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Dispatches from a not so dead language. Hosted by Darach O'Séaghdha.
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177: #177 | Let’s Start With Komets-Alef: Learning About Yiddish With Meena & Arun Viswanath
Recently, Yiddish became the fortieth language to join Duolingo, an achievement that followed hot on the heels of Harry Potter being translated into Yiddish. And would you believe that a brother and sister were responsible for these separate accomplishmen...
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176: #176 | BONUS: Irish Sign Language with Caroline McGrotty
Watch this episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsORJSesv48
In 2017, Irish Sign Language (ISL)...
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175: #175 | Up The Lagan In A Bubble: Line of Duty and the Irish Cop Trope
Jesus, Mary and Joseph and the Wee Donkey.
Everyone is hooked on “Line of Duty” at the moment, the latest reinvention of the cop show genre - and, fittingly, a...
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174: #174: Ceci N'est Pas Une Gickna – Louise Selkies Ní Chuilinn
When he’s not beavering away at this very podcast, Darach does a bit of work with the Irish Arts Center in New York as part of their word of the week project. This a...
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173: #173 | The Bramble: Oein De Bhairduin
There’s a song in the Mincéir tradition (made famous among settled audiences by Luke Kelly) called the 40 Foot Trailer which ends with the line
“There's a byla...
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172: #172 | By The Banks of My Own Orinoco: The Wonderful World of @EnyaComments
One of the finest new accounts to join Twitter during the pandemic has been @EnyaComments, a deceptively simple twitter handle that shares comments written under Eny...
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