''Mo Cheol Thú'' (literally "you are my music": a traditional expression of praise in the south-west of Ireland for any outstanding feat
) is a radio programme of

Irish traditional music Irish traditional music (also known as Irish trad, Irish folk music, and other variants) is a genre of folk music that developed in Ireland. In ''A History of Irish Music'' (1905), W. H. Grattan Flood wrote that, in Gaelic Ireland, there we ...

broadcast by Radio Éireann (later

RTÉ Radio 1 RTÉ Radio 1 ( ga, RTÉ Raidió 1) is an Irish national radio station owned and operated by RTÉ and is the direct descendant of Dublin radio station 2RN, which began broadcasting on a regular basis on 1 January 1926. The total budget for th ...

) for three quarters of an hour each Sunday morning between 1970 and 2005. One of Irish radio's longest running programmes and presented by broadcaster

Ciarán Mac Mathúna Ciarán Mac Mathúna (26 November 1925 – 11 December 2009) was an Irish broadcaster and music collector. He was a recognised authority on Irish traditional music and lectured extensively on the subject. He travelled around Ireland, England, Sc ...

, the series came to an end with Mac Mathúna's retirement in 2005. The last programme, beginning at 8.10 am, was broadcast on 27 November 2005. Mac Mathúna died just over four years later, on 11 December 2009. The programme consisted of instrumental music and songs in both English and Irish as well as conversation between Mac Mathúna and various guests.

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