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Behind the wall of grammar homework lies the amazing world of the Irish language, and Darach (that @theirishfor guy) wants to take you there.

With a crack team of the internet’s soundest Irish speakers, Darach will explore topics like differences between the Irish and English versions of the Constitution, silent letters, Gaeilge and technology, how new words get added to the dictionary and which old words have fallen out.

It’s an all slammer, no grammar half hour.

Entertainment the side project. Pints of Malt Fireside Taranoia Podcasts Phoning It In

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#158 | 2020 Hindsight: MoFo Seasonal End Of Year Review

Darach Ó Séaghdha Jan 1, 2021 0

Darach, Peadar and Gearóidín reflect on the year that was - highlights and lowlights online and offline. And 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…

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#157 | Focal Point : Ireland’s Word of the Year 2020

Darach Ó Séaghdha Dec 18, 2020 0

As 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…

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#156 | Passing Irish: Performed Identity Through Language

Darach Ó Séaghdha Dec 11, 2020 0

Multinational 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…

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#155 | Ochtó Bliain Ag Fás: Tomás Kenny & Kenny’s Bookshop

Darach Ó Séaghdha Dec 4, 2020 0

Bookshops 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?…

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#154 | A Great Bunch Of Lads? Info-tainment and the Great Man Theory of History

Darach Ó Séaghdha Nov 27, 2020 0

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 a…

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#153 | Ghosts and Dark Flames: Doireann Ní Ghríofa

Darach Ó Séaghdha Nov 20, 2020 0

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 delivered a sensational non-fiction book, "A Ghost In The Throat", nominated…

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#152 | Meet-Cutes and Cute Hoors – Ireland and the Hollywood Rom-Com

Darach Ó Séaghdha Nov 13, 2020 0

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 itself. Although romantic comedies were the favoured form of some of…

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#151 | After The Silent Letters: Louise O’Neill

Darach Ó Séaghdha Nov 6, 2020 0

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”, sees her apply her gift for world-building, Swiss-watch plot intricacy…

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#150 | Hallowe’en Special 2020 – Is Maith Sin, Pumpkin

Darach Ó Séaghdha Oct 30, 2020 0

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. Horror is, of course, often more about what you don’t see than what…

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#149 | Dolphin De Siècle

Darach Ó Séaghdha Oct 23, 2020 0

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 for years, so you’re old by the time you reach the island, wealthy with all you’ve gained on the way,…

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