Patricia Forde
speaker
460 appearances
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2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 5d ago
Patricia Forde’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The Claire Byrne Show · Author and former Irish Children's Laureate Patricia Forde · 13 May 2026
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We won't dwell on that.
Late at night.
And they would go into a field that they knew really well.
And no matter what they did, they couldn't find their way out of it.
And that faux jean moire was the faux jean that would drive you kind of mad.
You'd be in a spin trying to find your way out.
But it was the fairies playing tricks on them.
And there was another one called the Fodd Ocrach, where you would sit down somewhere, you'd be out on a hike on a mountain and you'd sit down and you'd suddenly be weak with hunger.
And in Connemara they used to say it was a place where people died during the famine.
And I've heard people say they experienced it.
where they sat down and they were suddenly weak with hunger.
Isn't that extraordinary?
And they call it the food okrok, hunger.
That'll be, yeah.
I'll have you as a co-conspirator on the inside.
I think books, you know, are the best of us.
It's what we've put into them over the years.
That thread has existed and gone from generation to generation under the most difficult circumstances.
You know, when you think, if you go back far enough where the church didn't like us reading books,
And books were banned, all of that.
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