Motherfoclóir
Dispatches from a not so dead language. Hosted by Darach O'Séaghdha.
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72: #72 | Falling For A Gaeilgeoir
Irish speakers are referred to in Ireland as a community, a lobby group or even a kind of secret society: a bloc of people with specific and predictable values and objectives, distinct from the mórchultúr of mainstream Irish society. This expresses itself...
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71: #71 | A Very Motherfoclóir Nollaig
It has been quite a year for the Motherfoclóir project - there's been online and offline mayhem of many categories in multiple languages. In this week's episode, Dar...
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70: #70 | "Introduction", a Reading from Craic Baby
Darach Ó Séaghdha's first book, "Motherfoclóir: Dispatches From A Not So Dead Language" was the winner of the Popular Non-Fiction award at the 2017 Irish Book Awards...
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69: #69 | Seo Ciara, Seo Ciara
As "Bliain na Gaeilge" draws to a close and we look back, one of the moments of Irish language activism that casts a long shadow is **#NílSéCGL - it's not okay**. Th...
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68: #68 | Decades of the Rosary: Ní Ghráda's "An Triail"
The golden age of Irish censorship ended in 1967 when Brian Lenihan Sr introduced a time limit on certain banning orders, leading to thousands of forbidden texts bec...
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67: #67 | Another World Altogether: Donegal Irish
The partition of Ireland in 1922 only included six of Ulster's nine counties in Northern Ireland. This led to the beautiful county of Donegal being cut off- politica...
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