Celtic Roots Craic!

Celtic Roots Craic!

Raymond McCullough hosts and produces the popular, 'Celtic Roots Radio' show – downloaded by around 10,000 listeners, in more than 110 countries around the world. The show features a wide range of Celtic and roots music – Celtic, folk, folk/rock, Appalachian, bluegrass, Scottish, Irish, Breton, Cajun, singer/songwriter – plus a regular helping of northern Irish craic from Raymond. This blog makes available the scripts from that section of the show.

Monday, 20 April 2026

Celtic Roots Craic 77 – Patrick – 'a stone plucked from the mire'

There are lots of stories about St. Patrick – but many of them are not based on facts. For a start he wasn’t an Irishman – he originally liv...

Celtic Roots Craic 76 – George, myself and the Lowden Guitars story

A couple of weeks ago I got a phone call from an old friend – a now retired chef – who used to host a regular radio show two afternoons per ...

Celtic Roots Craic 74 – 'Scraik a' dawn' and 'clabber to the knee'

Howl On’ is another one of those local expressions we use regularly – meaning wait – ‘Ach, howl on a wee minute, that’s not the way of it a...

Celtic Roots Craic 73 – 'Plates a' meat', Ruby Murray and 'a churn a-dryin''

We haven’t talked recently about the language we talk here in Norn Iron. I’ve mentioned that as well as Scottish and Irish Gaelic influences...

Tuesday, 19 May 2020

Celtic Roots Craic 72 – Lockdown, self-isolation and St. Patrick

St. Patrick – drawing Well suddenly the world has become a very strange place indeed! New phrases have entered our vocabulary to stay –...

Celtic Roots Craic 71 – The 'black stuff' – a traveller's tale!

The Bush Bar, Blacklion, Co. Sligo Well, life can be a wee bit unpredictable, wouldn’t ye say? The whole world seems to have gone tot...

Celtic Roots Craic 70 – Down at 'The Yard' – The Titanic Quarter

Filming the Titanic Quarter from the Goliath Crane (100m up) Now, I live down the road from Belfast – otherwise known as B’lfahst! – ...

Celtic Roots Craic 69 – Balagan – 'What are ye like?'

Balagan – a travelling puppet show, or a mess! Here’s an interesting word for ye – balagan . It means a mess, but it could be the nam...

Celtic Roots Craic 68 – 'R'aper blades and the 'glass hammer'

Tilley lamp (as sold in Redmond Jefferson's store) A wee bit a’ history here. When I was about 15, or 16, I used to work in the s...

Celtic Roots Craic 67 – 1798, a bridge and 'the priest's grave'

Kilmore Parish Church re-built in Ulster Folk Museum, Cultra, Co. Down Well, we’ve looked at some further away parts of the Celtic...

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About Raymond McCullough

Raymond McCullough: Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom; Raymond McCullough is a Media Producer with his own company, Precious Oil Productions Ltd. He regularly hosts Celtic Roots Radio, (which is webcast and also broadcast on satellite and FM stations, as well as on Apple Podcasts, etc.); 'In tha Name a' Gawd!' (music, news & interviews – broadcast on UCR/GloryStar satellite radio, webcast & podcast); and 'Fresh Bread: Your Kingdom Come' (based on his recent book and now broadcasting on satellite radio). Raymond (with his wife, Gerry) co-edited the book, 'Ireland, now the good news!' published 1995; and recently released two new books, 'The Whore and her Mother' (9/11, Babylon and the Return of the King) in August, 2011; and 'A Wee Taste a' Craic', in October, 2011. He has also filmed and is currently editing & producing a TV documentary involving Ireland; Scotland; Native American First Nations in Manitoba, Canada; and Israel - to be called, 'Broken Treaties.' (See the Precious Oil website – http://preciousoil.com – for more information on these and other projects).

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