138: Pop-Up Gaeltacht (live with Laura Pakenham and friends)

Wherever Irish speakers in the world get together, you can have a "pop-up Gaeltacht"! And we're having one on this episode. We've got author and TG4 presenter Laura Pakenham taking us through the history and orthography of this great and resilient language. Laura is the author of Irish: History and Culture Through Language.

Timestamps

00:00 Start

00:24 Introducing Laura Pakenham

10:12 About Laura: Getting the gig

15:01 Navigating "correct" usage v. common usage

21:05 Different Irish voices on TG4

21:56 Getting feedback from Gaeilge speakers

24:33 Gaeilge as it is today

30:15 Irish is fun and cool, not so much a duty anymore

37:55 On coming to Irish as a learner

41:30 Related or Not: Theme