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The Europeans | European news, politics and culture
Katy Lee and Dominic Kraemer
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🗓️ 30 September 2019
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
This week, the beauty of the Irish language. Our guest is Darach Ó Séaghdha, whose wonderful book and podcast are a celebration of a language that may only have about 74,000 daily speakers but is very much alive and kicking. Also: the right to be forgotten, the Ukrainian side of the Trump impeachment inquiry, and treasures hidden in plain sight.
Check out Darach's book, 'Motherfoclóir: Dispatches from a Not So Dead Language' and his podcast of the same name. And follow @TheIrishFor if you know what's good for you.
Thanks as always to the hugely generous Patreon supporters who are keeping this show going. You can sign up at patreon.com/europeanspodcast.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Europeans. |
| 0:18.7 | Oh Dominic, what's with all the gloom? People are actually supposed to enjoy listening to this podcast. |
| 0:22.9 | That's been quite a week. I've been so depressed by what's happening in Britain. I know we're not meant to talk about it. |
| 0:28.9 | Literally breaking the first rule of this podcast in the first 20 seconds. Yeah, I'm sorry, but I was quite depressed by it, so I'm actually glad we're going to talk about other things. |
| 0:38.8 | I need this podcast more than ever this week. |
| 0:41.0 | Can I cheer you up with something? |
| 0:42.3 | Go on. |
| 0:42.9 | I had quite a French disaster this week. |
| 0:44.7 | What happened? |
| 0:45.5 | Well, I was in the office canteen, and because I work for a French company, obviously we have a... |
| 0:51.1 | You were drinking wine? |
| 0:52.4 | Yeah, obviously. No, I don't. I've only done that once, actually. |
| 0:54.7 | When I first arrived, I thought everyone was going to be drinking wine at lunch all the time. |
| 0:57.7 | Not so, very rare. |
| 0:59.6 | No, I wasn't drinking wine, but I was thinking I bought this nice little piece of plum tart. |
| 1:04.6 | And I thought, I'll have a have a squirty cream dispenser. So I was just putting a bit |
| 1:11.2 | of cream on my plum tart and the power button got stuck and it wouldn't stop and there was |
| 1:18.3 | squirty cream going everywhere, not only all over my plate in this kind of massive cream mountain, |
| 1:25.0 | but like all over the counter into the mayonnaise, but I was just |
| 1:28.8 | hammering at the power button shouting, stop. And eventually it did, but not before there was |
| 1:33.3 | cream everywhere. I'm sorry I was complaining about the gloomy state of British politics |
| 1:37.7 | when you've had like seriously bad things happen to you this week, Katie. Put things in perspective, |
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