The Letter from Ireland Podcast

By Mike Collins

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Episodes: 146

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The Letter from Ireland Podcast. Join us as we travel in the footsteps of your Irish Ancestors around Ireland - visiting their homelands and telling their stories and with lots of great Irish music along the way.

Episode Date
Finding your Irish Ancestral Homeland (#838)
Sep 21, 2023
A Genealogical Trip Back to County Cork (#837)
Sep 14, 2023
Did Your Irish Ancestor Live Through This Terrible Time? (#836)
Sep 07, 2023
Two Royal Families of Ireland - O'Neill and O'Connor (#835)
Aug 31, 2023
The 8 Most Unique Male Irish Singing Voices (#834)
Aug 24, 2023
From County Cork to the Bright Lights of Broadway and Chicago (#833)
Aug 17, 2023
The 8 Most Beautiful Irish Female Singing Voices (#832)
Aug 10, 2023
The City of Belfast and County Antrim (#831)
Aug 03, 2023
An Irish Birthday Celebration (#830)
Jul 27, 2023
The Surprising Irish Origin of 2 Racing Legends (#829)
Jul 19, 2023
Beer, Whiskey and The Irish Temperance Movement (#828)
Jul 12, 2023
Old Irish Culture and Traditions - REPOST (#827)
Jul 06, 2023
Inside the Hedge Schools of Ireland - REPOST(#826)
Jun 29, 2023
Murder in the West of Ireland - REPOST (#825)
Jun 22, 2023
Irish Proverbs and Irish Accents - REPOST (#824)
Jun 15, 2023
Danny Boy & The Music and Songs of Ulster - REPOST (#823)
Jun 08, 2023
From The Vikings to The Normans - REPOST (#822)
Jun 01, 2023
What Happens when an Irish Bard Reads Your Family History (#821)
May 24, 2023
The Celtic Druids and The Irish (#820)
May 18, 2023
Danny Boy and 5 Other Irish Anthems (#819)
May 11, 2023
Our 5 Favourite Stops on a Tour Around Dublin (#818)
May 03, 2023
Here is How the Celts Celebrated the Coming of Summer (#817)
Apr 26, 2023
Let's Chat with a Native Irish Gaelic Speaker (#816)
Apr 19, 2023
This Field In County Galway Should be A Lot More Famous! (#815)
Apr 12, 2023
Did Your Family Run an Irish Castle? (#814)
Apr 05, 2023
The Holy Wells of Ireland - Stories, Traditions and Cures! (#813)
Mar 29, 2023
7 Irish Tales of Emigration (#812)
Mar 21, 2023
A St. Patrick's Day Parade of Story and Song (#811)
Mar 15, 2023
Join Us on this Journey from Cobh to Ellis Island (#810)
Mar 08, 2023
Look Through This Window Into A Celtic World (#809)
Mar 01, 2023
From Carnivale to an Irish Easter (#808)
Feb 22, 2023
Traditional Irish Love Songs - 8 Favourites (#807)
Feb 14, 2023
Do You Have These Saintly Names in Your Irish Family Tree? (#806)
Feb 08, 2023
The Irish Goddess and the Irish Saint (#805)
Feb 01, 2023
10 Stops on a Musical Tour Around Ireland (#804)
Jan 25, 2023
Another Mystery Solved: The Search for my Irish Grandfather (#803)
Jan 18, 2023
A Mystery Solved: The Search for my Irish Grandmother (#802)
Jan 11, 2023
Come into This World of Celtic Music (#801)
Jan 04, 2023
A Merry Irish Christmas - 10 Old Irish Christmas Songs (#748)
Dec 14, 2022
My Top Irish Names for Boys and Girls (#747)
Dec 07, 2022
The Leaving Of Liverpool, The Irish & The Beatles (#746)
Nov 30, 2022
The Most Irish of Towns Outside Ireland (#745)
Nov 23, 2022
Galway Bay and the Music and Songs of Connaught (#744)
Nov 16, 2022
The Best Memorial for an Irish Ancestor? (#743)
Nov 09, 2022
How The Irish Saved Civilisation (#742)
Nov 02, 2022
An Irish Halloween - Stories from "Samhain" (#741)
Oct 26, 2022
Come Into An Irish Pub (#740)
Oct 19, 2022
