Gaza, On Grief and Going On

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack It was a great pleasure to be joined by Shahd Alnaami, who is a 21-year-old writer, poet, and translator from Gaza, Palestine. In this PalCast episode, she speaks of losing her sister Rahaf, 13, and her friend Eman 19. She tells us how two houses belonging to her family were also destroyed and how her […]

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Trump vs The Internationale

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack without doubt the maddest, but best chat we’ve had the best-maddest US-Based Irish-Russian economist there is, Prof Constantin Gurdgiev. Tariffs, Trumpism, immigration, Irish pharma, BRICS and Martin’s viagra economic development plan. A belter. The Christy Moore podcast is here:https://www.patreon.com/posts/patron-exclusive-135485064 Dignity for Palestine:https://www.patreon.com/posts/dignity-for-two-134250846 https://media.blubrry.com/echochamberpodcast/content.blubrry.com/echochamberpodcast/Echo_Pod_Ep_1491a.mp3Podcast (echochamber): Play in new window | Download () | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts […]

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A Ballymun Blend

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Adam Mohamed is someone who we love and admire in the tortoise shack. His new project, A Ballymun Blend, is a written, spoken and sung history and stories of the much maligned area that we love. He is having a launch in the Axis, Ballymun on August 29th. Go. Tickets:https://axisballymun.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/shows The Christy Moore podcast is […]

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Writing our Stories – Taqwa Al-Wawi

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Taqwa Al-Wawi is a 19-year English literature student at the Islamic University of Gaza. She is also writer out of Gaza, who has published dozens of articles across the globe in the span of 6 months. She speaks of the importance of telling the story of the ongoing genocide, the empowerment of writing, the famine […]

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Black 47 and Other Songs

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Growing up Chris Byrne spent his time between New York City and Rural Ireland, he became a Brooklyn Cop, learned the tin whistle and uillean pipes and as part of Black 47, toured with the Pogues. And that was just a little bit of his story. He sat down with Sparky for a chat about […]

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You Can’t Hate Up Close

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Daniel Ennis is what you might call an accidental life-long politician, even if what he works on is not typically part of the political curriculum. He’s also 7ft 15″, so I had to be careful in my criticisms. This was fun. Not all podcasts with Cllrs are fun. The Christy Moore Podcast is out now […]

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Gaza and Loss on Every Level

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Dima Al-Madhoun is a translator in Gaza and joins us from her displacement tent in Al-Mawasi. She speaks of losing her home, moving from place to place, the heartbreaking loss of some members of her family and how she is greatly concerned that the current generation of children have now lost two years of their […]

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Fighting Class War is Proper Climate Action

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack It’s a lot at the moment. So rejoining us to wallow in the misery is lecturer at TUD, Dr Ciarán O’Carroll, and to be honest this assessment of where we are and what needs (must) be done was clarifying and somehow hopeful. The latest SWF with Black 47’s Chris Byrne is out now:https://www.patreon.com/posts/patron-exclusive-135125057 To support […]

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