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Dispatches from a not so dead language. Hosted by Darach O'Séaghdha.
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142: #142 | [untitled game episode] with Úna-Minh Kavanagh & Sarah Griffin
Earlier this year when AOC guest starred in a Donkey Kong Twitch stream in which she declared trans rights to be human rights (while batting off criticism from greying 90s pop culture warhorses like Aaron Sorkin and Graham Linehan), it felt for many that ...
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141: #141 | I Know What You Did Last Hot Gael Summer
It's summer again. You know what that means.
In this episode, Darach, Peadar and Gearóidín look at this year's hot takes about the Irish lang...
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140: #140 | Forty Shades of Green Beer: Evolving Perceptions of Irish America with Thom Dunn
Darach chats with musician and writer Thom Dunn about how perceptions of Irish America have evolved rapidly in his and his father’s lifetimes, and what he hopes Iris...
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139: #139 | Westmoreland Who? Reappraising Dublin Street Names
If you stood on Henry Street with a big smile and asked a hundred Dubliners who it was named after, it’s unlikely you’d get a single correct answer. If you walked in...
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138: #138 | UK OK Hun? With Medb Mac Daibhead
On the week that saw the world said goodbye to civil rights hero John Hume, today’s guest and topic feel especially apt. Maev McDaid is a Derry woman in London, comp...
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137: #137 | Fadúda Fadilah – Proper and Improper Multilingualism with Fadilah Salawu
Eid al-Adha shona daoibh!
Why are some bilingual teenagers seen as a triumph of aspirational middle-class parenting, but others are treated as a problem to be ...
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