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Honestly. I LOVE these fellas! Willie Joe Casey & Tom Dolan are both frequent visitors to the live radio broadcast. We've made plans to record their stories & things never worked out until this day.

The opening of the Chicago GAA Hall of History, an idea hatched by these two, has come to fruition at Chicago Gaelic Park. The fellas were live on the radio show on this Saturday to promote this permanent exhibition. I asked if they'd be willing to hang around after the live broadcast for a chat about the Chicago GAA. I'm so grateful Willie Joe & Tommy were enthusiastic about the idea! If you are at all familiar w/our live broadcast, you know we are all about unscripted real conversations. That happens here. You never know where a question will lead you-you just follow along. That's the magic.

Both gentlemen share their emigration stories, the impact the GAA has had on their lives, and so much more.

I hope you enjoy listening in as much as I enjoyed this important afternoon in our studio!

https://chicagogaelicpark.com/gaa/

https://usgaa.org/division/central-division/

Discovered this as I was doing some research! https://chicagology.com/chicagoirish/historyirish/

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Oh my goodness! We had so much fun on this day! Willie Joe Casey & Fr. Mick Madigan stop up for a visit and the STORIES flowed! Absolute gold. So funny and 100% REAL!

All the music & MOST of the ads are stripped out of the recording of the live broadcast. The rest is just real live radio. Unvarnished. Raw. REAL.

Tune in some Saturday. Our show runs from 11-1 CST, streams on all platforms. The most crystal clear, I've heard, is the one from the stations website. Go to www.1490.am and click the "Listen Now" button. Easy peasy.

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Breege Rowley is a GEM! She shares her time so generously and eloquently discusses all the things about her film "All of our Yesterday's" This is the full chat. the abbreviated was featured on the radio show November 15, 2025.

You will truly feel you are eavesdropping on our conversation. Breege is passionate about saving the social history of life in and around Swinford, Co Mayo all the way back 250 years to Penal times, the famine, the wars, the great exodus of population & more told through the lens of the people of the area. Sitting around kitchen tables. Poring through letters and photographs. Old films uncovered. Treasured memories shared.

Plan to be in Chicago for iBAM? Be sure to see the screening on Saturday Nov 22 @ 3:30pm at the Irish American Heritage Center, the home for the Irish Arts Books and Music celebratory weekend-iBAM!

https://www.facebook.com/p/All-Our-Yesterdays-61569855254145/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9S74xlPMEg

https://www.ibamchicago.com/

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