Muine Bheag Arts Radio

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.

The Curse of Count Vlas is a radio play by St. Brigid’s N.S. It tells the story of four 6th class friends who embark on a spooky adventure to rescue their town from a greedy property developer, Count Vlas, who has put a strange curse on Grandad Noel’s farm.
Muine Bheag Arts led a series of workshops to develop the radio play as part of Cruinniú na nÓg 2025. The Curse of Count Vlas is written, acted and recorded by the 6th class students from St. Brigid’s N.S.
Credits:
Yahia Ahmed, Keelan Brennan, Harry Butcher, Caden O’Brien, Hugh O’Brien, Roy Cai, Jayden Clarke, Tyler Crawford, Aidan Downing, Joshua Dermody, Owen Doyle, Tyler English, Jake Gardiner, Conor Grant, Darragh Hughes, Nathan Kavanagh, Dylan Kelly, Sebastian Kral, Craig Lawlor, Kyle Lillis, Caleb Modesto, Reece Power, Kane Stringer, David Vlas
Facilitation and audio production by Jack Corbett
This project is kindly supported by Cruinniú na nÓg, Carlow Arts Office and Creative Ireland Carlow.

In this episode we explore the name of our town – Muine Bheag/Bagenalstown – which has a complex and unique history.
We met with local historian John Murphy, school children and members of the community to understand their perspectives on the town’s name.