Motherfoclóir
200 episodes - English - Latest episode: 6 months ago - ★★★★★ - 156 ratingsDispatches from a not so dead language. Hosted by Darach O'Séaghdha and The Irish For… @theirishfor (https://twitter.com/Motherfocloir) Follow the show on twitter @motherfocloir or email us at [email protected]
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Back From The Dead: Translating Transylvania
October 27, 2023 10:54 - 1 hourWith thanks to the Bram Stoker Festival, the Motherfoclóir Podcast was resurrected for one afternoon in October 2022 to discuss the translation of Dracula into Irish by Seán Ó Cuirreáin. In this recording of last year's live show Darach is joined by Peadar and Siún as they consider the different motives of the politicians who commissioned the translation and the writer asked to carry out the work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Introducing | Words To That Effect
March 14, 2022 14:46 - 32 minutesMotherfocloir is part of the HeadStuff Podcast Network and there are lots of other shows on the network we think you might like. Words To That Effect is a show that tells stories of the fiction behind popular culture and if you're a fan of Motherfocloir we think there's a very good chance you'll like this show too. Here's a full episode, all about the history of dragons in fiction and popular culture. Enjoy! For more, and all the eps of Words To That Effect, go to HeadStuffPodcasts.com Lea...
186: #186 | Last Orders - The Residents' Bar
September 02, 2021 23:00 - 1 hourThank you for your support over the last four years. Thank you for inviting us into your headphones and into your head. We hope you enjoyed it as much as we did. Thank you to Brian and Kirsten for making each episode look and sound amazing. Thank you to Éimear, Clodagh, Caitlín, Siún and Ola, and all the members of the extended Motherfoclóir family. Thank you to our guests for teaching us so much. Much love to anyone who sent us messages of encouragement. Go raibh míle maith agaibh. ...
BONUS | Amy Louise O'Callaghan and the Irish Arts Center NYC
August 28, 2021 09:50 - 36 minutesIf you follow Darach's Word of the Week project with the Irish Arts Center in New York, you'll have seen the artwork of Amy Louise O'Callaghan - @amylouioc on Twitter, Instagram and Etsy - who reimagines Irish mythology in the style of Japanese animation house Studio Ghibli. More recently she has reimagined the iconography of tarot cards using well-known tales and characters from Irish mythology. She chats to Darach about her influences, her work process, her interest in Japan and her favouri...
185: #185 | Last Orders - The Grass Beard: Finn Longman and Queer Readings of An Táin
August 26, 2021 23:00 - 49 minutesJoin us for the final episode of Motherfoclóir, live on Zoom tonight: https://www.patreon.com/posts/55377967 --- Every artistic/visual representation of Cúchulainn presents him as a hulking, ultra-masculine figure. But is this interpretation justified by the text? In the Táin, Cúchulainn is frequently described as a small lad, girly in some ways, a person who has to change his appearance to present as a "normal man" but does not wear this disguise when he does not have to. In today's epis...
184: #184 | Last Orders - Motherfoclóir Meets Blindboy
August 19, 2021 23:00 - 1 hourThe re-release of Professor Terence Dolan's Dictionary of Hiberno-English didn't happen by accident, but was nudged into existence by a writer who also happens to be one of the most seminal and relevant voices in Irish podcasting. And he's our guest this week! Before we folded the podcast forever, we are delighted to bring you this conversation between Darach and Blindboy Boatclub, one half of the Rubber bandits and author of two collections of short stories. Blindboy talks to Darach about ...
183: #183 | Last Orders - 32 Shades of Salach: Romance Novels with Róisín McNally
August 12, 2021 23:00 - 59 minutesIn terms of literary prestige, romance novels don't get no respect, ranking lower than sports biographies and screenplay novelisations on the scale of respectability - according to people who don't read them, anyway. But what about people who do? Since Covid, sales of romance novels have shot through the roof, largely on account of the #BookTok hashtag on Tiktok. And one of #BookTok's stars joins us on today's episode. You might remember Róisín McNally from episode #122 - she's back to tell...
