Around the Long Fire

Around the Long Fire 107: Táin Bó Cúailnge, Intro and part I


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We pivot to Irish myth and legend this week as our hosts really struggle with exhaustion and life, but there’s st8ill plenty to talk about.

Things Discussed: health and reasons for exhaustion (the FMLA paperwork did get done!), the reading of this book aloud, Tehanu, Nodame Cantabile, Niamh plays a new video game, Persona 4 and 5, Freckled1der's Persona 4 LP, the question bucket, bumper stickers, Hokuto and Kamiyama's Pondering Pootan, Beyblade, Pondering Proctors

Opening music for this book is Ferdia’s Song and Gae Bolga by Horslips

See the show schedule here! This’ll tell you which versions of books and which sections of those books we’re reading each week.

Niamh podcasts on Export Audio with Ghost Divers and Ornate Stairwells. Fae posts on bluesky at foxmomnia.exportaud.io and on twitter @foxmomnia

Em hosts Abnormal Mapping and Repertory Screenings on abnormalmapping.com and also is the Pokemon Master of Ceremonies on The Great Gundam Project. She posts on bluesky at polarbearsummer.online and on twitter @em_being

Next episode: Táin Bó Cúailnge, parts II through IV from The Táin, trans. Ciaran Carson (Penguin Classics)

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