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  • Butter

    Butter
    2024/08/07
    Looking for charms to steal your neighbours butter? We got 'em. Looking for ways to keep your pesky neighbours from stealing your butter? We got 'em. Songs to better churn the butter? Got those too. Join Aran and Luke as they dive head first into the world of Irish Butter folklore and superstition. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll call the parish priest, but he can't help you now. Accompanied by the beautiful music of Gareth Quinn Redmond. Be sure to check him out and show him some love x
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    1 時間 13 分
  • Cromwell's Genocide

    Cromwell's Genocide
    2024/04/16
    His name is celebrated as an important figure of parliamentary democracy in the United Kingdom. Cromwell dispatched a tyrannical king, was the first Republican and an advocate for democracy. In Ireland his lasting effect is one of a genocidal tyrant. His consideration of the Irish people as inhuman and was self-professed , and the inhumanity for which he inflicted arguably places him in a position of contempt higher than any royal.In Irish folklore this contempt is plain to be seen, Cromwell is written as the personal assistant of the satan, if not the devil incarnate. 'An cogadh a chriochnaigh Éire' - The war that finished Ireland. This is what a conquest of the country during the War of the Three Kingdoms was dubbed. An ethnic cleansing headed by one man. In 1641 when all was said and done, total excess deaths for the entire period was estimated by Sir William Petty, the 17th-century economist, to be 600,000 out of a total Irish population of 1,400,000 - that is around 42% of the population. 42%
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    47 分
  • Kings of Mud Island

    Kings of Mud Island
    2023/12/11

    After the Plantation of Ulster in 1606, three McDonnell brothers, dispossessed, made their way south.

    One of them settled on swampy uncontested land in Dublin, claiming themselves as its monarch.  

    Welcome to MUD ISLAND.

    A refuge at the fringes of Dublin Society, Aran and Luke seek to learn of its colourful history of Smugglers, Highwaymen and MORE.

    From secret passages to the bloody pirate escapades of Art Granger, its hard to believe what is now Ballybough and Fairview was a muddy slobland soundtracked by savage fights between the Mud Islanders and the Revenue Men, and stories of banshees and Collier the Robber.
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    1 時間 10 分
  • Rats & Bananas

    Rats & Bananas
    2023/11/09

    Unbeknownst to Luke when we started recording this episode, it was going to be dominated by Rat stories. There are Bananas too. Some may say we had too much fun recording this one, I say there's never such a thing. Join us in the fun backed by the beautiful ambient music of Gareth Quinn Redmond
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    1 時間 10 分
  • Sleep & Dreams

    Sleep & Dreams
    2023/10/09
    ARAN and Luke turn to the Irish National Folklore Collection's Duchás Database and Irish mythology to read you the most effective bedtime story known to man. FROM spooky bedtime stories about witch's sleep charms, TO the Goddess of Sleep Caer and her lad, Aengus, NOT to mention some folk cures on how to get a good night's rest, IT'S all a dreamy doozy. SPONSOR this week is: DRY-LINE - Boring you to Sleep.
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    1 時間 8 分
  • The Black Stuff (Guinness)

    The Black Stuff (Guinness)
    2023/09/07
    THE black stuff, stout, porter. IT'S synonymous with Ireland, but why? WHAT'S the difference between stout and porter? PISRÓGS barrels into an episode of songs, stories and accounts all about the substance we love to make us silly. MOST importantly we look at GUINNESS. YOU probably know all of the tremendous work that Guinness has done for Ireland, Dublin and it's workers. BUT there's a darker side to the black stuff that will have you saying... "Wait the Guinness family said WHAT during the 80s?" AS with anything involving a feast of pints, this episode will have you loving and hating yourself for drinking. Get it into ya like a good gosson
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    39 分
  • Forest People

    Forest People
    2023/05/17

    GAELS - Forest People.

    THIS episode will follow Irish trees through time from:

    The temperate rainforest which existed before humanity's arrival on the island, to the 1% of tree cover that remains in our wake.


    FROM the celts who venerated trees, to the Normans who cut them down liberally and the continued negligence by the Free State all the way to the current practice of forestry in Ireland today.


    INTERESTINGLY, language can be used to plot the changing relationship between humankind and forests here in Ireland.


    FROM Ogham, a language based on the natural world around us, to the present day where the word 'forest' can prove harmful in its vaguity.


    PLUS, learn a possible scientific reason why the hawthorn (or fairy tree) might be such a feared bush.

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    1 時間 45 分
  • Merfolk (Merrow, Selkie, Siren)

    Merfolk (Merrow, Selkie, Siren)
    2023/01/25

    MERFOLK - Irish Mermaids - The Merrow (Murúch), Selkies & Siren.

    IN this week's episode the lads travel from our seas, rivers and lakes through GALWAY and LEITRIM to KERRY and ROSCOMMON in search of MERFOLK - half-human half-aquatic beings which litter the mythology of almost every country.

    THE BOYS are tracing the myth of Merfolk in Ireland from the source of our earliest mythology to the mouth of more recent folk tales. With the anatomy of the mermaid and the means of its aquatic abilities changing with time from story to story. 

    EXPECT yarns from 11th century monks and recollections from Tommy down the road.

    MERMAIDS have long been associated with their allure, with tales of men selfishly kidnapping the poor creatures, or even drowning to death in awe of their beauty. This leads to wider discussion of mermaids as a symbol of the expectations of women.

    THE LEGEND of children born here as the product of mermaid/human relations. 

    SO, depending on your second name, you too could be just a little bit fishy!

    (ALSO we have fairy news chock full of cures and ferrets and all sorts)

    Come dive in! Waters fine.
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    1 時間 23 分