The Corrymeela Podcast

Latest Episodes:

The Corrymeela Podcast, Season 2. Trailer Mar 31, 2023

Show notes

The Corrymeela Podcast is back in 2023 for a second season, with six episodes in the spring and six in the autumn. Host Pádraig Ó Tuama will be speaking with artists and writers and academics about art, conflict, theology, politics, and reconciliation. We’ll be back with you on 7th April, speaking with the brilliant political sociologist Katy Hayward.

Corrymeela Podcast Feedback May 06, 2021

Show notes

Loading…

The Corrymeela Podcast, Season 1, Episode 12. Martin Hayes. May 06, 2021

Show notes

In this, the final episode of the first season of the Corrymeela podcast, Pádraig Ó Tuama speaks to Martin Hayes, the renowned and multi-award winning fiddle player. Martin talks about how music carries culture, memory, place and possibility. As always, Martin has his fiddle with him, so he plays music that demonstrates his insight.

We have a full transcript and some reflection questions here.

Martin Hayes’ website is martinhayes.com His albums can be found online or in music shops or directly from the store on his website.

As we evaluate the first season of the podcast, we have a short feedback form (it should only take you a few minutes to fill in). We'd be delighted to hear from you.

Season 1 Final Episode Trailer: Martin Hayes May 04, 2021

Show notes

A trailer for the final Episode of Season 1 Corrymeela Podcast, featuring the renowned fiddle player Martin Hayes, from East Clare. This special episode features a conversation with Martin about how music carries culture, memory, place and possibility and features him playing the fiddle as well as talking. Full episode will be released on Thursday.

The Corrymeela Podcast, Season 1, Episode 11. Dr Lia Shimada Apr 29, 2021

Show notes

Dr Lia Shimada is a a conflict mediator, a theologian and a geographer. She’s used these wide-ranging trainings to work at the interface of migration, ethnicity, change, religion and conflict. In this wide ranging conversation we discuss her experiences working in conflict mediation in Belfast, her experiences of migration, and how living with the death of her newborn son Rowan has influenced her sense of place.

As always you can find some reflection questions and a full transcript here.

This is the second-last episode of season 1 of the Corrymeela Podcast. We would love a few minutes of your time to get some feedback via this link..

You can find out more about Lia Shimada’s work on her website here. If you purchase ‘Mapping Faith; Theologies of Migration and Community’ from the publishers you can get a 25% discount (valid till the end of 2021) by using this code: ‘B25D9F4’ for the ebook and ‘MAPPING’ for the paperback.

The Corrymeela Podcast, Season 1, Episode 10. Michael Davies. Apr 22, 2021

Show notes

This episode of the Corrymeela features host Pádraig Ó Tuama speaking with Michael Davies. Michael is the founder and director of Parallel Histories, a UK educational company that offers new ways to study the history of conflict. In this conversation we consider the ways history is taught in Britain, how the crisis of narration can be possibility, and how religion education would benefit by being taught through historical approaches, not only doctrinal ones.

As always you can find reflection questions and the full transcript here. And you can find out more about Parallel Histories here.

As mentioned in the podcast, we would love to get your feedback on the Corrymeela podcast via this short form here.

The Corrymeela Podcast, Season 1, Episode 9. Peter Sheridan Apr 15, 2021

Show notes

This episode of the Corrymeela Podcast features Peter Sheridan. For many years he was known as one of the senior-most Catholics in the police in Northern Ireland, and his policing career spanned the reform of the RUC into the PSNI. At the age of 48 he made a career change and became chief exec of the peacebuilding charity Cooperation Ireland.

As always you can find reflection questions and the full transcript here. And you can find out more about Cooperation Ireland here.

As mentioned in the podcast, we would love to get your feedback on our Corrymeela Podcast via this short form here.

The Corrymeela Podcast, Season 1, Episode 8. Dr Ebun Joseph Apr 08, 2021

Show notes

For this episode of the Corrymeela Podcast, host Pádraig Ó Tuama speaks with Dr Ebun Joseph — sociologist, author, speaker, and originator of Ireland’s first course in Black Studies, based at University College Dublin. This wide ranging conversation approaches questions of Irishness and Britishness through narratives of race, discrimination and financial policies in places of employment.

You can find reflection questions and a full transcript here.

You can find out more about Dr Ebun Joseph’s work at University College Dublin here, or follow her on Twitter at @EbunJoseph Her academic text book Critical race theory and inequality in the labour market; Racial stratification in Ireland, can be bought here.

The Corrymeela Podcast, Season 1, Episode 7, Prof Christine Bell Apr 01, 2021

Show notes

Professor of Constitutional Law, Christine Bell, speaks to the Corrymeela Podcast about Peace Treaties, Brexit, the Good Friday/Belfast Agreement and Human Rights. Christine Bell is a co-director of the Global Justice Academy, and a founder member of the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission (established under the terms of the Good Friday Agreement).

As always you can find a full transcript of the episode, as well as reflection questions, here.

You can find out more about Christine Bell’s work at the Edinburgh Law School here, or follow her on Twitter at @christinebelled

The Corrymeela Podcast, Season 1, Episode 6. The Edge Mar 25, 2021

Show notes

We were thrilled to speak to Irish rock legend The Edge, one part of U2. Born of Welsh parents and raised in Ireland, Edge has had longstanding interests in questions of politics, identity, belonging and religion. In this episode he speaks about all of these, and speaks, too, about how music has been the deepest call and passion of his life. Always interesting, always interested in learning, he shares what he’s reading, and how he sees the work of reconciliation being important in a changing Ireland, as well as in a changing world.

You can find some reflection questions and the full transcript by clicking here. U2’s website is u2.com

Our TOPPODCAST Picks

Follow Us

Stay Connected

Related Podcasts

Links

Stay Connected