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Dispatches from a not so dead language. Hosted by Darach O'Séaghdha.
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130: #130 | Quarantine Sessions 8: Plastic Fantastic! 2nd+ Generation Irish Identities in the UK with Niamh Lear
Most of us have a very clear idea of what an Irish American is and have an overview of the community's journey from the Famine to the White House. The Irish community in Britain is a different and far more complicated story, however. And since 2016, it ha...
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129: #129 | Quarantine Sessions 7: Úna vs. The Kingdom of Belgium
Meet John Hyland, an Irish NGO worker whose career took him to Brussels where he fell in love with a French woman. A perfect European love story which led, as these ...
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128: #128 | Quarantine Sessions 6: Ollscoil nó Ól-scoil? The Irish Campus Novel
This week saw the final episode of Normal People, the hit TV show based on Sally Rooney’s novel set in Trinity College. Rooney’s book is just the latest in Ireland’s...
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127: #127 | Quarantine Sessions 5: Manic Culchie Meme Girl
Friend of the pod Póilín Ní Géidigh (@poilination) is back on the show! Since she last joined us (in one of 2019’s most popular episodes of the show) she has taken u...
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126: #126 | Quarantine Sessions 4: At Swim Two Tongues
The Irish for bilingual is dátheangach, which literally means two tongued. When Clodagh McGinley isn’t contributing to this podcast, sneaking off to be a guest on ot...
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125: #125 | Quarantine Sessions 3: Amhrán na Fíon (with Shamim De Brún)
Ireland’s relationship with wine is unusual - we drink a lot of it but we do not produce it ourselves, and historically we fall between the stools of Europe and the ...
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