Behind the words
Spreading the Words Podcast
by Benedict Schlepper-Connolly
2y ago
Professor Margaret Kelleher speaks to Máire Ní Mhaonaigh and Sharon Arbuthnot, creators of RadioMoLI’s Spreading the Words series, asking about the motivation for the series, the rich body of research behind Ní Mhaonaigh and Arbuthnot’s work, and some of their favourite words in the series. Máire Ní Mhaonaigh is Professor of Celtic and Medieval Studies at the University of Cambridge, and Sharon Arbuthnot is a Senior Researcher at Queen’s University Belfast and an expert on lexicography and medieval glossaries. Professor Margaret Kelleher is Chair of Anglo-Irish Literature and Drama at Universi ..read more
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Lus an chromchinn (daffodil)
Spreading the Words Podcast
by Laura Harvey-Graham
2y ago
Read by Margaret Kelleher. Over the centuries, some beautiful and memorable names of flowers and plants have been recorded in Irish.  Spreading the Words is a series on the histories of Irish words from literature and everyday life written by Sharon Arbuthnot and Máire Ní Mhaonaigh and produced in association with the book A History of Ireland in 100 Words and the electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language (www.dil.ie ..read more
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Gaoth (Wind)
Spreading the Words Podcast
by Benedict Schlepper-Connolly
2y ago
Read by Sharon Arbuthnot. 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.   Spreading the Words is a series on the histories of Irish words from literature and everyday life written by Sharon Arbuthnot and Máire Ní Mhaonaigh and produced in association with the book A History of Ireland in 100 Words and the electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language (www.dil.ie ..read more
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Grá (Love)
Spreading the Words Podcast
by Laura Harvey-Graham
2y ago
Read by Caroline Lennon. An insight into the eighteenth-century poem made famous again by Doireann Ní Ghríofa’s A Ghost in the Throat.  Spreading the Words is a series on the histories of Irish words from literature and everyday life written by Sharon Arbuthnot and Máire Ní Mhaonaigh and produced in association with the book A History of Ireland in 100 Words and the electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language (www.dil.ie ..read more
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Leabharlann (Library)
Spreading the Words Podcast
by Benedict Schlepper-Connolly
2y ago
Read by Charles Dillon. Hear about how books were stored in medieval Irish libraries and about how we know of the existence of such places.  Spreading the Words is a series on the histories of Irish words from literature and everyday life written by Sharon Arbuthnot and Máire Ní Mhaonaigh and produced in association with the book A History of Ireland in 100 Words and the electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language (www.dil.ie ..read more
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Amadán (Fool)
Spreading the Words Podcast
by Laura Harvey-Graham
2y ago
Read by Máire Ní Mhaonaigh. Unravelling the sinister history of amadán, the Modern Irish word for ‘fool’. Spreading the Words is a series on the histories of Irish words from literature and everyday life written by Sharon Arbuthnot and Máire Ní Mhaonaigh and produced in association with the book A History of Ireland in 100 Words and the electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language (www.dil.ie ..read more
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Craobh (Branch)
Spreading the Words Podcast
by Laura Harvey-Graham
2y ago
Read by Charles Dillon. 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.  Spreading the Words is a series on the histories of Irish words from literature and everyday life written by Sharon Arbuthnot and Máire Ní Mhaonaigh and produced in association with the book A History of Ireland in 100 Words and the electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language (www.dil.ie ..read more
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Crith Talún (Earthquake)
Spreading the Words Podcast
by Laura Harvey-Graham
2y ago
Read by Andrea Palandri. 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?  Spreading the Words is a series on the histories of Irish words from literature and everyday life written by Sharon Arbuthnot and Máire Ní Mhaonaigh and produced in association with the book A History of Ireland in 100 Words and the electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language (www.dil.ie ..read more
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Cuing (Yoke)
Spreading the Words Podcast
by Laura Harvey-Graham
2y ago
Read by Deirdre Lewis. The Irish are fond of referring to an ‘ould yoke’, but how were words for ‘yoke’ used in Old Irish?   Spreading the Words’ is a series on the histories of Irish words from literature and everyday life written by Sharon Arbuthnot and Máire Ní Mhaonaigh and produced in association with the book A History of Ireland in 100 Words and the electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language ..read more
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Cró (Enclosure)
Spreading the Words Podcast
by admin
2y ago
Read by Aidan O’Sullivan. 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.   Spreading the Words’ is a series on the histories of Irish words from literature and everyday life written by Sharon Arbuthnot and Máire Ní Mhaonaigh and produced in association with the book A History of Ireland in 100 Words and the electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language ..read more
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