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Experience the rich hidden history of the land of Ancient Ireland with historian , author, musician Danny Houlihan. The rich myths and legends are many and the culture of Ireland is diverse. In this podcast Danny relates the hidden history,Myths and Legends of the Ireland.Through its people its heritage and its rugged coastline this is truly Danny Houlihan‘s Irish Experience.
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Thursday Mar 16, 2023
Thursday Mar 16, 2023
St Patricks Day has arrived again and around the World Irish celebrations are under way with parades and our music song and dance that show case our rich diverse culture and heritage.
In this episode Danny Houlihan’s Irish Experience celebrates the day with a taste of History and music which will put you feet tapping. Danny looks back at a few of his podcasts Holy Wells and Lisslaghtin Abbey in Ballylongford with a few tunes weaved into the story on his pipes along the way. Enjoy & Happy Saint Patricks Day 2023.
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Monday Mar 13, 2023
Monday Mar 13, 2023
Welcome to the Wild Atlantic Way & Danny Houlihan’s Irish Experience.
I Hope your all keeping well my friends.
In this episode I will cover one of our native Irish tree The Ash Tree and its associated legends and lore.
The Ash Tree or Crann Fuinseoige is highly regarded in Ireland along with the oak and yew trees and can traces its roots back to the dawn of time. A native tree which in bygone times was venerated by the people of Ireland and its ancient customs and our old Ogham Calendar of Trees
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Sunday Feb 12, 2023
Sunday Feb 12, 2023
The Hazel Rod made from the Crann Coill or Hazel Tree is famous in Irish Myth & Legend and the famous Salmon of Knowledge. Hazel Rods were used in Ireland many years ago for various purposes such as divining for wells and for the location of missing people. In this episode Danny Houlihan travels out again along the Wild Atlantic Way and its history to sample another two recorded events he has documented and indeed witnessed with the famous Hazel Rod a part of the history of Ireland
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Tuesday Jan 31, 2023
Tuesday Jan 31, 2023
A New Church in Rattoo St Augustine Wilson Gun 1887
In this special episode Danny Houlihan returns once again to Ballyduff and through the faded brown documents and old newspaper clippings from old scrap books of the day takes a journey back in time at a part of a shared shared history between Ballyduff and Ballybunion a unique Church commissioned by the late Wilson Gun and his wife of Ballyduff North Kerry Ireland in the year of 1877 and 1879.
Indeed not many visitors to the area may know that located on Sandhill Road in Ballybunion there were two former Protestant Churches located there, the old Killehenny built after the Great Irish Holocaust of 1846 & 1847 and another St Augustine which is now the town library and is used by everyone and is well worth a visit. The church has a unique past, its beginnings originated in Ballyduff, its foundations, stone laid upon stone in the shadow of the famous round tower in Ballyduff just outside Tralee North Kerry 3 miles distant from Ballybunion, this church was moved stone by stone to Ballybunion in 1957
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Friday Jan 20, 2023
Friday Jan 20, 2023
In this episode of the series Danny Houlihan visits a famous holy well along the Shannon side in North Kerry Ireland called Tobar Eoin and the associations with the famous America Out Law Jesse James and the John James family of the 1820s onwards from a long-forgotten place called Snugborough Asdee.
Long lost names and tradespeople that made up the history and fabric that is Asdee North Kerry Ireland are spoken of once again. All are brought back in focus of the past lifeways with local historian Danny Houlihan consulting sourced information and tattered fragments of brown old books that remain. Danny Houlihan weaves a unique tapestry of the area and its people with is truly the Wild Atlantic Way Ireland.
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Monday Jan 16, 2023
Monday Jan 16, 2023
Ballybunion Golf Club 1893 The Early Game of Golf Danny Houlihan’s Irish Experience
Today the famous Ballybunion Golf Course is World renowned for its two championship golf courses the Old Course and the Cashen Course.International golfers have visited the course over the years and the club has hosted many events including Murphy’s Irish open in 2000 including visits from famous International golfers who come to play the famous links yearly.
