Talking Derry Girls

We're discussing: Derry Girls / Series 2 / Ep5 / 'The Prom'

Our own 3 Derry Girls delve into the murky, messy, fragile world of teenage friendship. Derry's Doctor Who connections are explored - could the Doctor be a Derry Girl? Pauline, Jeanie and Marie Louise reminisce about their own Prom dates and how nuns armed with rulers measured out a decent distance during the slow dances. As ever - many questions are asked. Are Derry people too pasty for Baywatch? Could nude sunbathing ever have taken off in Donegal and just how tight is too tight? 

Jame’s Dr Who: https://www.tombakerofficial.com/

Pauline’s Dr Who: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001172/

Willie Doherty’s project with Christopher Eccleston: https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/art-and-design/visual-art/willie-doherty-and-the-persistence-of-underlying-antagonisms-1.4265801

Willie Doherty and the Turner Prize: https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/exhibition/turner-prize-2003/turner-prize-2003-artists-willie-doherty

Jeanie’s Dr Who - David Tennant and his Derry/Londonderry connections: http://www.bbc.co.uk/whodoyouthinkyouare/past-stories/david-tennant.shtml

Pope John Paul’s visit to Ireland 1979: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-45103181

Dr Ian Paisley: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-16910949

London’s Burning: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London%27s_Burning_(TV_series)

Coronation Street: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronation_Street

Home and Away: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_and_Away

The Bill: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bill

Peter Cunnah: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Cunnah

Carrie: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074285/

The Ceasefire 1994 chronology of events: https://cain.ulster.ac.uk/othelem/chron/ch94.htm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/31/newsid_3605000/3605348.stm

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We're discussing: Derry Girls / Series 2 / Ep4 / 'The Curse'

A bit like life itself, there are more questions than answers in this week's episode. How hilarious are your scones? Pauline has a recipe and you may need a big bowl. Has anyone ever actually done Rock the Boat at an Irish wedding? (Before the Derry Girls made it a thing?) Would you know a hallion from a scallion? 

Are the English really weird and how many red suits does Donna Traynor have? Marie Louise, Jeanie and Pauline ask themselves why they feel more comfortable at a wake than a wedding and just how Snow White is Marie Louise? 

Father Ted - if you haven’t seen this it’s a must, get it wherever you can! https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111958/ 

Ardal O’Hanlon - Cousin Eamon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ardal_O%27Hanlon

Eleanor Methven - Aunt Bridie  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0582556/

Knee-capping in NI - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kneecapping

Tarring and feathering - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/8381652.stm

The Irish Wake - https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/sep/09/why-the-irish-get-death-right

Marie-Louise’s BBC Radio 4 documentary on keening - Songs for the Dead - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b07npx1f

Nadine Coyle - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadine_Coyle

Nicola Coughlan - and her audition for Derry Girls https://www.irishpost.com/news/derry-girls-nicola-coughlan-northern-irish-accent-164981?utm_source

The Little Book of Derry - https://www.thehistorypress.co.uk/publication/the-little-book-of-derry/9781845888718/

Dave Allen - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Allen_(comedian)

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We're discussing: Derry Girls / Series 2 / Ep3 / 'The Concert'

Whatever we said whatever we did we probably meant it. Pauline, Jeanie and Marie-Louise come clean about their own teenage misdemeanours - some of which happened when they were old enough to know better. How far did they go to meet their heroes and would they have booed Led Zeppelin off the stage for playing their new song? The facts about the escaped polar bear are unearthed with the truth proving even more farcical than the fiction. Marie-Louise refuses to believe that BBC news presenter Donna Traynor could spread Fake News and is a line of white tape adequate protection from a potential explosion? Is it possible to get paid extra for turning up late for work and is it ever wise to ask a virtual stranger on a date? Take That. You probably deserved it. 

