Motherfoclóir
Dispatches from a not so dead language. Hosted by Darach O'Séaghdha.
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54: #54 | Midlands Mayhem: Motherfoclóir at Electric Picnic
The Irish for Stradbally is an tSráidbhaile, which means village (or street-town if you want to be very literal about it). For a weekend at the end of summer every year, Stradbally hosts the Electric Picnic festival and this year the Motherfoclóir Podcast...
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53: #53 | Polar Béarla
The breakthrough star of Irish twitter in 2018 must surely be @ruthiefizz – while other tweeters have hurled poorly-cogitated stock arguments at each other, her “Oth...
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52: #52 | Passing The Collection Plate: Papal Taxes in Medieval Ireland
The Irish for tax is cáin… not to be confused with caoin, which is crying. In life the two great certainties are death and taxes, which is fitting given that many fo...
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51: #51 | Pumpaí/Dancing at the Crossroads
Michael Flatley has been in the news again with his new film “Blackbird” (possibly named for an Irish set dance) and his questionable choice of followed Twitter acco...
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50: #50 | Unconditional Love: The Modh Coinníollach
**"If I were a boy /Even just for a day /I’d roll outta bed in the morning /And throw on what I wanted and go"**
**Beyoncé Knowles, If I Were A Boy, 2007**
Wel...
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49: #49 | And Off With She – Tara Flynn & Peig Sayers
"Peig passes the Bechdel Test".
Sparklingly witty, unfailingly honest, sometimes misunderstood and with a grá for the Gaeilge, Tara Flynn and Peig Sayers are two ...
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