In this short historical visit back to the famous fairways and the faded brown pages of old newspaper clippings and available material from the year of 1893, Danny Houlihan takes brief look at the club and its origins its landlord and the first people who were there at that time of its first meeting in1893 at the Castle Hotel Ballybunion North Kerry Ireland and a story that was related to Danny many years ago about those pioneering days of golf in the year of 1893.
Research for this podcast is from the oral tradition and written accounts of the period and by local people who were golfers themselves and had a great love of the area of Ballybunion and the course. This is not a definitive history but a taste of the rich area of Ballybunion North Kerry Ireland.
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Monday Dec 26, 2022
Monday Dec 26, 2022
Danny Houlihan historian and Author of Ballybunion An Illustrated History explores events that happened during the later stages of the 1800s in Ireland delving into the faded newspapers of the those bygone days uncovering hidden gems of the past a part of our Irish Heritage.
Welcome once more to my podcast series which is going from strength to strength exploring the rich history of our famous countryside of Ireland.
During the course of my research I have uncovered many historical events that have taking place in areas today which are well established from the 1800s, way back in olden days developments to enhance these places which are now forgotten in time took place in villages and towns in Ireland.These events are important to historians and students alike as they introduce us all to the foundation stones of these special places of interest.
In this podcast I will use my own place in Ballybunion yet again as an example of the work that went into promoting and developing a seaside town in Ireland circa 1892 and the outcome that transpired or did not.
In 1892 there was a proposal to built a pier or Landing Place in the resort of Ballybunion which at that time was becoming famous around the World as a traditional seaside resort promoting heath & wellness. This episode explores what happened and a brief background of the proposed project in 1892 using archival newspaper clippings now faded brown, then fast forward into the year of 1918 when the idea was put forward again. History repeating what happened in the past.
Through its people its heritage and its rugged coastline this is truly Danny Houlihan'd Irish Experience
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Saturday Dec 24, 2022
Saturday Dec 24, 2022
Happy Christmas to you all from Danny Houlihan's Irish Experience Ireland from the banks of Shannon River. In this special show I will travel back to a few episodes I recorded this year which was my first year podcasting. I hope you all will enjoy the places I visited and the history that is still in these special areas of North Kerry. In the podcast I will travel back to the times of the famous castles in the area of North Kerry fused with some of my music on the my pipes.
Happy Christmas to you all Danny Houlihan
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Thursday Dec 01, 2022
Thursday Dec 01, 2022
I travel out once more on one of the arteries of the famous Wild Atlantic Way Route which is one of the Worlds longest coastal driving routes which stretches from Donegal in the North to Cork in the south punctuated with World famous views that will take your breath away.
Inward I travel from my Baile Bhuinn An Abhainn Studio, In this episode I will again explore more of the hidden parts of our country's rich built heritage.
On the outskirts of the famous village of Abbeydorney a few miles from Tralee, there is located shrouded in history the impressive ruins of a Cistercian abbey which was founded according to historians in the year 1154 and dedicated to Saint Bernard the famous Kyrie Eleison Abbey of Abbeydorney.
In this episode I take a short walk around the Abbey which has captivated many who visit its ruins each year from around the World. I have consulted many references for this episode Annals of Ireland by The Four Masters etc just to mention a few. Again this is just a taste of what can be seen.
Saturday Sep 24, 2022
Saturday Sep 24, 2022
Ballybunion Podcaster & Historian Danny Houlihan relates a story possibly one of the last related oral folklore tales of the Doon, Bromore Cliffs & Kilconly area which was related to him by a local historian & Folklorist now departed.
The coastline of Doon, Bromore and Kilconly was not a place at night where one should wander its was according to the ancients the realm of the other world a place not to venture. In this folklore tale a local man making his way from Ballybunion had an experience which left a mark on his life forever and the few that saw the Lights of Lisseen Rua
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