Eddi Izzard: https://www.eddieizzard.com/en

Daniel O’Donnell: http://danielodonnell.org

Saturday Night Fever - starring John Travolta: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076666/

The Blue Nile: https://www.thebluenile.org

Brian Kennedy: https://www.briankennedy.co.uk

The Europa Hotel: https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/life-goes-on-at-the-most-bombed-hotel-in-the-world-1.2901861

Peter the polar bear: https://www.express.co.uk/showbiz/tv-radio/1161477/Derry-Girls-season-2-did-polar-really-escape-Belfast-Zoo-true-story-SE02E03-Netflix-series

Wild Ireland: https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/meet-the-bearman-of-buncrana-i-knew-about-joe-exotic-for-years-1.4324579

Rita - actor Kerri Quinn: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4946216/

Take That concert Belfast 1993: https://www.express.co.uk/showbiz/tv-radio/1162330/Derry-Girls-season-2-Take-That-band-really-perform-Belfast-Northern-Ireland-Netflix-series#:~:text=The%20Derry%20Girls%20were%20attending,tour%20was%20titled%20Pops%20Tour.

Gary Lightbody (Snow Patrol): https://www.irishnews.com/arts/music/2019/06/05/news/gary-lightbody-my-grandmother-shaped-my-outlook-on-life-and-how-we-should-treat-people-1635455/

Donna Traynor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Traynor

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We're discussing: Derry Girls / Series 2 / Ep2 / 'Ms De Bruin and the Child of Prague'

Pauline, Jeanie and Marie Louise wonder if one of them could be the "Craic Killer." They discuss the history and devotion given to the "enchanting piece of religious art" that is the Child of Prague and what happens if you "Seize The Day" and nothing happens? What if the best version of yourself isn't that great and when is an accident not an accident? There are memories of teachers who truly do inspire and guide you towards that better version of yourself…Will the real Ms De Bruin please step forward. Tips for a successful date night and how not to impress the love of your life, all whilst remembering that the Christmas cupboard is sacred and that espresso comes in a "wile wee cup". 

Dead Poets Society - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097165/

The Usual Suspects - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114814/

Seamus Heaney - http://seamusheaneyhome.com

Things you need to know about the Child of Prague - https://www.onefabday.com/uk/child-of-prague/

We mention the Glenshane Pass a lot and it occurred to me that some folks ‘Across the Water’ may not know this place….  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenshane_Pass

Sex abuse scandals in Ireland in the ‘90s - https://www.irishnews.com/news/popevisit/2018/08/24/news/summary-of-clerical-sex-abuse-scandals-in-ireland-1415362/

Glenroe and Gabriel Byrne - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_Byrne

The Fall - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2294189/

Field Day Theatre Company - https://fieldday.ie/about/

A Particle of Dread - http://www.sam-shepard.com/particle.html

Judith Roddy (Ms De Bruin) - https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1801240/

Brian Friel - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Friel

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We're discussing: Derry Girls / Series 2 / Episode 1 / 'Across the Barricade'

The gang are off on a cross community peace trip...but when it comes down to it are we really all that different? Maybe not. Pauline, Jeanie and Marie-Louise discuss the art of borrowing and how Derry band, The Undertones, owe a big debt to the late Nobel Prize Winner John Hume. They reminisce about the books by Joan Lingard whose Protestant girl/Catholic boy love stories gripped a generation of teens, 'Across the Barricades' being perhaps the best known. Is it ever OK to keep your toaster in a cupboard? Could ABBA have helped the peace process and do arms dealers have a patron Saint?

THE big bowl - The messy social live of goods: inter-personal borrowing and the ambiguity of possession and ownership: http://centaur.reading.ac.uk/79212/1/Molesworth%20the%20messy%20social%20lives%20of%20goods.pdf

Credit Union in Derry and John Hume: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-53655503

Michael Parkinson - broadcaster: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Parkinson

Terry Wogan: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/2pWR5yl7srfqNWYHwHj0Nsq/eight-times-terry-wogan-made-us-cry-with-laughter

Joan Lingard - writer: https://literature.britishcouncil.org/writer/joan-lingard

The Linenhall Library: https://discovernorthernireland.com/things-to-do/linen-hall-library-p676181

The broadcasting ban in Northern Ireland: https://cain.ulster.ac.uk/othelem/media/moloney.htm

Paul Mallon aka Dennis from the Wee Shop: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2546951/?ref_=tt_cl_t15

