#34 | Mots, Spanners and the Round System

By Darach Ó Séaghdha Last updated Apr 13, 2018

“Are we all just characters in a Roddy Doyle Facebook status?”

Dublin City’s official motto is Obedientia Civium Urbis Felicitas – obedient citizens, happy city. But do they obey because they’re happy or are they happy because they obey? It’s a suitably elliptical sentence for a city defined by its murky relationships with obedience and happiness.

In this week’s episode of Motherfoclóir, Peadar and Darach consider Dublin’s happily disobedient use of language. In particular they consider certain articles of Dublin slang with a view to whether they come from Irish or not.

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Darach Ó Séaghdha runs popular twitter account @theirishfor and is the author of "Motherfoclóir: Dispatches From A Not-So Dead Language", which is published by Head of Zeus on the 7th of September.

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