Nicky Rossiter writes on local history and general interest for numerous newspapers, magazines and journals in Ireland. He operates a ~website dedicated to Wexford and its history, and he was a founder of Wexford Youth Theatre, which performed many of his plays on stage and radio. He presents a radio series on Ireland's South East Radio called Stories, which combines lesser-known folk tracks with local history pieces. This programme runs on Mondays from June to November at 7 p.m. British Summer Time and can be heard on webcast. He is contactable via e-mail for comments or requests for the programmes.

Reviews by Nicky include: Tom Adler & Co. • Sweet Nell: New Old-Time Tunes Chloe Agnew • Chloe Alternate Roots • Branching Out Amarillis • Waltzing in the Trees And Did Those Feet • Hymn for a Glad Tomorrow • Spirit of the Age Eric Andersen • The Street was Always There: Great American Song Series, Vol. 1 Anderson-Gram • Where It All Begins Rick Andersen • Little Fish Artisan • Wings Steve Ashley • Speedy Return Maggie Austin • Time & Again Kevin Ayers & the Wizards of Twiddly • Turn the Lights Down Angelo Badalamenti • Secretary Banshee in the Kitchen • Catching the Mooncoin, with Brenda Hunter Les Barker • Guide Cats for the Blind Barra • Eternal Magus Harriet Bartlett • Eyes Wide Open Geoff Bartley • Blues Beneath the Surface Alan Bell • The Definitive Collection Hilary Bell • Breaking All the Rules Martyn Bennett • Glen Lyon Billi & Patti • Love & Other Four Letter Words Blaike • Just Taste It Eric Bogle • By Request • The Colour of Dreams • The Emigrant & The Exile, with John Munro • I Wrote This Wee Song • Mirrors • Singing the Spirit Home Gary Brewer & the Kentucky Ramblers • Home Brew Billy & Bryn Bright • self-titled Mark Brine • Fortunes: The Best of Mark Brine Allette Brooks • Swim with Me Brother • I You You Me Karaugh Brown • One Round Orange Brule • One Nation: A Tribal Gathering of Voices Peter Bruntnell • Ends of the Earth Cagley, Black, Schaefer & Njoes • Friends in Music Gary Callahan • After the Rain • Death on the Ice , with Plain & Simple Leah Callahan • Even Sleepers Candlewyck • Candlewyck Acie Cargill & the Stone in the Shoes Band • In the Willow Garden Johnny Cash • Cash Unearthed Sandy Cash • Exact Change CC Railroad • Black Horse Motel The Celebrated Renaissance Band • Real Live American Music The Chieftains • Another Country Anthony John Clarke • An Acquaintance of Mine • Man with a Red Guitar Phil Cody • Big Slow Mover Joan Coffey • Everybody Needs One Colcannon • Dolphin Bay • The Eureka Suite • Journeys • Step It Out Judy Collins • Maids & Golden Apples Kevin Collins • Jump In & Swim • This is My Home Andy Cooney • Galway Shawl Darryl & Dallas Cornell • Glass Door Tricia Corrigan • A Different Kind of Beautiful The Cottars • On Fire Courage • The Way Out is Via the Door Eamonn Coyne • Through the Round Window Crooked Still • Hop High Joe Crookston • Fall Down as the Rain Cry Havoc • The English Folk Dance Project: Cotswold Series, Vol. 1 - The Music of Cry Havoc Tony Cuffe • Sae Will We Yet David Culiner • Onward The Cumberlands • Bridging the Gap Walden Dahl • self-titled Darby O'Gill • Christmas Teaser • Irish Christmas Rollick Michael DeAngelis • Son of a Dunigan DeDannan • Jacket of Batteries Michael Delalla • Soli Brigitte DeMeyer • Another Thousand