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Chicago's own Willie Joe Casey & Tom Dolan share their personal stories of their emigration from Ireland & illuminate the history of the Chicago GAA & more...

Tuesday, December 23, 2025 • Duration 54:05

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Honestly. I LOVE these fellas! Willie Joe Casey & Tom Dolan are both frequent visitors to the live radio broadcast. We've made plans to record their stories & things never worked out until this day.

The opening of the Chicago GAA Hall of History, an idea hatched by these two, has come to fruition at Chicago Gaelic Park. The fellas were live on the radio show on this Saturday to promote this permanent exhibition. I asked if they'd be willing to hang around after the live broadcast for a chat about the Chicago GAA. I'm so grateful Willie Joe & Tommy were enthusiastic about the idea! If you are at all familiar w/our live broadcast, you know we are all about unscripted real conversations. That happens here. You never know where a question will lead you-you just follow along. That's the magic.

Both gentlemen share their emigration stories, the impact the GAA has had on their lives, and so much more.

I hope you enjoy listening in as much as I enjoyed this important afternoon in our studio!

https://chicagogaelicpark.com/gaa/

https://usgaa.org/division/central-division/

Discovered this as I was doing some research! https://chicagology.com/chicagoirish/historyirish/

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Chicago Irish Radio-The O'Connor Show; 13th of December 2025

Thursday, December 18, 2025 • Duration 01:09:08

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Oh my goodness! We had so much fun on this day! Willie Joe Casey & Fr. Mick Madigan stop up for a visit and the STORIES flowed! Absolute gold. So funny and 100% REAL!

All the music & MOST of the ads are stripped out of the recording of the live broadcast. The rest is just real live radio. Unvarnished. Raw. REAL.

Tune in some Saturday. Our show runs from 11-1 CST, streams on all platforms. The most crystal clear, I've heard, is the one from the stations website. Go to www.1490.am and click the "Listen Now" button. Easy peasy.

Send us a request, a note, or just a "hello"! We love to hear from you!

Tune in LIVE each week, we broadcast around the world!
Saturdays, 11-1pm Central Standard Time.
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Chicago Irish Radio-The O'Connor Show. Excerpt from 03/11/2017. Vinnie Casey of Clan na Gael discusses implications for Ireland due to Brexit

Saturday, March 18, 2023 • Duration 20:29

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Interesting few minutes of discussion of speculation on what will happen to border, etc. after Brexit

Tune in LIVE each week, we broadcast around the world!
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Chicago Irish Radio-The O'Connor Show-THE LOST SHOW-featuring Maida McQuinn Sugrue, Richie Piggott, Paul Dowling, & John Deavitt

Saturday, February 18, 2023 • Duration 01:33:25

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Siobhainn & Breege-crazy crazy day.
My guests this morning generously stayed on for the crazy ride of doing a live broadcast over YouTube. Ba-na-nas!
Great chat from Maida McQuinn Sugrue(Grandma, Tell Me a Story-https://www.amazon.com/Gramma-Tell-Story-Maida-McQuinn-Sugrue/dp/1956823182), author Richie Piggott (Cry of a People Gone-available through RichiePiggott.com), Paul Dowling-Exec Dir of Irish Community Services, and John Deavitt of Gaelic Park

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Chicago Irish Radio-The O'Connor Show.(iBAM chats) Siobhainn visits with famed ghost historian and author Ursula Bielski

Friday, February 17, 2023 • Duration 28:53

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Ursula Bielski, featured guest speaker at iBAM, sits down for a chat and exchange of ghost stories and happenings.
She is a wonderful story teller and a marvelous, generous guest.
Ursula has written 12 books, including "Chicago haunts; Ghostlore of the Windy City",
"More Chicago Haunts-Scenes from Myth and Memory", "Haunts of the White City",
"Haunted Bachelors Grove", "Graveyards of Chicago", "Creepy Chicago" and more.
Find all her books on Amazon or your favorite bookseller.
Here's her YouTube channel for more w/Ursula!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luFryB_yN2Q

