CenterPieceNY
(For the best experience of this podcast, visit: https://www.CenterPieceNY.com) New York Irish Stories: the lives of long-standing members of New York's Irish community, in their own words. And for a small country like Ireland - such a diversity of accents! Stay in touch @CenterPieceNY - we'd love to hear from you! Be sure to Subscribe, Rate and Review ! Episode schedule: one published per month, towards month end. Creator/Producer/Presenter: Paul Finnegan @paul_NY . Logo by @muireannlalor
Episodes
33 episodes
S3E10: Linda Bonnar, Checking In
Linda Bonnar is a successful life coach and entrepreneur. She's also a former educator, and has built her services around both her experiences in the teaching profession, and her teenager years with mental health struggles in her hometown...
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Season 3
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Episode 10
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1:02:03
S3E9: Jennifer Muldowney, a Heart Grows Bigger
Jennifer Muldowney, from Dublin’s fair city, in Ireland, is an author, a podcaster, and a member of that exclusive set of people who has given a TED Tal...
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Season 3
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Episode 9
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1:08:51
S3E8: Denis Maguire, Life on the Peninsula
When it comes to experiences, life is an embarrassment of riches. Even more so, if you're an adventurous, wandering type, which might be another way of saying 'if you're Irish'.Certainly Denis Maguire is, although he has gone abou...
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Season 3
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Episode 8
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56:54
S3E7: Corina Galvin, Quiet Influencing
Corina Galvin calls County Mayo in Ireland her home. She's also been a New Yorker for almost three decades. And she has accumulated a lot of frequent flyer miles along the way. That's because her job in event planning and man...
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Season 3
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Episode 7
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1:05:56
S3E6: Jane McCooey and her Band of Sisters.
Jane McCooey thrives when she’s bringing people together to solve a problem, to the benefit of all.When Jane, from County Armagh in Ireland, is confronted with obstacles, she’s not afraid to reach out for help, and her first port ...
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Season 3
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Episode 6
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58:31
S3E5: Niall O'Leary–A Life By, And Of, Design.
Niall O'Leary is best known as a performer of Irish dance in the New York area, and further afield. A lesser known fact about Niall is that he also has his own Manhattan-based architecture practice.The amazing thing about Niall is...
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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57:39
S3E4: A Sort of Christmas Carol
'Tis the festive season, and as yet another year ends, a time for self-reflection.So we thought we'd take a moment this Christmas to have a closer look at this podcast, delivered in the words of creator, producer and host
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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39:39
S3E3: Ray O'Hanlon, Stringer of Pearls
Ray O'Hanlon is a long-standing journalist, author and editor of the weekly Irish Echo news service, which has been a pillar of the Irish American identity since 1928. That's a stretch coming up on 95 years, and Ray has been with the Echo...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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1:06:11
S3E2: Helen McNamara O'Shea, Healer at Heart.
In this episode, Helen McNamara O'Shea tells us of the brave leap she made from a career as an accomplished doctor to that of a singer/songwriter. Given that Helen describes herself as 'ancient', which she is not by any means, it s...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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1:03:10
S3E1: Donie Carroll, A Song of Freedom.
County Cork, on Ireland's southern shore, is its biggest county, bigger than all the rest, all thirty one of them. Corkonians, as the people of Cork are known, are intensely proud of their heritage. They often claim, in all sinceri...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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54:17
Season Three Introduction: A Conversation with John Lee.
Season Three kicks off with a short conversation between CenterPieceNY host, Paul Finnegan, and fellow New York Irish podcaster, John Lee, to preview what's ahead.Check out
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Season 3
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21:19
S2E10: Eamon Harkin-This Is The Only Time We Live In.
Here in the tenth and final episode of Season Two, we get to know Eamon Harkin, originally from Derry in Ireland, who has achieved celebrity in the world of DJs, and is taking dance culture and its community to a whole other level in Q...
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Season 2
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Episode 10
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1:03:38
S2E9: Amy Brett-The More Things Change...
Amy Brett is a passionate and skilled event planner, an avid Gaelic footballer and a powerful fundraiser for great causes. And she's all 'Mayo for Sam', red and green, through and through.Based in Sunnyside, Queens, she's having t...
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Season 2
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Episode 9
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1:05:07
S2E8: Claire McGovern and her Soft Power.
Claire McGovern is a sustainable interior designer, art advisor and manufacturer, whose recent work uses Irish wool as its basis, a textile she has come to see as a 'miracle fiber' and after listening to this episode you'll think so too.
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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57:52
S2E7: The Computer Club, Part I
We're taking a slightly different approach in this episode. We've gathered some thoughts and memories of several centerpieces, but the centerpiece of their lives in New York was, for a few years, a decade ago, a thing called 'The C...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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37:06
S2E6: Martin Nutty, the Pensive Podcaster.
Martin Nutty, all 6 foot 4 inches of him, burst onto the global Irish community scene in 2020 when he fetched up alongside the previously-minted local New York Irish community celebrity John Lee, to stand up the innovative Irish...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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1:10:16
S2E5: Shelley Ann Quilty-Lake, the Unapologetic Advocate who Belongs.
They say that diversity is being asked to the dance, while inclusion is being asked to dance, but belonging is hearing your music play at the dance. To belong is a fundamental human need, but the road t...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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1:01:25
S2E4: Breda Skeados and the Baker's Dozen
Breda Skeados is the middle child in a family of thirteen siblings from the rural West of Ireland, all born in a twenty-year period between the 30s and 50s. Ten survive to this day. Even during that time, in her hometown of Dunmore, Cou...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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59:58
S2E3: Sophie Colgan–Speaking Truth to Power
Sophie Colgan is one of the finest examples of strong leadership on the rise today among the young in the Irish community of New York.Upon first arrival in the Big Apple in 2013, Sophie Colgan picked up on the background noise of goodwi...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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1:06:40
S2E2: Jacqueline Kealy - from Tuam to the stage lights of New York City!
We know County Galway in Ireland has it share of towns (and a city!), each with their own character and traditions, but Tuam–along the northern edge of the county–stands apart in its creative take on the world.It is no surprise that suc...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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57:21
S2E1: Adrian Flannelly - the Godfather of Irish talk radio in New York.
So we're all podcasters nowadays, but what is podcasting but radio on demand ? In this episode we hear the story of one of the great radio pioneers among New York's Irish community, who is still standing and still broa...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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1:02:39
Season Two Preview: A chat with Colm O'Regan
To kick off Season Two, host Paul Finnegan sat down with well-known Irish comedian, author, broadcaster, MC and podcaster Colm O'Regan. Of course, the marvels of the Internet allowed...
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Season 2
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26:33
S1E10: Peter and Bryan Fahy, and a tribute to Galway City.
We have two guests this time around, young thirty-somethings and brothers, Peter and Bryan Fahy, originally from Salthill in Ireland's Galway City, who came to live in New York just only in the last ten years, but are in the States now f...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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1:03:11
