Blindboy

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1,520 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 10 Jun

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The Blindboy Podcast · Have you anything to say about the Fuel protests Blindboy? Or are you a Government shill who is worried about losing his next Late Late show appearance? · 15 Apr 2026 podcast

The thing is with bullying, if you had a herd of cattle and everyone else has a herd of cattle, well you want to get the best spot on the mountain.

So some people, like if you're on holidays and the Germans come out with their towels and they leave the towels on the deck chairs before everyone else.

You might have some people who decide, I'm going to go up to the mountains early now and I'm going to bring my cattle and I'm going to get the best spot.

If these people did this on the 1st of April, the 2nd of April, then chances are their entire herd could die because it would get battered with that cattle.

crazy Irish weather that happens in the first 10 days of April but they couldn't write this down this is happening before before the 5th century when the technology of writing arrives in Ireland so you hold that knowledge in the story of the old Brindle cow so you tell the story of this cow went out into the field at the start of April

And winter got angry and battered it.

So that was like the, that was the folk knowledge that warned people, don't go bullying.

Don't take your entire herd of cattle up to the mountain on the first 10 days of April.

Bullying started to collapse.

That practice, the pastoral farming practice,

moving with, people moving with their cattle.

That collapses with, with colonization.

I'm really simplifying things, but I've done podcasts on this.

If you want, if you want a podcast about the history of Irish farming traditions, go to my, my podcast about potatoes from about six weeks ago, I think.

Ireland from the 1600s to the 1800s, right?

Fully colonized country, which becomes an export-based cattle economy.

So,

forests are cleared, land is cleared and Ireland becomes pasture land where cows are an industrial product to be exported for the benefit of the British Empire.

Dairy and then

By the 1700s, a lot of Irish beef was being exported and salted via cork for the slave colonies that the British owned.

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