Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams

Mar 09 2025 240 ep. 16 mins 233
Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams artwork

Current Affairs, Politics, Irish Unity, History and Culture.

  News  Society & Culture  History
RSS feed Share
Copy RSS


Subscribe on Podcast Addict


Seachtain na Gaeilge | Death of Dafyyd Elis-Thomas

Mar 09 2025 12 mins  
Seachtain na Gaeilge Seachtain na Gaeilge used to run for one week but because it was so popular it was extended. It now runs annually from 1 March to 17 March – St. Patrick’s Day. Is í Seachtain na Gaeilge an ceiliúradh is mó den Ghaeilge agus Cultúr na hÉireann ar domhan. Bhí an oiread sin ráchairt uirthi gur síneodh amach chuig coicís í. Bíonn sí ar siúl ó 1 M�

Brendan McFarlane | Taking a Stand | Fáilte abhaile Leonard

Mar 02 2025 14 mins  
Brendan McFarlane On Tuesday we buried our friend and comrade Brendan McFarlane. Bik texted me just over 2 weeks or so ago to say he was back in hospital. He had been battling cancer for some time. A few days later the medics stopped his treatment. There was nothing else they could do for him. Suddenly and unexpectedly he was gone. He died peacefully surrounded by his loving family

The Re-interment of Frank Stagg. | Slán Brendan

Feb 23 2025 14 mins  
The Re-interment of Frank Stagg. Last week we remembered Frank Stagg who died on hunger strike in an English prison in February 1976. Frank began his fourth and final hunger strike in December 1975. He died 62 days later. He last request was "to be buried next to my republican colleagues and my comrade, Michael Gaughan" who died on hunger strike two years earlier. Michael had been

My Internment by Roseleen Walsh | Climate Crisis |The World Stands at a Tipping Point

Feb 16 2025 16 mins  
My Internment by Roseleen Walsh Roseleen Walsh is one of 36 women who were interned in the early 1970s. Her latest book – My Internment – tells the very personal story of her life as a young woman in west Belfast in the late 60s and early 70s. Of the constant pressure and danger of living under British occupation and of her time as an internee in Armagh Women’s Prison. Rosele

Partitionism Rules | International support grows for Palestinian Struggle | OFF LINE.

Feb 09 2025 13 mins  
Partitionism Rules. Simon Harris has said that Irish unity is not a priority for him. That is self-evident. But for him to say so is at odds with the stated position of most senior Irish politicians including An Taoiseach Micheál Martin. Their position is one of verbalised adherence to the constitutional objective of unity. In other words, they are verbalised republicans. Rhetoric

Starmer Waiving The Rules | Leonard Peltier - Going Home

Feb 02 2025 13 mins  
Starmer Waiving The Rules. According to the British Prime Minister Keir Starmer his government is looking at "every conceivable way" to prevent me and at least 300 other people from receiving compensation for wrongful arrest and imprisonment in the 1970s. This issue of compensation arises from the decision by the British Supreme Court in May 2020 that the Interim Custody Order (ICO

Dublin Lacks Ambition | Presidential Vote | Solidarity with the people of Palestine

Jan 26 2025 18 mins  
Dublin Lacks Ambition Last week Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, supported by the regional independents, published their Programme for Government 2025. This contains the objectives set by the government parties for the next five years. In my ten years in the Oireachtas as the TD for Louth and East Meath I worked through two such Programmes. First in 2011 and then again in 2016. Neither

A Good Start To 2025 | Let the Music Keep the Spirits High | A Ceasefire

Jan 19 2025 18 mins  
A Good Start To 2025. On Saturday last leading trade union activists from across the island of Ireland came together in Newry for a packed Ireland’s Future event in the Thomas Davis Hub. It was a wet winter morning and i was pleasantly uplifted by the turn out. The panel included ICTU assistant general secretary Gerry Murphy, Unison regional general secretary Patricia McKeown, Ph

Ted Howell: A successful Irish revolutionary.

Jan 12 2025 19 mins  
Nollaig na mBan Monday 6 January is traditionally the date on which the Christmas decorations are taken down. In the Christian calendar it marks the end of the Christmas season and the visit of the Magi – the three wise men – to Jesus. In Ireland the 6 January is also Nollaig na mBan - Women’s Christmas or Little Christmas. It’s a day set aside to celebrate the role of wome

Ted Howell - Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam.

Jan 04 2025 18 mins  
ONE FLU OVER? I have the flu. It’s a sign of my loyalty to you dear reader, that I write this column in my sick bed. Bathed in sweat. I’ve changed my T shirt four times since Saint Stephen’s Day. I ran out of paper hankies and turned to kitchen roll for nose cleaning duties. The snatters are tripping me. I’ve changed my sheets as well. Three times. Everyone else is away so