Motherfoclóir
Dispatches from a not so dead language. Hosted by Darach O'Séaghdha.
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36: #36 | A Right Article: Article 8 of Bunreacht na hÉireann
The number 8 is full of mystery in the Irish language. There's the "hateful eight" letters that were added in the 20th century. There's a Eighth Amendment, which you may have heard of. And then there's Article 8 of Bunreacht na hÉireann.
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35: #35 | Citation Needed – Updating Vicipéid
This week Darach is in London on Motherfoclóir business and is broadcasting from the British Library at Kings Cross rather than the HeadStuff studios. This setting i...
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34: #34 | Mots, Spanners and the Round System
"Are we all just characters in a Roddy Doyle Facebook status?"
Dublin City's official motto is Obedientia Civium Urbis Felicitas - obedient citizens, happy city. ...
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33: #33 | Langers, Gowls and our Oral Tradition
Today's episode is a game of two halves. In part one Darach chats to Jody Coogan about certain articles of Hiberno-English slang (specifically, Munster slang) and th...
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32: #32 | Once Upon An Island: Old Ireland, Old Irish
"Languages are like ogres; they have layers".
Éimear Duffy knows a thing or two about Ireland and Irish in the rare aul' times (specifically the 7th to 9th centur...
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31: #31 | See Ya Later, Machine Translator
Teresa Lynn is a computational linguist who specialises in technology and Irish language. She visits Darach, Gearóidín and Ola on today's episode to defend machine t...
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