Big confession: we called Janet Taylor - Janet Turner in the episode! Aka Caoimhe Farren (actor): https://www.imdb.com/name/nm7939682/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t18

The blackboard in the Ulster Museum: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-51578078

Protestants hate Abba (they don’t): https://www.newsletter.co.uk/news/ni-protestant-abba-fans-contest-derry-girls-assertion-protestants-hate-abba-87603

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Winner of the Radio Times Award for TV Moment of the Year - the final episode of series 1 brings a fairground ride of emotions. Pauline, Jeanie and Marie Louise examine those things that just aren't talked about and discuss the secrets that we all keep in our search for acceptance. What was it like to be gay in 90's Derry? From dirty laundry to job interview tips and workplace training the girls build up to their own very personal reactions to that final award winning scene.

Shoes of the world has actually been written in The Habit - it actually exists https://www.joe.ie/movies-tv/school-derry-girls-actually-brought-habit-magazine-back-perfect-article-617924

How to sort out your weekly wash…. just ask Pauline on our Facebook page…

Gerry Anderson BBC Radio Ulster/ Radio Foyle legend - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p071wzdt/episodes/downloads

Jimmy McShane https://www.derryjournal.com/news/brother-derry-pop-star-speaks-aids-stigma-and-devastation-173719

Armistad Maupin - Tales of the City https://www.armisteadmaupin.com/books-1

Derry Gay Pride https://www.facebook.com/foylepride/

Jimmy McShane https://www.derryjournal.com/news/brother-derry-pop-star-speaks-aids-stigma-and-devastation-173719

Chronicle of events in Ireland during the years of the troubles CAIN - 1998 https://cain.ulster.ac.uk/othelem/chron/ch98.htm

Lost Lives book (very hard to get hold off but good to know it’s out there https://cain.ulster.ac.uk/issues/violence/mckittrick.htm

Children of the Troubles by Joe Duffy and Freya McClements https://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/book-tracing-the-186-children-who-died-in-the-troubles-launched-1.4053136

Radio Times TV moment of the year 2018 https://www.radiotimes.com/news/tv/2018-12-31/top-tv-moments-2018/

A tribute album by various artists released after the Omagh bombing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Across_the_Bridge_of_Hope

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It's the 12th of July and the Derry Girls are leaving town. Pauline Jeanie and Marie Louise talk about the history of the 12th, being waved at by the big man off the telly and why a fortune teller had all the answers - maybe. They advise on taking the right purse and why packing a fruit cake in your hand luggage isn't recommended. They're having a whale of a time on the River Foyle, hitchhiking across the border and discussing the correct etiquette when invited to tea with paramilitaries. 

The Sash: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sash

Battle of the Boyne 1690: https://www.britannica.com/event/Battle-of-the-Boyne

The Orange Order: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-18769781

The Apprentice Boys of Derry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apprentice_Boys_of_Derry

http://www.thesiegemuseum.org/

BBC Sounds a short history of Ireland podcast - from around omnibus 20 builds up to the history of the Orange Order; Siege of Derry and the Apprentice Boys of Derryhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00mnfpl

Derry - Londonderry City of Culture 2013:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/dec/29/derry-city-of-culture-reawakened-idealism

Drumcree standoff 1995-2000: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drumcree_conflict

Different Drums - Roy Arbuckle: http://www.differentdrums.net/players/roy-arbuckle/

Rev Ian Paisley: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/sep/12/the-rev-ian-paisley

Moby Dick - The Novel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moby-Dick

Dick - the whale in the Foyle! https://www.derryjournal.com/news/dopey-dick-has-retired-scotland-784232

Tommy Teirnan - Gerry Quinn: https://www.tommedian.com/

The Punt - currency in Ireland before the Euro.. 

http://www.irishcoinage.com/PICINDX4.HTM

Progressive Unionist Party (PUP) https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-11121336

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulster_loyalism

Club Biscuits: https://mcvities.co.uk/products/club

Bronagh Taggart - Nicola in Peggy’s diner: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0846499/

Terence Keeley - the wee ‘ra man in the boot:

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Even if some of the hosts have eight bedrooms and a chocolate fountain, one wean from Chernobyl is not impressed and Granda Joe's new ‘friend’ has started a Cold War. Pauline, Jeanie and Marie Louise talk condoms, blow-dries and the downsides to a bomb damaged bargain. Pauline discovers why it really matters whether Granda Joe bought a cream horn or a cream finger and whether the Stations of the Cross is a suitable place for a date.

