Juvenalia

Naomi O'Leary, journalist and co-host of The Irish Passport, joins us to talk about maybe the bleakest book in children's literature, Marita Conlon-McKenna's famine classic Under The Hawthorn Tree. We talked about the unrelenting horror of the book, the historical accuracy, and how maybe it should be on the British school curriculum as well as the Irish one. There's also a whole load of talk about Brexit and we try to solve the mystery of forgotten Irish author Mary Regan's The Secret Of Yellow Island. 

Naomi co-hosts the excellent podcast The Irish Passport. You can find her on Twitter @NaomiOhReally

Juvenalia original artwork by Dee McDonnell

Welcome to 2019! We decided to kick off with just Alan and Sarah talking about something that was pretty important to both of them but especially to Sarah, The X-Files. We talked about how good the pilot is, the once in a lifetime chemistry of Mulder and Scully, The X-Files Companion, GameStop discounts, going to the cinema alone, TV show tie-in magazines, and lots more.

Alan is @alan_maguire, he does stand up sometimes

Juvenalia original artwork by Dee McDonnell

Welcome back to part two of our roundup of the year. This part has a little taste, just a little mind you, of every episode from July to December. We hope it inspires you to go back and listen to some episodes that you missed during the year! Ok happy new year bye x

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Babe with Andrea Cleary

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Rapper's Delight with Claire Beck

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We want to say a huge thank you to everyone who listened, subscribed, or supported Juvenalia in any way this year. We love making this podcast and love that you're out there listening. 

Juvenalia original artwork by Dee McDonnell

We've had a fun year here at Juvenalia. Maybe you skipped a couple of episodes along the way because you weren't familiar with the topic or you were just busy. Well that's fine. We've put together a little appetizer plate of bits from every episode this year for you to make sure you get a chance to try them all properly. Part 1 covers January to June including our live 50th episode extravaganza in the Workman's. 

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Follow us on Twitter, we're good and sound.

We want to say a huge thank you to everyone who listened, subscribed, or supported Juvenalia in any way this year. We love making this podcast and love that you're out there listening. 

Juvenalia original artwork by Dee McDonnell

Hello and welcome to the Juvenalia Christmas Smalltacular 2018! Alan, Ellen, and Sarah met up to share a Terry's Chocolate Orange and talk about Christmas stuff like Furbies, Puppy in My Pocket, Big Tunes 2000, the bridge from Star Trek: The Next Generation, loungewear, relaxing in jeans and a belt, Candle Check 2018, more selection box talk, Alan gets shamed for his love of Cadbury's Fudge, and chocolate spreads. 

Don't listen to this episode when there are small children around because you know why, it's Christmas, watch yourself. 

Follow us on Twitter, we're good and sound.

We want to say a huge thank you to everyone who listened, subscribed, or supported Juvenalia in any way this year. We love making this podcast and love that you're out there listening. HAPPY CHRISTMAS! WE LOVE YOU ALL 

Juvenalia original artwork by Dee McDonnell

Valerie Loftus of Stellar Magazine and The Glow Up joins Alan and Sarah to talk about the most successful girl group of all time and inventors of feminism, the Spice Girls. We talk about which Spice Girls Valerie and Sarah saw themselves as, Geri's betrayal, the solo careers, the reunion, and much more. 

Valerie is @valerieloftus on Twitter. Her book Thanks Penneys, with illustrations by Ciara Kenny is out now and it's very good and funny.  

Juvenalia original artwork by Dee McDonnell

Jack Fennell, editor of Irish sci-fi collection, A Brilliant Void, joins Alan and Sarah to talk about Star Trek: The Next Generation. Alan was obsessed with TNG when he was young, Sarah was not but she has many questions which Alan and Jack enthusiastically try to answer.  

You can find Jack on Twitter @JFennellAuthor. A Brilliant Void is out now from our good friends at Tramp Press

Juvenalia original artwork by Dee McDonnell

CW: This episode includes discussions about drug abuse, domestic violence, and sexual assault.

You can find Tony on Twitter @tonyduffin. For more information on harm reduction and the work that Ana Liffey does go to saferfromharm.ie

Juvenalia original artwork by Dee McDonnell

Caroline O'Donoghue joined Alan earlier in the year to co-host a couple of episodes. In between those episodes we had an hour to kill so we turned the mics back on and talked about The Sims! The Sims was a huge part of every millennial's childhood so we had a lot to talk about. We covered Death, Fires, The Sims Extended Universe, Paul St. Emos, Sexy Suave Goths, Seeing Famous People In Real Life, Reality Shows, and lots more.

Caroline's novel Promising Young Women is still out and is still excellent. She's one of the co-hosts of School For Dumb Women and her new chick-lit podcast Sentimental Garbage launches on December 6th. 

Alan is @alan_maguire, Caroline is @czaroline

Juvenalia original artwork by Dee McDonnell

Writer and podcaster Anne T. Donahue returns to Juvenalia to tell Alan and Ellen about her teenage obsession with Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet and Leonardo Di Caprio in general. We talk about beige food, huge teenage emotions, Titanic, John Leguizamo, Harry Styles, and just like a lot of other stuff. 

You can find Anne on twitter @annetdonahue. Her amazing book Nobody Cares is out now. Anne's podcast, also called Nobody Cares, is excellent and will be right up your street if you like Juvenalia.

Juvenalia original artwork by Dee McDonnell