182: #182 | Last Orders - Seven Deadly Letters - J, K, Q, W, X, Y, Z
August 05, 2021 23:00 - 58 minutesFour years ago we started this podcast off with a discussion of the letter V. There’s been much water under the bridge since then and while we always meant to give the other seven “forbidden” letters their own episode, there was always something a bit more urgent to attend to. Like translating smutty novels and so forth. But on today’s episode, Dr McEvoy and Mayor Pete assist Darach in a whistle stop tour of the letters J, K, Q, W, X, Y and Z. Where do they come from and what do they want? ...
181: #181 | Last Orders - Parenting Is An Irregular Verb - Séamas Ó Reilly
July 29, 2021 23:00 - 46 minutesEverybody is talking about Twitter sensation Séamas Ó Reilly and his hilarious yet moving memoir "Did You Hear Mammy Died?" And rightly so - it's a sensational telling of a remarkable story of a boy with ten siblings losing his mother far too young and being reared by one of the most memorable Irish Dads in the history of memoir. Can a movie be far behind? Séamas didn't just appear out of nowhere, of course, and between his Rush Hour Crush skits, his infamous anti-capitalist satirical pran...
180: #180 | Last Orders - Diabhal Scéal
July 22, 2021 23:00 - 57 minutesWhen we say that a child is full of divilment, are we saying that they are possessed by Satan? No, we are not. In today's episode, Darach, Gearóidín and Peadar consider the concept of the devil in the Irish language. Why does diabhal scéal (devil a story) mean no story? What's the deal with the devil being buried in Killarney? Were politicians aware of the term Taoiseach An Bháis (Lord of Death) when the term Taoiseach was chosen to mean Irish Prime Minister? And with all these terms, how m...
179: #179 | Last Orders - Créatúrs, Sliabhíns & Digressions
July 15, 2021 23:00 - 51 minutesWell, it couldn't last forever; Motherfoclóir will be ending forever before this autumn. Before we go on our separate ways, we'd like to bring you some topics and guests that we always meant to, but put on the long finger because we wanted "do more prep" or "wait until X was available" or some other excuse. Anyway, there's no time to procrastinate anymore… First up, our Gearóidín tells Darach all about her PhD thesis in advance of a viva. What's a viva? What's a thesis? We will explain. Gear...
Teaser | Darach Meets ... The Europeans!
June 04, 2021 13:40 - 13 minutesDarach chats to Katy and Dominic, the hosts of popular podcast "The Europeans". To hear the full episode and much more visit https://www.patreon.com/darach The Europeans podcast can be found at https://europeanspodcast.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
179: #179 Teaser | Darach Meets ... The Europeans!
June 04, 2021 13:40 - 12 minutesDarach chats to Katy and Dominic, the hosts of popular podcast "The Europeans". To hear the full episode and much more visit https://www.patreon.com/darach The Europeans podcast can be found at https://europeanspodcast.com/
178: #178 | Fatal Deviation
May 13, 2021 23:39 - 1 hourDarach is joined by Mira Adama (@LostWolfling), along with a cast of other contributors, to discuss a cult classic of Irish cinema. Watch Fatal Deviation here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPne3Wh0lqk This is our last episode of the season! You can join us on Patreon for bonus content throughout the break. --- Support Motherfocloir on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/darach Get Kirsten Shiel art prints here: https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/kirstenshiel/ --- Contact the show: what...
177: #177: Let’s Start With Komets-Alef: Learning About Yiddish With Meena & Arun Viswanath
May 06, 2021 23:00 - 47 minutesRecently, 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 accomplishments? Well, when we found out about it we were struck by how many of the same kinds of conflicts and considerations that faced Irish came up again in thre context of Yiddish. So we had to find out more. On today’s episode, Darach chats with s...
177: #177 | Let’s Start With Komets-Alef: Learning About Yiddish With Meena & Arun Viswanath
May 06, 2021 23:00 - 47 minutesRecently, 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 accomplishments? Well, when we found out about it we were struck by how many of the same kinds of conflicts and considerations that faced Irish came up again in thre context of Yiddish. So we had to find out more. On today’s episode, Darach chats with si...