Grace Kelly & Maureen O'Hara - 2 Irish Movie Stars (#739)
Oct 12, 2022
15 Flowers - An Irish Musical Daisy-Chain (#738)
Oct 05, 2022
From The Vikings to The Normans (#737)
Sep 28, 2022
The Mother & Baby Homes of Ireland (#736)
Sep 21, 2022
The Pogues & More - A Different Sort of Irish Music (#735)
Sep 14, 2022
Danny Boy and The Music and Songs of Ulster (#734)
Sep 07, 2022
Reporting The Great Irish Famine (#733)
Aug 31, 2022
Irish Pioneers in a Far Away Land (#732)
Aug 24, 2022
Holland & Brown - 2 Irish Giants of Naval History (#731)
Aug 17, 2022
When Did Your Ancestor ARRIVE in Ireland (#730)
Aug 10, 2022
Old Irish Culture and Traditions (#729)
Jul 20, 2022
Ireland, Religion, Methodists, Quakers & Pennsylvania (#728)
Jul 13, 2022
Ulster Scots and the Orange Order (#727)
Jul 06, 2022
Irish Proverbs and Irish Accents (#726)
Jun 29, 2022
Enjoy the High Spirits of the Irish (#725)
Jun 22, 2022
The Evolution of Irish Music in 12 Tracks (#724)
Jun 15, 2022
Solving The Mystery of Irish Surnames - Two Examples (#723)
Jun 08, 2022
Inside the Hedge Schools of Ireland (#722)
Jun 01, 2022
Laurel & Hardy and an Irish-American Hero (#721)
May 25, 2022
An Irish Bard - The Story behind a modern Irish Poet and Storyteller (#720)
May 18, 2022
On Opposite Sides - The Story of 2 Irish Civil War Generals (#719)
May 09, 2022
Pride, Prejudice & The Irish Origins of a Great Literary Family (#718)
May 04, 2022
PRONI - Past, Present & Future (#717)
Apr 27, 2022
Will You Travel with This Irish Saint? (#716)
Apr 20, 2022
An Irish Rebel Easter (#715)
Apr 13, 2022
A Journey Along The St. Lawrence River (#714)
Apr 06, 2022
It's Time for an Irish Census (#713)
Mar 30, 2022
An Irish Musical Education (#712)
Mar 23, 2022
Let's Celebrate St. Patricks Day (#711)
Mar 16, 2022
Would You Live on an Irish Island? (#710)
Mar 10, 2022
007 Meets Sherlock Holmes - An Irish Story(#709)
Mar 01, 2022
Murder in The West of Ireland (#708)
Feb 23, 2022
Elvis and The Fighting Irish (#707)
Feb 16, 2022
A Valentine Card From Ireland (#706)
Feb 10, 2022
The Death of An Irish Chieftain (#705)
Feb 03, 2022
A Celtic Spring (#704)
Jan 26, 2022
Ireland, Scotland & Robbie Burns (#703)
Jan 19, 2022
Two Irish Literary Giants (#702)
Jan 13, 2022
All Gods Creatures Have a Place in the Choir (#701)
Jan 06, 2022
What Drives Genealogists Crazy About Ancestry.com
Jun 15, 2021
One Story From The Irish Land Wars
Jun 03, 2021
The Tithe Applotment Books - 7 Questions and 7 Answers
May 27, 2021
Join Us On a Trip Around The Aran Islands
May 20, 2021
A Creative Mind Born From a Pandemic
Apr 29, 2021
The Key To Understanding Your Irish Surnames (#602)
Apr 22, 2021
Join Us On A Lockdown Tour Of County Cork
Apr 15, 2021
Join Our Genealogist on a Walk Through an Irish Graveyard - (#505)
Oct 24, 2019
Where You Need to Start Your Irish Ancestry Search - 2 Reader Case-Studies (#504)
Oct 18, 2019
The Irish Scots - A Trip to Glasgow in Scotland (#503)
Oct 03, 2019
The Life of Riley - A Trip Through County Cavan (#502)
Sep 19, 2019
The Holy Wells of Ireland - Saints, Cures and Tradition (#501)
Sep 06, 2019
7 Favourite Irish Ancestry Moments from Series 4 of the Letter from Ireland Show (#410)
May 31, 2019
3 Signs You Are making Progress as an Irish Family History Researcher (#409)
May 10, 2019
A Tale of Two Cities - The Tenement Museums of Dublin and New York (#408)
Apr 28, 2019
From Queenstown to Ellis Island - A Journey in the Footsteps of Your Irish Ancestors (#407)
