Emmet Spiceland has been played on NTS shows including Supporter Radio: Your Specialist Subject, with Mary From Dungloe first played on 28 December 2024.

The Emmet Spiceland was a band formed when brothers Brian and Michael Byrne of The Spiceland Folk Group joined forces with Donal Lunny, Brian Bolger and Mick Moloney's Emmet Folk Group around 1968.

The Emmet Spiceland hold a special place in Irish music history as the first of their kind, bringing what was, at the time, a modern sound, to the previously stiff and conservative national airwaves. They were known for beautiful harmonies, pin-up good looks, mod dress sense and previously unheard…