Tyson Yunkaporta
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first heard Feb 2020
last heard 10 Jun
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So there were illegal schools that happened in hedges with teachers that were illegal priests.
And this would happen around a mass rock, which is a big rock that's often beside what you'd call a pagan holy well, which was a way to enter the other world.
But when the penal laws came in and we couldn't practice Catholicism, we returned back to the indigenous religion.
So now this mass rock that has a little well beside it, that's where you're doing illegal mass and it's where you have an illegal school as well.
And the Irish language was completely illegal.
So the Irish that would have come here, they would have been full oral culture.
They would have been oral culture and...
In a strange way, by about the 1800s, the Irish had become a little bit decolonized because they weren't allowed to read and write.
And we returned to something that was pre-Christian and created a new thing.
And I don't know, it's hard to understand what it was like in the 1800s, but you'd have to imagine that that's definitely assisted in a kinship between Aboriginal people and Irish people.
It's just...
Oh yeah, our culture, okay.
You tell me that, man.
Like we, White Thorn and Black Thorn at home, they often grow near Holywells.
People are fucking terrified of them.
And the beautiful thing about the Black Thorn and the White Thorn is not even the Brits fucked with us.
Like the superstition
that Irish people had around White Thorn, Black Thorn, and in particular Fairy Forts.
You ever hear of Fairy Forts?
So, like, if you don't know, it would have been... Like, people didn't remember their history.
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