Miles Jesse DeNatale • Shangri-La West Tim Dennehy • Between the Mountains & the Sky • The Blue Green Door Dervish • Spirit Devon • Long Sleeve Story Skirm & Dezi Donnelly • Welcome: Live in Hamburg Donnybrook • You're Standing in My Light Donovan • Beat Cafe Jill Dornan • For the Love of Song Geraldine & Danny Doyle • Emigrant Eyes Drinkers Drought with Davy Steele • A Tribute The Dubliners • Finnegan Wakes • Thirty Years a Greying Judith Edelman • Drama Queen Mark Elliott • American Road Julie Ellison • At Last Frank Emerson • Safe in the Harbour Tim Eriksen • Every Sound Below Steven B. Eulberg • Holy Mountain Jack Evans • Once Upon a Time in the North Amy Fairchild • Live Fairport Convention • XXXV Kam Falk • Native Tongue Jane Fallon • Faces The Fenians • Every Day's a Hooley Ffynnon • Celtic Music from Wales Fiddlers Bid • Naked & Bare Fiddlers 3 • Encore Rick Fielding • Lifeline Figgy Duff • Weather Out the Storm Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer • Postcards David Fiorenza • Tan, Rested & Ready Fire in the Glen • Pirates, Wakes & Whiskey Archie Fisher & Garnet Rogers • Off the Map Tommy Fleming • The Contender Flook • Rubai Louise Ford • Heroes & Angels Jeffrey Foucault • Miles From the Lightning Four Men & a Dog • Maybe Tonight Four Shillings Short • The Boggy Spew Simon Fox • Night Fishing Amy Fradon • Small Town News Alasdair Fraser & Natalie Haas • Fire & Grace Alasdair Fraser, Muriel Johnstone & Natalie Haas • Legacy of the Scottish Fiddle, Vol. 2 Mara Freeman • Celtic Spirit Meditations Eamon Friel • The Waltz of the Years (EP) • The Waltz of the Years • Word of Spring Dick Gaughan • Prentice Piece Deborah Gee • Portal Georgian Contemporary Unit • The View You Never Get Colleen Geraghty • Deep Ravines Melissa Gibson • Welcome to Stay Eliza Gilkyson • Land of Milk & Honey Joe Giltrap • The Bravest, with Tom Paxton • Distant Memories • Irish Charmer • The Mountains of Mourne • The Soldiers Tree Give Way • Full Steam Ahead James Gordon • Endomusia Annie Grace • Take Me Out Drinking Tonight Red Grammer • Soul Man in a Techno World Greenhouse • One Last Cold Kiss The Green House Band • Mirage Greenland Whalefishers • Loboville Charlotte Greig • Down in the Valley Nanci Griffith • Once in a Very Blue Moon Mick Hanly • Free to Run • Wish Me Well Frank Harte • Dublin Street Songs Through Dublin City Lis Harvey • Topography Joe Heaney • The Road from Connemara Seamus Heaney & Liam O'Flynn • The Poet & The Piper Ingrid Heldt • Love Matters Hamish Henderson • A' the Bairns o' Adam The Henry Girls • Between Us Hesperus • The Food of Love Bill Hicks • The Perfect Gig Leigh Hilger • Casting Shadows Donal Hinely • We Built a Fire Janet Holmes • The Road to the West The Holmes Brothers • Righteous! Ian & Sylvia • The Complete Vanguard Studio Recordings Shane Jackman • Equilibrium Hilary James, with Simon Mayor • Laughing with the Moon Sue Jeffers • Welcome Home Michael Jerling • Little Movies Jock Tamson's Bairns • Rare The Johnstons • The Transatlantic Years Bill Jones • Two Year Winter Bill Jones, Aoife Clancy & Anne Hills • Faire Winds Live Christine Kane • Rain & Mud & Wild & Green Kevin Kane • Blind Man Lucy Kaplansky • The Red Thread Alan Kelly • Quiet Lives of Consequence • The Rest of the Country Alan & John Kelly • Fourmilehouse Lisa Kelly • Lisa Keltik