Sa eagrán seo de Gaeilge Thar Lear, bíonn comhrá le Brian Ó Máille — Gael atá lonnaithe in Amsterdam agus atá gníomhach i saol na Gaeilge, CLG agus an domhan start-up san Eoraip.

Pléitear an Ghaeilge in Amsterdam, na ciorcail chomhrá agus an pobal a choinníonn an teanga beo i gcathair idirnáisiúnta, chomh maith lena shaol le Amsterdam GAA agus na heachtraí CLG thar lear.

Téann an comhrá isteach sa nasc idir spórt agus fiontraíocht, agus na cosúlachtaí idir meon foirne, brú agus disciplín sa dá shaol sin.

Pléitear freisin Clobr Clobr — AI fashion start-up Brian — agus is féidir clárú don waitlist anseo: https://clobr.co/

Comhrá suaimhneach faoi Ghaeilge thar lear, CLG, start-ups agus saol Gaelach i gcathair Eorpach nua-aimseartha.

In this episode of Gaeilge Thar Lear, there’s a conversation with Brian Ó Máille — an Irish speaker based in Amsterdam active in the Irish language scene, GAA, and the European start-up world.

The episode explores Irish language life in Amsterdam, community circles, and his involvement with Amsterdam GAA and GAA experiences abroad.

It also looks at the link between sport and entrepreneurship, and the shared mindset of pressure, discipline, and teamwork.

We also discuss Clobr Clobr — Brian’s AI fashion start-up — and you can join the waitlist here: https://clobr.co/

A relaxed conversation about Irish abroad, GAA, start-ups, and modern Irish life in Europe.

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Seacht mbliana tar éis dheireadh Game of Thrones, leanaimid ar aghaidh leis an scéal - an uair seo i mBonn, i mí Aibreáin 2019, agus Séasúr 8 ag teacht amach seachtain i ndiaidh seachtaine. Agus mé díreach tar éis bogadh go dtí an Ghearmáin, gan mórán struchtúir ná plean soiléir don chéad chéim eile den saol, bhí Westeros fós mar chineál compánaigh dom agus mé ag iarraidh mo bhealach féin a aimsiú.

Sa dara cuid seo, labhraím faoi dheireadh na sraithe, faoi na “cracks” a bhí le feiceáil fiú roimh Séasúr 8, agus faoin gcúis nach gceapaim go bhfeicfimid rud cosúil le GOT arís. Ní hamháin mar gheall ar an tsraith féin, ach mar gheall ar an idirlíon, streaming, agus an áit a raibh muid inár saol ag an am sin.

Seo eagrán faoi endings - deireadh sraithe, deireadh ré áirithe den idirlíon, agus deireadh tréimhse i mo shaol féin freisin.

Faigh cupán tae, cuir ort na headphones, agus tar liom ar ais go Bonn, 2019.

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Seven years after the end of Game of Thrones, we continue the story - this time in Bonn, in April 2019, as Season 8 arrived week by week. Having just moved to Germany, with no real structure and no clear idea what the next stage of life would look like, Westeros became a strange kind of companion while I tried to figure things out.

In this second part, I talk about the ending of the series, the cracks that were already appearing long before Season 8, and why I don’t think we’ll ever see another cultural phenomenon quite like GOT again. Not just because of the show itself, but because of the internet, streaming culture, and where many of us were in our lives at that moment in time.

This episode is about endings - the end of a TV series, the end of a certain era of the internet, and the end of a particular chapter of my own life too.

Grab a cup of tea, put the headphones on, and come back with me to Bonn, 2019.

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In this episode of Gaeilge Thar Lear — “Cuimhne na hÁite (The Memory of Place)” - we begin with a single word… and the weight it carries.

From there, the conversation expands into language, land, and memory — and how meaning can shift when things are renamed, reframed, or simplified.

Through personal reflection, reading, and a series of wider examples, one idea keeps surfacing: the quiet danger of reducing complex realities into something neat, simple… and incomplete.

A reflective episode that sits with the question, rather than trying to resolve it.

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Sa eagrán seo de Gaeilge Thar Lear — “Cuimhne na hÁite” — tosaíonn sé amach le focal amháin… agus an meáchan atá leis.

Ón bpointe sin amach, leathnaíonn an comhrá amach go dtí an gaol idir teanga, talamh agus cuimhne — agus an chaoi a n-athraíonn rudaí nuair a chuirtear ainm nua orthu, nó nuair a shimplithear iad.

Trí léamh pearsanta, taisteal trí smaointe, agus roinnt samplaí ón saol mór, tagann téama amháin chun cinn arís agus arís eile — an baol a bhaineann le castacht a laghdú go rud éasca, soiléir… agus mícheart.

Eagrán machnamhach eile — ag fanacht leis an gceist seachas freagra a lorg.

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