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We, The Irish
by Oran & Ryhan O'Halloran
The repository of the story of the Irish people. You can support both Ryhan & Oran by donating a coffee to us at www.buymeacoffee.com/wetheirish
Episodes
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EP89: The First of Many
In this episode, we tell the story of the Wicklow woman who was presented for her beauty to a King, saved lives and showed extraordinary bravery at war, took on the world of the old boys club and paved a road thousands of women have since followed
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EP88: Witness Me, Saul of Tarsus
In this episode we tell the story of the Westmeath man who is remembered as one on the early heroes of the Korean War. Available on all podcast apps, @goloudapp or www.wetheirish.com
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EP87: Act 4 (Unwritten)
In this episode, we tell the story of how a giddy promise led to a man hunt, a murder, two executions, an opera, a play, a best selling novel and three major films.
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EP86: When Doves Fly
The story of the Irish Pilot who was one of the most important world figures in during WW1
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EP85: Naleli
The story of the first star of Irish music
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EP84: The Rescue
The story of one of the men behind one of the great prison breaks
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EP83: Nehemiah
The story of the Limerick woman who lived a life of extra-ordinary adventure
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EP82: The Don
This is the story of the Dublin man who became a Manchester Uniter and FC Barcelona Legend
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EP81: Two of Our Own
This is the story of the Dublin woman who did not deserve the hand fate dealt her.
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EP80: Leonidas of Bohola
The story of the Mayo man who was one of the greatest athletes the world has ever known.
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EP79: The Role of a Life
The story of the Youghal woman who spent her life fighting for women's rights.
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EP78: The Epic
The tale of the Waterford man who was one of the great heroes of freedom for Ireland and America.
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EP77: I, Me
The story of the trans man who was one of Americas Great War heroes.
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EP76: Is Mise, Ohr agus Mhisnigh
In this episode, we tell the story of an Irishman who was one of the great heroes of World War 2. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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EP75: 1/3500000
This is the story of a young girl from Cork who gathered all the courage she had and took a leap of faith for 3.5million Irish people.
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EP74: Bad
The story of the two Irish men who became the most feared men in the British Isles.
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EP73: Silenced
The story of the woman who showed the political world what it was doing to Ireland.
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EP72: The Queen’s Remedy
The story of a man from Limerick who was knighted after convincing Queen of England to use Cannabis.
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EP71: Once I Saw
In this episode, we tell the story of the Dublin woman who changed medicine in Ireland forever after the events at the GPO changed her forever.
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EP70: Revenant
The story of the man who embarrassed the devil.
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EP69: Erin’s Swan
This episode tells the story of the Limerick Lady who brought the plight of the Irish to the world stage whilst looking Queen Victoria in the Eye.
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EP68: Dead or Alive
In this episode we tell the story of the Irishman at the centre of one of the worlds great legends.
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EP67: Miracle
The story of the Irish woman who made the deaf hear and the dumb speak.
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EP66: Matthew 13:44
The story of one of the most important people in Australian history.
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EP65: Agency
This is the story of the Irish woman who taught the world woman are much more than vessels to carry the children of men.
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EP64: The Steer
The story of a Donegal man in Boston.
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EP63: Eleos
In this episode, we tell the story of an Irish woman who was once the voice of the powerless in America.
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EP62: Diamonds in the Mud
This episode tells the story the son of Irish immigrants who embarrassed a king.
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EP61: The Flower and the Blessed
In it, we tell the story of a Dublin woman who was almost the most significant person in modern history.
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EP60: Mo Bhaile, Go Deo
What does home mean to you?Is it the place where you keep your belongings?Or is it where they people you care about spend their time.Or does it run deeper than that.Is it somewhere where your soul feels at peace.Where without thought you feel like you belong.Like you have always belonged.Like…
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EP59: Fire in Water
As history progresses, and we learn of our respective pasts, a theme begins to present itself.Those in power would like to display this theme as something they had developed.They would like you to believe that it is as a result of their decisions that things became better.They would like you to...
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EP58: The Calling
This episode tells the story of the County Down woman who saved hundreds of children from the horrors of child prostitution.
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EP57: Blood of the Phoenix
What would you do for freedom?Would you give everything for it?Give up all life’s comforts?What if this meant your efforts would lead to you a prison cell?Would you bargain the freedom you have in order to gain more for others?What if you had to pay the ultimate price for freedom and could not…
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EP56: Revenge For Skibbereen
What is revenge?Is it something you must achieve in order to feel better within yourself about pastgrievances?Or is it something which you use to get even rather than to find peace through?What if the initial hurt was not inflicted on you directly but someone close to you?Does that still give you...
