The Village Oak Tree

Fáilte Welcome to The Village Oak Tree Stories and Poetry I am Terrance Ó Domhnaill, your scéalaí, back with more stories and poems from authors around the world. For today's show, I have another episode of The Grave Diggers of Orpheus chapter 13. The second part of Liora's story, a new story about a fae garden, a short story about a deer and magic, then a poem about the wind. So gather round once...

Fáilte Welcome to The Village Oak Tree for November 27th. I am your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill. Thank you for spending a little time with me once again. We have had another insane week in world news. This week, I bring you some news articles from Europe, U.K. and the U.S. These are stories that on the surface by themselves, might not get a lot of attention in most circles but put together, they co...

Fáilte Welcome to The Village Oak Tree Stories and Poetry I am Terrance Ó Domhnaill, your scéalaí, back with more stories and poems from authors around the world. I know it's been a couple of weeks since I have read any stories or poetry but I have been busy lately with other projects outside of media. If you are listening to this on WAA Radio, you know that they have been running older shows whil...

I wasn't planning on doing a commentary show this week as I am still going to read some stories and poetry today. I recorded this last Monday because events in the news over the weekend just put me a little over the top and I needed to talk about some of it for my own sanity. Join me again for another visit with world news as I talk about Donald Trump a little and the latest United States hubris i...

I am back again the week after the U.S. elections to offer some insight on the news from around the world. This week, it's mostly about Donald J. Trump, his choices, so far, of cabinet and administration picks. No one truly knows what Trump is going to do but his choices give us a pretty good idea of what's coming for the people of the U.S. and the world. Especially immigrants. Illegal and otherwi...

Fáilte Welcome to The Village Oak Tree Stories and Poetry I am Terrance Ó Domhnaill, your village scéalaí, back with more stories and poems from authors around the world. In this first show of the Celtic New Year, I have four stories and one poem for everyone. I continue with The Grave Diggers of Orpheus chapter 11, three other space faring stories from Substack writers and a poem about the Fae in...

Fáilte Welcome to The Village Oak Tree for October 30th. I am your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill. Thank you for spending a little time with me again this week. I have more news stories that may get someone's attention a little this week. This week, I have stories from Europe, the U.S. and Iceland. I have a couple of climate change news stories that we should pay attention to, some stories about weste...

This week, I review some more news stories from around the world to highlight more dysfunctional politics and war mongering from the U.S. I have several stories about corruption and how the government isn't helping its people. Sending all of its money overseas instead of helping out the hurricane victims. I have a lot to say about Israel and Ukraine today so come listen to what I have found and th...

Fáilte Welcome to The Village Oak Tree for October 16th. I am your host, Terrance Ó Domhnaill. I thank you for joining me. I thought I was going to have an interview with a former Oklahoma politician, but he ghosted me so, it's just me this week. I have a bunch of offbeat new stories that I have collected over the last week from non-mainstream news sources that tell us about a little different tak...

I bring you my interview with noted author, Steve Brigham, who wrote a book about the systematic racism prevalent throughout American society. He has served as a community engagement consultant with clients across the country, been married to an African American woman and has biracial children. This book is a call to action to address this systematic issue ingrained in North American culture and t...

I have another commentary for listeners. This time, I talk about climate change related large storms, like what is happening around the world right now, and how it is, according to climate scientists, is caused by excessive use of fossil fuels. I relate some history of the fossil fuel industry and how things got started, and delve into how the current war in the middle east could cause the world t...

This week for my normal Wednesday broadcast, I have ASM Esquire. whom I interviewed last March about his previous book about debunking the bible and other religious books. Today, we talk about his new book of poems, Love Poems for Men, and segway into politics and how that is affecting his viewpoint and his community. He is of Syrian descent, so his community is part of the Arab diaspora in the U....

