{"id":2016,"date":"2020-06-16T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?p=2016"},"modified":"2021-08-06T19:55:12","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T18:55:12","slug":"documentary-the-irish-pirates-volume-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/documentary-the-irish-pirates-volume-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Documentary: The Irish Pirates (Volume 7)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_3275\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2016-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Irish-Pirates-7.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Irish-Pirates-7.mp3\">http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Irish-Pirates-7.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Irish-Pirates-7.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?powerpress_pinw=2016-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Irish-Pirates-7.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Irish-Pirates-7.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Tipler-cassette-CU-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Documentary: The Irish Pirates (Volume 7)\" class=\"wp-image-1991\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Tipler-cassette-CU-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Tipler-cassette-CU-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Tipler-cassette-CU-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Tipler-cassette-CU-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Tipler-cassette-CU.jpg 1599w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>Part of &#8216;The Irish Pirates&#8217; from the Leon Tipler Collection (photo by Brian Greene). <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Continuing with Part 3 of Leon Tipler&#8217;s documentary &#8216;The Irish Pirates&#8217;, we hear more from the Cork radio scene in 1983 and also learn about the Limerick pirates. The hour begins with a visit to the 10 kW South Coast Radio AM transmitter site in Cork in the company of John Lewis. That is followed by a visit to ERI and an interview with veteran broadcaster Don Allen. There is also a rare insight into the earliest days of the Cork pirates in an interview with Con McParland. Tipler then continues to Limerick where he calls into two local stations, Big L and Raidi\u00f3 Luimn\u00ed. The episode concludes with interviews with Mike Richardson of Big L and the popular John &#8216;the Man&#8217; Frawley of Raidi\u00f3 Luimn\u00ed.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Big-L-CU-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Documentary: The Irish Pirates (Volume 7)\" class=\"wp-image-2017\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Big-L-CU-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Big-L-CU-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Big-L-CU-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Big-L-CU-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Big-L-CU-2048x1151.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>Big L logo, courtesy of DX Archive. <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>This recording is from the Leon Tipler Tapes Collection, donated to us by Steve England.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Index to Volume 7<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<a href=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/documentary-the-irish-pirates-volume-7\/#t=00:00:00\">00:00\tVisit to South Coast Radio TX site<\/a><br>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/documentary-the-irish-pirates-volume-7\/#t=00:09:11\">09:11\tVisit to ERI studios<\/a><br>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/documentary-the-irish-pirates-volume-7\/#t=00:16:30\">16:30\tInterview with Don Allen<\/a><br>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/documentary-the-irish-pirates-volume-7\/#t=00:25:00\">25:00\tERI heard in UK<\/a><br>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/documentary-the-irish-pirates-volume-7\/#t=00:26:10\">26:10\tJohn Lewis on South Coast Radio<\/a><br>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/documentary-the-irish-pirates-volume-7\/#t=00:27:45\">27:45\tInterview with Con McParland of Radio Sundown<\/a><br>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/documentary-the-irish-pirates-volume-7\/#t=00:30:00\">30:00\tVisit to Limerick<\/a><br>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/documentary-the-irish-pirates-volume-7\/#t=00:30:50\">30:50\tRaidi\u00f3 Luimn\u00ed<\/a><br>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/documentary-the-irish-pirates-volume-7\/#t=00:33:00\">33:00\tBig L<\/a><br>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/documentary-the-irish-pirates-volume-7\/#t=00:35:00\">35:00\tVisit to Big L<\/a><br>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/documentary-the-irish-pirates-volume-7\/#t=00:36:50\">36:50\tInterview with Mike Richardson<\/a><br>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/documentary-the-irish-pirates-volume-7\/#t=00:44:05\">44:05\tJohn \u2018the Man\u2019 Frawley on Raidi\u00f3 Luimn\u00ed<\/a><br>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/documentary-the-irish-pirates-volume-7\/#t=00:46:06\">46:06\tVisit to Raidi\u00f3 Luimn\u00ed<\/a><br>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/documentary-the-irish-pirates-volume-7\/#t=00:49:00\">49:00\tInterview with John \u2018the Man\u2019 Frawley<\/a><br>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing with Part 3 of Leon Tipler&#8217;s documentary &#8216;The Irish Pirates&#8217;, we hear more from the Cork radio scene in 1983 and also learn about the Limerick pirates. The hour begins with a visit to the 10 kW South Coast Radio AM transmitter site in Cork in the company of John Lewis. That is followed &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/documentary-the-irish-pirates-volume-7\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Documentary: The Irish Pirates (Volume 7)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[501,46,104,353,151,273,150,226,354,342,224,355,103,40],"class_list":["post-2016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features","tag-501","tag-am","tag-big-l","tag-cclr","tag-cork","tag-don-allen","tag-eri","tag-john-frawley","tag-john-lewis","tag-leon-tipler","tag-limerick","tag-mike-richardson","tag-raidio-luimni","tag-south-coast-radio"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Documentary: The Irish Pirates (Volume 7) - Irish Pirate Radio Audio Archive<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/documentary-the-irish-pirates-volume-7\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Documentary: The Irish Pirates (Volume 7) - Irish Pirate Radio Audio Archive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Continuing with Part 3 of Leon Tipler&#8217;s documentary &#8216;The Irish Pirates&#8217;, we hear more from the Cork radio scene in 1983 and also learn about the Limerick pirates. 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