There are few careers in Irish music as extraordinary as that of Dónal Lunny. His name will forever be connected with the groups Emmet Spiceland, Planxty, The Bothy Band and Moving Hearts. Yet beyond being a defining musician, he has made important contributions on the other side of the sound desk too. In this discusssion, recorded at Another Love Story, we pass through some of the greatest Irish albums of the twentieth century.
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Other People's Lives (with Dermot Bolger)
Dublin in Maps: From the Soviet Union to D6W (with Joseph Brady)
Jim Fitzpatrick: On Che, Phil Lynott and Sinéad O'Connor
From Jim Larkin to Alfred Hitchcock: The Life of O'Casey
Peig McManus: A Dublin Childhood and a Life Less Ordinary
"My body to Ireland, my heart to Rome...." (with Claire Halpin)
The Foggy Dew: From Father O'Neill to Sinéad O'Connor
From Lugs Branigan to Led Zeppelin
Motorcades and Martyr Graves
Roddy Doyle Interview: Taxi to Barrytown!
1954: The Birth of Bloomsday
Tatters Cullen and the Vanishing Suffragettes
From Skin-the-Goat to Buckshot Forster: The Phoenix Park Assassinations
Old Songs and New Revivals (with Macdara Yeates)
Ragged Trousers and Paint Brushes (with Jimmy Murphy)
From the Ormond Market to the Hacienda
Noël Browne and the Archbishop (with Robert Ballagh)
A Sort of Homecoming
The Beginnings of Dublin Theatre (with Arran Henderson)
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Irish Songs with Ken Murray
History Obscura
Historycal: Words that Shaped the World
The Rest Is History
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