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A podcast about life, one life at a time. The Family of Things is an independent podcast production, hosted by Helen Shaw, edited by John Howard and released by Athena Media. In these conversations Helen talks with guests about their life journey, what formed them, informs them and inspires them. 'It's an ode to life and how we find our own path', she says. Episodes are released fortnightly.If you like the podcast please support what we do, share it, join our Patreon community https://www.pa ...
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The Family of Things S2 E9 : Lauren Arrington www.thefamilyofthings.com #TheFamilyofThings Professor Lauren Arrington is a Florida native who has made Ireland her home, and the focus of her research and writing. In this episode of The Family of Things she shares with Helen Shaw how Ireland, and its writers, drew her in, and how when she first came …
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S2 E8 : Chandrika Narayanan-Mohan (2021)
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The Family of Things S2 E8: Chandrika Narayanan-Mohan www.thefamilyofthings.com #TheFamilyofThings The Dublin based Indian poet and arts manager, Chandrika Narayanan-Mohan is Helen Shaw's guest in this episode of The Family of Things. Chandrika was born in Delhi and as a child lived in the Presidential Palace with her grandparents since her grandfa…
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The Family of Things S2 E7 Paddy Woodworth www.thefamilyofthings.com #TheFamilyofThings Helen Shaw's guest in this episode is journalist, author and environmentalist Paddy Woodworth. Paddy is the author of 'Our Once and Future Planet' (2018), an exploration of how we restore our environment. In this conversation he shares how he became a nature lov…
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www.thefamilyofthings.com #TheFamilyofThings Helen Shaw's guest in this episode of The Family of Things is Steafán Hanvey an Irish singer-songwriter and poet, from Downpatrick, who has long found his home in Finland. Steafán's father is the well known Northern Irish photographer Bobbie Hanvey, and his poetry-photography book 'Reconstructions' (2018…
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The Family of Things : S2 E 5 Gerardine Meaney www.thefamilyofthings.com #TheFamilyofThings Today's guest in The Family of Things with Helen Shaw is writer, feminist, digital humanities leader and researcher, Professor Gerardine Meaney of University College Dublin. Helen and Gerardine were both students in UCD studying English and History in the ea…
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S2 E4 : Jack Lukeman (2021)
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The Family of Things: S2 E4 Jack Lukeman www.thefamilyofthings.com #TheFamilyofThings Today's guest with host Helen Shaw is modern troubadour Jack Lukeman, singer, songwriter and one time leader of the 90s band Jack L and the Black Romantics. Jack shares his journey from growing up in Athy, his apprenticeship as a motor mechanic ,to ending up disco…
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The Family of Things: Dr Kathleen Turner - S2 E3 (released April 30th 2021) http://thefamilyofthings.com/ #TheFamilyofThings Season 2 is being recorded remotely due to the pandemic. Dr Kathleen Turner says she sang her way through school, and today she's an academic who uses singing as a social good, and sees her mission as empowering the creativit…
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The Family of Things S2 E2 : Robert John Hope ( released April 16 2021) The Family of Things is a podcast about life, and how we chose to live it, hosted by Helen Shaw and created by independent podcast makers, Athena Media. All of Season 2 conversations have been recorded remotely due to the pandemic. Website: www.thefamilyofthings.com #TheFamilyO…
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The Family of Things : Season 2 E1 : Ruth Smith Released April 2 2021 The Family of Things is a podcast about life, and how we chose to live it, hosted by Helen Shaw and created by the award winning independent podcast producers Athena Media. All conversations in Season 2 have been recorded remotely due to the pandemic. Website: www.thefamilyofthin…
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Helen Shaw's guest in this episode of The Family of Things is film-maker Frank Berry whose work tells stories of social realism in often tough suburbs from the documentary film 'Ballymun Lullaby' at the time of the tearing down of the Ballymun Towers to dramas like 'I Used to Live Here', touching on youth mental health and suicide to the more recen…
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In this episode of The Family of Things Helen Shaw’s guest is the psychologist and author Dr Tony Bates. Tony founded Headstrong, (now Jigsaw), the National Agency for Youth Mental Health, after a long career in clinical psychology. He was the co-editor of Vision for Change, the mental health strategic review in 2006 and that work motivated him to …
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Helen Shaw’s guest in this edition of the The Family of Things podcast is Irish scientist and astro physicist Professor Peter Gallagher. The Family of Things is a podcast by Athena Media.Peter Gallagher leads solar physics and space weather research at Trinity College Dublin. Gallagher researches the Sun, in particular solar storms and their impact…
