Episode 122 is a conversation with Breege Rowley, a film editor who has spent the last eight years making her first documentary which charts the change of Ireland as seen through a small town in County Mayo: Swinford.

Conversation includes: Narrator Nora McBurney; Swinford; North Mayo; Croagh Patrick; Westport; the genesis of the idea; 40 years of Siamsa Sraide Festival; Lisheenabrone; 5 questions; the t(h)rasher; funding; the timeline; Maggie Basqual; Johnny & Mary Linskeys; Maura Sweeney; the American Wake; Michael Comer; Kilconduff Cemetery; emigration; Conor Walsh; O’Connor’s Hotel; Marie Holmes Walsh, Joe Mellett; Brabazons; Mary Harkin locations sound; Richard Kendrick Camera, Midfield; Meelick; Tom Hennigan, Hennigans Heritage Centre, Killasser; The Swinford Workhouse, The Famine; Black ’47; Hedge Schools; Lavins; British Pathé; Captain Boycott; Ciara Gallogly; Noelle Rowley; New Decade Production Exec. Producer, Galway Film Fleadh; New Decade; First Element; Kathryn Noone and Swinford Comhaltas; Alannah Thornburgh; Maggie Blanc; Mayo County Library in Castlebar; Francie McNichols's; Matt Molloy; Jack Walsh Drone operator. as well as other topics.  

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