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Chicago Irish Radio-The O'Connor Show. (iBAM chats)Siobhainn goes off-site for a visit w/ Richie Piggott, author of "Cry of A People Gone"

Friday, February 17, 2023 • Duration 35:26

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Richie Piggott is a scientist, Irish trad music enthusiast, historian.....and more. Siobhainn met Richie at iBAM(Irish Books, Arts, and Music) for a chat-winding around and about, as these things do.
Hear how he tracked down musicians that are featured in his beautiful coffee table book, his luck interviewing, and his experiences focusing on finding the joy of Irish trad music.
Listen to Richies's story, how he ended up in Chicago, his journey towards writing this important historical book, & some stories within.
Find his gorgeous book here- https://www.richiepiggott.com/

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Chicago Irish Radio-The O'Connor Show. (iBAM Chats) Siobhainn goes off-site for a visit w/actor/writer Josephine Craven

Wednesday, January 18, 2023 • Duration 21:40

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iBAM-Irish Books Arts Music weekend at the Irish American Heritage Center in Chicago draws all that its title suggests! Lucky for me, a few people had a some time for a chat. This episode features actor/writer/spoken word performer Josephine Craven chatting about her main project- Lady Jane Wilde(mother of Oscar Wilde) aka "Speranza", the toast of Society in her lifetime. Josephine created a one woman show all about this woman. Fascinating.

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Breege Rowley-film maker "All of our Yesterday's" stories of 250 years of life in & around Swinford, Co Mayo Ireland

Monday, November 17, 2025 • Duration 34:28

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Breege Rowley is a GEM! She shares her time so generously and eloquently discusses all the things about her film "All of our Yesterday's" This is the full chat. the abbreviated was featured on the radio show November 15, 2025.

You will truly feel you are eavesdropping on our conversation. Breege is passionate about saving the social history of life in and around Swinford, Co Mayo all the way back 250 years- Penal times, the famine, the wars, the great exodus of population & more told through the lens of the people of the area. Sitting around kitchen tables. Poring through letters and photographs. Old films uncovered. Treasured memories shared.

Plan to be in Chicago for iBAM? Be sure to see the screening on Saturday Nov 22 @ 3:30pm at the Irish American Heritage Center, the home for the Irish Arts Books and Music celebratory weekend-iBAM!

https://www.facebook.com/p/All-Our-Yesterdays-61569855254145/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9S74xlPMEg

https://www.ibamchicago.com/

Tune in LIVE each week, we broadcast around the world!
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Live show October 15, 2025

Monday, November 17, 2025 • Duration 01:36:48

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This show has SO MUCH chat, it is a great one to share. All music has been stripped out. Meet Tom O'Connor, Dublin native & recent Northwestern Masters of Journalism graduate, our own Breege Looney, Brandi Barry Benson of Bach & Beethoven Experience, Kelly Doherty from iBAM, https://www.ibamchicago.com/and an edited interview w/Breege Rowley talking about her documentary "All of our Yesterdays" https://www.imdb.com/title/tt36221035/ and the FB page- https://www.facebook.com/p/All-Our-Yesterdays-61569855254145/

This is a live broadcast, so very little editing. We broadcast every Saturday live. It is an unscripted, unrehearsed show. Real life!

Tune in live via the stream sometime! www.1490.am. 11-1pm CST, rebroadcast 10-12pm CST every Saturday. We'd LOVE to hear from you!

Tune in LIVE each week, we broadcast around the world!
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Chicago Irish Radio-Chicago'sGaelic Park Players-Bridget Christianson & Betty Kort, originally broadcast live Oct 5, 2024

Monday, November 18, 2024 • Duration 29:59

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The production of Frank McGuinness's "Factory Girls" leads to Bridget Christianson sharing HER memories of working at a shirt factory in Ireland as a young woman. Originally aired live October 5, 2024

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