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Dispatches from a not so dead language. Hosted by Darach O'Séaghdha.
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#6 | The Letter A
The letter A (and her saucy sister, Á) are the subject of today’s episode, a pronunciation masterclass with Darach, Peadar, Éimear and Ola . We’ll be meeting cats, boats, cakes, bad weather, terrible puns and showing you where a fada makes all the differe...
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#5 | The Irish for Passport
The Irish for Passport is pas, which can also mean an episode in time or a fit (of rage or madness, for example).
This week Darach is joined by journalist Naomi O...
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#4 | Brehon vs Bunreacht: Family Law
The power of words touches all our lives, never more urgently than when those words form laws. In the first of an ongoing series, Darach talks to Eimear (Brehon Bada...
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#3 | Surname/HerName
Surnames, a relatively recent invention, are done differently from language to language. In Irish, conventions exist to include gender and marital status identifiers...
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#2 | Google Translate
The computers are coming after our jobs – are translators next?
It’s a piece of technology straight out of science fiction – a website tool that translates text b...
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#1 | The Letter V
The People Vs. The Letter V
The traditional Irish alphabet had 18 letters, but in the 20th century, there was a gradual thawing of attitudes to the other eight, s...
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