A Woman's Place Ireland

Ep 22: Samhain Special: Ireland and The Faeries

This episode is a very special Halloween/Samhain special to wrap up the series on witches!

We are talking about Faeries in Irish society! We didn't really have witches here in Ireland but we did have those pesky faeries. Find out about this long standing Irish mythology, who the faeries were and listen as we talk about death, superstition and things our mothers (maybe) have done at funerals.

Happy Samhain/Halloween to all our listeners and thank you for listening. Find us on our social media

 

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BONUS VOICENOTE EP: Do Women want to be d0minated or do they just want men to have control (of themselves)?

Ok girlies, we're really spoiling you this week. I have been pondering this notion in my head after salivating over The Vampire Diaries' Damon Salvatore for a solid 4 weeks and before that it was Che Guevara  (Today, my love is Hasan Piker, but that's another episode) and I couldn't quite put my finger on why they are so goddamn sexy until finally I did this voicenote to tease it out! 

And babes, it's about more than control. I talk about male sexuality, male sexual agency and the power that MEN don't seem to think that they have over themselves.

 

Have a listen!

 

Also, please don't share this with my Mother. Thanks xoxo

 

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EP 21: ENVIOUS WITCHES & INSTAGRAM B*TCHES

We had fun with this one huns!

We talk about the modern depiction of witches in Popular Culture and focus in on the BAD witches and look at their 15th Century origins including the Hansel & Gretel witch, the Snow White Queen, Malificient and more. We also touch on ENVY and how it is a contributing factor to ONLINE ABUSE! We talk about Bloggers Unveiled, Coleen Rooney and most recently Charlotte from Geordie Shore and how they rooted out their envious Instagram abusers

Ep 20: Revolution and Protest songs with Dublin Digital Radio (pt1)

Back in...sometime this year? Tina did an hour with WWW on Dublin Digital Radio. Here is the first of her appearances with the show detailing songs of revolution and protest from Portugal, Australia, South America, Ireland and more. There are wonderful feminist anthems including "The Pill" and "El violador en tu camino" and songs in Portuguese, Spanish and English.

Some of these might surprise you to learn the background of. It's a seriously fun hour with a history lesson to boot

Enjoy!

Ep 19: The Black Death & the beginning of Witch hunting

In the 19th episode of A Woman's Place we discuss how Women/Witches are to blame for the misfortunes of mankind, especially disease. We take you back to the Black Death in Europe in 1346 and document how one of the most traumatic events in European history led to the witch hunts just two centuries later.

 

Sorcha talks you through some of the Religious elements, including the two popes that kept excommunicating each other, as well as painting the picture of what the environment was like between the periods of the Black Death in the 1300s and witch hunting in the 1500s.

 

Links to the stories mentioned in the podcast include Dr. Shi Zhengli aka 'Bat Woman'

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/14/world/asia/china-covid-wuhan-lab-leak.html

 

The story of Typhoid Mary

https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/abroad/typhoid-mary-the-irishwoman-blamed-for-bringing-a-deadly-disease-to-new-york-1.4210229

https://www.npr.org/2020/06/23/882115755/theres-something-about-mary?t=1629972336921

 

Two black Australian women who broke lockdown and were persecuted for doing so:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-07-31/racism-directed-at-women-charged-with-coronavirus-border-fraud/12510910

 

Books and Articles:

Plague and Persecution: The Black Death and Early Modern Witch-Hunts

https://dra.american.edu/islandora/object/1011capstones%3A96/datastream/PDF/view

 

“Fearless Wives and Frightened Shrews”

 

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Ep 18: Married to God: Why Irish women chose The Convent

In this latest episode of A Woman's Place we talk about WHY Irish women chose to 'go into the covent' and become nuns. What were the power dynamics of these structures, what were the conditions of their lives which influenced their decision.

We also touch on the notion of 'purity' and why Irish people's identity, especially womanhood, became intrinsically linked with cleanliness and containment.

 

Our isolationist past politically, is also related to the isolation of the female within the home and the isolation of ourselves as humans from emotion.

 

This is a great conversation for ideas with a sprinkle of history!

 

 

Ep 17: The Most Powerful Women in Ireland: A history of The Nuns

In this week's episode we look at the history of religious orders in Ireland and how it came about that Religious Orders had so much power in Irish society.

We barely scratched the surface of this conversation but this is the first part of a series on the nuns in Ireland. We start off with Catholic Emancipation, through to De Valera and then onto the work in Reformation schools.

It gets a little choppy at the end because this conversation is so dense. We hope you get some new understanding about Religious Orders here in Ireland. 

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Episode Breakdown:

3.00 The Reformation

3.30 We love mass

5.00 Gaffs for the nuns

8.30 Penny for the fancy churches

10.15 Nuns as teachers

11.00 Is there anything to be said for another nun

12.20 A better life

14.00 Changing Gods

16.00 They are so SMRT

17.00 OUT OUT YIZ HERETICS

18.20 Post War Ireland was no craic

19.30 All the lads out for a pray

22.00 What were the parties in Ireland

25.00 A new constitution

28.00 15,000 nuns 

30.30 Who are the nuns

32.45 The first asylum

36.40 Irish Institutions were the gold standard

40.00 Why were children admitted

52.00 Containing the problem

60.00 Delivery Drivers

64.00 Who were the nuns (getting back on track)

 

Ep 16: Britney: Not a girl, not yet a human

In Episode 16 we talk you through the Free Britney movement, getting in depth about what exactly conservatorships are in America and here in Ireland. We talk about how other celebrities are subject to this same treatment, how to get one and we discuss the injustice of this practise which is used to control people with 'mental health' issues and more commonly, people with disabilities. 

 

Check out the first part of our mental health series "That Witch Cray" and learn about the history of women's mental health. https://open.spotify.com/episode/2AhNDlHuoYxk9RZGXOPgsc

 

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Ep 15: What is AI being used for? And is it racist af?

In this episode we are back after another hiatus (it's been humid ok?) and we're following up our Violence and Technology episode (13) with a discussion on AI and what surveillance systems are being used for.

 

Is it to protect you? Or just to control you through surveillance? 

And why are the US mad at Tik Tok???

 

Join us!

Ep 14: Technology always leads to more violence

In Episode 14 we are discussing technology and taking you ALL the way back to the invention of papyrus. We detail out how each new discovery has both lead to a burst of creativity but also of destruction and subjugation.

 

We talk about sails, the radio, the printing press, the stirrup and of course, the internet and how the world has gotten more violent, not less.

 

We're putting a call out for technology to be democratised and the people who are affected most (the users) to get to decide how it's used.

 

As always, send us a DM on Instagram or Twitter if you want us to discuss anything in particular. Requests welcome!