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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.

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#108 | Samhain Special! Áras an Spook-taráin

Darach Ó Séaghdha Oct 31, 2019 0

Welcome to our annual spooky Samhain episode of Motherfoclóir! Darach is joined by Peadar and Gearóidín to share their best Irish haunted house stories. Hear all about Mag from Laois, mischievous Gertrude Curran from Rathfarnham and the…

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#107 | Fomhar Bonus Episode: Clodagh Hates Autumn

Darach Ó Séaghdha Oct 29, 2019 0

It is a lovely morning in the village, and you are a horrible season. That's the view of Motherfoclóir's Clodagh McGinley, who is unimpressed by the golden leaves, soft sweaters and pumpkin spice lattes that mark the autumn months. In…

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#106 | Hector

Darach Ó Séaghdha Oct 25, 2019 0

This week Darach, Ola and Peadar are joined by bilingual broadcasting superstar Hector Ó hEochagáin. Since his breakout success with the Amú series in the early 2000s, Hector has become one-name-famous and one of Ireland’s best loved…

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#105 | Stepping On A Craic: Donald Clarke & The Word That Announced Modern Ireland

Darach Ó Séaghdha Oct 18, 2019 0

Every few months on the Irish side of the internet, a certain debate pops up about the spelling of a word. The word refers to convivial merriment, especially in an Irish context. But should it be spelled crack or craic? The reason this…

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#104 | Banríon Ealaíne: Kirsten Shiel Speaks

Darach Ó Séaghdha Oct 11, 2019 0

The changes in Irish self-identity in the 2010s hinge on the rise of social media, especially how those networks completely altered the way two perennial features of Irish society - emigration and Gaeilge - fed back into the national…

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#103 | Highway to Helvetica: Clare O’Dea and the Irish-Swiss Connection

Darach Ó Séaghdha Oct 4, 2019 0

Switzerland is one of those countries that doesn’t pop up in the news very often but appears to be ticking along nicely. In this regard it is not unlike Norway, another country that has chosen to keep an arm’s length relationship with the…

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#102 | Whatever Happened to Bean Pháidín? – Irish Lyrics in Translation

Darach Ó Séaghdha Sep 27, 2019 0

It’s a tale as old as time - boy meets girl, boy is married, girl wants to break boy’s wife’s legs. Or maybe it’s the simple story of a girl in love with a cobbler, forbidden to go to the fair and waiting for a fairy godmother who will…

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#101 | Compulsory Elvish: the Irish Language, Fantasy and Roleplaying Games

Darach Ó Séaghdha Sep 20, 2019 1

“Only a game designed by nerds would have charisma as a fantasy power” Gravity Falls A few weeks ago, Orla Ní Dhúill wrote a blogpost that got tongues wagging across the internet. The issue she wanted to address was the…

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#100 | Mailbag 5: One Hundred Nights in Motherfoclóir

Darach Ó Séaghdha Sep 13, 2019 0

It is our hundredth episode! We are delighted to still be here and even more thrilled that you, are listeners, are still here. To mark this august occasion, Darach, Clodagh and Peadar have dipped into the mailbag to see what’s vexing ye all…

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#99 | Mom Genes: Hiberno-English vs. Global Pop Culture English

Darach Ó Séaghdha Sep 6, 2019 0

When German-Morroccan DJ Mousse T recorded the song “Horny” in 1998, he surely had no idea that he was creating a Pompeii-like cultural artefact, one that preserved evidence of what a world was like minutes befoe it changed forever. The…

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