Undercover Irish

By Eolan Ryng

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Subscribers: 20
Reviews: 2
Episodes: 40

Carlo Gianuzzi
 Feb 14, 2026
Great podcast. I just listened to the story of Henry Brown Hayes and I found it fascinating. Very clear even for a non-mother tongue listener, very knowledgeable. Not to be missed.

Cosuir
 Jul 8, 2025
Great podcast if you are interested in Irish language and place names. well worth a listen. I wish they were longer

Description

Uncovering Ireland's Hidden Curriculum Undercover Irish goes under the cover of Irishness, through ballads, poems, social history, the Irish language (Gaeilge), historical events and people, especially those on the periphery— while drawing lines to today's world and adding depth to current affairs. Local, National and International.

Episode Date
What Irish Surnames Remember — Part 1: Ó, Mac, Ní & Nic
Jun 10, 2026
When Ireland Speaks in a Woman's Voice: From Ériu to Elmes
Jun 05, 2026
What Irish County Names Really Mean: Part 2
May 30, 2026
What Irish County Names Really Mean: Part 1
May 24, 2026
Ireland and the Sea
May 21, 2026
Ireland's Darkest Placenames II: Memory in the Landscape
May 20, 2026
Ireland's Darkest Placenames; The Landscape Remembers
May 12, 2026
From Famine Ships to Maple Leafs: Irish Identity in Canadian Sport
May 07, 2026
London Irish, Boston Celtics & the Names We Carry
Apr 30, 2026
This Irish Town Name Means "Push Forward" - Here's Why (Ngũgĩ, Spenser & Buttevant Explained)
Apr 22, 2026
Cork vs Tipperary 1741 — The First Match Report Was A Poem in Irish
Apr 17, 2026
How The Great Hunger Brought Irish Sporting Identity Abroad; Liverpool, Celtic And More
Apr 16, 2026
GAA Club Names Explained: Mythology, Rebels & Irish Identity
Apr 14, 2026
The Mountains of Pomeroy: A Love Song from a Broken Land
Apr 08, 2026
How One Town with Four Names Maps Different Irelands
Mar 27, 2026
The Story Behind Óró, Sé do Bheatha Bhaile: From Jacobite Song to 1916 Rebel Anthem
Mar 16, 2026
Why Britain Still Owns Part of Cyprus — And What Ireland Has To Do With It
Mar 03, 2026
Henry Browne Hayes: From Vernon Mount to Vaucluse (Part 2)
Feb 14, 2026
Henry Browne Hayes: Power, Privilege and The Abduction of Mary Pike (Part 1)
Feb 14, 2026
Courtaparteen: Ireland's Lost Village Hidden in a Forest
Jan 29, 2026
Spancil Hill: An Irish Ballad And The Heartbreak Of Emigration
Jan 16, 2026
Roy Keane And Bishop Brennan; Guerrilla Gaeilge 2
Jan 11, 2026
Hunger, Gorta, Troscadh: Cultural Memory, Political Resistance, and Brehon Law
Jan 03, 2026
An Irish Christmas: Brush the Floor and Clean the Hearth
Dec 22, 2025
Guerilla Gaeilge: The Irish Hidden in Our English (Hiberno-English, Irish Language Survival, and Hidden Gaeilge Grammar)
Dec 12, 2025
An Irish Guerrilla Commander and "The Murder Machine"
Dec 01, 2025
The Irish Way to Understand Time
Nov 23, 2025
Erased Leader: Margaret Buckley and Ireland's Counter-Revolution
Nov 14, 2025
How the Irish Language Finds Connection in the Dark: Samhain and Uaigneas
Nov 05, 2025
How Cork's Streets Became a Battleground for Ireland's Identity
Oct 29, 2025
How A GAA Crest leads us to the Battle of Fontenoy
Oct 23, 2025
How Ice Cream is linked to the Presidential Election
Oct 15, 2025
Ireland as a Body: Place Names, Mythology, and Indigenous Worldviews
Jun 24, 2025
Building Up And Tearing England Down; The Social History In A Ballad
Jun 13, 2025
The Truth about Munster and Meath: Uncovering Ireland's Lost Directions
Jun 06, 2025
An Bata Scóir and Its International Reach
May 31, 2025
Skorts, Shorts and the Three Stripe Affair That Rocked Cork GAA – Part 2
May 24, 2025
Skorts, Shorts and the Three Stripe Affair that rocked Cork GAA Part 1
May 16, 2025
Let Erin Remember: The Crimes Against Lough Neagh
May 09, 2025
Ireland was ahead of the Stoics, Mindfulness, and CBT; Cognitive Behavioural Therapy within Gaeilge
Apr 25, 2025