{"id":57221,"date":"2025-09-18T21:01:59","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T20:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=57221"},"modified":"2025-09-18T21:02:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T20:02:22","slug":"legends-of-our-lifetime-daragh-omalley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=57221","title":{"rendered":"Legends of Our Lifetime &#8211; Daragh O\u2019Malley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On this episode, Orla Diamantino is joined by award-winning actor, producer and director, Daragh O&#8217;Malley &#8211; star of TV shows including Crossroads and Sharpe.<\/p>\n<p>Son of the late Hilda Moriarty, Daragh shares memories of his mother&#8217;s relationship with poet Patrick Kavanagh, and how the poem Raglan Road (sung soon after publishing by Luke Kelly of the Dubliners) was penned about her. His song choices are as eclectic as his career and complement the conversation perfectly.<\/p>\n<p>Daragh has lived a fascinating life, from working with Hollywood Stars, to producing the &#8220;<em>sexiest version ever\u2019&#8221; o<\/em>f The Rocky Horror Show, according to the show&#8217;s creator, Richard O\u2019Brien. Tune in to hear all about Daragh\u2019s upcoming production of \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/onraglanroad.com\/\">On Raglan Road<\/a>\u2019, and his plans for touring the show.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Legends Of Our Lifetime - Daragh O\u2019Malley\" width=\"100%\" height=\"120\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mixcloud.com\/widget\/iframe\/?feed=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mixcloud.com%2Fnearfm%2Flegends-of-our-lifetime-daragh-omalley%2F&amp;hide_cover=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"encrypted-media; fullscreen; autoplay; idle-detection; speaker-selection; web-share;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-56045 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Orla-DiamantinoLOOL-300x203.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Orla-DiamantinoLOOL-300x203.png 300w, https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Orla-DiamantinoLOOL-768x520.png 768w, https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Orla-DiamantinoLOOL-162x110.png 162w, https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Orla-DiamantinoLOOL-90x61.png 90w, https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Orla-DiamantinoLOOL-370x251.png 370w, https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Orla-DiamantinoLOOL-653x442.png 653w, https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Orla-DiamantinoLOOL.png 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this episode, Orla Diamantino is joined by award-winning actor, producer and director, Daragh O&#8217;Malley &#8211; star of TV shows including Crossroads and Sharpe. Son of the late Hilda Moriarty, Daragh shares memories of his mother&#8217;s relationship with poet Patrick Kavanagh, and how the poem Raglan Road (sung soon after publishing by Luke Kelly of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":85,"featured_media":56045,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[27628,27631,6016,27630,26218,2365,27629,27632],"class_list":["post-57221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-listenagain","tag-daragh-omalley","tag-hilda-moriarty","tag-luke-kelly","tag-on-raglan-road","tag-orla-diamantino","tag-patrick-kavanagh","tag-sharpe","tag-the-rocky-horror-show"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/85"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57221"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57223,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57221\/revisions\/57223"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/56045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}