Irish Pirate Radio Audio Archive
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In this interview, broadcast historian Eddie Bohan tells John Walsh about the expansion of Radio Nova in Dublin up to 1986 and afterwards in the UK. This interview was first broadcast on Wireless on Flirt FM in June 2018.
You can hear Radio Nova airchecks and jingles here.
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On the 30th anniversary of the pirate radio closedowns, Ken O’Sullivan of the Louth local station LMFM talked to Brian Greene about that fateful day and the background to the Irish Pirate Radio Audio Archive. This was first broadcast at 1820 on 31st December 2018.
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This is a chat between Brian and John from 31st December 2018 about the Pirate.ie project over the previous six months. On this the 30th anniversary of the closedowns, Brian and John look back at the era prior to 1988 and speculate about radio’s future.
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CBC Radio started broadcasting in the West Gate, Clonmel in November 1981 and continued until the enforced close down of all pirate stations on New Year’s Eve 1988.
Over 100 volunteers, along with a handful of part-time and full-time staff, contributed on the air, and the station was hugely popular among young and old in Clonmel, Carrick-on-Suir and surrounding towns.
Over the past three years, former staff member Jonathan Ryan has been researching the station’s history and listening to many audio tapes recorded during that time, along with interviewing former staff members to bring to life this audio history of life in the West Gate.
With thanks to Jonathan Ryan for an advanced copy of the audio and for a amazing work of journalism in making this radio documentary. First broadcast on South Tipperary General Hospital Radio, December 27th 2018.
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On July 29th 2017, East Wall History Group held the Sarah Lundberg Summer School, this year focusing on another great interest of Sarah’s, pirate radio.
The keynote speaker was Eddie Bohan (Irish broadcast historian). The talk looks at the first one hundred years of political pirate radio in Ireland.