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S1 E12 - Vivienne DeCourcy (2016)
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Vivienne DeCourcy, the writer and director of the new feature film ‘Dare to be Wild’ is Helen Shaw’s guest in episode 12 of The Family of Things.‘Dare to be Wild’, is based on the true story of Irish wild garden designer Mary Reynolds who won the Chelsea Garden Show in 2002. The film is Vivienne’s directorial debut and in this podcast Vivienne talk…
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S1 E11 - Rory O’Neill aka Panti Bliss (2016)
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Helen Shaw’s guest is performer and accidental activist Rory O’Neill aka the Queen of Ireland, Panti Bliss. Rory talks about his memoir ‘Woman in the Making’ (Hachette 2014) and his personal journey from growing up in rural Ireland to become a ‘national treasure’ as the drag queen Panti who he says has become a sort of ‘avatar for change’. Rory sha…
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S1 E10 - Eleanor Fitzsimons (2016)
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Author and researcher Eleanor Fitzsimons is our latest guest in The Family of Things.Eleanor’s acclaimed biography of Oscar Wilde from the perspective of the women in his life ‘Wilde’s Women‘ opens new windows on both Wilde and his work.Eleanor beautifully written and carefully researched study was published in Ireland in Autumn 2015 and is being r…
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Nóirín Hegarty found her calling as a news reporter but moved into news management at just 25 years of age.She was editor of the national sunday newspaper The Sunday Tribune at a time when there were very few women editors in Ireland and lead that newspaper from 2005 until it closed in 2011. Since then she’s been at the heart of digital change in t…
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In Episode 8 of The FAMILY of THINGS, Helen Shaw’s guest is a man known for his winning speed and more recently his winning food – it’s champion sprinter and Celebrity Masterchef David Gillick.David Gillick, who is now retired from competitive running, still holds the Irish indoor and outdoor 400m records and he won two Gold European medals as well…
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Helen Shaw’s guest this episode is Cork born composer Linda Buckley who writes contemporary music drawing inspiration from the world around her, from the soundscape of her childhood growing up on a diary farm overlooking the Old Head of Kinsale to other places close to her heart including Iceland. Buckley’s work has been performed by Crash Ensemble…
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Helen Shaw meets actor and writer Mark O’Halloran the creative force behind the darkly comic films Adam and Paul and Garage. Mark talks about growing up in a big family in Ennis and his journey to become a writer and performer. He describes how limiting Ireland was as a young gay man and how a year spent in Amsterdam liberated him. He found a creat…
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Sean nós singer and songwriter Iarla Ó’Lionáird is Helen Shaw’s guest in this edition of The Family of Things. Iarla is the voice of the acclaimed Irish ensemble The Gloaming whose album by the same name has received multiple award nominations. Iarla grew up in Cúil Aodha in Co Cork in an Irish speaking community in what he calls ‘ a hive of song’ …
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Helen Shaw’s guest is Hans Zomer, Director of Dóchas, a development network, and lead organisation on the European Year of Development in Ireland. Hans talks about being shaped by his Dutch presbyterian roots, his family’s experience of World War 2 and his childhood growing up in Cameroon. He speaks five languages but says he now feels Irish and dr…
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In Episode 3 of our podcast series The Family of Things presenter Helen Shaw talks to Trinity based physicist Dr. Shane Bergin. Shane says people often think science is ugly but necessary, while he thinks it is beautiful and essential. Shane talks of his passion to communicate science to the world and to inspire the next generation of scientists th…
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In the second episode of the series, Helen Shaw speaks to Irish writer Denise Deegan, author of the hugely popular Butterfly Novels for teenagers. More recently Denise has also adopted the pen name ‘Aimee Alexander’ under which she has started to self publish her adult fiction novels through Amazon.Helen talks to Denise about her self publishing an…
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In this first episode of ‘The Family of Things’ series presenter Helen Shaw talks to Irish poet Nessa O’Mahony about her life, poetry, what inspires her.Having spent 15 years in journalism and public relations, Nessa O’Mahony was one of the first writers in Ireland to complete a PhD in Creative and Critical Writing in 2007. She is a published write…
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