The Bishop, the Guns, and the Virgin Mary

The Irish Passport

Society & Culture

4.8 • 652 Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Did you ever hear the one about the bishop and the airport? Or the unlikely group of Irish revolutionaries who ended up changing history through an ill-fated trip to Belgium on a yacht? Hear all about it as Naomi and Tim tell some of their favourite, quirkiest stories from Irish history in this special seasonal story time episode. Huge thanks to our sponsors, Irish at Heart, for backing this episode. Sign up to receive surprise boxes of artisan Irish goods at irish-at-heart.com, and get a special 15% discount off your first box with the discount code IRISHPASSPORT. The link is here: https://irish-at-heart.com/ Bonus episodes are published for our supporters over at www.patreon.com/theirishpassport

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome to Irish Passport.
0:02.3	Let's do it.
0:03.1	Welcome to the Irish Passport.
0:04.8	I'm Tim McInerney.
0:06.0	I'm Naomi O'Leary.
0:07.0	We're friends.
0:07.7	Can you both, Naomi?
0:08.5	Anwar Fat, Tim.
0:09.9	This is your passport to Irish culture, history and politics.
0:13.2	Uh-huh.
0:13.4	I'm recording.
0:14.2	One, two, two, three.
0:16.6	Okay.
0:16.7	Okay.
0:24.6	Okay. Hi everybody. Hi, guys, and welcome back to the Irish Passboard podcast. Now, since we're coming close to the holiday season, we thought we would talk about some lighter topics today. So Naomi and I have challenged each other to come up with one of our favorite moments in Irish culture, history and politics. So you'll have to wait to
1:12.2	find out what we have in store for you. Yes, in this episode, we invite you to gather around the
1:17.1	fire, put on your cosiest socks, grab a hot drink and curl up, because we're going to be telling
1:21.9	some of our favourite and quirkiest stories from Ireland. Mine is going to feature a bunch of unlikely
1:27.0	Irish revolutionaries who go on a
1:28.9	mish-ridden trip in a yacht that ends up changing Irish history. And I don't know what Tim's is about
1:34.9	because he's told me nothing, but I've accidentally glanced at the top of his notes.
1:39.5	And it does seem to be about a rogue bishop and an airport, Tim. Yeah, well, if you haven't got it from that,
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