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  • Introducing | Gaylinn

    January 21, 2026 · 45 min

    Gaylinn dives into the weird, wonderful, and messy sides of life from sports to dating in Dublin all with humor, hot takes, and plenty of Irish language thrown in. It’s perfect for learners and fluent speakers alike. If you’re craving…

  • Introducing | The Greatest Matter

    December 20, 2024 · 40 min

    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 investigation with occult connections. It's a…

  • Mother Tongues and Other Tongues: Behan, Doyle and Rooney in Translation

    September 24, 2024 · 51 min

    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 anniversary of Brendan Behan's death…

  • Back From The Dead: Translating Transylvania

    October 27, 2023 · 1 hr 3 min

    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 recording of last year's live show Darach is…

  • Introducing | Words To That Effect

    March 14, 2022 · 33 min

    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 popular culture and if you're a fan of…

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  • #186 | Last Orders - The Residents' Bar

    September 2, 2021 · 1 hr 33 min

    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 for making each episode look and sound…

  • BONUS | Amy Louise O'Callaghan and the Irish Arts Center NYC

    August 28, 2021 · 37 min

    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 reimagines Irish mythology in the style of…

  • #185 | Last Orders - The Grass Beard: Finn Longman and Queer Readings of An Táin

    August 26, 2021 · 50 min

    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-masculine figure. But is this…

  • #184 | Last Orders - Motherfoclóir Meets Blindboy

    August 19, 2021 · 1 hr 12 min

    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 relevant voices in Irish podcasting. And he's…

  • #183 | Last Orders - 32 Shades of Salach: Romance Novels with Róisín McNally

    August 12, 2021 · 59 min

    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 read them, anyway. But what about people…

  • #182 | Last Orders - Seven Deadly Letters - J, K, Q, W, X, Y, Z

    August 5, 2021 · 59 min

    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 their own episode, there was always…

  • #181 | Last Orders - Parenting Is An Irregular Verb - Séamas Ó Reilly

    July 29, 2021 · 46 min

    Everybody is talking about Twitter sensation Séamas Ó Reilly and his hilarious yet moving memoir "Did You Hear Mammy Died?" And rightly so - it's a sensational telling of a remarkable story of a boy with ten siblings losing his mother far…

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About the show

Dispatches from a not so dead language. Hosted by Darach O'Séaghdha and The Irish For… @theirishfor (https://twitter.com/Motherfocloir) Follow the show on twitter @motherfocloir or email us at motherfocloir@headstuff.org