Irish Farmers Don't Wear Cravats
Irish History Podcast
Fin Dwyer
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 20 July 2020
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Over the last few weeks I have been paralysed by writers block. In the hope of clearing my mind, I headed off to explore an old stately home. While often crumbling ruins, buildings like this are absorbing places - they were once the houses of the wealthiest people in Ireland in the 18th & 19th century. The building I visited wasn't quite Downton Abbey but in its heyday this mansion was impressive. In this podcast we will explore this building looking for a secret tunnel that was supposedly in the basement (which I eventually found).
The resulting episode is a potted history of stately homes and and also what I found in that tunnel.
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| 0:49.0 | retailer. A friend of mine has a theory about Writers Block. He says it doesn't exist, that it's just |
| 0:58.6 | self-indulgent nonsense. He argues it's just writers with notions saying they're having a tough time in work. |
| 1:05.0 | He does make a convincing argument. I'll give him that by pointing out that nurses don't get nurses block or engineers don't get engineers block. They might tell you that work isn't going well but they don't |
| 1:17.1 | dress it up, they just get on with it. Now I've been thinking a lot about this recently because |
| 1:22.2 | whatever you choose to call it |
| 1:23.4 | writers block or a tough time in work I haven't been making much progress of late it |
| 1:29.2 | started about three weeks ago when I was writing the second episode of my upcoming series the road to |
| 1:35.0 | O'Lohrhan and somewhere along that journey I got waylaid no matter what way I wrote the |
| 1:40.4 | podcast it just seemed wrong maybe I made the mistake of writing and rewriting |
| 1:45.3 | the same thing over and over, and eventually the wheels came off, but by last Thursday they were well |
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