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Who Did What Now

86. De Valera's Prison Break

Who Did What Now

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4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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When the Leader of Ireland Escaped Prison in Drag

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0:00.0

You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast.

0:11.0

Music Hi everybody and welcome to Who Dead What Now, the History Podcast.

0:30.7

That's not your history class with me, your host, Katie Charlwood, History Harlet and Reader of Bix.

0:37.6

If you are new here, if you have stumbled this way via Instagram or TikTok,

0:42.3

hello, I tend to tell history and information in a way that I try to be conversational.

0:51.4

So it's generally just how I talk.

0:57.2

Now, my language has been referred to as colourful on occasion. Um, downright blasphemous on others. But if you have an issue with, you know,

1:05.5

cuss words, swer words, anything like that, um, you're going to want to exit stage left. Okay. Cool. Now that the rest of you

1:14.9

are here and obviously people who have been listening for a long time, hi, hi Tara. I,

1:21.7

welcome, welcome. I am back. I have a voice again, kind of, I lost it a little from talking so much.

1:31.5

So, if this sound is a bit funny, I am recording from a hotel room in Dublin. I'm staying in the Morrison Curio,

1:41.9

the Morrison Curio by Hilton. And yeah, I got in and I was just planning to drop my bag in.

1:49.8

But I got, um, how to put this? They, they were just like, oh yeah, you know, you can just check

1:56.5

in now. There's an early check in fee. Um, but we're going to upgrade you to a better room. And I was

2:01.4

like, cool, yeah, no worries. That's wonderful. I was just going to drop in my luggage, but they

2:05.5

just let me in. Now, why am I in Dublin, you ask? Well, I was flying down, because I lived 20

2:12.4

minutes in the Donegal Airport, and the price of the flight was actually cheaper than the price of a bus.

2:19.0

So why travel uncomfortably for five hours when I can do it for one?

2:24.7

So I flew down, I dropped in my bag and then went to be a guest on the Shite Talk History podcast,

2:32.4

which I think is out this week, maybe next week,

2:35.4

but I'm on that talking about George Thomas.

2:38.4

Or interjecting about George Thomas, the man from Tipperary who became a Raja.

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