Episode 6: Elites

The Irish Passport

Society & Culture

4.8 • 673 Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2017

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Who are Ireland's elites? That question was once easily answered, but not since independence upended the entire social order! In this episode, Naomi visits a castle in Dublin that has been the home of one family for 35 generations -- and finds the current heir still feels he's not accepted as one of Ireland's own. Tim investigates how his own ancestors went from being aristocrats' servants to rebels in one generation. Or perhaps they were rebels all along? We speak to an expert who says Ireland today is in denial about having elites, when they are hiding in plain sight. Find out who they are in our chat with elitism expert Dr. Ciaran O’Neill.

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome to Irish Passport.
0:02.2	Let's do it.
0:03.0	Welcome to the Irish Passport.
0:04.7	I'm Tim McInerney.
0:05.9	I'm Naomi O'Leary.
0:06.9	We're friends.
0:07.6	Can you hear about to Naomi?
0:08.5	Anwar Fad, Tim.
0:09.8	This is your passport to Irish culture, history and politics.
0:13.1	Uh-huh.
0:13.3	I'm recording.
0:14.1	One, two, three.
0:16.5	Okay. Hello. Hello, hello. So this week we are asking, who are Ireland's elites? And to answer that
0:42.7	question, I visited a castle in Dublin, one that still has a family living in it, whose ancestors
0:49.4	have been there for 800 years almost. Let's go over to Naomi in Hothcastle.
0:57.7	I'm walking up to the entrance of Hoth Castle.
1:01.4	I can see there are some family crests up on the walls,
1:05.6	but they're so worn away that it's hard to make out what they say.
1:09.9	But there's no need to really because only
1:12.1	one family has ever lived here. Today, the current heir has agreed to meet me and show me around
1:17.9	inside the castle. My name is Julian Gatesford, St Lawrence Lawrence and my family own his castle.
1:30.3	So that big heavy door opens and this is what you see. An entrance wall filled with heavy wooden furniture
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