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.
Irish Radio Canada
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.
Subscribe to our Podcast HERE and receive the weekly magazine show directly to your player of choice.
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Feel
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Mainly Trad |
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| 6:00AM |
Morning
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| 7:00AM |
Canadian
Sunrise |
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| 8:00AM |
At
Home & Abroad- Talk
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Sunday Spirit |
Morning Coffee Mix |
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| 12:00PM |
The
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| 2:00PM |
The
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| 3:00PM | Featured
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Canadian
Sunset |
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| 5:30PM | Ceili
Mor |
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| 6:00PM | Learn
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Lesson + 55 Minutes of Songs in Irish |
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| 7:00PM | The Nightly
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Ceol & Craic with Ken Tracey & Mark
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| 9:00PM | Soothing Sleeptime |
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Streams Daily at 8am & 1pm (EST)
Jul 12 2026 - Jul 18 2026
John Concannon is Ireland’s Ambassador to Canada, Antigua and Barbuda, Jamaica, The Bahamas, and Saint Lucia, having taken up duty in August of 2024. Ambassador Concannon previously held the role of Director General of the Global Ireland and Economic Division in the Department of Foreign Affairs.
John has held numerous leadership roles across both public and private sectors. Following a successful tenure in various management roles with Unilever, John returned to Galway as CEO of Ireland West Tourism in 2004. He led the merger of the Regional Tourism Authorities in 2006 in the role of Director of Regional Development for Fáilte Ireland, and following this, he took up the role of Director of Market Development with the National Tourism Development Authority. In 2014 he was appointed Director of the “Ireland 2016 Centenary Programme”, the largest cultural initiative undertaken in the history of the State, and subsequently led the development of the “Creative Ireland” programme, to mainstream culture and creativity across public life. Following this, John was appointed as Director of Strategic Communications in the Department of An Taoiseach.
He was selected as Irish “Marketer of the Year” in 2011 for his work marketing Ireland, and was nominated again in 2013 as the creator of “The Gathering”. He has been centrally involved in three Civil Service Excellence Award winning programmes, namely Ireland 2016, Ireland’s Covid-19 communications response, and Ireland’s successful campaign to win a seat on the United Nations Security Council.
John is passionately committed to the wider community and social development of Ireland. He served as Vice President of University of Galway, Chairman of Cope Galway, and Chairman of Gaisce – The President of Ireland’s Award, Chairman of the Galway Age Friendly Initiative, a Co-Creator of Ashoka Ireland’s ChangeNation, a Director of ChangeX.org social enterprise, including completion of a term as a Board Member of Connacht Rugby.
John is a graduate of Galway University, and holds a Bachelor of Commerce, a Master’s Degree in Business Studies, and a Postgraduate Higher Diploma in Marketing Practice.
Canada-Ireland 180 is a major cultural and commemorative initiative marking 180 years since 1847, a defining moment in the shared history of Ireland and Canada. As a result of the Great Famine, over 100,000 Irish people migrated to Canada in search of a better life. From that point onward, Irish-Canadians would became a core part of Canada’s history, national identity and culture.
Additionally, Canada-Ireland 180 will seek to honour the past, examine the present, and build a creative vision for the future. Anchored in the memory of the Irish famine migration to Canada, the initiative will illuminate the deep and enduring ties between our peoples, forged in hardship and sustained through culture, values, and community.
Culture Ireland and the Embassy of Ireland to Canada will allocate at least €1.2m to this initiative, with the ambition of developing local Canadian audiences for Irish arts and Irish-Canadian cultural partnerships and collaborations, by presenting a vibrant, contemporary, diverse, and high-quality programme across artistic disciplines in a variety of locations, from intimate to high-profile venues, as well as institutions and festivals.
We now invite proposals from artists and their representatives, curators, venues and presenters interested in participating in this special programme, including from companies which already have outline plans for work to be presented in Canada in 2027.
https://www.ireland.ie/en/canada/ottawa/about/ambassador/
https://www.ireland.ie/en/canada/ottawa/news-and-events/news-archive/canada-ireland-180-calls-for-expressions-of-interest/
