[Walking tour of Kilkenny City, Ireland]
Discover Kilkenny’s Epic History on Your Own Terms! This self-guided audio walking tour is the perfect way to explore The Marble City.
Open the Route Guide Map:
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Stop 1: steps of St. Canice’s Cathedral in Irishtown
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Stop 2: Abbey quarter
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Stop 3: The Ring
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Stop 4: Black Friars Gate / Black Freren Gate
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Stop 5: Black Abbey
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Stop 6: St. Mary’s Cathedral
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Stop 7: Kyteler’s Inn
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Stop 8: The Tholsel
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Stop 9: Mary’s Lane
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Stop 10: Bateman Quay
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Stop 11: Rose Garden at Kilkenny Castle
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Stop 12: Kilkenny Castle (Park side)
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Stop 13: Design Centre
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Stop 14: Hole in the Wall
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Stop 15: Courthouse
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Produced and narrated by John Roche
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Comments and feedback very welcome!
Instagram: @YarnStoryPod
email: yarnstorypodcast (at) gmail.com
[Documentary]
Take a trip to Inishbofin island off the west coast of Ireland. A beloved family-run hotelis making some changes.What will their regular guests think?
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I've been going to Inishbofin, with a group of friends every Easter for years.
It's our annual secular pilgrimage to the island, where we stay at Ireland's most westerly hotel—The Doonmore, or Murray's, as the locals call it, named after the family who have run it for over half a century.
During the Winter months, changes have been afoot at the hotel. There have been rumours the hotel has made some major renovations, and today will be the first time the general public will experience the new and improved Murray's Doonmore hotel.
Come with us as we explore the hotel and the island. We'll delve into the linked history of both. We'll ask the question; what keeps people coming back year after year, generation after generation? And we'll meet some of the characters that make up the customers and staff of The Doonmore Hotel.
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Produced and narrated by John Roche
Thanks to Andrew Murray, Declan Shaw, Róisín Lafferty and all the guests and staff who talked to us.
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Special thanks to Des Kavanagh for the specific music made for this episode. As well as a musician, Des makes and restores musical instruments. Check him out at Kavanagh’s Irish Instruments on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kavanagh.irishinstruments/
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The rest of the music in the episode was recorded live at Murray's Bar, Inishbofin courtesy of YouTube via:
Andrew Murray @doonmore1
Owen Murray @owenmurray6472
Trad TG4 @tradtg4
Lugh the master craftsman @fultonHousesNYC
Pascal Jouneau @pascaljouneau3608
LiveTrad @livetrad
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Clips courtesy of RTÉ archives:
https://www.rte.ie/archives/
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Full transcript available here:
https://mrjohnroche-42475.medium.com/yarn-29-hotel-on-the-edge-of-europe-f11834c6bbf9
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Comments and feedback very welcome!
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email: yarnstorypodcast (at) gmail.com
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Murray's Doonmore Hotel website:
Roisin Lafferty website:
Declan Shaw instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/solar_bones/
This year the Samaritans celebrates its 55th year in operation in Ireland.
Lucy's grandmother Judy was a volunteer with the Samaritans for 30 years, on their phone line. She's always wanted to ask her about what it was like, being on the end of those calls but Samaritan volunteers swear to never talk to anyone about the details of their callers but there was one call that Judy was able to tell Lucy about, and you’ll hear why.
Produced and narrated by Lucy Nuzum.
Edited by John Roche
Artwork by Ed Taylor.
[History documentary]
Pablo De Miguel tells the little known story of how Turkish diplomats saved the lives of 1,000 refugees during the Spanish Civil War’s longest siege. It involves espionage, international negotiations and murder but above all else it's a story about the will to survive and fight to get home.
Pablo's research website:
Special thanks to Martin and Sofía.
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Clips taken from:
Music: Epidemic Sound --- Full episode transcript available here: https://mrjohnroche-42475.medium.com/escape-from-madrid-the-untold-story-of-how-turkish-diplomats-saved-the-lives-of-a-thousand-cadf2f156e4b --- Yarn is produced and edited by John Roche --- Comments and feedback very welcome! Email: yarnstorypodcast (at) gmail.com. X: @YarnStoryPod
[Audio drama collection]
We've released 25 and a bit stories for Yarn. To celebrate we're going to take a look back in this omnibus episode. Lately most of our episodes have been documentaries so I decided to dig out some of our fiction stories and pull them together into a neat bingable collection for your listening pleasure. I've selected 4 stories and recorded new introductions for each. Enjoy!
New episodes coming soon.
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Comments and feedback very welcome!
Twitter: @YarnStoryPod
[Documentary]
"I had no contact with this man. All I ever said was hello to him. It's stalking. And it builds and builds."
These are the words of my mother, Eileen Byrne. She’s going to recount her ordeal with a stalker.