This is another special edition where I recorded another conversation with my friend Mitch, who lives in Florida. The point of our lengthy conversation is to discuss the things that matter to us on a personal level that effect all of us one way or another. Whether it is climate change (we talk about hurricane Helene that just went through) the wars in the middle east, especially the recent events...

I have this wonderful discussion with Ms. Vergot about her books, her social media presence and some of her troubles with publishing her books. She is from the western part of Virginia in the United States and her books are about a young lass who aspires to be a bit of a detective. They are pretty popular with young adults. Come join us as we talk about her books and a little bit about her life as...

Cead Fáilte I finally decided to come out of hiding to air my thoughts on the affairs of the world, Or at least the ones that matter the most to existence of the human race as we know it. As usual, I run the gamut of the wars, U.S. politics, and a bit about the ongoing Covid epidemic that seems to garner little to no attention from anywhere anymore. To top things off after describing just how clos...

As mentioned previously, I am currently interviewing published book authors of fictional stories. This week, I have a somewhat short interview with a former Army Major, IT software developer, and author of four books now. His latest, The Mahdi. We talk a little bit about his background but mostly about his books. This is not one of my better interviews as this gentleman needed some assistance with...

This week, I interview an award-winning author of The Birth of the Fae series. A fantasy fiction about a whole different world and look at the Fae as we of Irish ancestry see them. She is also a noted martial artist and cosplayer. All of which she talks about in the interview, but our main focus is about the world of traditional publishing and publishing companies. This interview is eye opening fo...

Cead Fáilte Welcome back to The Village Oak Tree. In this episode I interview Mr. David Beckemeyer, who produces and hosts The Outrage Overload podcast. He is a retired tech industry professional from Silicon Valley and now interviews political experts about toxic politics in the United States. I invite everyone to listen to the interview and see how you can learn to manage the toxic politics in y...

My guest this week is a retired Marine Corp. Lieutenant Colonel, who transitioned off active duty into retirement in 2009. He had a good career and now, after a couple of other tries, has found a new calling into teaching people and businesses how to use and navigate social media. He is also very active with his local American Legion post as a Vice Commander of one of the largest and most active A...

This is just a short commentary this week about the new Monkey Pox virus strain that appears to be airborne, how Covid is not a thing of the past as the governments would have you believe, and some news from around the world you may or may not know about. I wrap things up with chapter 9 of The Priest by Michael Campi. His dystopian future United States serial story.

My scheduled guest for today had to reschedule due to an illness on his part, so I created another commentary to maintain some continuity. I picked a bunch of news and blog articles, plus I used some content from video news podcasts to offer everyone a snapshot of everything that is going on around the world and here in the U.S. There are a lot of things you might not be aware of and some you are....

This is another Sunday Edition. As I say in the opening commentary, this is a spillover of all the rest of the news that hit the wires after last Wednesday. I start with a bit about the still ongoing Covid pandemic that everyone is ignoring, politics and how they are intertwined. To wrap things up, I read another chapter from Michael Campi's dystopian future. A serialized story about what things w...

Cead Fáilte Welcome to the Village Oak Tree It's been a wild week in the world, with U.S. politics, the wars in the middle east and Ukraine and so much else. Let me bring you up to speed a little bit with some perspective from an activist point of view. I don't have any skin in the game on either side, so I call it as I see it. When I have finished scaring you, I will read you chapter 7 from my on...

Today, I present my interview with Sam, an esteemed activist and writer from Eastern Canada. She contributes articles to Medium.com and manages her own website at www.world-weary.com . Our conversation spanned topics from recent politics in Canada and the United States to environmental issues, such as the western wildfires, mining, and other international concerns. As a prominent LGBTQ+ advocate,...

This Sunday, my friend Mitch and I are back to talk about the things in the news that affect all of us one way or another right now. Everything from politics to the environment and everything in between. Our first subject is Mitch's revelation about how banks are issuing old money as if it were new bills. Is there something going on with the banks and the Federal Reserve we don't know about? The b...