176: #176 | BONUS: Irish Sign Language with Caroline McGrotty
May 05, 2021 12:35 - 46 minutesWatch this episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsORJSesv48 In 2017, Irish Sign Language (ISL) was officially given legal recognition in Ireland. Of course, it has a long history prior to this and in today's episode, Darach and Gearóidín meet Caroline McGrotty (@CarolineMcTweet), an ISL translator and presenter, to find out more. Where did ISL come from? Is it different in Northern Ireland? What is Caroline's favourite ISL word? Find out all this and more. ISL interpretation in this ...
175: #175 | Up The Lagan In A Bubble: Line of Duty and the Irish Cop Trope
April 29, 2021 23:00 - 47 minutesJesus, 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 reinvention of the “Irish cop” trope which is even older than television. But why did this format - a legacy from the era of segregation and McCarthyism - survive when westerns, Elvis movies, and musicals either die off or get resurrected beyond recognition? More than any other part of the state, policing is understood in the context...
174: #174: Ceci N'est Pas Une Gickna - Louise Selkies Ní Chuilinn
April 22, 2021 23:00 - 56 minutesWhen 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 allows him to collaborate with some exciting and talented artists, such as today’s guest Louise Ní Chuilinn (as known as Selkies). Louise, an Irish speaker living in Brussels, tells Darach and Peadar about that city’s artistic scene, such as the bandes dessinées which French learners in Ireland love so well. She talks about her col...
173: #173 | The Bramble: Oein De Bhairduin
April 16, 2021 11:23 - 1 hourThere’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 bylaw to say you maun be on your way And another to say ye can't wander” The implication is clear: the Traveller Community are damned if they do and damned if they don’t. Despite the visibility of the Travelling Community in Irish life, in political pamphlets and bad-faith documentaries, the fact remains that the wider community in Irelan...
172: #172 | By The Banks of My Own Orinoco: The Wonderful World of @EnyaComments
April 08, 2021 23:00 - 47 minutesOne of the finest new accounts to join Twitter during the pandemic has been @EnyaComments, a deceptively simple twitter handle that shares comments written under Enya videos on the YouTube.These range from the ridiculous to the sublime. But what is it about Enya that draws such a wide fanbase from around the world? Why do her fans feel such a close connection and associate her music with healing, grieving, solitude or mysticism? Why is she so big in Syria? And as for Enya Economics, what can...
171: #171 | Please, Mr Postman - Colm McEvoy on An Post & Eircodes
April 02, 2021 00:05 - 56 minutesEvery few weeks, a story goes viral in Ireland: a letter, addressed to someone like "that lady with the yellow baseball cap who owns a cat the size of a dog and a dog the size of a cat" is posted and finds its intended recipient. It's a tribute to the affection and esteem with which Irish people regard their postal service. It hints at one of a number of reasons why Ireland resisted postcodes for so long - because our postal workers had such deep local knowledge that they didn't need them. ...
170: #170 | Well, Well, Well: Vampires, Evil Fish and Holy Wells
March 26, 2021 13:24 - 43 minutesAre things holy because we need them or do we need them because they're holy? This is something that we consider on this week's episode when holy wells are discussed. Are the legends and myths about holy wells just a roundabout way of explaining what their purpose is? Why are there so many in Limerick? What does Ryan Tubridy's surname mean? We also discuss the theory that zombie movies are more popular under Republican presidents and vampire movies are more popular under the Democrats. Ch...
169: #169 | The Subh Milis Not Taken - What Is The Best Loved Poem In Irish?
March 19, 2021 00:04 - 56 minutesBack in 2015, the Paris Review ran an article on Robert Frost’s poem, “The Road Not Taken” and concluded that it is - by some distance - the best known and most widely referenced poem of the twentieth century. Nothing else comes close. And yet, it is as misunderstood as it is famous. Many poems, or extracts from poems, are misread outside their original context - like Frost’s other line, “good fences make good neighbours” and Beckett’s “Fail Again, Fail Better”. And what of Irish poetry - a...
