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Dispatches from a not so dead language. Hosted by Darach O'Séaghdha.
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165: #165 | To Claim The Emerald
In Thin Lizzy's tune Emerald, Phil Lynott tells a tale of marching men who wish to overthrow overlords, fighting a fight they believe to be right. But they bring horrible destruction in their pursuit of this goal - children never playing again, for exampl...
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164: #164 | May The Forts Be With You – Sinéad Mercier on Ringforts & Fairy Forts
We've spoken about fairy forts before. However, in the context of our recent discussion of placenames and bearing in mind the widespread incidences of Ráth and Lios ...
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163: #163 | An Ace Up Your Sliabh: Recurring Styles in Placenames Pt. 3
Could the word slíbhín - a sly, sneaky so-and-so - possibly come from the word sliabh, meaning a mountain? Are mountain folk really that cunning, or do the people fr...
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162: #162 | Inis or Oileán? Recurring Styles in Placenames Pt. 2
When is an island an Inis and when is it an Oileán?
In the second of our look at recurring words in Irish placenames, Darach, Gearóidín and Peadar consider isl...
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161: #161 | Cill or Coill? Recurring Styles in Placenames Pt. 1
A lot of placenames in Ireland begin with Kil-. Sometimes this is a reference to a church, sometimes it refers to a woodland. Sometimes both. What's going on? Did th...
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160: #160 | Cliquebait: Gaeilge & Internet Subcultures
2021 has gotten off to a fairly spicy start and yet again the spotlight has been shone on online communities in light of events in America But what makes one communi...
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