Gaelgoirs

Irish speakers are referred to in Ireland as a community, a lobby group or even a kind of secret society: a bloc of people with specific and predictable values and objectives, distinct from the mórchultúr of mainstream Irish society. This…

Pop-Up Gaeltacht is PUG for short. The Irish for a pug is smutmhadra. The Irish for smut is salachar, which is an anagram of "ah rascal". Darach goes down a wormhole with Peadar Ó Caomhánaigh, one half of the duo behind Pop-Up…

Is it really Saturday already? It's hard to imagine that only a week ago we arrived at the Mars Desert Research Station, and that we are halfway through our time here. It's all going too fast and yet in other ways, it feels like we have…