The Song House Podcast

Today Sinead talks with previous guest Alexandra Derwen who is a death doula and trainer, they describe themselves as a griefkeeper and weaver of words, an explainer of things, a servant of ceremony (not a master) and a student of Death itself. Sinead also introduces you to new guest Tanya Bryan, who is a Humanistic Integrative Psychotherapist and who supports people to reconnect w

In this podcast, Sinead talks with two previous podcast guests – deep ecologist, writer and facilitator Jenny O’Hare and grief and mens worker, mentor and facilitator Niall Graham. This is another deep dive convo into the subject of Belonging. Niall and Jenny have teamed up and have designed and will facilitate a weekend enquiry into this very important theme of Belonging – s

Joanie has studied women’s story and song traditions for many years and has supported hundreds of women through the life-transition of pregnancy and birth. She has trained as a birth educator, midwife, shamanic practitioner, circle facilitator, and is currently studying ancestral song and story lines with Leah Song from Rising Appalachia.Joanie is coming to The Song House in Sept

A new kind of faith for the 21st century in relation to the forces of the unseen, and that is just one drop of the deep waters that we touch upon in this conversation with a previous guest, Alexandra grace Derwen. This is a deeply, thoughtfully and characteristically clear conversation with Alexandra about many important things. Such as the importance of listening to dissenting voi

Sineads guest today is Margaret/Maggie Hannon - an actor and theatre maker originally from Cork and now living and working in Donegal. Maggie resigned in 2015 as a medical doctor to take a Masters in Authorial acting in the Theatre Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague where she graduated with honours in 2018. Since then, she is working as a professional actor, coach,

Sinéad talks with Niall Graham and Robin Botley about mens work specifically and in general about grief work, shadow work, myth, spirit and soul work and so so much more in this deep dive conversation. Niall and Robin work with each other closely, particularly around mens work and together they have designed and will facilitate an Introduction to mens work weekend planned for this

In this podcast Sinead talks with Annemarie Ní Churreáin, a world-renowned, award winning and highly regarded Irish poet, who grew up just a short distance away from the song house here in Falcarragh. Annemarie cites the poets house as a place where she began her writing career - you’ll hear more about this in the conversation to follow which is altogether so interesting, engag

Michaela Mc Daid is best known in the North West as a mental health educator, devising and delivering wellness courses for countless groups over 25 years. Her interest has always been in empowering people to affect their own health and healing.As a facilitator, Michaela openly draws on her own lived experience of mental health challenges and healing with nature to bring insight, em

Today Sinead introduces you to David Ingerson. David is an award winning Irish traditional singer from the US and he has been singing traditional Irish songs for 40 years. He has visited Ireland fourteen times, attending music and singing festivals and workshops, collecting songs, and researching the backgrounds of songs. During his visits he has studied traditional singing under d

In this podcast we revisit some of the nuggets of wisdom, understanding, knowledge and insights from previous guest Jenny O Hare – Jenny is a deep ecologist, writer and facilitator – she will facilitate the Sacred Seasons event on November 6th & 7th. Here you’ll hear Jenny talk about permaculture, the connection between literature, poetry, philosophy and deep ecology, abo