Want to create an interactive transcript for this episode?
Podcast: The Letter from Ireland Podcast
Episode: What Happens when an Irish Bard Reads Your Family History (#821)
Description: In this episode we look at two different styles of story-telling. First, Carina reads out "Which County did your Irish Ancestor Come from?". This is a letter in a standard essay format - and Carina chats about the formation of the different counties in Ireland.In the second feature we do something very different - but very Irish! We ask an Irish Poet/Bard to look at the family history of one of our Green Room members and then to put the entire saga from their origins in Ireland and move to the USA INTO VERSE. <...