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Pisrógs

Luke Pisrogs Conroy and Cathal Pisrogs Bergin

Pisrogs podcast is an audio adventure of Irish myth, folklore, history and more. The podcast started with hosts Luke Conroy and Aran Reidy trawling through the Duchás Folklore Archives for the most spell-binding, peculiar, imaginative and funny Irish folk stories they could find.

With Aran having emigrated to the plains of Tír na nÓg, Luke returns with a brand new season of interviews, investigations and oddities and a new co-host Cathal Bergin!

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  • 25 episodes
  • fortnightly
  • Avg 1 hr 1 min
  • English

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  • Dec 11, 2023 · 1 hr 9 min

    Kings of Mud Island

    After the Plantation of Ulster in 1606, three McDonnell brothers, dispossessed, made their way south. One of them settled on swampy uncontested land in Dublin, claiming themselves as its monarch. Welcome to MUD ISLAND. A refuge at the fringes of Dublin Society, Aran and Luke seek to learn of its colourful history of Smugglers, Highwaymen and MORE. From secret passages to the bloody pirate escapades of Art Granger, its hard to believe what is now Ballybough and Fairview was a muddy slobland soundtracked by savage fights between the Mud Islanders and the Revenue Men, and stories of banshees and Collier the Robber.

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  • Nov 9, 2023 · 1 hr 10 min

    Rats & Bananas

    Unbeknownst to Luke when we started recording this episode, it was going to be dominated by Rat stories. There are Bananas too. Some may say we had too much fun recording this one, I say there's never such a thing. Join us in the fun backed by the beautiful ambient music of Gareth Quinn Redmond

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  • Oct 9, 2023 · 1 hr 8 min

    Sleep & Dreams

    ARAN and Luke turn to the Irish National Folklore Collection's Duchás Database and Irish mythology to read you the most effective bedtime story known to man. FROM spooky bedtime stories about witch's sleep charms, TO the Goddess of Sleep Caer and her lad, Aengus, NOT to mention some folk cures on how to get a good night's rest, IT'S all a dreamy doozy. SPONSOR this week is: DRY-LINE - Boring you to Sleep.

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  • Sep 7, 2023 · 38 min

    The Black Stuff (Guinness)

    THE black stuff, stout, porter. IT'S synonymous with Ireland, but why? WHAT'S the difference between stout and porter? PISRÓGS barrels into an episode of songs, stories and accounts all about the substance we love to make us silly. MOST importantly we look at GUINNESS. YOU probably know all of the tremendous work that Guinness has done for Ireland, Dublin and it's workers. BUT there's a darker side to the black stuff that will have you saying... "Wait the Guinness family said WHAT during the 80s?" AS with anything involving a feast of pints, this episode will have you loving and hating yourself for drinking. Get it into ya like a good gosson

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  • May 17, 2023 · 1 hr 44 min

    Forest People

    GAELS - Forest People. THIS episode will follow Irish trees through time from: The temperate rainforest which existed before humanity's arrival on the island, to the 1% of tree cover that remains in our wake. FROM the celts who venerated trees, to the Normans who cut them down liberally and the continued negligence by the Free State all the way to the current practice of forestry in Ireland today. INTERESTINGLY, language can be used to plot the changing relationship between humankind and forests here in Ireland. FROM Ogham, a language based on the natural world around us, to the present day where the word 'forest' can prove harmful in its vaguity. PLUS, learn a possible scientific reason why the hawthorn (or fairy tree) might be such a feared bush.

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