The lost world of Gaelic Ireland

The Irish Passport

Society & Culture

4.8 • 652 Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

A very different cultural and political model dominated Irish society prior to the British conquest: Gaelic Ireland. This was a system that prevailed for thousands of years, right back into prehistory, protected by Ireland's geographic isolation. What norms did this society have? What laws, what economic system, in what buildings did people live? Naomi and Tim paint a picture of life in Ireland before the British conquest, in the lost world of Gaelic Ireland. Naomi and Tim continue the discussion and delve into the enduring Gaelic dating practices around Irish horse fairs in a bonus episode now available for Patreon supporters! https://www.patreon.com/posts/halfpint-debrief-123678971

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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 to 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.
0:13.5	I'm recording.
0:14.2	One, two, two, three.
0:16.6	Okay. Hello everyone and welcome back to the Irish Passport podcast.
0:46.0	Hi listeners. So Tim, in this episode we are going to be looking at a pretty important subject when it comes to this podcast and that is the history of Gaelic Ireland.
0:54.9	Yeah, and we've actually been talking loads about Gaelic Ireland in recent episodes as long time listeners might know because of our conquestseries where we've been looking at the history of British colonisation on the island. And I thought it was a good
0:59.9	moment, especially now that we're coming up to the Cromwellian invasion in that series,
1:04.5	that we should take a closer look at what life was like in Gaelic Ireland on a day-to-day basis
1:08.9	so that we can better understand this world,
1:11.4	you know, that was going to be destroyed by the conquest.
1:13.7	Yeah, absolutely.
1:14.5	I'm really glad we're doing this, Tim, because honestly,
1:17.1	Gaelic Ireland is just endlessly fascinating to me.
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