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EP55: 10 Minutes Until Eternity
What does marriage mean to you?Is it for the sake of a day out?The rest of your life?Or is it for eternity?What is the importance of it?What does the wearing of a ring bounding you to another mean to your soul?It is the life of a woman from Dublin which answers these questions for us.This is her...
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EP54: The Artist, The Carpenter and The Soldier
In Dublin City, in the early 20th century, a series of revolutions began.The world watched as the oppressed attempted to become the equal.Differences were set aside for common goals of freedom.Dreams and ambitions were abandoned so that others, not yet born could have their dreams and ambitions...
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EP53: Howls of the Silent Wolf
What does loyalty mean to you?What lengths would it take for your loyalty to be broken?What would be required to gain your loyalty?If this loyalty was at your expense, would you break it?Or would you accept that perhaps that is the idea of loyalty.It’s the life of a Wicklow woman which answers...
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EP52: The Gosling
What could you achieve if you believed you were protected by gods?Not the gods we recognised today in the western world, but ancient gods.Ones with dedication to war.Ones who banished fear.Ones who understood and provided courage.Would you become god like yourself, or would you understand your…
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EP51: From The Shadows
What would you do if you were born into a world which didn’t want you.A world which saw you as unworthy from the time before your birth.What is this continued through your early life.Would you resent those who resented you?What if you became bitter?Where would your life take you?Where would you...
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EP50: Exiled to Glory
What would you do if you were banished from your home?What if you were never allowed to return?And should you disobey this order, you would face death.Where would you go?What might you achieve?What paths would life take you through?It’s the life of a limerick man which answers these questions for...
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EP49: The Sacrifice
What would you do for your loved ones?Would you give up all your beliefs to protect them?Would you give your own life for them?Would you give up your legacy for them?Or would you put yourself and the legacy you created first?It is the life of a Mayo woman which answers these questions for us.This...
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EP48: Deuteronomy 20:1
Do you believe in supernatural beings?That there is a higher being, or guardian angel protecting you from harm?Have you ever seen any proof this could be true?What if your entire life and reputation was based on it being true?Would you bring hope or fear into the lives of others?What could you...
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EP47: Lighting the Fuse
If you saw a wrong done on another, would you stand up for them?Would you be willing to take the hit for someone else?What if you didn’t really have to?If you could stay in your own comfortable life and not have to concern yourself with the plight of others?Would you leave them suffer on?Or would...
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EP46: 0001
What do you expect from your day each time you leave the house for work?Do you expect there to be traffic.Do you expect to have to search for a parking space or perhaps for the bus to be late.Do you expect to take the first 30 minutes of the day to ease yourself into it.What happens when there is…
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EP45: Medals in a Drawer
What does it mean to be an sporting icon?Are you only an icon for the time you are part of the distractions from life as your preform?Or do you remain an icon until the day you die, and if memorable enough, past that too?Are our sporting icons dispensable? Do we just continually replace one with...
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EP44: Wolves, Sheep & Doves
What would you do if you were witness to a secret?A really horrible secret.One which included kidnapping, death and exile.What if you knew, those in power also knew of the secret, but nobody else.What if you were one of a handful of people outside of the elite circles who knew it.Would you take…
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EP43: Oíche Chiúin
In another lifetime, one of gore and blood, men were thrust into the chaos of war.They decision to go, for some was not one made through own agency or with true visions ofwar.Death, destruction, gore and suffering were not the messages on the flyers distributed tothe young men of the…
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EP42: The Abattoir Brothers
What does compassion mean to you?Is it the act we partake in when trying to help someone elses stresses?Is it acting out of the ordinary to help someone you've never met?It is something you use as a currency?What power does its use, or lack of use, have over your life or the lives of those around...
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EP41: The Changing Tides
Who are you more likely to help when they need it most?Just the people you feel are close to your heart?Or would you reach out the hand of care for those opposed to your vision of the world.What state would they need to be in for you to help?Or would you see passed this and see them too as human...
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EP40: Decorated
Did you know, the most decorated American soldier of all time was an Irishman?This is his story. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
The repository of the story of the Irish people. You can support both Ryhan & Oran by donating a coffee to us at www.buymeacoffee.com/wetheirish
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Oran & Ryhan O'Halloran
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