168: #168 | Last Train To Eel Town: Thoughts On Baile In Irish Placenames
March 12, 2021 01:16 - 56 minutesWhether it's Flann O'Brien, the Book of Kells, Dindsenchas or An tOileánach, the Irish literary and literary historical traditions respect the idea of the digression - the idea that knowledge information, truth itself does not respect the artificial categories that limited human minds try to trap them in. Just as crabs think that eels are flying because they don't understand the concept of water, humans do not always immediately understand the profound links between topics. But to set infor...
167: #167 | A Fiadh By Any Other Name: The 2020 Baby Names
March 05, 2021 00:00 - 51 minutesAt the end of February, the CSO released the 2020 baby name statistics and after a long run, Emily is no longer the top girl name in Ireland. How should we interpret this? What does it mean for existing Emilys, especially the ones who rejoiced in the name before it became so popular in the noughties? Grace is the new top name, but how much of that is a global anglophone phenomenon and how much it is linked to its Irish associations - Grace Gifford and the song that bears her name, for example...
166: #166 | Turscar-red For Life: Spam In Irish
February 26, 2021 00:00 - 41 minutesGreetings agus Salutations, I am Motherfoclóir, prince of words, Irish, Irish words and words from Ireland. I have a very special request to make of you. If you listen to this podchraoladh about spam as Gaeilge, I will send twenty millionty squillion US Dollars in gold bullion into your earphones. Please send me your bank details by WhatsApp voice note to +353 89 478 4713 and tell me I'm pretty. Seriously, though. Don't answer spam emails. --- Support Motherfocloir on Patreon: https://ww...
165: #165 | To Claim The Emerald
February 19, 2021 00:00 - 50 minutesIn 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 example - as they seek The Emerald, a talisman not unlike Tolkien's ring. Lynott never explains what the Emerald is nor does he need to. The Emerald is intimately associated with Ireland, the Emerald Isle. But where did this name come from? Did I...
164: #164 | May The Forts Be With You - Sinéad Mercier on Ringforts & Fairy Forts
February 12, 2021 00:00 - 50 minutesWe'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 in towns across Ireland, we decided to bring an expert in. Sinéad Mercier, co-author of "The Men Who Eat Ringforts", drops in to tell Darach and Peadar all about these structures which link Ireland to its past. Is the word "fort" unnecessarily militaristic? If the deference for "fairies" has contributed positively to the preserv...
163: #163 | An Ace Up Your Sliabh: Recurring Styles in Placenames Pt. 3
February 05, 2021 00:00 - 41 minutesCould 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 from counties with many a sliabh (counties where more Irish was historically spoken) just happen to have more fire in the belly when they move to the lowlands in search of work? In the third of our series on the recurring Irish words in placenames, Darach and Peadar discuss sliabh and cnoc (mountain and hill). What’s the differenc...
162: #162 | Inis or Oileán? Recurring Styles in Placenames Pt. 2
January 29, 2021 00:00 - 46 minutesWhen 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 islands. Why do some inland locations have island-based names? Why are there three places in Ireland called Lady's Island, each with a different name in Irish? What about the island that Charles J Haughey bought in the Gaeltacht - does anyone know how that got its name? For some reason, University Challenge enters the discussion. --...
161: #161 | Cill or Coill? Recurring Styles in Placenames Pt. 1
January 22, 2021 00:00 - 45 minutesA 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 the early Christians steal holy sites from the pagan druids or something? In the first of a set of episodes, Darach, Gearóidín and Peadar look at some of the recurring features in Irish placenames. This week it's Cill and Coill. There's also some discussion of the Luas Red Line, the airport bus, the Germans and fax machines. It'...
160: #160 | Cliquebait: Gaeilge & Internet Subcultures
January 15, 2021 00:00 - 43 minutes2021 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 community a supportive safe space but another a radicalising echo chamber? Unrelated, perhaps, are a number of recent viral tweets where learners have told of disappointing experiences using Irish on social media. Is it fair to compare Irish speakers on social media to a noxious fanbase? Are Irish speakers on social media even a homoge...
