Episode 4: The Knowledge Gap

The Irish Passport

Society & Culture

4.8 • 673 Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2017

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Why is there a knowledge gap about Ireland in the UK? As journalists scrambled to put together basic facts about Northern Ireland in the wake of the 2017 UK election, the country's blind spot about one of its own constituent nations became painfully evident. The Brexit debate further highlighted that many were unaware of the sovereign independence of the UK's closest neighbour, the Irish Republic. We talk to journalists and authors about the phenomenon, while Naomi digs up some rather worrying evidence from a contemporary UK school history book.

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome to Irish Passport.
0:02.4	Let's do it.
0:03.2	Welcome to the Irish Passport.
0:04.9	I'm Tim McInerney.
0:06.1	I'm Naomi O'Leary.
0:07.1	We're friends.
0:07.8	Okay, hear about to Naomi.
0:08.7	Honor, Fad, Tim.
0:10.1	This is your passport to Irish culture, history and politics.
0:13.3	Uh-huh.
0:13.5	I'm recording.
0:14.3	One, two, three.
0:16.7	Okay.
0:39.3	Hello. Hello, and welcome back to the Irish Passport podcast, where today we'll be discussing the knowledge gap about Ireland and Northern Ireland in the UK.
0:42.3	But first Naomi, as usual, we've chosen a listener question to answer and this one is great because it's really topical this week.
0:48.3	So Monique from Hastings sent us this message via Facebook.
0:52.3	What do you think about the Republic of Ireland's new
0:55.2	Tao Teichok, Leo Varadkar? Hi, Monique. Yeah, this one has definitely made headlines around the
0:59.5	world this week. So the Taoiseach of Ireland, you might remember, is the equivalent of Prime Minister,
1:04.1	right? Thichuk is an Irish word. It means chief, so in this case, chief of state. Yeah, and this is the youngest Taoiseach we've ever had. He's
1:11.3	only 38 years old, I believe. So, yeah, fair platoom to getting where he is. Yeah, sure. He
1:17.0	wasn't actually elected by the public. He's taking over the job from our former Taoiseach and
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