San eagrán nua seo de Ghlórtha Ciotacha, labhair Eoghan Ó Garmaile agus Feargal Mac Ionnrachtaigh, stiúrthóir Ghlór na Móna, le Deaglán Ó Mocháin. Is Iarchime é Deaglán as Muineacháin a chaith seal sa Cheis Fhada idir 1989 agus 1997. Níos moille ina shaol bhunaigh Deaglán an comhlacht scannáin Dearcán Media agus oibríonn sé le Cultúrlann Uí Chanáin i nDoire faoi láthair. Bain sult as an chomhrá ionraic agus spéisiúil seo.

In this Irish-only episode of Awkward Voices, Eoghan Ó Garmaile and Feargal Mac Ionnrachtaigh, Director of Glór na Móna, spoke to Deaglán Ó Mocháin. Deaglán is an ex-prisoner from Monaghan who was jailed in Long Kesh between 1989 and 1997. Later in his life, he started his own film company Dearcán Media and he currently works with Cultúrlann Uí Chanáin in Derry. Enjoy this honest and special conversation with him.

Eagrán speisialta mar cheiliúradh ar Lá Idirnáisiúnta na mBan.  Is gníomhaí pobail agus sóisialach í Yas Rodriguez ó Chúba a chuir fúithi i mBéal Feirste breis is scór bliain ó shin agus a bhí mar pháirt de réimse feachtais anseo ó shin, ach go háirithe dlúthpháirtíocht le Cúba in éadan imshuí Mheiriceá ar an tír s’aici.  Bhí ról lárnach aici ag cruthú a brat Cúbach is mó sa stair a nochtadh ar an Sliabh Dubh in 2021 mar chuid den fheachtas #UnblockCuba.

Special episode to celebrate International Women’s Day.  Yas Rodriguez is a community and socialist activist from Cuba who has lived in Belfast for over 20 years and who has been part of a range of community campaigns here since, especially around Cuban Solidarity against the US blockade on her country.  She played a central role in making the biggest Cuban flag in history that she then helped put on Black Mountain in West Belfast in 2021 as part of the UnblockCuba campaign.

Sa chéad chlár de shraith úr de Glórtha Ciotacha, bhí comhrá againn ag deireadh 2022 le beirt ghníomhaí teanga Liam Ó hEidhin agus Eimear Nic Ionnrachtaigh fán baint s’acu le gluaiseacht na Gaeilge ar Ollscoil na Banríona, ach go háirithe an feachtas ar son comharthaíocht dhátheangach agus an bua ar na mallaibh do scéim chónaithe ar champas.

In the first episode of a new series of Awkward Voices, we talked to two language activists Liam Ó hEidhin and Eimear Nic Ionnrachtaigh at the end of 2022 about their experience in the Irish language movement at Queen’s University Belfast, especially about the campaign for bilingual signage and the recent victory around an Irish language residence scheme on campus.