Electrik • Hotel Kaledonia The Kinleys • Just Between You & Me Shona Kipling & Damien O'Kane • Pure Chance Terry Kitchen • Right Now Richard Koechli • Blue Celtic Mystery Ron Korb • Celtic Heartland K-Passa • The Morning After...? Sonja Kristina • Songs from the Acid Folk Kris Kristofferson • Kristofferson Robin Laing • The Water of Life Lancaster County Prison • Every Goddamn Time Josh Lederman y Los Diablos • It's a Long & Lonely Time Until the Train Will Bring You Home Noel Lenaghan • No Trouble at All Lenahan • Contrary Motion: Lenahan Plays Acoustic Jenn Lindsay • Fired • Gotta Lotta Little Rock • self-titled Local Exchange • Because He Lives Jez Lowe & the Bad Pennies • Doolally • Live at the Davy Lamp Jez Lowe & Jake Walton • Two a Roue Carole & Teresa Lundgren with Steve Eulberg • Random Acts of Fiddling Bill Lyerly • Requiem Mess Jimmy Macbeath • Tramps & Hawkers Mickey MacConnell • Joined Up Writing • Peter Pan & Me Geraldine MacGowan & Friends • Timeless Kevin Macleod & Alec Finn • Polbain to Oranmore Catherine-Ann MacPhee • Suil Air Ais (Looking Back) Mad Agnes • Magic Hour Sandy Madaris • Way Back Home Mad Dogs & Englishmen • Going Down with Alice Rylee Madison • The Life of Rylee Magic Car • Yellow Main Sequence Malinky • 3 Ravens Tom Mank & Sera Jane Smolen • Conversations in Waves Marblemouth • Gasoline Katie Marie • Been Here Before Jed Marum • Fighting Tigers of Ireland • Miles from Home • Soul of a Wanderer The Mavericks • self-titled Simon Mayor & Hilary James • Duos • Lullabies with Mandolin The McCabes • Whatever Makes You Tick Nancy McCallion & the Mollys • Trouble The McCalmans • Where the Sky Meets the Sea Lydia McCauley • The Beauty of the Earth • The Moon of Wintertime Laurie McClain • The Trumpet Vine: A Tribute to Kate Wolf Tommy McClennan • Cross Cut Saw: The Complete Recordings 1940-1942 Lisa McCormick • Mystery Girl Kate McDonnell • Don't Get Me Started Eleanor McEvoy • Special Edition Johnny McEvoy • Going to California Matt McGinn • The Best of Matt McGinn, Vol. 2 Patrick McKeown • Passing By Andrew McKnight • Turning Pages Tony McManus & Alain Genty • Singing Sands Rob McNurlin • Lonesome Valley Again Meav • Silver Sea Memarie • self-titled Misty River • Live at the Backgate Stage Joe Monaghan • All the Roadside Stops The Monks of Glenstal Abbey • Biscantorat: Sound of the Spirit Christy Moore • The Box Set 1964-2004 • King Puck • Ride On • Unfinished Revolution Randy Moore & the Fabulous Deltones • Randy Moore & the Fabulous Deltones Frank Morey • Cold in Hand Bill Morrissey • The Essential Collection Josephine Mulvenna • Spirit of the Song Peter Mulvey • Ten Thousand Mornings David Munnelly • By Heck Mutiny Gone Overboard • self-titled Gary Myrick • Waltz of the Scarecrow King Ray Naylor • Slow Cooker Holly Near & Ronnie Gilbert • Lifeline Extended Rick Neeley • General Merchandise, with John Cavalier & Marc Edelstein Steve Nelson • Listen What the Katmandu New Middle Class • self-titled Nollaig • Under a Pale Moon Bob Norman • Romantic Nights on the Upper West Side North Cregg • Summer at My Feet Dan Oakenhead • Sky Geezer Gen Obata • Better Off On the Run Tim O'Brien • Two Journeys Erin O'Bryan • Walk with the Saints The Occasionals • Reel of Four Robbie O'Connell • Never Learned to Dance John O'Connor • My Ireland Sean O'Driscoll & Larry Egan • The Kitchen Recordings Billy O'Dwyer • I'll See You Tonight in My Dreams • The Time Has Come Dessie O'Halloran • The Pound Road Ola • The Animals Are in the West Open Hand • The Later Stages of Now Patrick Street • Street Life Tom Paxton • Best of Friends, with Anne Hills & Bob Gibson • Looking for the Moon Erik Pekkari • Gubbstot Al Petteway • Caledon Wood • Whispering Stones Bruce Piephoff • Good People • Hard Times for Dreamers Pig's Eye Landing • Like Water from a Mountain Stream Pinmonkey • Speak No Evil The Poozies • Changed Days, Same Roots Shane MacGowan & the Popes • The Rare Oul Stuff Julie Powell • Heart of a Woman Christopher Prim • Number One The Prodigals • Go On Providence • A Fig for a Kiss • self-titled Darryl Purpose • A Crooked Line Quietly Spinning Man • Inside Out Mary Rafferty • Hand Me Downs Dave Ramont • Scrawny Dale Rasmussen • Raven's Wing Reckless Kelly • Wicked Twisted Road Jim Reid • Yont the Tay John Reischman & the Jaybirds • self-titled Russ Rentler • Acoustic Minstrel The Steve Riley Band • Miles from Nowhere Davie Robertson • Star o' the Bar Eric Roche • Spin Marie Roche • Roomfull of Noise Quillan Roe • These First Few Months Brian Roebuck • A Song for Luke Clarelynn Rose • Meadow Run Stacie Rose • Shadow & Splendor Tim Rose • The London Sessions 1978-1998 Joe Ross & Janet Naylor • The Harper's Reverie: Irish Music of Turlough O'Carolan Runrig • Day of Days: The 30th Anniversary Concert Kate Rusby • Underneath the Stars The Rusticators • self-titled • Talking with the Dead Cathie Ryan • Somewhere Along the Road Pete St. John • James Joyce Lives On Mark Sallings & the Famous Unknowns • Talkin' to Myself Salsa Celtica • El Agua de La Vida Ben Sands • Better Already • Roots & Branches • Take Your Time Colum Sands • All My Winding Journeys • The Note That Lingers On Jenny & Martin Schaub • Kite High Bobby Seals • Time Machine Peggy Seeger • Love Call Me Home Jason Shain • Here I Am Andy Shanks & Jim Russell • Diamonds in the Night Eleanor Shanley • Another Day's Journey, with Ivan Leparr • self-titled The Sheiling • The Shape I'm In Shirae • Tiger's Island Shoormal • Migrant Richard Shulman • Camelot Reawakened: A Vision Fulfilled Sirens • Smilin' James Scott Skinner • The Strathspey King Slainte Mhath • VA Darden Smith • Circo Doug B. Smith • Diving for Pearls Laura Smith • B'tween the Earth and My Soul Todd Snider • East Nashville Skyline Michael Snow • The Rats & the Rosary Solomon • Not Life Threatening Lenny Solomon • Armando's Pie La Sonera Calaveras • Numero Uno Stairheid Gossip • Stirring it Up Raiford Starke • Speak Me Steeleye Span • Sails of Silver Wendy Stewart • Standing Wave Chris Stout • First o' the Darkenin' John Tams • Unity The Tap Room Trio • self-titled Meg Tennant • Driving with You Terra Folk • StereoFolk Live Martha Tilston • Bimbling Steve Tilston • Songs from the Dress Rehearsal • Such & Such Tom & Lori • Reflections The Toronto Consort • Mariners & Milkmaids Toss the Feathers • Rude Awakening Two Time Polka • The Very Best of Two Time Polka Sean Tyrrell • Belladonna • Cry of a Dreamer • Man for Galway: The Best of Sean Tyrrell • Rising Tide Niall & Cillian Vallely • Callan Bridge various artists • Auld Lang Syne • Bah Humbug • Before Their Time: Memorial Songs & Music, Vol. II • Bluegrass #1s: A Collection of Chart-Topping