Warning Explicit Content. Like Really Warning, like do not let kids listen to this episode

Join Naoise, Brendan (Yes The Brendan that did our amazing art) and Diarmuid (for his last appearance) as they tell the most explicit, dirty and bizarre story on tonight's podcast. Happy Saint Patrick's Day indeed

A special thanks to Brendan Atkins for our amazing art! You can find Brendan's work on Instagram @brendansketches or www.brendanatkins.com

Music is For Spring by Light Patterns
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Talking Stories 2024 Episode 20: Laoidh Chab an Dosáin (Warning Explicit Content)

In this podcast episode, we are celebrating EPALE’s 10th anniversary. EPALE was created as a multilingual, open-membership community for everyone interested in adult learning: adult educators and trainers, guidance and support staff, researchers and academics, and policymakers. The community’s aim has always been to provide high-quality, accurate information relevant to adult learning practitioners and to enable members to connect with and learn from each other.

We believe anniversaries are a valuable opportunity to take stock—to reflect on the past and look towards the future. So, we asked three individuals with diverse perspectives on adult education across Europe—Isabell Kempf, Raffaela Kihrer, and Lidwien Vos de Wael—to do just that. Through voice notes, they shared their thoughts on the fundamental changes they have observed in adult learning over the past decade, as well as the key opportunities and challenges they foresee in the years ahead.

EPALE Podcast - 10 years of EPALE

In the last 24 hours the global economic order may have transformed forever, as Donald Trump declares crushing tariffs for countries all over the world, not least the European Union. In this hot-off-the-press episode, Naomi explains what this might mean for Ireland and the EU, how the figures add up (or how they don't) and why the reasoning behind these new tariffs has experts all over the world scratching their heads ...

Trump's Tempestuous Tariffs: Ireland and the EU React

Welcome to the first Episode for Season 3 of the National Leprechaun Museum's podcast, The Storytellers.

This episode we discuss the roll of the storytellers and bards within ancient Ireland and how they changed over throughout the centuries. 

Opening and closing music "Kesh Jig, Leitrim Fancy" by Sláinte

https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Slinte/Slinte


Season3 Ep1 The Story Tellers

Naomi spent months investigating a rogue landlord who built up an empire of rental properties in Ireland backed by family wealth in Luxembourg. In this episode, we tell the story of Marc Godart: his back story, the controversial evictions that brought him to prominence, and the unusual ways he runs his businesses. This is based on reporting by Naomi and her colleagues at the Irish Times that was recently awarded the Mary Raftery Prize for social affairs journalism.

The winning story is here: https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2024/01/13/under-the-eye-of-landlord-marc-godart-how-a-tenant-who-objected-to-cctv-surveillance-was-evicted/

You can read more of Naomi's reporting here: https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/housing-planning/2024/02/17/working-for-marc-godart-paper-directors-shadow-airbnb-accounts-ruthless-staff-practices/

https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2023/04/15/the-luxembourg-family-behind-an-irish-property-empire/

Bonus episodes are available for supporters over on www.patreon.com/theirishpassport

Investigating a ruthless rental empire

Welcome to the second Episode for Season 3 of the National Leprechaun Museum's podcast, The Storytellers.

This episode we discuss the first category of story required by the Filí (the bards) to know earn their title. This category is Destructions! 

Opening and closing music "Kesh Jig, Leitrim Fancy" by Sláinte

https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Slinte/Slinte

Season3 Ep2 Destructions

In the grand finale of our Conquest series, Naomi and Tim dig into one of the most notorious episodes of Irish history, starring none other than Oliver Cromwell. We explore his rise to power as a major player in the puritan faction of England's civil war, and how he came to view the task of "pacifying" Ireland both as a way to solidify his support, and as a kind of holy war. Cromwell's actions in Ireland were genocidal. Nevertheless, we discuss how his actions in Ireland continue to be played down among historians in Britain to this day.

Naomi and Tim discuss more, including the uncomfortable resonances to current day news, in a bonus debrief episode over on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/posts/halfpint-debrief-130363450

Micheál Ó Siochrú's authorative work on Cromwell, 'God's Executioner', is available here: https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571218462-gods-executioner/?srsltid=AfmBOoqKEZw77QejfJJh-6OoFsKDvgeO55jZSaEZMvc665fFaNgx2SPE

Conquest - The Curse of Cromwell

Welcome to the third Episode for Season 3 of the National Leprechaun Museum's podcast, The Storytellers.

This episode we discuss the next category of story required by the Filí (the bards) to know earn their title. This category is Battles!

Opening and closing music "Kesh Jig, Leitrim Fancy" by Sláinte

freemusicarchive.org/music/Slinte/Slinte

Season3 Ep3 Batles

An Irish language rap group has improbably enough become the focus of global media attention and political debate. Why? For describing Israel's actions in Gaza as a genocide and accusing the United States of complicity before an approving crowd at the music festival Coachella. In this episode, Naomi and Tim explain the origins of Kneecap in the movement for Irish language rights, the controversies about the band as its fame grew to ever greater heights, and why it now appears to be becoming a test case for the freedom of cultural figures to speak out about Palestine.

A new bonus episode in which Naomi and Tim take questions from listeners about the Irish language and generational trauma is available on patreon.com/theirishpassport

You can also listen to our 2020 Halfpint about Kneecap and the politicisation of the Irish language here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/34241066

Rebel Music - Kneecap and Gaza

Welcome to the forth Episode for Season 3 of the National Leprechaun Museum's podcast, The Storytellers.

This episode we discuss the next category of story required by the Filí (the bards) to know earn their title. This category is Tána or battle raids!

Opening and closing music "Kesh Jig, Leitrim Fancy" by Sláinte

freemusicarchive.org/music/Slinte/Slinte

Season 3 Episode4 Tána

Talking Stories is a podcast of stories, folklore, mythology, and chat from the Storytellers of the National Leprechaun Museum, on the 1st and 15th of every month.

The National Leprechaun Museum, the first ever attraction dedicated to Irish mythology, opens up a fun and magical world full of fascinating folklore, mythology and enchanting stories.

Season3 Ep3 Batles

National Leprechaun Museum Talking Stories

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