Your Place And Mine Podcast

The strong winds of Storm Debi have destroyed a beautiful tree at Garrison on the shores of Lough Melvin. The artist, Michelle Duffy, has been painting the tree for as long as she can remember. She spoke to Anne Marie McAleese about the loss of the picturesque ash, and recalled a time when she and Anne Marie went together to visit that very tree. And Singtonicity at Derry Well Woman is an innovative and creative way of improving health and well-being, through singing, breathing, voice-work and relaxation exercises. The group's leader, Siobhan Heaney, says that you can't worry and sing at the same time. She met Brian Kernohan at one of the group's sessions. Presented by Anne Marie McAleese.

Monica Massey Beresford, who grew up in Derrylin in Fermanagh, became a resistance leader in Denmark. She died in Waldheim concentration camp in 1945 but her courage and incredible life have been honoured by the Ulster History Circle with the unveiling of a Blue Plaque at Kinawley Parish Church on Main Street in Derrylin. Lord Dunleath of Ballywalter, her great nephew, and Lady Dunleath, told Anne Marie McAleese her story. With archive recording from the BBC TV programme, SOE: Subversion (1984). And a highwayman, Joseph Scott, wreaked havoc around the mountain road between Limavady and Macosquin near Coleraine in the 1800’s. His life and times and eventual demise feature in the most recent edition of the Bann Disc, Coleraine Historical Society's Annual publication. Clive Hunter, who wrote the article, met Helen Mark at the ruins of the old family cottage in the townland of Camm to hear how the notorious brigand came to meet his death. Programme presented by Anne Marie McAleese.

A new digital timeline telling the history of glass-making and a decade of Innova Dance.

Slieve Gullion welcomes visitors for its Footsteps in the Forest Halloween experience. Anne Marie McAleese also hears about the huge burial cairn at the summit of Slieve Gullion, known as The Calliagh Berra's House, which is the highest surviving passage tomb in the UK or Ireland. Deirdre Donnelly reports on the story of a young curate from Derry, George Vaughan Sampson, who escaped the court of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette just before the French Revolution. He returned to Derry where he became headmaster of the city’s first school and later became rector of the Church of Ireland in Aghanloo near Limavady. Recently, his last resting place has been discovered, forgotten for almost 200 years, by Roe Valley historians, Betty and Matt Ferguson. Presented by Anne Marie McAleese. Listen to the whole show on BBC Sounds.

Omagh's many musicians and showbands feature in a new exhibition called "Sights and Sounds of the Showband Era at the Strule Arts Centre in the town. Anne Marie McAleese called in to have a look around with the Heritage Officer for Fermanagh and Omagh District Council, Melissa Harpur. And Ulster History Circle unveils a blue plaque for a "human computer" from Armagh. Hugh Breen was an exceptional mathematician and astronomer, the head of the Scientific School at the Armagh Mechanics’ Institute. Later he became a human computer at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich where he was in charge of large amounts of vital numerical data. Sean Barden, the curator of the Armagh Museum told Anne Marie why he nominated Hugh Breen for the plaque. Presented by Anne Marie McAleese.