I was just a kid at the time. I knew very little about it, until lately when she started talking about the incident. It was a recent Irish news story that triggered her memory. The murder of Aisling Murphy in broad daylight, sparked a national conversation not just about violence against women but also about the level of harassment and intimidation women are forced to endure on a daily basis. Aisling’s murder added fuel to a prominent campaign to make stalking a criminal offence in Ireland.
For more information about this campaign see Stalking.ie
Full episode transcript here:
https://mrjohnroche-42475.medium.com/yarn-25-the-stalker-3399f983ff0
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Yarn is produced and edited by John Roche
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Comments and feedback very welcome!
Twitter: @YarnStoryPod
[Documentary]
Inside stories from the jury room.
I wanted to see inside this secretive world and get a sense of what it feels like to serve.
I talked to 7 former jurors about their 7 separate trials.
I also talked to a practicing criminal law barrister for his thoughts on the jury system.
We’ll explore the selection process, the characters in the courtroom and the atmosphere in the deliberation room.
Then we'll do a deep dive into a few cases and hear them told from a juror's perspective in their own words.
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Thanks to Barrister Seamus Clarke SC
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Produced and edited by John Roche
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Comments and feedback very welcome!
Twitter: @YarnStoryPod
[Deep Dive Interview]
The Oklahoma City bombing of 1995… The 2011 Norway attacks… The 2016 Nice truck attack… The 2019 Christcurch, New Zealand shootings…
What do all these attacks have in common? They were all formulated, planned and executed by a single individual.
The popular fear of lone actor attacks is that they are completely unpredictable and so almost impossible to prevent. We speak to Dr. Francis O’Connor, an expert on lone actor radicalisation. Dr. O’connor and his colleagues have been funded by the EU Commission to research lone actor attacks.
They have collected what they think is the largest dataset of lone actor attacks and attackers in the western world dating from 1990 until the present.
Full Episode transcript available here:
https://mrjohnroche-42475.medium.com/yarn-22-lone-actor-errorism-e651ee20d569
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Dr. O'Connor's book is available here:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Understanding-Insurgency-Popular-Support-Turkey/dp/1108838502
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Produced and edited by John Roche
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Comments and feedback very welcome!
Email: yarnstorypodcast (at) gmail.com.
Twitter: @YarnStoryPod
[Documentary]
We visit the Mezhyhirya estate in the Ukraine.
The vast estate covers over 340 acres. That’s just shy of the area of Monaco. The glamorous and opulent principality has a lot in common with Mezhyirya. Except Monaco is home to 38,000 people. Mezhyhirya was most recently home to just one family.
This is the story of the former president of Ukraine - Victor Yanukovych.
His mafia style cartel, nick named ‘the family’, his extravagant lifestyle and the construction of his monument to greed - The Mezhyhirya palace and estate. Now known as the world’s only 'Museum of Corruption'.
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Produced and edited by John Roche
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Comments and feedback very welcome!
Email: yarnstorypodcast (at) gmail.com.
Twitter: @YarnStoryPod
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Full transcript available here:
https://mrjohnroche-42475.medium.com/yarn-21-the-secret-palace-fb2440c68a01
[3-part documentary]
Episode 3 of 3 - Darkest before the dawn.
1900s - 2000s
In this new Yarn Miniseries I’m going to give you a rough history of Disability.
In episode three things start with one of modern history's darkest ideas, Eugenics. We explore its prevalence, especially in America and some of its most famous proponents. Then we jump over to Post WW2 Britain and we uncover how wars not only created Disabled people but how post war periods also led to infrastructure and programmes that helped people with disabilities.
We will confront the horrific conditions Disabled residents of institutions were forced to live in and see how the era of the big institution eventually came to an end. We'll intersect with the Civil Rights movement and see how it inspired the Parent's movement, which led to the Independent Living movement and the fight for Human Rights for people with Disabilities.
Written and narrated by John Roche.
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Full episode transcript available here: https://medium.com/@mrjohnroche_42475
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Sources
Short history of disability By Dr Robert Jackson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=js2qgVhmH88 MN Department of Administration - Council on Development Disabilities https://mn.gov/mnddc/parallels/index.html World Bank https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/disability Historic England https://historicengland.org.uk/research/inclusive-heritage/disability-history/ History Channel https://www.history.com/topics/germany/eugenics PBS https://www.pbs.org/weta/throughdeafeyes/deaflife/bell_nad.html United Nations Human Rights Office of High Commissioner https://www.ohchr.org/ Dr. William Bronston, Willowbrook Memorial Lecture https://mn.gov/mnddc/parallels/five/5f/willowbrook-bronston-memorial.html Welcome Collection https://wellcomecollection.org/works IWM Archive https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/voices-of-the-first-world-war-shell-shock RTE Archive https://www.rte.ie/archives/ The Times Archive https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/ancient-walking-aids-5232vx5n9j0 Special Olympics https://www.specialolympics.org JSTOR https://www.jstor.org/stable/3288457?seq=1 IPC https://www.paralympic.org/ Greek Gods info https://www.greek-gods.info/greek-gods/hephaestus/ YouTube
[3-part documentary]
Episode 2 of 3
Two Steps Forward. One Step Back.
