• IRISH RADIO CANADA

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Welcome to the Irish Radio Canada Website. We are proud to share our Internet Radio Station. In 2005 we commenced On-Air broadcasting with CHIN 97.9FM producing and presenting The Gaelic Hour as a weekly show. in Sept 2016 we launched this new format. You can now enjoy a selection of music every day and we will be able to expand on the number of hours of interviews, as time goes on. I would like to encourage you to submit your music selection and hopefully I can find what you like in my library. The Archives section of the site will continue to provide access to the Gaelic Hour shows since 2006. Twitter, Facebook page and group will become more relevant in communicating and I hope to increase the use of Instagram as time goes on. If you have some suggestions, please visit the contact page and send on your ideas. The 11 years on air have been fun, but the effort in raising the large sum required to buy the time has become more onerous and the online station offers the opportunity to increase content and reduce costs. You can listen to the station using a variety of tools. The player on this page may be the simplest. The links below provide additional choices of players. Also, you can use your Smart Speaker to ask Alexa or Google for "Irish Radio Canada from TuneIn" I hope you enjoy and continue to listen.

Austin.



Irish Radio Canada

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Irish Radio Canada is a not for profit voluntary internet radio station. It is dedicated to promoting Irish culture and music.

Every effort is made to be as accurate as possible in crediting artists etc. and should there be any inaccuracies, please contact us so we can correct.

We particularly welcome and invite new , as well as established artists to submit their music for inclusion in the playlists.

We hope you enjoy.

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Focusing on the Wicklow - Canada connection: 
Lynne Reece Loftus; John Hogan; Jim Rees

Lynne Reece Loftus wrote IRISH PIONEERS to highlight the differences the emigrants would have experienced and overcome as they settled into their new life in Canada.
A Canadian, with Irish roots, she made the reverse journey to Ireland many years ago and has lived in beautiful Co.Wicklow for decades.

Her mother was born in a log cabin built by her grandparents, where she shovelled plenty of snow in her younger days and has sown corn and praties!

Lynne originally wrote Irish Pioneers, the poem, for the Co. Wicklow Gathering event 'Canada Come Home' when Wicklow welcomed hundreds of the descendants back. Now we are looking at embarking on 'Canada Come Home' - The Next Chapter when Wicklow will once again extend an invitation to come home.
It has been put to music and recorded by Larry Hogan.


John Hogan, a talented singer-songwriter and All-Ireland trad musician based in County Wicklow.
As an All-Ireland Banjo Champion, John represents the very best of the Irish traditional craft. He has a deep historical connection to your audience; in 1983, he travelled across Canada as one of the featured musicians with the Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann All-Ireland Tour. He still speaks fondly of the incredible reception the Irish community there gave the group, and he is eager to reconnect with those listeners through his music.

Since those championship-winning days, John has continued to grow his music through the years. Operating from his own studio in Wicklow, he has just finalized a new body of work that showcases his technical mastery on the banjo and mandolin alongside heartfelt, contemporary songwriting.


Jim Rees on the Fitzwilliams & the Coolattin Clearances
Jim Rees, a Wicklow resident and historian with a History Masters Degree from NUI Maynooth, has had a lifelong passion for history and literature. He has written extensively and lectured widely on topics such as emigration and maritime history.
Between 1847 and 1856,  Earl Fitzwilliam removed  6,000 men, women and children from his 80,000 acre Coolattin Estate. Most were sent to Quebec while many travelled onward to settlements in Upper Canada (Ontario) and New Brunswick.
Also: The Irish Historic Towns Atlas (IHTA) was established with the aim to record the topographical development of a selection of Irish towns both large and small.

Each town is published separately as a fascicle or folder and includes a series of maps complemented by a detailed text section. The Irish Historic Towns Atlas is part of a wider European scheme, with towns atlases containing broadly similar information available for a number of countries. Thus Irish towns can be studied in their European context.


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