A patient, inward reading of Rilke on solitude, love, and becoming oneself.
Rilke's December 23, 1903 letter to Mr. Kappus turns solitude into something more than loneliness: a condition to enter, endure, and learn from.

Cork life, recorded in restless detail.
From Cork with Love Adventure follows a Cork speaker through whatever has seized his attention: a wet woodland car park, the final round of the Open, a denied poetry permission request, or an argument about abortion services. It is intimate, digressive, and unusually attentive to small details.
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From Cork with Love Adventure is a long-running personal journal built from attention. It listens to Cork, but not in a postcard way. The show’s speaker presents himself as a deliberately unrepresentative Irish voice, and that framing matters. Episodes are often guided by whatever is immediately in front of him. At the Open, that might mean golf predictions, coffee, an almond croissant, queues, crisps, and the small mystery of changed packaging. In Moanbaun Woods, it means rain on the windscreen, a weather app that has failed badly, a man with two dogs, and a dog waiting in the back of the car. These details are not filler. They are the show’s working method. A passing observation can become a comic complaint, a memory, a question, or a philosophical turn. Poetry gives the series one of its deepest currents. Rilke’s letters become material for solitude, difficult love, artistic apprenticeship, and private reading projects. Mary Oliver appears through a permission request, a refused answer, and a larger meditation on journeys and gifts. Music is treated with similar seriousness. A musical autobiography episode moves from playlists to opera, recalling how one performance changed a declared dislike into appetite. The show also makes room for civic argument, including abortion services, college meetings, medical bodies, member concerns, and the procedural texture of disputed decisions. Interview episodes add a looser social register, introducing Ray Granati through warm, slightly comic conversation. Across these modes, the pacing remains personal and unvarnished. It suits listeners who enjoy thought arriving in real time, with weather, politics, literature, memory, and ordinary errands all allowed into the room.
Made for: For listeners who like intimate personal journals, Irish local texture, literary reflection, and recordings that move by association rather than tight format. It especially suits people who enjoy poetry, weather, dogs, sport, music memory, and civic argument sharing the same space.
What sets it apart: The show’s strength is its refusal to separate the ordinary from the serious. A bad cup of coffee, a wet woodland stop, Rilke’s solitude, opera, and abortion-service procedure can all carry equal editorial weight.
Adventures from Cork Ireland (a small island in the Atlantic Ocean - off the West Coast of Europe) - Hyperlocal podcasting with host poet Paul O’Mahony - Be warned the language is fluid & melodic + value-laden & political - This is for people who crave detail: often there's drama & opera - stuff about depression & resurrection - dog-walking & fatherhood - poetry & fantasy. You'll find this podcast predictably imaginative - Paul trusts.————————— Contact Paul at http://showandtellcommunications.net/Tweet him @ https://mobile.twitter.com/omaniblog
Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A patient, inward reading of Rilke on solitude, love, and becoming oneself.
Rilke's December 23, 1903 letter to Mr. Kappus turns solitude into something more than loneliness: a condition to enter, endure, and learn from.
A permission denial turns into an intimate reading of Mary Oliver.
Paul Omani shapes the episode around a small but telling turn: an April 18, 2018 email to Mary Oliver's agent asking permission to record her work, the same-day refusal, and the shift from that dead end into a gift of readings and attention.


Pop culture trivia, argued fast and with affection.

Pop culture, personal stakes, and room for a tangent.

A Brazilian journalist spends years reinvestigating unsolved child disappearances in Paraná.

Cris Bartz and Juva Lauer alternate debate and interview episodes on Brazilian social issues.

Robert Wright interviews specialists on Iran, Gaza, Ukraine, Taiwan, and open-source AI.
Host Paul O'Mahony shares his musical autobiography, discussing his top 250 songs and his transformative first opera experience.
Host Paul O'Mahony walks his dog at night in Cork, reflecting on the day and mentioning UFO talk in Ireland.
Host Paul O'Mahony shares his long-standing admiration for poet Mary Oliver, beginning with a 2018 rejection from her agent for permission to record her work.
Paul O'Mahony reports on a college's extraordinary general meeting called to address member concerns about guideline development and service provision.
Paul O'Mahony hosts a solo motivational episode from Cork, Ireland, critiquing figures like Anthony Robbins and Simon Sinek.
Host Paul O'Mahony shares a morning coffee and croissant at a golf course during the Open, reflecting on local details and personal observations.
Paul O'Mahony records the third day of the 2019 British Open at Royal Portrush while discussing Shane Lowry, Bruce Koepka, Justin Rose, Tommy Fleetwood, and other contenders with golfers from Cork and New York.
From Cork with Love Adventure reads Rainer Maria Rilke’s sixth through tenth letters to the young poet Franz Kappus, written between December 1903 and December 1909.
Paul O’Mahony reads the first five of Rainer Maria Rilke’s letters to a nineteen-year-old poet, written in 1903 from Paris, Viareggio, and Rome.
Ray Renati discusses a life shaped by Palo Alto, Royal Academy of Dramatic Art training, acting, directing, photography, rideshare driving, and family responsibilities.
The host recounts his attempt to get permission to record Mary Oliver's poetry for his blog, including the agent's refusal and his reflective response.
Host Paul O'Mahony shares a personal, poetic reflection on a rainy day in Cork, describing the weather, a dog walker, and his own dog in the car.