Blindboy (Host)

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7,390 appearances 9 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 1 Sep

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The Blindboy Podcast · A cultural history of Englishman, Scotsman and Irishman Jokes · 1 Sep 2026 podcast

In the mid-1970s. voice-verified

Cause 1973 was the year that we joined the EEC, the European Economic Community, which became the EU. voice-verified

Both of my parents were born into what would be can considered a third world country. voice-verified

Very rural, very poor. voice-verified

My dad was born in rural West Cork. voice-verified

He wouldn't have had electricity when he was a child. voice-verified

His toilet was bushes. voice-verified

Bringing pigs into voice-verified

the house in winter for warmth. voice-verified

Because we were colonized for so long. voice-verified

Ireland was a country of extraction. voice-verified

The north of Ireland Belfast. voice-verified

Which the Brits held on to, the six counties. voice-verified

That was your industry. voice-verified

There's your Harland and Wolf, your shipbuilding. voice-verified

But outside of Dublin, maybe Limerick, Cork City, rural Ireland was colonized by England and was not designed for the Irish people. voice-verified

It was about agricultural extraction. voice-verified

Forests cleared and just swathes of fucking pasture land that they voice-verified

The English used for dairy, meat, butter to be exported to their slave colonies in the Caribbean. voice-verified

So when the South of Ireland, the 26 counties of Ireland, achieved independence from Britain, and we were no longer part of the fucking empire, we had nothing. voice-verified

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