Show Notes
From singing priests and the Housewife of the Year competition to Fat Frog ice cream and some of Ireland’s biggest celebrity scandals, our popular culture has given us plenty of memorable moments over the years.
A new book, Pop Culchie: The Irish Popular Culture That Made Us, looks back at the television, music, scandals and oddities that have shaped modern Ireland — and asks what these seemingly trivial moments tell us about who we are as a nation.
Its author, Páraic Kerrigan, a lecturer at University College Dublin, joins the show...
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