County Armagh at approximately 8.18pm on Monday 2nd September 2024.

Episode 99 is a conversation between Fender Jackson and IMRA member David Kelleher who is a family man, an ultra marathon runner and a poet amongst other things.Conversation includes: introductions; Rosslare Strand, County Wexford; David’s family; being a twin; Rosslare being the coccyx of the dog that is Ireland and having a blue flag beach that often rates as one of the top 10 beaches of Ireland; Sellafield; coastal erosion; ferries and Rosslare Port;  David’s career; ultra-running; rugby; marathons; Forth Mountain; Born to Run - Christopher McDougall; Irish Mountain Running Association; Comeragh Mountains, Clonmel; racing against the Hoka sponsored Andrew Douglas and other elites; representing Ireland; Jordan Peterson; philosophy; memento morti; the stoic fork; Marcus Aurelius' Meditations; mindset and idiocy; negative affirmations; chasing after the carrot and not being afraid of the stick; ‘The Rise’; Charles Mingus; John Prine; how David writes his poetry; running without headphones; ultra running being a mental sport; the abyss after 26.2 miles; going beyond the limits; saunas and bs; where you can buy David’s book; Lou Ferrigno, Stan Lee and Comic Con; North Slob; Renaissance Person and other topics.Relevant LinksStop, Breathe, Read: Powerful Poems that explore the simplicity of resolveAdditional Linkshttps://www.imra.ie/https://wicklow.ecotrail.com/https://beachawards.ie/blue-flag/sites-2-2/Episode 9. Paul Mulligan & Jim Rooney: Evoking The Ghost Of John PrineEpisode 42. Dr. Kevin Lynch: Costal Geomorphologist