The Ireland Podcast9 Sep 2024

102. Linda Ervine MBE: Bainisteoir Turas

Episode 102 is the strengthening of bridges that unites these groups of islands through a cross-community conversation between Linda Ervine agus An Feannadóir (and Fender Jackson). NB The first couple of minutes of this episode are in Gaelic and then it switches to English.

Conversation includes: introductions in Gaelic and then in English; early years; the backdrop of the Troubles; living in Belvoir; Linda’s left wing father; The Price sisters on hunger strike; travelling; The Tommy Tiernan Show; first Gaelic lessons; An Droichead; identifying Catholics and Protestants; making headlines; ‘Presbyterians and the Irish Language’; ‘Hidden Ulster: Protestants and the Irish Language’; Gaelic links to the Orange Order, Presbyterian Church and Church of Ireland; Hidden History of Protestants & The Irish Language; maintaining a positive attitude in spite of all obstacles; every word spoken in Irish being a brick in the bridge that unites us as a group of islands; John Hume; being British and Irish; Carmel Hanna; Heather Wilson and Stephen McCarthy; the boredom of the Troubles; Acht na Gaeilge; nursery school; what Linda and Turas does; teaching English vs. Irish; An Cultúrlann; Jim Allister; “curry my yoghurt”; philanthropists and heroes, as well as other topics.

Thank you to Malachi O'Doherty, Lillis O'Laoire, Irish With Mollie agus Seán Ó hEaráin for their questions.

Face to face recording in Skainos Centre, Newtownards Road, Belfast at 3.15pm on Wednesday 4th September 2024.

Relevant Links

https://turasbelfast.com

Buy something from the Turas shop

Additional Links

https://presbyterianhistoryireland.com/history/presbyterians-and-the-irish-language/

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hidden-Ulster-Protestants-Irish-Language/dp/1873687354

Hidden History of Protestants & The Irish Language

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