Our Divine Sparks with Dearbhail McDonald

About Our Divine Sparks with Dearbhail McDonald

Our Divine Sparks with Dearbhail McDonald offers a fresh and engaging exploration of religious and spiritual life as well as an occasionally offbeat perspective on the world of religion.

Publisher

RTÉ Radio 1

Category

religion & spirituality

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

22 Nov 2024

Latest episode

18 Apr 2025

Latest episodes

20 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   18 Apr 2025

   Epsiode 19

   1,700 years since the Council of Nicaea where fierce rivalries, power struggles, and a war of words shaped the future of Christianity. Dr. Rebecca Usherwood TCD, Kieran O’Mahony Milltown Institute and Diarmaid MacCulloch Emeritus Professor of the History of the Church at Oxford University.

2. 

   18 Apr 2025

   Episode 19

   1,700 years since the Council of Nicaea where fierce rivalries, power struggles, and a war of words shaped the future of Christianity. Dr. Rebecca Usherwood TCD, Kieran O’Mahony Milltown Institute and Diarmaid MacCulloch Emeritus Professor of the History of the Church at Oxford University.

3. 

   28 Mar 2025

   Episode 18

   The fist millennial saint Carlo Acutis - Fr. Michael Collins. Siofra Mulqueen reports on the mystery of the moving statues 40 years on. Religion thriving against the odds - theologian and Vatican advisor Prof. Anna Rowlands. Pádraig O Tuama pens his memory of Ballinspittle 1985.

Reach and audience

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YouTube views

373,663,812

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Podcast Authority Score: 57 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

78

Social presence

0

YouTube

93

Engagement

0

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Guest appearances

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