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Learning about place names from the indigenous Sámi people
The checkout workers who boycotted apartheid South Africa and other stories
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In this listener questions episode, Naomi and Tim take questions from listeners on everything from Gaelic Ulster, to nomadic patterns of land use, and the quirks of Ireland’s postal system.
We discuss the long tail of an old law that forced women to quit their jobs as soon as they married. Tim tells the story of the supermarket workers who refused to handle goods from apartheid South Africa, and how they are still remembered today.
Listener questions episodes are made to answer the queries and suggestions of Patreon supporters who back us at the €5 level or above. We will release this one publicly in the coming days to let non-subscribers know about what they’re missing.
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Thanks so much to all of you and a big shout out to those listeners who sent in their questions. We’ll do another listener questions episode soon!
Halfpint: A hybrid attack
The Economic War
In our new episode, Naomi and Tim dig into the history of Ireland’s Economic War, a challenging period for the early Irish state which ended up transforming the country as it shaped its new independence.
We hear from someone who lived through that difficult period of the 1930s, when Britain slapped high tariffs on Ireland and the Irish state retaliated in turn. “The English were starving the Irish people that time,” were his stark words.
Naomi unpicks how her own family story intersects with Ireland’s revolutionary history of land ownership, through the tale of the O’Leary family on the Kerry townland of Readrinagh.
Naomi and Tim discuss more of the research behind this episode and reveal more secrets from the archives in a bonus debrief now available for supporters over on Patreon. www.patreon.com/posts/halfpint-debrief-144460322