Gaeilge Thar Lear
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Two Metres Away: Cycling, Storytelling, and La Redoute
This is a follow-up to my earlier post, How I Discovered Professional Cycling, which ended on a cliffhanger. This is the second part of that story. There is a moment I keep coming back to. A road somewhere in Belgium,… Continue reading
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The Violence of Simplification
This is a piece from an upcoming “Gaeilge Thar Lear” episode that has been translated and adapted for my blog. A few days ago I heard something that stayed with me. Donald Trump said he was going to destroy Iranian… Continue reading
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Growing Up Between Two Worlds – “An Glúin Imníoch”
This piece is adapted from an episode of my Irish-language podcast, Gaeilge Thar Lear, recorded after reading Jonathan Haidt’s The Anxious Generation. A Celtic Tiger Childhood I was born in 1991, which makes me, depending on who you ask, either… Continue reading
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The Tales That Really Mattered
Back on the Commute For five years I worked from home. I live in Bonn but my office is in Cologne — about an hour door to door when the trains are behaving themselves, which, on the stretch between Bonn… Continue reading
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Why I Started an Irish Language Podcast: Gaeilge Thar Lear
Podcasts are so simple. In a world of complex technology and rapid innovation, podcasts are incredibly basic. Podcasts simply involve listening to one person, two people, or a small group discuss topics they are passionate about. Podcasts are only limited… Continue reading




