Motherfoclóir
Dispatches from a not so dead language. Hosted by Darach O'Séaghdha.
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154: #154 | A Great Bunch Of Lads? Info-tainment and the Great Man Theory of History
The Irish for chess is ficheall (wood wisdom).
A gambit is fiontar….
Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it, or so they say. But what do we learn when we learn history? How do we interpret the change in...
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153: #153 | Ghosts and Dark Flames: Doireann Ní Ghríofa
She's the woman of the moment: after a sequence of acclaimed and award-winning poetry collections in both Irish and English, Clare poet Doireann Ní Ghríofa has deliv...
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152: #152 | Meet-Cutes and Cute Hoors – Ireland and the Hollywood Rom-Com
The romantic comedy, as we understand it, is a Hollywood form as specifically American as the Western, especially in how it shapes and exports America’s image of its...
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151: #151 | After The Silent Letters: Louise O’Neill
Louise O’Neill, Clonakilty’s literary superstar, has never been content to limit her phenomenal writing skills to a single genre. Her latest work, “After The Silence...
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150: #150 | Hallowe’en Special 2020 – Is Maith Sin, Pumpkin
It’s that time of the year again when Darach, Gearóidín and Peadar turn out the lights, hold torches under their chins and tell spooky stories from around Ireland.
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149: #149 | Dolphin De Siècle
Keep Ithaka always in your mind.
Arriving there is what you’re destined for.
But don’t hurry the journey at all.
Better if it lasts fo...
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