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Pisrógs

by Luke Pisrogs Conroy and Cathal Pisrogs Bergin

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Electric Picnic

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The Slasher House, Banshees, Count Tornado, Highkick Jack, The IRA, Headless Horseman and Cures upon Cures upon Cures. The boys set up a confessional booth at Electric Picnic and ye blurted out your best folk stories from all around the…
Hungry Grass (Féar Gortach)

August 19, 2026 · 51 min

You walk on an ordinary patch of grass and suddenly become so violently hungry that you can barely make it home. The Hungry Grass, or Féar Gortach, cursed patches of ground said to bring on an overwhelming, almost fatal hunger, sometimes…

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The Blacksmith's Forge

July 28, 2026 · 1 hr 1 min

If you went back in time to an Irish village or settlement the first place you should go was surprisingly, the forge. The village forge was the ancient internet, the pub, the pharmacy, and occasionally the battlefield briefing room. It's…
Priest Hunters

July 14, 2026 · 1 hr 5 min

PRIEST HUNTERS, during Ireland's Penal Laws these were bounty hunters paid to track down Catholic priests, going from village to village looking for the rewards offered for their holy heads. Haunted houses, swarms of black beetles…
Whales - Míolta Móra

July 2, 2026 · 54 min

Míol mór, whales! In irish it literally tanslates to large beast. Luke and Cathal dive into the folklore of the whale: Adventurers swallowed by whales, Townsfolk hunting for whales, Churches made of whales and whales mixed with cows. It's…
Sherkin Island

May 28, 2026 · 40 min

Piracy, sea serpents, fairy women, gun-slinging priests. A fun little episode for a fun little island! Cathal and Luke are on their way to Sherkin Island (which allegedly boasts its own micro-climate), just off Baltimore, Cork. Inis…
Speaking Horses & Irish Balls

May 13, 2026 · 51 min

A horse veterinarian/kinesiologist casually informed us that a mythical white horse once appeared on the Benaughlin mountains every 'Billberry Tuesday.' As you do. This week, new-cohost Cathal Bergin joins Luke and together they descend…
The Lover's Knot & The Frog Man - Anna (Luke's Mam)

March 31, 2026 · 1 hr 12 min

In Kildallan lies the Relic, an ancient graveyard where two trees wrapped around eachother above the graves of two forbidden lovers. Luke and his Mam share memories of their tight knit rural community of Kildallan. The pair read the…
Naas, Rónán Ó Raghallaigh - Fionn Mac Cumhaill, Haunted Pilgrimages & Faction Fights

March 24, 2026 · 59 min

Returning guest, Naas-born visual and performance artist Rónán Ó Raghallaigh. Rónán’s work moves between indigenous Irish art and ritual action, and after a few years it was time for Luke to catch up with an old friend. Fire throwing…

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About the show

Pisrogs podcast is an audio adventure of Irish myth, folklore, history and more. The podcast started with hosts Luke Conroy and Aran Reidy trawling through the Duchás Folklore Archives for the most spell-binding, peculiar, imaginative and funny Irish folk stories they could find. With Aran having emigrated to the plains of Tír na nÓg, Luke returns with a brand new season of interviews, investigations and oddities and a new co-host Cathal Bergin!