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Search complete. 9 mentions across 5 episodes found for "Éire".

Sep 19, 2026

Jen MurphyGUEST
52:37
And that is a triple name for Ireland, right? So Ireland is actually named after Eru.
Jen MurphyGUEST
52:42
It's Eire in the Irish language.
Jen MurphyGUEST
52:44
So it's named after the goddess.
Jen MurphyGUEST
52:45
And so they negotiate with Armageddon, first of all, and his people.
William McGrathSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
27:05
Then on the other hand, we have what might be termed the legal forces.
William McGrathSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
27:11
That is, the forces that are under the control of the Eire government in Dublin.
William McGrathSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
27:18
Make no mistake about it, the Eire government will throw all its forces against the Protestants in the North at the right moment in time.
Sam McBrideGUEST
27:31
Yeah.
Sam McBrideGUEST
27:31
This is a particularly interesting aspect of the tape because we do not have very good knowledge from all sorts of sources of what was actually going on at this point.
Sam McBrideGUEST
27:51
This matters to you.
Sam McBrideGUEST
27:52
This is on one side of a great global struggle as he presents it.
Sam McBrideGUEST
27:56
And what he says is, "Make no mistake about it, the Eire government will throw all its forces against the Protestants in the North at the right moment in time." But we now know that that was demonstrably, clearly, provably nonsensical.
Marisa GoudyHOST
4:45
If you think about it, Talti was working according to the same principle.
Marisa GoudyHOST
4:49
She revealed those fertile fields in Eire's eastern midlands.
Marisa GoudyHOST
4:53
It's just that she was working from the opposite direction, tearing down rather than building up.
Marisa GoudyHOST
4:59
Destruction is just as valid as creation in the long cycle of life, death, and rebirth, after all.
Cerri LeeHOST
5:34
Mm
DamhHOST
5:35
... tells of a series of invasions or peoples who landed upon the shores of Éire, or Ireland, and one of those peoples were the Tuatha De, or the Tuatha De Danann as they later became known.
Cerri LeeHOST
5:56
Mm.
DamhHOST
5:58
And I've always connected those people with the fae in a way.
Hugh O'ConnorHOST
27:17
I mentioned in another episode of the podcast, last year, I was just, I don't know, I was reading something and I saw the word Rooney for secretary.
Hugh O'ConnorHOST
27:26
And it is only then that I realised, as Rún is the Irish for secret, that the English word is also a secret, Eire.
Hugh O'ConnorHOST
27:34
It's the person who holds your secrets, you know?
Mollie GuideraGUEST
27:36
Yes.

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