Songs • Celtic Love Songs • Celtic Spirit • Celtic Voyager: Tales of the Traveller • Cold Blow These Winter Winds • Diamond Mountain Sessions presents... • Drag Lines: New Irish Traditions • Dressed in Black: A Tribute to Johnny Cash • Drop the Debt • Ernie: Songs of Ernest Noyes Brookings • EverSound Expressions, Vol. 2 • Gaelic Women • Gentle Giants • If I Had a Song: The Songs of Pete Seeger, Vol. 2 • The Irish Folk Festival '02: A Blast from the Past • Johnny's Blues: A Tribute to Johnny Cash • The King Has Landed • Live at the Talbot • Lonesome, On'ry & Mean: A Tribute to Waylon Jennings • McCalman Singular • Mondo Platinum • Music & Song of Scotland • People on the Highway: A Bert Jansch Encomium • Pierre's Plastic Dreams • Practically Every Day • The Rough Guides Collection • Ruby Sessions • Scots Women • Scottish Women • Seeds: The Songs of Pete Seeger, Vol. 3 • Third Grand Concert of Piping • A Twenty Five Year Legacy • The Wildlife Album Varner Lynch • Worlds Away: Tales of Time & Travels Patsy Watchorn • Hearts on Fire Sheena Wellington • Hamely Fare Eric Westbury • Walking Tracks West of Eden • A Stupid Thing to Do The Wexford Boys • Seems Like Only Yesterday Gavin Whelan • Gavin Whelan The Whisky Priests • Here Come the Ranting Lads -- Live! White House • self-titled Steve Wildey • Little Man Jim Williams • One Star Wolfe Bros. • Old Roads & New Journeys • 2001 -- An Old-Time Odyssey Beth Wood • Marigolds • You Take the Wheel The Woods Band • Music from the Four Corners of Hell Ina May Wool • Crack It Open Luther Wright & the Wrongs • Guitar Pickin' Martyrs Leith Anderson • Jesus: An Intimate Portrait of the Man, His Land & His People Duck Baker, Stefan Grossman & John Renbourn • Celtic Melodies for Fingerpicking Guitar David Baldacci • Split Second Blanche Caldwell Barrow • My Life with Bonnie & Clyde Chrissie Blaze • Mercury Retrograde Sinclair Browning • Feathers Brush My Heart Rosanne Cash, editor • Songs Without Rhyme Liam Clancy • The Mountain of the Women: Memoirs of an Irish Troubadour Anthony John Clarke • The Songs of Anthony John Clarke Michael Connelly • Chasing the Dime Lisle Crowley • Easy Celtic Solos for Fingerstyle Guitar Winnie Czulinski • Drone On: The High History of Celtic Music Jack Dann & Gardner Dozois, editors • Future Crimes Dan Gelo • Fiddle Tunes & Irish Music for Guitar Mick Hanly • Wish Me Well Colin Harper & Trevor Hodgett • Irish Folk, Trad & Blues: A Secret History Colin Irwin • In Search of the Craic: One Man's Pub Crawl Through Irish Music Carl Jensen, editor • Stories that Changed America Marvin Kaye, editor • The Vampire Sextette Paul Kearney • Ships from the West Jay Ladin • Alternatives to History Jimmy MacCarthy • Ride On Mary McLaughlin • Singing in Irish Gaelic Ron Miller • Bradamant: The Iron Tempest (audio) Christy Moore • One Voice: My Life in Song David Morrell • Long Lost Don Mullan • Eyewitness Bloody Sunday: The Truth Rosie O'Donnell • Find Me Tony Robinson • The Worst Jobs in History June Skinner Sawyers • Celtic Music: A Complete Guide Jerry Silverman & Wayne Ebersen • Ballads & Songs of the Civil War Carol Stober • Love Songs for Autoharp Matthew Sweet • Inventing the Victorians Pints, Pounds & Pilgrims The Shane MacGowan Story: If I Should Fall from Grace Eric Bogle & John Munroe Hanley, McCarthy & Sinnott Pierce Turner