Irish Stand

Irish Stand

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  • Irish Stand Episode 7: Did Lisa’s Granny (Willingly) Dance For Hitler?
    IRISH STAND PODCAST is hosted by Senator Aodhán Ó Ríordáin and playwright Lisa Tierney-Keogh. Banter about the hot mess of Irish America, and Trump. Irish take on US politics and life in America.
    Episode 7:

    Episode seven of the Irish Stand Podcast is an early yuletide special, with Aodhán and Lisa sinking their teeth into the egregious nature of male entitlement, the barbarism of tear-gassing children, Lisa’s new Abbey-bound play and her granny doing the Charleston for the Fuhrer.

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    39 min
  • Irish Stand Episode 6: “A New Representation of Women in American Government”
    IRISH STAND PODCAST is hosted by Senator Aodhán Ó Ríordáin and playwright Lisa Tierney-Keogh. Banter about the hot mess of Irish America, and Trump. Irish take on US politics and life in America.
    Episode 6:
    On episode six of the Irish Stand Podcast, regular hosts Aodhán O’Ríordáin and Lisa Tierney-Keogh are joined in studio by the extremely impressive Caroline Heafey. A doctoral student in English at the University of Massachusetts, Committee Chair at Glucksman Irish House and founder member of Irish Stand, Caroline gives her thoughts on why so many women are entering politics in the US, the legacy of slavery, why Irish-Americans love to tell Irish people how to be Irish and what ‘palimpsest’ means.
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    42 min
  • Irish Stand Episode 5: “Trump and the Press”
    IRISH STAND PODCAST is hosted by Senator Aodhán Ó Ríordáin and playwright Lisa Tierney-Keogh. Banter about the hot mess of Irish America, and Trump. Irish take on US politics and life in America.
    Episode 5:
    We talk to journalist Joan Walsh (The Nation, CNN) about accountability, what’s next, and what’s wrong with white people.
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    35 min
  • Irish Stand Episode 4: “The Midterms ”

    IRISH STAND PODCAST is hosted by Senator Aodhán Ó Ríordáin and playwright Lisa Tierney-Keogh. Banter about the hot mess of Irish America, and Trump. Irish take on US politics and life in America.
    Episode 4:

    Aodhan and Lisa talk with US-based Irish immigration lawyer Fiona McEntee and US ex-pat Charlie Veprek about the outcome of the mid-term elections.

    The post Irish Stand Episode 4: “The Midterms ” first appeared on Nearcast.
    1 hr 8 min
  • Irish Stand Episode 3: “Running for Congress in Irish-American Long Island”

    IRISH STAND PODCAST is chats between Senator Aodhan O’ Riordain and playwright Lisa Tierney-Keogh as part of the grassroots movement set up in the wake of President Trump’s election. Discussing everything from immigration to civil rights to the deep connection between America and Ireland, this is an effort to make some sense of modern America.
    Episode 3:
    Aodhán and Lisa speak to Long Island native Margaret E Ward about the Irish-American attitudes she grew up with and also about the responsibility of the media to report accurately.

    Aodhán also speaks to Congressional candidate Liuba Grechen Shirley about taking on Pete King in next Tuesday’s mid-term election.

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    1 hr 4 min
  • Irish Stand Episode 2: “Democratic Hope and Trump Glory”

    IRISH STAND PODCAST is chats between Senator Aodhan O’ Riordain and playwright Lisa Tierney-Keogh as part of the grassroots movement set up in the wake of President Trump’s election. Discussing everything from immigration to civil rights to the deep connection between America and Ireland, this is an effort to make some sense of modern America.

    In this episode, we speak with Larry Donnelly, law lecturer at NUIG, about Democratic hope in the upcoming US midterm elections. Lisa and Aodhan talk about the influence of American politics on the Irish presidential campaign and more banter about Irish America.

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    44 min
  • Irish Stand Podcast – Episode 1

    IRISH STAND PODCAST is chats between Senator Aodhan O’ Riordain and playwright Lisa Tierney-Keogh as part of the grassroots movement set up in the wake of President Trump’s election. Discussing everything from immigration to civil rights to the deep connection between America and Ireland, this is an effort to make some sense of modern America.

    In this episode, we talk about what it’s like to live in America, how it all went so wrong, and what might happen in the upcoming mid-term elections.

    The post Irish Stand Podcast – Episode 1 first appeared on Nearcast.
    51 min

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IRISH STAND PODCAST is hosted by Senator Aodhán Ó Ríordáin and playwright Lisa Tierney-Keogh. Banter about the hot mess of Irish America, and Trump. Irish take on US politics and life in America.