Welcome back to the Port Poreles Almanac.

Today we're thrilled to have a voice that challenges us to rethink the fundamental concepts

of identity, history, and our relationship with the land with Jimmy Billings.

As the person behind Gaelic reexistence, Jimmy offers a crucial critical perspective on the

complex issues of decolonization and cultural reconnection to the land from his context in

Ireland.

In this conversation, we dive into deep questions about what Irishness truly is, how

national identity was historically created, and the ideas that we can learn from his experiences

here in the United States.

I highly recommend you check out his writing, which is linked in the show's notes, and

please let us know what you think.

Jimmy, thanks much for joining us. Can you please introduce yourself and tell us a little bit about how you got interested in your research area and what inspired you to think, you know,

I need to start writing about this and like engaging with this material publicly.

Thank you, first of all, for having me on this podcast, delighted to be invited on.

It's my. Jimmy is Scrivenor me. It's a station me and a dais me, ania sanaka,

LaHoun on tour. So my name is Jimmy. I'm a writer. I'm from Waterford in Ireland. And I also said that I grew up

beside the river shore just to emplace myself a little bit. There's probably a long answer and a

short answer to what he just asked. Yeah, there's, I guess there's a lot of

factors that went into, like, landing me to where I'm at now with the different things that I'm

trying to bring together. So I suppose, like, yeah, my writing tries to bring together, you know,

I'm speak, I try to speak from my own context

rather than, I suppose, like, in, in the leftist tradition, which is like very white and

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