1500s - 1800s
In this new Yarn Miniseries I’m going to give you a rough history of Disability.
In episode two we will see how the aftermath of the Reformation effected people with disabilities.
We look at the Elizabethan Poor Laws and the Poor houses many Disabled people ended up in.
We enter the massive institutions that were created for people with disabilities, including the infamous Bedlam Asylum and we explore the age of Enlightenment and beyond, when philosophers and physicians attempted to understand, classify and cue mental and physical disability.
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Full episode transcript available here:
https://medium.com/@mrjohnroche_42475/disability-a-parallel-history-ad51c7673cdb
Sources
Short history of disability By Dr Robert Jackson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=js2qgVhmH88 MN Department of Administration - Council on Development Disabilities https://mn.gov/mnddc/parallels/index.html World Bank https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/disability Historic England https://historicengland.org.uk/research/inclusive-heritage/disability-history/ History Channel https://www.history.com/topics/germany/eugenics PBS https://www.pbs.org/weta/throughdeafeyes/deaflife/bell_nad.html United Nations Human Rights Office of High Commissioner https://www.ohchr.org/ Dr. William Bronston, Willowbrook Memorial Lecture https://mn.gov/mnddc/parallels/five/5f/willowbrook-bronston-memorial.html Welcome Collection https://wellcomecollection.org/works IWM Archive https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/voices-of-the-first-world-war-shell-shock RTE Archive https://www.rte.ie/archives/ The Times Archive https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/ancient-walking-aids-5232vx5n9j0 Special Olympics https://www.specialolympics.org JSTOR https://www.jstor.org/stable/3288457?seq=1 IPC https://www.paralympic.org/ Greek Gods info https://www.greek-gods.info/greek-gods/hephaestus/ YouTube
[3-part documentary]
Episode 1 of 3 - Parallel Worlds.
Prehistory - 1400s
In this new Yarn Miniseries I’m going to give you a rough history of Disability.
The story of Disability runs in parallel with the story of humanity itself and like the story of humanity, some of it isn’t pretty. It involves murder, neglect, segregation and sterilisation but it’s also a story of innovation, determination and love.
In episode one I define what a disability is before diving into the past. I start with the Neanderthals, checking in with the Egyptians, the Celts, the Ancient Romans and I also highlight the effect organised Religion has on the perception of people with a disability.
Written and narrated by John Roche.
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Full episode transcript available here:
https://medium.com/@mrjohnroche_42475/disability-a-parallel-history-316bf348cfd2
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Sources
Short history of disability By Dr Robert Jackson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=js2qgVhmH88 MN Department of Administration - Council on Development Disabilities https://mn.gov/mnddc/parallels/index.html World Bank https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/disability Historic England https://historicengland.org.uk/research/inclusive-heritage/disability-history/ History Channel https://www.history.com/topics/germany/eugenics PBS https://www.pbs.org/weta/throughdeafeyes/deaflife/bell_nad.html United Nations Human Rights Office of High Commissioner https://www.ohchr.org/ Dr. William Bronston, Willowbrook Memorial Lecture https://mn.gov/mnddc/parallels/five/5f/willowbrook-bronston-memorial.html Welcome Collection https://wellcomecollection.org/works IWM Archive https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/voices-of-the-first-world-war-shell-shock RTE Archive https://www.rte.ie/archives/ The Times Archive https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/ancient-walking-aids-5232vx5n9j0 Special Olympics https://www.specialolympics.org JSTOR https://www.jstor.org/stable/3288457?seq=1 IPC https://www.paralympic.org/ Greek Gods info https://www.greek-gods.info/greek-gods/hephaestus/ YouTube
[Two part Docu-drama]
Episode 2 of 2
This is the true story of Hermann Goertz. The Nazi spy who landed in neutral Ireland during the Second World War, on a mission to meet the IRA and organise a German-led invasion of Northern Ireland. Goertz’s time in Ireland has become something of a legend. This story is based on his own written accounts and recently declassified British and Irish secret service files. The story is full of ridiculous plans, double crosses and colourful characters. Through Goertz’s eyes we learn about the attitudes of normal people towards the new Irish Free State, the uncomfortable truths people dealt with after a vicious civil war and how Dublin during the ‘Emergency’ became a centre of covert espionage.
