Muine Bheag Arts Radio

Return of the Bog Body is a radio play by St. Brigid’s N.S. It tells the story of a group of excited scouts arriving at Mount Leinster for the biggest orienteering competition of the year. Meanwhile, a confused bog body escapes from the museum and is searching for someone he lost a thousand years ago…
Muine Bheag Arts led a series of workshops to develop the radio play as part of Cruinniú na nÓg 2026. Return of the Bog Body is written, acted and recorded by the 6th class students from St. Brigid’s N.S.
Credits: Fuad Alyousef, Evan Cai, Ben Cole, Calum Cummins, Hugo Cunningham, Robin Dowling, Bobby Doyle, Ben Foster, Ravishka Gunasinghe, Jack Healy, Harry Hughes, Aaden Holton, Adam Kelly,  Eoin Kelly, Simon Macejko, Ryan McAssey, Cathal McCullagh, Braxton Osborne, Kuba Piotrowski, Liam Plant, Patrick Purcell, Isaac Sheahan, Jakub Ulanowski, Jakub Wojcik, Joyce Zidi-Esengo

The Shed is a compilation of audio works selected through an open call which invited submissions inspired by our makeshift recording studio in a disused shed. Responding to the ideas of amateurism, experimentation, leisure and escape, the episode brings together essays, interviews and poetry by Sarah Lincoln + Andy Walsh, Sian Conway, Luke Casserly and Julie Morrissy. 
The narrative works are interwoven with music and soundscapes by Office for Joint Administrative Intelligence, Ella Bertilsson & Cian Walker, and Ciarán Mac Eochaidh.

In this episode, we join artist Liliane Puthod and writer Ingrid Lyons during a pit stop in Muine Bheag as part of tour de force in summer 2025.

At the wheel of Liliane’s late father’s Renault 4, tour de force travelled around Ireland engaging with artists, musicians, mechanics, farmers, archaeologists, craftspeople, academics and aficionados over a series of collaborative pit stops

Muine Bheag Arts was delighted to welcome Liliane and Ingrid to the town, along with historian, writer and contemporary art theorist, Barry Kehoe, who presented a talk at the Community Centre. During their visit they met with local car enthusiasts and learned about their relationships to their car.

Shifting Ether is an audio essay written by Edy Fung with sound produced by Dan Callanan. The episode explores different historical moments of ether and the materiality of radio.

Edy Fung is an artist, curator and musician whose practice inquires into the material conditions and technological paradigms of contemporary society, including the philosophy of information, history of science and machine intelligence. She creates sound and intermedia art projects that incorporate text, installation, transmission/radio, video, digital artefacts, electroacoustics and performance.
Dan Callanan is a Cork artist based in Dublin. He is the founder of the DOE (Department of Energy), a DIY imprint exploring our relationship with the land through ambient-adjacent music, field recordings, text, video and photography.

Live @ COMMUNE 2025 brings you a selection of highlights from the Muine Bheag Arts summer programme.

COMMUNE took place from 15th - 25th August in and around the Muine Bheag Community Centre and unfolded as a collection of live events, workshops and public interventions with contributions from artists, collectives and community groups.

In this episode we’ll hear from some of these contributors including members of BEAM Services who formed the music group The Glimmers, graduates-in-residence Ciara Davitt, Nina Fitzgerald Graham & Mica Moroney and a conversation between Niamh Seana Meehan and Lucie McLaughlin on the launch of new publication, Beacon. We’ll also join artist Lily O’Shea and her sister and collaborator Ali O’Shea, Cian Lawler who led a cyanotype workshop and hear a snippet from Marian Balfe’s Card Club.