Pat Boran
speaker
107 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 23 Jun
Pat Boran’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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moher, or it's not the high waves of the Atlantic coast.
It's a more meditative place to come, I think.
Well, it's like we've kind of rediscovered it, our generation.
But I remember as a kid when we had to go, if something had to be thrown out in the house, we went to the bog.
In other words, the word bog and the word dump were synonymous.
They were?
That we didn't understand that there was a difference.
Now, it's taken a whole generation for us to see that a bog is an inheritance.
It's a repository of energy, of memory, of carbon, and of a certain kind of wildlife that you find nowhere else in the country, from the mysterious sticklebacks that you find in bog pools, and nobody can really tell you how they get there.
They'll come in the droppings of animals or whatever, to the hen harriers.
There's a whole ecology around the bog.
And there was a sense, again as a kid, what a bog man was kind of an insult.
Now I think if somebody calls me a bog man, I think that's a great compliment.
Oh, I did, many, many years.
Everybody did.
It was how we got a tan like this back in the days when I used to actually work.
Yeah, it was a place to holiday, really, I have to say, for me, and to watch brawny boys do what brawny boys do in holes in the ground.
But the other thing about the bog and the raised bog, I think that's a misnomer too.
It's not raised as in it's over.
It's raising.
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