Talk the Talk
138: Pop-Up Gaeltacht (live with Laura Pakenham and friends)
May 12, 20261h 32m · 17,685 words
Show notes
Wherever Irish speakers in the world get together, you can have a "pop-up Gaeltacht"! And we're having one on this episode. We've got author and TG4 presenter Laura Pakenham taking us through the history and orthography of this great and resilient language. Laura is the author of Irish: History and Culture Through Language. Timestamps 00:00 Start 00:24 Introducing Laura Pakenham 10:12 About Laura: Getting the gig 15:01 Navigating "correct" usage v.
Highlighted moments
Children would wear a bata score and it was kind of this wooden, this is in the book, it's kind of a wooden stick almost that would be worn around the neck and the notch would be carved into it for every time they were caught speaking Irish. And then the number of notches on their stick at the end of the day would equate to their beating.
“in Irish, the format is that like emotions and states of being and things are on you instead of, instead of possession. Like I have a cold in Irish, there's a cold on me”
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