Coming Up July 6th

The extraordinary Capuchin monk Brother Kevin who has been looking after the poor and marginalised of Dublin for almost fifty years:

Also – Miriam will be chatting to the Master of Holles Street Rhona Mahony on her recent time spent in the United States and on coping with controversy

And - we’ll have live music from American star of many big musicals, Kim Crisswell. Here is Kris performing at the Proms in 2010

Food at the Festival

Neven Maguire and Clodagh McKenna joined Miriam in Westport House to talk about the best in Irish food

Terry Alderton

Comedian Terry Alderton spoke about coming to Ireland and how he works out his stand-up routines

Westport House

Sheelyn Browne spoke about her family home and the interesting history of the Marquisate of Sligo, going back to the Pirate Queen Grace O'Malley 

David McSavage

Comedian David McSavage spoke about performing, plans for the future and the sketch that he believes was wrongly cut

Music at the Festival

We were lucky to have two musical acts come and perform for us in the library of Wesport House - First we were joined by Irish band of the moment Little Green Cars and then there was a great performance from 17 year old newcomer Danny Battles