Start with episode 1 here: https://anchor.fm/yarnstorypod/episodes/Yarn-19--How-Not-to-be-a-Spy---Episode-1-eg3jgg/a-a2j9gkpProduced and edited by John Roche
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Transcript here: https://medium.com/@mrjohnroche_42475/yarn-19-how-not-to-be-a-spy-part-ii-9f4d39f14c0a
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Comments and feedback very welcome!
Email: yarnstorypodcast (at) gmail.com.
Twitter: @YarnStoryPod
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Written and narrated by John Roche With Liam Murphy as Goertz and the voices of Hazel Fahy,
Dermot Tobin, Niall Ó Siadhail,
Daithi Mac Suibhne, Mary Looby
, Alan Nuzum and Dermot Byrne Special thanks to Dermot Tobin, Lucy Nuzum and Ciaran Dunphy
[Two part Docu-drama]
Episode 1 of 2 This is the true story of Hermann Goertz. The Nazi spy who landed in neutral Ireland during the Second World War, on a mission to meet the IRA and organise a German-led invasion of Northern Ireland. Goertz’s time in Ireland has become something of a legend. This story is based on his own written accounts and recently declassified British and Irish secret service files. The story is full of ridiculous plans, double crosses and colourful characters. Through Goertz’s eyes we learn about the attitudes of normal people towards the new Irish Free State, the uncomfortable truths people dealt with after a vicious civil war and how Dublin during the ‘Emergency’ became a centre of covert espionage.
Continue to episode two here: https://anchor.fm/yarnstorypod/episodes/Yarn-19--How-Not-to-be-a-Spy---Episode-2-eg3jgb/a-a2j9gko
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Transcript here: https://medium.com/@mrjohnroche_42475/yarn-19-how-not-to-be-a-spy-a3b4fd48b17e
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Comments and feedback very welcome!
Email: yarnstorypodcast (at) gmail.com.
Twitter: @YarnStoryPod
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Written and narrated by John Roche
With Liam Murphy as Goertz
and the voices of Hazel Fahy,
Dermot Tobin,
Niall Ó Siadhail,
Daithi Mac Suibhne,
Mary Looby
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Alan Nuzum
and Dermot Byrne.
Special thanks to Dermot Tobin, Lucy Nuzum and Ciaran Dunphy
[Introduction]
Whether we're spinning yarns or unraveling them, Yarn is what you could call- a storytelling playground. We’re in our 3rd year of bringing you original stories. In that time we’ve released over 20 episodes, we’ve been featured in the guardian, won a best podcast award, appeared on WPEZ radio in Chicago And been selected for the UK audio drama festival. Each of episodes is in a different style and genre . Documentaries… Short stories… Interviews… and dramas…. Our stories feature atmosheric sound design, great voice acting talent and original music scores. Dive in and see what you get.
[Documentary]
My friend Dermot has a stammer. He’s had one as long as I’ve known him. Like most people I didn’t take much notice of it. After all, everyone stumbles over words sometimes don’t they? Whats the big deal? I certainly didn’t think about what was happening behind the stammer. The thoughts, the anxiety and all the tricks being employed under the surface of what most would consider a minor blip in someone's speech. In this documentary Dermot tells us about the secret war he waged every time he spoke.
Produced and edited by John Roche
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Comments and feedback very welcome!
Email: yarnstorypodcast (at) gmail.com.
Twitter: @YarnStoryPod
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[A travel and history documentary]
It’s October 2019 and we're visiting the Chernobyl exclusion zone in the Ukraine. We'll spend two days exploring the zone with a small group of tourists and a guide and we'll stay overnight inside the exclusion zone, in Chernobyl’s only functioning hotel. This year the exclusion zone has received a surge in visitors following the popular HBO TV drama series starring Jared Harris. That series took an in-depth look into what exactly happened the night of the disaster and the events in the immediate aftermath.
In this podcast we will focus much more on the zone as it is today, its most intriguing sites and its recently declassified secret origin. So come with us as we explore what was once, the most dangerous place on earth.
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Written and produced by John Roche.
Music score and sound mixing by Drembot.
Very special thanks to our tour guide*
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Comments and feedback very welcome!
*For information about the guide and tour company we used
contact us here: Email: yarnstorypodcast (at) gmail.com. Twitter: @YarnStoryPod
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Also if you liked the music from this episode, our composer Drembot has a new album available now on
Spotify: Adult Lessons by Drembot: https://open.spotify.com/album/2taNob1ckNSK1rVOYQMoGE?si=uDNAeyt8RwyaJj1oAphSow
@iamdrembot
Full transcript for this episode available here: https://medium.com/@mrjohnroche_42475/yarn-17-chernobyl-29f8616a8221
[Documentary]
On patrol with a drug recognition expert. I went on a ride along with a police officer who's specialty is to determine if drivers are impaired by drugs.
Thanks to The Ulster Town Police department.
Website cover illustration by Stephen Morton.
