Pisrógs

Pisrógs

By Luke Pisrogs Conroy and Cathal Pisrogs BerginArts
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Pisrógs episodes

  • Trepanation and Health Gods
    OH THE BRAIN, the thing piloting your swiping fingers and fidgeting thumbs right now.
    HE'S a pretty complex boy,
    BUT would you believe that all the way back in the 7th century a monk by the name of Bricin was poking holes in injured warrior's skulls AND doing a damn good job on it too?
    LEARN about the:
    THOUSAND-year-old medical art of trepanation.
    GOD of medicine in Ireland and the surprisingly terrifying origin of the River Barrow.
    BRAIN BALLS and the man whose head exploded when he heard of a certain someone's crucificion.
    42 min
  • Genitals na hÉireann

    LABIAS and Gonads, the foreplay has ended. It's time for our episode of bollocks on the GENITALS NA HÉIREANN.


    LEARN ABOUT:

    Queen Medbh's insatiable sexual appetite, her STALLION lover and the time she carved a new path in the river with the power BETWEEN HER LEGS.

    IRISH APHRODISIACS such as badger mickey and rabbit skin.

    EX-PRIESTS who would marry you off at their gaff for the cheap and would tear the certificate up if you had the coin.

    FILTHY place names and SHEELA NA GIG.

    PLUS, learn how every standing stone in Ireland is just a big fat member. 


    LISTEN to this one in a dark room before and after a shower with the picture of the baby Jesus out in the shed.


    OH BABY.







    1 hr 11 min
  • The Devil Himself

    AN DIABHAL, The Devil, Old Nick, The Old...Boy?

    WE all know of the devil, he's the red fella with the horns who is likely to be the ruler of our infinite misery if indeed it is true that you should fast on Friday, he also is the mascot for hot sauces and red wine. He's a busy lad.

    BUT the devil in Irish Folklore is far from the fallen angel of Danté's Inferno, at his best he's like Al Pacino in Devi's Advocate and his worst, like Elma Fud in Looney Tunes.

    THE rule of thumb? In Irish folkore, the devil is either a simpleton you owe money to (TV License Inspector) or the subject of your night terrors (Your Landlord).

    LEARN about:

    LOFTUS HOUSE where the devil played cards with a woman, steeping her in love and driving her insane.

    MUIRDEACH'S HIGH CROSS and its ornate representations of demons.

    THE DEVIL IN LANGUAGE and how it reflects satan as the anti-thesis.

    THE devil as a half-witted slime ball who just cant catch a break.








    38 min
  • Grianán of Aileach

    THE STONE HOUSE OF THE SUN

    THIS Donegal antiquity has been the quiet sentinel of Ireland, WITNESS to our shared history - 

    FROM the Tuatha Dé Danann to midnight mass, its a long-time fan of our stuff.

    A temple for the sun god Baal,

    THE original home of the O'Neill Clan, the site of Niall of the Nine Hostages conversion to Christianity by Old Man Patrick and the eventual hideaway for Catholics in penal times.

    ARCHAEOLOGISTS also found a stone phallus there, for you stone-cold lovers out there.

    IT'S been watching us a while okay so maybe give IT a listen HUH!?

    Source: Samuel Scott (The National Folklore Collection) Music: Gareth Quinn Redmond. Art: Aisling Larkin Design. 

    46 min
  • Place of Oisin

    KILLESHIN, Church of the Glen of Uise, 

    PLACE of Oisin.

    TALES from Killeshin, Carlow and its surrounding areas chosen by YEE.

    SONS of legends, MEN catching rabbits, HIBERNO-ROMAN arches, IRISH acres v ENGLISH acres, 

    NED of the HILL?

    IT'S all in our spin around Killeshin! (AS well as a man who kills his goat in drunken anxiety).

    STRAP into the passenger seat and put Mr. Gareth Quinn Redmond on the AUX baby.

    Music - @GarethQuinnRedmond Illustration - @AislingLarkinDesign


    42 min
  • Hanged Priest, The Black Hand & Butter
    TALES from local areas submitted by YEE (@pisrogspodcast on Instagram).
    THIS episode unwinds forgotten yarns from Dromore West SLIGO, Birr Co. OFFALY and Inchicore DUBLIN. 
    VENGEFUL knights, evil spirits, cursed churches, stolen BUTTER. 
    A lean mean and captivating spin through the land of IRE.
    37 min
  • Werewolves of Ossory

    AWOO, ehem. 

    IN this episode a priest and our old friend 'Gerald of Wales' come across a pair of werewolves, they have a chat with them and give them a bit of communion for their trouble.

    LYNCANTHROPY, the transformation of humans into wolves. 

    IT'S a phenom that transcends borders, there are werewolves in Germany, Greece, The Balkins . . . and the counties Kilkenny and Laois.

    OSSORY was a kingdom in Ireland which spread across these two counties, give or take. 


    46 min
  • Follies & Garden Hermits

    THE BOY(S) discuss the weird, wonderful world of FOLLIES and their impractical existence, as well as their unlikely connection to the FAMINE.

    EVER wanted an old man living in your back garden? 

    EVER want a slice of Egypt in your ends?

    EVER build something to break?

    ARISTOCRATS did.

    56 min
  • Conversations with a Druid
    NEW GROUND for the podcast,
    WITH Aran preparing to venture into the bowels of the Amazon, Luke holds down the fort, but not alone, as the Pisrogs Podcast takes on its its first roguish interview with the rambunctious Ronan O'Raghallaigh!
    RONAN is an artist from county Kildare who took the matter of disassembling his colonization into his own hands, by taking part in a Bealtaine Baptism over quarantine and becoming a 21st Century Druid.
    HE'S also a really nice guy!
    OPEN YOUR EARS TO:
    Shamanic drum visions, spirit animals and personal journeys
    Celtic art and its misreading as purely 'decorative'
    The collective conscious, Surrealism, Franis Bacon, Karl Jung, Psychedelia and Naas
    Tales of Manannan the sea god and his tomfoolery,
    The Celts siege on Rome and the origin of the term for which Ronan titled his first exhibition -
    VAE VICTIS - WOE TO THE VANQUISHED
    1 hr 26 min
  • Invention of Music
    JOIN the boys as they discuss everything under the big sonic sun - From the mythological invention of music, to the instruments of the past, to the magic behind the instruments and their players . . . A meal for the ears!
    “NO enemy speaks slightingly of Irish Music, and no friend need fear to boast of it. It is without a rival, Its antique war-tunes, such as those of O'Byrne, O'Donnell, MacAlistrum and Brian Boru, stream and crash upon the ear like the warriors of a hundred glens meeting; and you are borne with them to battle, and they and you charge and struggle amid cries and battle-axes and stinging arrows. Did ever a wail make man's marrow quiver and fill his nostrils with the breath of the grave, like the ululu or A Muire ir Truag of Munster” - Thomas Davis
    ULULU, ULULU!
    MUSIC has a place at the core of one's imagination of the Irish 'scene' a place so central that its place within the setting can often be overlooked:
    A dimly lit room, pipes and pints, feet tapping, chats going, and all there for the sound produced by fiddles, bodhrans, whistles and hums.
    1 hr 15 min

About Pisrógs

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Pisrogs podcast is an audio adventure of Irish myth, folklore, history and more. The podcast started with hosts Luke Conroy and Aran Reidy trawling through the Duchás Folklore Archives for the most spell-binding, peculiar, imaginative and funny Irish folk stories they could find.