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Dinhannachas (Narrative Place Names)

Listen to explore the etymology of a word so entrenched in Irish literary tradition.

Podcast Language Gaeilge History

Dulra (Nature)

Spreading the Words

Learn about the word dulra or ‘nature’ and its etymology steeped in Irish history, poetry and mythic tale.

Podcast Gaeilge Language Nature

Clábar (Mud)

Spreading the Words

Irish clábar lies behind Hiberno-English clabber and clauber, but for how long have we been saying ‘clabber to the knees’?

Podcast Gaeilge Language History

Gé (Goose)

Spreading the Words

The sure signs of winter included the sound of a barnacle goose.

Podcast Animals Gaeilge Language

Hold to the Now

Bloomsday Films

A short film for Bloomsday with contributions from Cairo to Kyiv and Berlin to Brasilia.

Video International Time History

Blas ar an mBeagán: An Foirgneamh Nua

IMRAM

Cloisfear scéalta osréalacha ón leabhar Féach Gach Treo á léamh ag an údar Mícheál Ó hUanacháin.

Short Story Gaeilge Storytelling Gothic

Opening Ulysses

Bloomsday Films

A playful, virtuosic reimagining of Ulysses' opening line.

Video International Playful Music

Lus An Chromchinn (Daffodil)

Spreading the Words

Over the centuries, some beautiful and memorable names of flowers and plants have been recorded in Irish.

Podcast Gaeilge Language History

Gaoth (Wind)

Spreading the Words

From 'the Night of the Big Wind' to Flann O’Brien’s description of wind-watching – how the wind has shaped Irish life and literature.

Podcast Gaeilge Language History

Leabharlann (Library)

Spreading the Words

Hear about how books were stored in medieval Irish libraries and about how we know of the existence of such places.

Podcast Gaeilge Language History

Amadán (Fool)

Spreading the Words

Unravelling the sinister history of amadán, the Modern Irish word for ‘fool’.

Podcast Gaeilge History Language

Craobh (Branch)

Spreading the Words

Find out why Douglas Hyde published verse under the pseudonym An Craoibhín Aoibhinn and why the All-Ireland Championship is referred to in Irish today as Craobh na hÉireann.

Podcast Gaeilge Language History

Crith Talún (Earthquake)

Spreading the Words

Medieval Irish chronicles and stories sometimes mention ‘the movement of the earth’, but was the north of Ireland actually struck twice by earthquakes in the early eighth century?

Podcast History Gaeilge Language

Cuing (Yoke)

Spreading the Words

The Irish are fond of referring to an ‘ould yoke’, but how were words for ‘yoke’ used in Old Irish?

Podcast Language History Gaeilge

Cró (Enclosure)

Spreading the Words

From cró madra ‘a dog kennel’ to cró snáthaide ‘the eye of a needle’, this episode takes us on a journey through the many uses of a truly versatile word.

Podcast Language History Gaeilge

Nollaig (Christmas)

Spreading the Words

Thoughts about recent Christmas lights and the long, dark winters of Christmases past.

Reading Language History Gaeilge

Gorm (Blue)

Spreading the Words

Read by Deirdre Lewis. How colour is described is determined by cultural, as well as ...

Podcast Language History Gaeilge

Teaghlach (Household)

Spreading the Words

In medieval Ireland, the hearth was at the centre of the house, but what kinds of households feature in Irish literature of the period?

Reading History Language Gaeilge

Ulcha (Beard)

Spreading the Words

Beards are status symbols in the world of early Irish literature. Such is their importance that Ulster hero Cú Chulainn created an imitation beard for himself of berry-juice or enchanted grass.

Podcast Language History Gaeilge

Dinnsheanchas (A Literature of Place)

Spreading the Words

Real space without and imaginative space within: how the poetry of Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, rooted in the landscape, echoes the interests of medieval Ireland.

Podcast Poetry Gaeilge History