Motherfoclóir
Dispatches from a not so dead language. Hosted by Darach O'Séaghdha.
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78: #78 | Turning Over a New Líofa: Fluency is a Whatchamacallit
Gearóidín and Peadar discuss the idea of fluency. Can you really be fluent? Even if you know literally all the words? Gearóidín and Peadar can communicate in Finnish and French respectively by shrugging and being rude, but that doesn't indicate fluency. A...
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77: #77 | A Rose By Any Other F**king Name
Darach is on leave, so Gearóidín takes the hot seat as the gang are joined by a special guest. Brianna Parkins was the Sydney Rose in 2016 and when she took the stag...
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76: #76 | Irish Blood, Gaelic Heart: Nazis, Britpop and Jamie Oliver
Darach is back in studio this week, as he and Peadar begin the podcast by discussing the rising trend of Alt-Right Twitter trolls attempting to weaponise the Irish l...
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75: #75 | Class Clown: #WhyIrish and Motherfoclóir Duolingo Clubs
Where's Darach? He's not in the studio today, so Éimear and Gearóidín are running riot, throwing paper aeroplanes across the Headstuff classroom and talking loudly.
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74: #74 | Tossing the Caber: "An Leabhar Liath", a pre-introduction to Scots Gaelic
Ireland and Scotland have a lot in common, and this is especially true of Irish and Scots Gaelic. Students of Irish could make a decent stab at the meanings of thous...
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73: #73 | Losing the Plot – Cré na Cille
It is fitting that a book set in a cemetery has come to be known as the graveyard of translators. Máirtín Ó Cadhain’s masterpiece Cré na Cille was described in the N...
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