159: #159 | Swear It All Over Again: Megan Figueroa & the Politics of Expletives
January 08, 2021 00:00 - 1 hourYou may have see promos for Nicholas Cage's new show on Netflix all about swear words. Well, we had the idea first. While Darach was slaving over Christmas dinner, Peadar and Gearóidín sat down with Dr. Megan Figueroa from the Vocal Fries Podcast to discuss the history, politics and even the gendered nature of dirty words. Be warned this podcast contains wall-to-wall f*ks, b*ds, b**ks and more. Not for the fainthearted. Listen to Gearóidín's appearance on The Vocal Fries here: https://anchor...
The Angels' Share (Teaser)
January 01, 2021 19:21 - 9 minutesAs we take a break for Christmas and New Year, please enjoy this bonus clip from our recent Patreon discussion on all things Irish whiskey. For the full video and more visit https://www.patreon.com/darach Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
158: #158 | 2020 Hindsight: MoFo Seasonal End Of Year Review
December 23, 2020 21:00 - 1 hourAnd so this is Christmas, and what have you done? Not much if you've been in lockdown, lad! Go easy on yourself and remember that getting this far has been an achievement in itself. This week Darach, Peadar and Gearóidín reflect on the year that was - highlights and lowlights online and offline. Will Wild Mountain Thyme be mentioned? Will there be speculation about the true identity of the TG4 intern? Will there be wild tangents when Darach tries to talk about Christmas? Only one way to fin...
157: #157 | Focal Point : Ireland's Word of the Year 2020
December 18, 2020 00:01 - 50 minutesAs December staggers towards the manhole of time and we all wait for it to fall in, a lot of linguistically minded people around the world consider what the word of the year is. All the big dictionaries do. What word best describes these past twelve months? What words have people been using most frequently? And what new words have been added in this time? At Motherfoclóir we're not so different and in today's episode Peadar and Darach discuss 2020's foclóir nua and research by Kevin Scannel...
156: #156 | Passing Irish: Performed Identity Through Language
December 11, 2020 00:00 - 48 minutesMultinational companies like to appear somewhat local in each of the countries they are present in. This can take many forms, especially in the advertising that the business uses to communicate with the wider community. What do these ads say about the parties in that relationship? The sociologist Erving Goffman, in his influential research, wrote about how identity is deliberately performed, especially when it comes to language. What are the implications of this for Irish speakers and compa...
155: #155 | Ochtó Bliain Ag Fás: Tomás Kenny & Kenny's Bookshop
December 04, 2020 00:00 - 1 hourBookshops and their proprietors thrive on browsers, on customers asking for recommendations,on book launches and on all the little interactions which the pandemic has robbed us of. So what's it like to run a bookshop in a pandemic? As well as being a Galway institution for eighty years, Kenny's Bookshop is a family business for three generations and counting. Tomás Kenny is part of that third generation. He tells Darach about the book business - battles with censors, noticing when a b...
154: #154 | A Great Bunch Of Lads? Info-tainment and the Great Man Theory of History
November 27, 2020 00:00 - 54 minutesThe 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 a country like Ireland between two given dates and what to we attribute that change to? One of the prevailing theories is that the history of the world is ultimately the biographies of great individuals; their remarkable ingredients of character allowed them to becom...
153: #153 | Ghosts and Dark Flames: Doireann Ní Ghríofa
November 20, 2020 00:00 - 1 hourShe'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 delivered a sensational non-fiction book, "A Ghost In The Throat", nominated in two categories in the Irish Book Awards. In today's episode, Doireann joins Darach and Peadar to talk about her career. She chats about her first poems and the writers who inspire her, including her collaboration with Choctaw poet LeAnne Howe. She tells of...
152: #152 | Meet-Cutes and Cute Hoors - Ireland and the Hollywood Rom-Com
November 13, 2020 00:00 - 1 hourThe 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 itself. Although romantic comedies were the favoured form of some of Hollywood’s most acclaimed writer-directors (like Frank Capra and Billy Wilder) in the mid 20th century, the genre has often been seen as lower prestige than those genres marketed at men. This was especially true in the first two decades of the 21st century when r...