Apr 12, 2019
Irish Ancestry - Interview with an American Genealogist on tracing your Irish Ancestors (#406)
Mar 29, 2019
12 Surprises - 90,000 Irish Questions and Answers over 5 years (#405)
Feb 28, 2019
Irish Genealogy - An Irish Family History Research Guide (#404)
Feb 15, 2019
The Irish Festival at the start of a Celtic Spring (#403)
Jan 31, 2019
Anglo Norman Surnames - Following the Norman Trail to Ireland (#402)
Jan 18, 2019
The Irish in Australia - A Trip to Van Diemen's Land (#401)
Jan 04, 2019
The Shopkeeper and the Irish Saint - My Grandfather's Hidden History (#309)
Oct 18, 2018
From an Irish Cottage to a Castle - A Journey into one Woman's Hidden Past (#308)
Oct 04, 2018
The Beatles - Meet The Liverpool Irish (#307)
Sep 20, 2018
An Irish American Story - From County Kerry to Illinois (#306)
Sep 06, 2018
Meet 5 Irish Heroes - People Making a Difference in Irish Heritage (#305)
Aug 10, 2018
From The Mouths of Babes - A Wonderful Irish Ancestry Resource (#304)
Jul 25, 2018
Tales of West Cork - Will You Come to An Irish Hooley? (#303)
Jul 19, 2018
Meet the Ulster Scots - The Ulster American Folk Park (#302)
Jul 12, 2018
If the Walls Could Talk - A Visit to the National Famine Museum (#301)
Jul 05, 2018
Voices from Australia - A Trip Along the Irish Ancestral Trail (#212)
May 17, 2018
A Summer Festival - Bealtaine, the Start of an Irish Summer (#211)
May 10, 2018
DNA Testing - Our Experiences with Irish Ancestry DNA (#209)
May 03, 2018
One Listener's Story - A Letter from Australia to Ireland (#208)
Apr 19, 2018
Meet John Grenham - A Chat on the state of Irish Ancestry Records (#207)
Apr 11, 2018
Meet the Irish-Canadians - Following the Irish Ancestral Trail in Canada (#206)
Apr 05, 2018
Irish Revolution - Meet the man behind the Atlas of the Irish Revolution (#210)
Mar 28, 2018
Irish Stories - More Stories from The Green Room (#205)
Feb 22, 2018
Saint Valentine of Dublin - His Life and final resting Place (#203)
Feb 08, 2018
Obtaining Irish Citizenship - From Movie Stars to the rest of us (#202)
Feb 01, 2018
From Ireland to Scotland - A Tale for Burns Night (#201)
Jan 24, 2018
Christmas in Ireland - Tales from an Irish Home (#119)
Dec 21, 2017
Religion in Ireland - Let's Take a Different Perspective (#118)
Dec 19, 2017
Irish Baby Names - Do You Follow this Approved List? (#117)
Dec 19, 2017
2 Irish Gentlemen - Tales of Integrity and Principle (#116)
Dec 19, 2017
Fake News? - How the Irish Famine was depicted abroad (#115)
Dec 19, 2017
DNA and Culture - Is Irishness your Nature or Nurture? (#114)
Nov 16, 2017
Pride, Prejudice and Jane Eyre - An Irish Connection? (#113)
Nov 09, 2017
Shackleton and Saint Brendan - Irish Explorers who took on the World (#112)
Oct 26, 2017
Maud Gonne and Mrs. Brown - 2 Tales of Strong Irish Women (#111)
Oct 06, 2017
Irish Placenames - A Journey along an old Irish Road (#110)
Sep 14, 2017
A Trip to the Moon - In the Footsteps of 2 Irish Scientists (#109)
Sep 07, 2017
A Moving Story - from the Bard of the Hooley
Jul 14, 2017
A Trip to Ireland - The Secrets to Planning your Trip (#108)
Jan 28, 2016
4 Irish Women - Tales of Adversity and Triumph (#107)
Jan 13, 2016
Irish Placenames - Is Your surname hidden in one of these places? (#106)
Jan 07, 2016
2 Tales about Religion in Ireland (#105)
Dec 24, 2015
Pete MacCarthy - Always Visit a Pub with your name over the door (#104)
Dec 18, 2015
A New Show - Welcome to The Letter from Ireland Show (#101)
Dec 03, 2015