We, The Irish

What does home mean to you?Is it the place where you keep your belongings?Or is it where they people you care about spend their time.Or does it run deeper than that.Is it somewhere where your soul feels at peace.Where without thought you feel like you belong.Like you have always belonged.Like there was nowhere else you should be.How deep would this run.It’s the story of a Monaghan man which answers these questions for us.This is his story.The music for this episode was written, preformed and produced by Ryhan O’Halloran.The story was researched and scripted by Oran.If you want to help support this podcast, you can buy us a coffee at www.buymeacoffee.com/wetheirish or leave us a review on your podcast app.

As history progresses, and we learn of our respective pasts, a theme begins to present itself.Those in power would like to display this theme as something they had developed.They would like you to believe that it is as a result of their decisions that things became better.They would like you to believe that they were the architects of change.That they were the decision makers which led to you having the freedoms you hold.They would like you to believe that they gave you the freedom to do what you want, when you want to do it and how you want to do it.The reality is, throughout history, as the masses of people are forced through the norms of time by those in charge, from time to time, one of us rises.They’ll stand up and look around, breath the air and see something better on the horizon.Then with an almighty burst of fear and courage they will run at the wall.When the wall comes down, like sheep we all see the gap and follow them through with ease.Let us not forget, the first through the wall always gets bloody.What does it take to become one of these people?It’s the life of an Irish women which answers this question for us.This is her story.Today’s music was written, preformed and produced by Ryhan O’HalloranThe story was researched and scripted by OranIf you want to help support this podcast, you can buy us a coffee atwww.buymeacoffe.com/wetheirish or leave us a review on your podcast app.

This episode tells the story of the County Down woman who saved hundreds of children from the horrors of child prostitution.

What would you do for freedom?Would you give everything for it?Give up all life’s comforts?What if this meant your efforts would lead to you a prison cell?Would you bargain the freedom you have in order to gain more for others?What if you had to pay the ultimate price for freedom and could not then enjoy it yourself?Would that sacrifice justify to you your cause?It’s the life of the son of a British Soldier which answers these questions for us.This is his story.This episodes music was written, preformed and produced by Ryhan O’HalloranThe story was researched and scritped by Oran.If you want to help support this podcast you can buy us a coffee atwww.buymeacoffee.com/wetheirish or leave us a review on your podcast app.

What is revenge?Is it something you must achieve in order to feel better within yourself about pastgrievances?Or is it something which you use to get even rather than to find peace through?What if the initial hurt was not inflicted on you directly but someone close to you?Does that still give you the right to seek revenge?It’s the life of a man from Cork which answers these questions for us.This is his story.This episodes music was written, preformed and produced by Ryhan O’HalloranThe story was researched and scripted by Oran,If you want to help support this podcast, you can buy us a coffee atwww.buymeacoffee.com/wetheirish or leave us a review on your podcast app.

What does marriage mean to you?Is it for the sake of a day out?The rest of your life?Or is it for eternity?What is the importance of it?What does the wearing of a ring bounding you to another mean to your soul?It is the life of a woman from Dublin which answers these questions for us.This is her story.The music for this episode was written, produced and preformed by Ryhan O’HalloranThe story was researched and scripted by Oran.If you want to help support this podcast, you can buy us a coffee and www.buymeacoffee.com/wetheirish or leave us a review on your podcast app.

In Dublin City, in the early 20th century, a series of revolutions began.The world watched as the oppressed attempted to become the equal.Differences were set aside for common goals of freedom.Dreams and ambitions were abandoned so that others, not yet born could have their dreams and ambitions realised.That was the cost of freedom.Had you been there, could you have done the same?Could you have given yourself for the freedom of those you would never meet 100 years later?What would it take for you to believe in this fight?It is the life of a Dublin man which answers these questions for us.This is his story.The music for this episode was written preformed and produced by Ryhan O’Halloran.The story was researched and scripted by Oran.If you want to help support this podcast, you can buy us a coffee at www.buymeacoffee.com/wetheirish or leave us a review on your podcast app!

What does loyalty mean to you?What lengths would it take for your loyalty to be broken?What would be required to gain your loyalty?If this loyalty was at your expense, would you break it?Or would you accept that perhaps that is the idea of loyalty.It’s the life of a Wicklow woman which answers these questions for us.This is her story.The music was written, preformed and produced by Ryhan O’Halloran.The story was research and scripted by Oran.If you want to help support us in creating this podcast, you can buy us a coffee atwww.buymeacoffee.com/wetheirish or leave us a review on your podcast app.

What could you achieve if you believed you were protected by gods?Not the gods we recognised today in the western world, but ancient gods.Ones with dedication to war.Ones who banished fear.Ones who understood and provided courage.Would you become god like yourself, or would you understand your role in passing this protection to others?It’s the life of a Limerick man which answers these questions for us.This is his story.The music for this episode was written preformed and produced by Ryhan O’HalloranThe story was researched and scripted by myself OranIf you want to help support this podcast, you can buy us a coffee at www.buymeacoffee.com/wetheirish or leave us a review on your podcast app.

What would you do if you were born into a world which didn’t want you.A world which saw you as unworthy from the time before your birth.What is this continued through your early life.Would you resent those who resented you?What if you became bitter?Where would your life take you?Where would you belong?It is the life of a Cork woman which answers these questions for us.This is her story.The music for this episode was written, produced and preformed by Ryhan O’HalloranThe story was researched and scripted by Oran.If you want to help support this podcast, you can buy us a coffee at www.buymeacoffee.com/wetheirish or leave us a review on your podcast app.