151: #151 | After The Silent Letters: Louise O’Neill
November 06, 2020 00:00 - 59 minutesLouise 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”, sees her apply her gift for world-building, Swiss-watch plot intricacy and clear-eyed empathy to the crime genre. Agatha Christie set her murder mysteries in spaces where a range of characters could neither get in or out, and O’Neill has chosen an especially fascinating stage for her tale: a Gaeltacht island off the coast of We...
150: #150 | Hallowe’en Special 2020 - Is Maith Sin, Pumpkin
October 30, 2020 00:00 - 56 minutesIt’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. Horror is, of course, often more about what you don’t see than what you do. What memories or untold dreads stir in your subconscious, woken by our tales of black rabbits, the League of Ireland, bishops in their libraries, supermarkets in Laois and mad monks? Detail on Irish fireworks laws are here: https://www.citizensinformatio...
149: #149 | Dolphin De Siécle
October 22, 2020 23:00 - 51 minutesKeep 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 for years, so you’re old by the time you reach the island, wealthy with all you’ve gained on the way, not expecting Ithaka to make you rich. Ithaka gave you the marvelous journey. Without her you wouldn't have set out. She has nothing left to give you now. Ithaca, C.P. Cavafy In Kerry, the sun sets over the ocean. As the county comes to terms with the...
149: #149 | Dolphin De Siècle
October 22, 2020 23:00 - 52 minutesKeep 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 for years, so you’re old by the time you reach the island, wealthy with all you’ve gained on the way, not expecting Ithaka to make you rich. Ithaka gave you the marvelous journey. Without her you wouldn't have set out. She has nothing left to give you now. Ithaca, C.P. Cavafy In Kerry, the sun sets over the ocean. As the county comes to terms with the possibl...
148: #148 | Inglorious Blaskets: Peig vs The Peig Myth
October 15, 2020 23:00 - 1 hourPeig Sayers (1873 - 1958) is one of the most remarkable figures in twentieth century Ireland. Her journey to publication is a story of beating the odds. An outsider from the Dublin literary scene by geography, language, gender, education and even literacy (she could write in English but not Irish), she gives a glimpse at the multitude of stories that never got told in a rapidly changing Ireland. It is a story of hardship and personal tragedy, but tells of an extraordinary community and their ...
147: (Almost) Nothing Rhymes with Month
October 08, 2020 23:00 - 42 minutesEver notice how Halloween is a month long nowadays? Darach and Peadar discuss the Irish names for months of the year and days of the week, as well as Halloween songs, whether we should rename January, working in a chocolate shop and the ancient Celtic festivals. And the word is poioumenon. Trust us, you'll get it later. If you're still reading this send me a voice memo <3 (https://wa.me/353894784713) --- Support Motherfocloir on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/darach Get Kirsten Shiel ...
147: #147 | (Almost) Nothing Rhymes with Month
October 08, 2020 23:00 - 42 minutesEver notice how Halloween is a month long nowadays? Darach and Peadar discuss the Irish names for months of the year and days of the week, as well as Halloween songs, whether we should rename January, working in a chocolate shop and the ancient Celtic festivals. And the word is poioumenon. Trust us, you'll get it later. If you're still reading this send me a voice memo <3 --- Support Motherfocloir on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/darach Get Kirsten Shiel art prints here: https://www...
146: #146 | A Fine Bed-Mate: The Story of “Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire”
October 01, 2020 23:00 - 54 minutesIt’s not often that an eighteenth century poem finds itself in the news, but thanks to the rave reviews and public demand for Doireann Ní Ghríofa’s “A Ghost In The Throat”, this is the situation we are now in. Ní Ghríofa’s work is a memoir in which she considers her relationship with the masterpiece “Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire” and tries to discover the story of its author, Eibhlín Dhubh Ní Chonaill. How can the person who wrote the greatest poem of her century disappear from history? Why do...