Aran Island Discs is an intimate, Irish-hearted interview series in which host Rossa McDermott invites guests to explore the soundtrack of their lives. Inspired by the timeless tradition of storytelling and the wild spirit of the Aran Islands, each episode blends conversation, memory, and music into a vivid portrait of the person behind the public image.
Across candid, often deeply personal interviews, guests choose the songs that shaped them — the tunes that carried them through childhood, challenge, triumph, heartbreak, and homecoming. These musical choices become gateways to unexpected stories: the mentor who changed everything, the night everything nearly fell apart, the place they return to in their mind when the world gets loud.
Recorded with warmth, humour, and unmistakable Irish authenticity, Aran Island Discs celebrates culture, creativity, and the emotional power of music. Whether the guest is a celebrated artist, an athlete, a thinker, or a local legend, every episode offers a fresh perspective on the people who shape Irish life today.
Settle in. Take the ferry. Discover the stories that live between the notes.
The podcast presenter is Rossa McDermott, and the series is recorded at Dublin South Podcast Studios in Dundrum. The concept is devised by Dos Amigos, and edited by Peter Rice
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Aran Island Discs is an intimate, Irish-hearted interview series in which host Rossa McDermott invites guests to explore the soundtrack of their lives. Inspired by the timeless tradition of storytelling and the wild spirit of the Aran Islands, each episode blends conversation, memory, and music into a vivid portrait of the person behind the public image.
Across candid, often deeply personal interviews, guests choose the songs that shaped them — the tunes that carried them through childhood, challenge, triumph, heartbreak, and homecoming. These musical choices become gateways to unexpected stories: the mentor who changed everything, the night everything nearly fell apart, the place they return to in their mind when the world gets loud.
Recorded with warmth, humour, and unmistakable Irish authenticity, Aran Island Discs celebrates culture, creativity, and the emotional power of music. Whether the guest is a celebrated artist, an athlete, a thinker, or a local legend, every episode offers a fresh perspective on the people who shape Irish life today.
Settle in. Take the ferry. Discover the stories that live between the notes.
The podcast presenter is Rossa McDermott, and the series is recorded at Dublin South Podcast Studios in Dundrum. The concept is devised by Dos Amigos, and edited by Peter Rice
#aranislanddiscs #podcast #podcastseries #nusic #rossamcdermott #acast #spotify #applemusic #ireland #inismor #inismeain #inismaan
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Writer, musician, art historian, Eamon Carr’s artistic career began when, inspired by the Liverpool Scene, he set up the Tara Telephone collective with Peter Fallon in 1969.
The group organised poetry workshops and published the small press Capella magazine, Book of Invasions broadsheet and began a series of collections under the Gallery Books imprint. The group also gave recitals and toured extensively.
One of Eamon’s initiatives was to team up with Che Guevara poster artist Jim Fitzpatrick for a series of poem posters. One of these, A Tale of Love, was included in the Tate Gallery, Liverpool, Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era Exhibition in 2005, which later toured to Vienna and Frankfurt.
In 1971, Eamon moved on to co-found Horslips, the pioneering folk-rock group in which he is lyricist and drummer. The group’s most recent release is More Than You Can Chew, a box-set of 33 albums.
A journalist and broadcaster, he presented Seeking Refuge, an exhibition of his photography documenting life in refugee camps on the Kosovo-Albania border in 1999, with music by Ken O’Duffy, as part of the Festival of Politics (2019).
In 2010, his five-poem cycle Ascension: Ireland was staged in the Walled Garden of the Pearse Museum by multi-media artist Daniel Figgis.
Artists whose work he brought to general release, through independent record labels he supervised, include Philip Chevron's The Radiators from Space, Agnes Bernelle, Light A Big Fire, The Golden Horde and the Stars of Heaven among others. His poetry and lyrics have been recorded by a number of musicians including Henry McCullough, Eamonn Dowd and Mike Brookfield.
A former recipient of the Sarah Purser Scholarship (The History of European Painting) at Trinity College, Dublin, he is a widely-published commentator on culture, arts and sport.
An Irish-themed podcast presented by Rossa McDermott.
In the podcast invited Irish guests share stories, life experiences, and other key moments that resonate in ther life, ending with a musical choice that has accompanied them through that journey.
The conversation is about what Irishness, and what that means and any influence it may have had over their years. An understanding and of resilience and how is that a cultural ruggedness is part of our Irish makeup.
Aran Island Discs will broadcast from February and is recorded at Dublin South Podcast Studio. Producer is Peter Rice
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