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The Irish Passport

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4.8 • 652 Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2022

⏱️ 64 minutes

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From the streets of Brussels, to an office block in Greece, to a bus ride in San Francisco, the Irish language can pop up in some unexpected places. In this episode, we explore some of the new international frontiers of Irish. We speak to people whose knowledge of the language has launched them down far-flung career paths, ask why Irish-speaking mortgage experts are in demand in the Netherlands, and celebrate some of the people who have begun learning the language thousands of miles away from the island. Huge thanks to our sponsors, Irish at Heart, for backing this episode. Sign up to receive surprise boxes of artisan Irish goods at irish-at-heart.com, and get a special 15% discount off your first box with the discount code IRISHPASSPORT. Here’s the link: https://irish-at-heart.com/ Bonus episodes are published for our supporters over at www.patreon.com/theirishpassport

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0:00.0	Hello. Welcome to Irish Passport.
0:02.3	Let's do it.
0:03.1	Welcome to the Irish Passport.
0:04.8	I'm Tim McInerney.
0:06.0	I'm Naomi O'Leary.
0:07.0	We're friends.
0:07.7	Can you both, Naomi?
0:08.5	Anoir fat, Tim.
0:09.9	This is your passport to Irish culture, history and politics.
0:13.2	Uh-huh.
0:13.4	I'm recording.
0:14.2	One, two, two, three.
0:16.6	Okay.
0:41.8	Hi, everybody, and welcome back to the Irish Passport podcast. Hello everyone, or should I say Jayyiv, because today we're going to be talking all about the Irish language and specifically about how it
0:46.9	has recently been cropping up in some unusual places. That's right. Some of you may be aware that the
0:52.2	Irish language has recently become a full working language of the European Union,
0:56.7	and that translates into a lot of demand for speakers of the language in various different countries all around the continent.
1:03.5	Yeah, this new status has also rekindled conversations about the language and its future in Ireland.
1:08.9	Irish is officially the first language of the Republic of Ireland,
1:12.0	but its use in everyday life around the country declined very rapidly over the course of the 19th and
1:17.1	the 20th centuries. Recent developments like this form part of a broader wave of creative and
1:23.0	proactive movements to promote Irish once again in day-to-day life. In this episode, we'll be speaking to a human resources officer who suddenly found himself
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