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Dispatches from a not so dead language. Hosted by Darach O'Séaghdha.
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136: #136 | The Taylor & Clancy: yarn yarns
Taylor Swift broke the Irish Internet today when she wore a geansaí. It launched a thousand versions of the same joke - she looked a bit like one of the Clancy Brothers.
In today's BONUS episode we look at the history of the Aran sweater, what knit...
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135: #135 | Secrets of the Dandelion: the Scots-Gaelic Poetry of Niall O’Gallagher
Back in episode #74, Darach and Clodagh discussed Scots Gaelic in general and a book of transgressive verse called “An Leabhar Liath” in particular. One poem they sh...
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134: #134 | Quarantine Sessions 12: Sin É An Tae (with Laura Gaynor)
Tea. It’s a national obsession - just ask Irish emigrants to America about the first time they tred to get their hands on a kettle. While the infusion of tea leaves ...
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133: #133 | Quarantine Sessions 11: It’s ALIIIVE! Creating Vicipéid (with Gabriel Beecham)
Back in 2003, a schoolboy sitting at his home computer was messing around on the internet and, without fully realising it, opened a window for the Irish language. Th...
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132: #132 | Quarantine Sessions 10: Dustin’s Fifth Decade
It’s been another normal and sane week on the internet. It feels like only yesterday that we were chuckling about the Kardashians asking what the Debs was and Gucci ...
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131: #131 | Quarantine Sessions 9: Bród 2020 with Eve Belle
One of the participants in “Women in Harmony”, a charity single for Safe Ireland (which tackles domestic abuse) is Eve Belle, a singer songwriter from Donegal. While...
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