The Walls of Derry: https://thederrywalls.com/

Why people starved within the walls - The Siege of Derry: https://www.culturenorthernireland.org/features/heritage/siege-derry

The Undertones: http://theundertones.com/_/Home.html

Snow - Informer (1992) - Great Irish name - Darrin Kenneth O’Brien. Well worth a read! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_(musician)

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/snow-interview-2019-informer-con-calma-837818/

Chernobyl Children in NI: https://en-gb.facebook.com/foyleandinishowencci/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-36140015

Pump Street and cream horns…https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/travel/ireland/derry-girls-guide-to-derry-murals-cream-horns-and-sr-michael-stout-1.3816482

ACTOR Diona Doherty (Katya): https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5189746/

Eurovision Song Contest - Cork 1993 - Ireland kept winning the contest which meant they had to host the next one! Ireland won 1993 so we were then treated to River Dance during the interval in 1994: http://www.millstreet.ie/blog/tag/eurovision-1993-memories

Aran jumpers - they look good no matter what size you are - ignore Jeanie! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aran_jumper

East Belfast - where Wee Clive was from, a really interesting history to this place: https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/life/features/we-serve-up-50-fascinating-facts-about-east-belfast-30958166.html

ACTOR: Anthony Boyle (David Donnelly): https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4996269/

Only a Woman’s heart - Eleanor McEvoy and Mary Black: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjQP9931NhU

This is such a great story from Frank Crummey and his boot filled with condoms:

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Exam time leads to some new found religious devotions. Even the statues are moved. Or is it all a tall tale? Pauline, Jeanie and Marie Louise examine the phenomena of the "sexy priest", crushes on the older man and why burying a dog doesn't necessarily mean it's dead. There's bingo, bellies, dogsh*t, army manoeuvres and ironing. Plus the realisation that everyone's a liar. No offence!

Ian McElhinney: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0568400/

Ian's interview with The Derry Journal: https://www.derryjournal.com/whats-on/big-interview-game-thrones-and-derry-girls-actor-ian-mcelhinney-164921

Jonathan Swift: https://www.biography.com/scholar/jonathan-swift

Ballinspittle Co Cork - moving statue RTE TV report: https://www.rte.ie/archives/collections/news/21203792-moving-statue-in-ballinspittle/

John Hume: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1998/hume/biographical/

Father Ted: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111958/

The Thorn Birds: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085101/

Fleabag: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5687612/

Derry Journal: https://www.derryjournal.com/

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What’s yours? Or maybe that should be ‘Do you want chips with that?’ Everyone gets enthusiastic about a school trip to Paris - sure their newly discovered trust funds will cover the cost - won’t they? We learn how a ban from the chip shop in ‘90s Derry was a worse fate than being tied up by masked men and how either would still be preferable to an evening with boring Uncle Colm. Pauline, Jeanie and Marie-Louise talk school assemblies, the realisation that we are not all equal and how Derry men embraced being stay at home dads, long before it was fashionable. Would you like salt and vinegar with that? 

Daniel O’Donnell: http://danielodonnell.org/

Woolworths - first store in UK: http://www.woolworthsmuseum.co.uk/aboutwoolies.html

Wellworths: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wellworths

Derry’s shirt factories: https://www.culturenorthernireland.org/features/heritage/shirt-industry

Night Hawks - RTE: https://www.rte.ie/archives/2016/1024/826451-comedian-kevin-mcaleer/

Samuel Beckett: https://www.biography.com/writer/samuel-beckett

Morecambe and Wise: http://www.morecambeandwise.com/viewpage.aspx?pageid=17

The Big Issue (North): Jamie Lee O’Donnell doesn’t talk about the corona stone in this interview but it’s still a crackin' read - https://www.bigissuenorth.com/issues/1343/

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