The Snug

In The Snug with Páraic this week is John Lalor, an Irish artist based in Paris since the late 80s.

His music choices:

• More or Less – Edgar Loop (featuring Francesca Tedeschi);
• Sacrifice (from the film Insider) – Pieter Bourke & Lisa Gerrard;
• Sarabande by Handel (from the film Barry Lyndon) – National Philharmonic Orchestra.

Researched, edited, presented and produced by Páraic Maguire.

Our guest in The Snug this week is Shauna Kelly-Lefevre, bean na hÉireann, mother, businesswoman.

Her music choices:

• Janis Ian – At Seventeen;
• Wild Youth – We Are One;
• Sinéad O'Connor – Mná n hÉireann.

Researched, edited and presented by Páraic Maguire. Produced by Paul Lynch.

Joining Páraic in The Snug this week is John Maguire, journalist and former Director of International Relations of France’s global public service broadcasting organisation, France Médias Monde.

His music choices:

• Diane Cannon – Seán Ó Duibhir a' Ghleanna
• Moya Brennan – Méilte Cheann Dubhrann
• Altan – Tá Mé 'Mo Shuí

Researched, edited and presented by Páraic Maguire. Produced by Paul Lynch

In The Snug with Páraic this week is Maria Doyle-Cuche, singer and mother of seven, former contestant in the Eurovision for Ireland in 1985, and in The Voice (both Irish and French versions). Pull up a chair and join us.

Maria's music choices:

• Maria Doyle-Cuche, accompanied by Emmanuel Cuche – You Raise Me Up
• Bing Crosbie – Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral (That's an Irish Lullaby)
• U2 – I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For

Researched, edited and presented by Páraic Maguire.

Produced by Paul Lynch.

Joining Páraic for a chat in The Snug this week is Ryan Tubridy, presenter of The Late Late Show and The Ryan Tubridy Show, and host of the Irish in France Saint Patrick's Day party in 2022. So come in, sit down, relax and listen.

Ryan's music choices:

• Clannad & Bono – In a Lifetime
• Jim McCann – Grace
• Villagers – So Simpatico

Researched, edited and presented by Páraic Maguire.

Produced by Paul Lynch.

This episode was originally recorded and broadcast on a web radio show. Unfortunately, the sound quality is not the best, but you'll still enjoy hearing two very interesting individuals telling their stories.

My guests:

1. Maureen O'Donoghue, Franco-Irish singer, musician.

Music:

• Maureen O'Donoghue – The Virtual Lover
• Danú – Paddy Rainey's Jig/Johnny Leary's/Winnie Hayes's
• Four Winds – Flags of Dublin/Ger Quigley's/Fred's Favourite

2. Anne Harris-Hennon, former civil servant, author of Unspoken, a novel about a single mother's experience with the Mother and Baby Institutions in the 1970s, based on her own story.

Music:

• Shantalla – A Band of Gold
• Saw Doctors – Clare Island
• Seán Ó Riada – Róisín Dubh (Mise Éire)

Researched, edited and presented by Páraic Maguire.

Produced by Paul Lynch.

This week's guest: Peter Donegan, horticulturalist and landscape gardener, designer of the World War I Centenary Peace Garden in Péronne, in the Somme Valley.

Music:

• The Hot Sprockets – Honey Skippin;
• U2 – Angel of Harlem;
• Ronnie Drew – Nora.

Researched, edited and presented by Páraic Maguire.

Produced by Paul Lynch.

This week's guest: Niall Burgess, Ambassador of Ireland in France.

Music:

• The Fureys and Davey Arthur – The Green Fields of France;
• Choir Of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge – Lauda Anima Mea Dominum;
• Sheryl Crow and Willie Nelson – Lonely Alone.

Researched, edited and presented by Páraic Maguire.

Produced by Paul Lynch.

This week's guest: Stephen Carroll, Senior Business Editor for France 24 English.

Music:

• Lisa Hannigan – Safe Travels (Don’t Die); 
• Mary Black – No Frontiers; 
• Tolü Makay – N17.

Researched, edited and presented by Páraic Maguire.

Produced by Paul Lynch.

This week's guest: Lara Marlowe, Paris correspondent of The Irish Times.

Music:

• Mícheál O’Rourke – Nocturne no. 1 in E flat major, by John Field; 
• Sinéad O’Connor – Molly Malone; 
• Van Morrison – Madame George.

Edited and presented by Páraic Maguire

Produced by Paul Lynch

This week's guests:

1. Jack Lukeman, or Jack L, singer, songwriter, showman, star of Postcards from the Edge.

Music:

• Doctor Millar – Happy Can Be
• Margaret Barry – My Lagan Love
• The Chieftains – Wild Geese

2. Fr Aidan Troy, parish priest of Saint Joseph's in Paris, formerly of Holy Cross, Belfast.

Music:

• Christy Moore – They Never Came Home
• The Dubliners – Seven Drunken Nights
• Tina Turner – Something Beautiful Remains