Your friendly neighborhood danish enjoyer of irish culture here. I am really digging this podcast episode from The Irish Passport about what is going on in Ukraine at the moment, and the historic parallels between Ireland and Ukraine. It was very relevant to my own country as well in it’s description of what traps irish mainstream media fall into, in their coverage of the Ukraine conflict. I believe that some of you might enjoy it.
**About the episode**:
>This weekend, a group of musicians gathered in O’Briens Irish pub in the Ukranian capital and belted out traditional Irish tunes as a distraction from the threat of war.
>In this episode we uncover the surprisingly rich common history shared by Ireland and Ukraine, as told by a woman living through the dramatic recent events that have drawn the world’s attention to Kyiv as Russian troops advance.
>Joining us is listener Nadia Dobrianska, who works in a human rights organisation in her native Kyiv and happens to be an afficionado in Irish culture and history. She unveils a hidden world of historical commonalities between the two countries, who both began asserting their nationhood in the same era, suffered domination from neighbouring power, and still bear the deep scars of famine from that experience.
>Nadia also has a fascinating personal story to share. She experienced two revolutions in Kyiv before moving to Belfast in 2019 to pursue her love of Irish studies. There, she managed to pick up fluent Gaeilge through lessons on the Falls Road. Now back in Ukraine, those language skills have come in handy: with the world’s attention turned onto her country due to fears of a Russian invasion, Nadia has begun reporting on the situation in Irish for a range of Irish-language media outlets.
>With her experience of living in Ireland, love for and deep knowledge of Irish culture and history, there’s hardly a better person to explain the Ukranian perspective on the current situation and the country’s unexpected but profound common heritage with Ireland.
What is our shared history, we have both been (are) part of Poland ???
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Your friendly neighborhood danish enjoyer of irish culture here. I am really digging this podcast episode from The Irish Passport about what is going on in Ukraine at the moment, and the historic parallels between Ireland and Ukraine. It was very relevant to my own country as well in it’s description of what traps irish mainstream media fall into, in their coverage of the Ukraine conflict. I believe that some of you might enjoy it.
**About the episode**:
>This weekend, a group of musicians gathered in O’Briens Irish pub in the Ukranian capital and belted out traditional Irish tunes as a distraction from the threat of war.
>In this episode we uncover the surprisingly rich common history shared by Ireland and Ukraine, as told by a woman living through the dramatic recent events that have drawn the world’s attention to Kyiv as Russian troops advance.
>Joining us is listener Nadia Dobrianska, who works in a human rights organisation in her native Kyiv and happens to be an afficionado in Irish culture and history. She unveils a hidden world of historical commonalities between the two countries, who both began asserting their nationhood in the same era, suffered domination from neighbouring power, and still bear the deep scars of famine from that experience.
>Nadia also has a fascinating personal story to share. She experienced two revolutions in Kyiv before moving to Belfast in 2019 to pursue her love of Irish studies. There, she managed to pick up fluent Gaeilge through lessons on the Falls Road. Now back in Ukraine, those language skills have come in handy: with the world’s attention turned onto her country due to fears of a Russian invasion, Nadia has begun reporting on the situation in Irish for a range of Irish-language media outlets.
>With her experience of living in Ireland, love for and deep knowledge of Irish culture and history, there’s hardly a better person to explain the Ukranian perspective on the current situation and the country’s unexpected but profound common heritage with Ireland.
What is our shared history, we have both been (are) part of Poland ???