Motherfoclóir Podcast
1) Introducing | The Greatest Matter
An audiodrama for fans of Motherfoclóir! The Greatest Matter is a new gothic crime tale set in Victorian Dublin, about a criminologist who arrives in the city and gets caught up in a murder investigat...Show More
2) Mother Tongues and Other Tongues: Behan, Doyle and Rooney in Translation
We're back! Well, sort of. In March 2024 Darach, Gearóidín and Peadar were reunited for a live Seachtain na Gaeilge event in Clondalkin Library (a home advantage for Peadar!) On the occasion of the a...Show More
3) Back From The Dead: Translating Transylvania
With thanks to the Bram Stoker Festival, the Motherfoclóir Podcast was resurrected for one afternoon in October 2022 to discuss the translation of Dracula into Irish by Seán Ó Cuirreáin. In this recor...Show More
4) Introducing | Words To That Effect
Motherfocloir is part of the HeadStuff Podcast Network and there are lots of other shows on the network we think you might like. Words To That Effect is a show that tells stories of the fiction behind...Show More
5) 186: #186 | Last Orders - The Residents' Bar
Thank you for your support over the last four years. Thank you for inviting us into your headphones and into your head. We hope you enjoyed it as much as we did. Thank you to Brian and Kirsten f...Show More
6) BONUS | Amy Louise O'Callaghan and the Irish Arts Center NYC
If you follow Darach's Word of the Week project with the Irish Arts Center in New York, you'll have seen the artwork of Amy Louise O'Callaghan - @amylouioc on Twitter, Instagram and Etsy - who reimagi...Show More
7) 185: #185 | Last Orders - The Grass Beard: Finn Longman and Queer Readings of An Táin
Join us for the final episode of Motherfoclóir, live on Zoom tonight: https://www.patreon.com/posts/55377967 --- Every artistic/visual representation of Cúchulainn presents him as a hulking, ultra-m...Show More
8) 184: #184 | Last Orders - Motherfoclóir Meets Blindboy
The re-release of Professor Terence Dolan's Dictionary of Hiberno-English didn't happen by accident, but was nudged into existence by a writer who also happens to be one of the most seminal and releva...Show More
9) 183: #183 | Last Orders - 32 Shades of Salach: Romance Novels with Róisín McNally
In terms of literary prestige, romance novels don't get no respect, ranking lower than sports biographies and screenplay novelisations on the scale of respectability - according to people who don't re...Show More
183: #183 | Last Orders - 32 Shades of Salach: Romance Novels with Róisín McNally
59:25 | Aug 12th, 2021
10) 182: #182 | Last Orders - Seven Deadly Letters - J, K, Q, W, X, Y, Z
Four years ago we started this podcast off with a discussion of the letter V. There’s been much water under the bridge since then and while we always meant to give the other seven “forbidden” letters ...Show More