Best Pearse Murphy Podcasts (2024)

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Cillian Murphy, Small Things Like These And The History Of The Irish Church 49:01

1h ago49:01

49:01

Mass is in session this week on the podcast with banger poems replacing hymns. Now we've both watched and essentially been shook by the movie Small Things Like These, we get into why that movie hits so hard and wind poetry around the experience of the film to help us understand how to navigate that tricky world of church and religion in Ireland. Be…

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Paul Muldoon, Movember and Being Addicted To Cheese 53:49

3d ago53:49

53:49

If you're here for the cheese addict, stay 'til the end ;) And if you do, your heart and soul will be filled with a myriad of hopeful poems to bring you through the change in weather as you sniffle your way through the start of winter. We shine a light on men's mental health on the show this week, starting with the Movember campaign that poet Darag…

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Dublin Marathon, The Famine and Being Loved Out Loud 55:39

10d ago55:39

55:39

The title is as wide ranging as show this week guys but stick with us! Over 1 million people were on the streets of Dublin last weekend to support the runners taking on the city's marathon, and we think only 800,000 of them were there to perv over Colin Farrell! Leon ran it and has a poem for us. The next day, Ryan went into The Secret Book Store f…

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The Poetry's Dead Podcast Halloween Special 56:44

17d ago56:44

56:44

For all the men over 30 who listen to the show, we apologise for the intro music. It's Halloween though, so we had to scare you a little bit and what better way to start the show than with the scariest music ever recorded, the entrance music that wrestler Kane. Poetry still to this day is hard to come by in popular culture, but The Simpsons in 1991…

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Allen Ginsberg, Wedding Poetry and Sharing Friends With Your Ex 40:13

24d ago40:13

40:13

It took 6 months for us to mention the movie 'Dead Poet's Society' so give us a break! On the show this week, we have love, former loves, and all that life offers you in-between so settle in for 40 minutes of poetry and giggles. Leon had travelled out to Scotland for a wedding between two poets who had set each other a task of writing each other a …

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Georgie Jones, Sean Walsh and Postnatal Depression 46:29

1M ago46:29

46:29

The days are the shorter, and we're here to keep you company It's getting colder, but the leaves are looking mighty fine out there so take us with you on that walk this week, but grab a scarf. Georgie Jones gives us a poem this week that paints a picture of a world that we will never see: the feminine power of the women's bathroom. Seems just yeste…

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Rupi Kaur, Michelle Bosonnett and Unrequited Love 52:49

1M ago52:49

52:49

After a few weeks apart, the boys are back with a drop of malbec and some bleeding whopper poems for you. Anyone who dropped into the Leinster Slam poetry competition last week would have witnessed the power of Cormac Fitz, so it only made sense that we celebrated his win on the show with a poem from the man himself. Rupi Kaur is up next, as Ryan s…

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Now That's What I Call Poetry! The ‘Best Of’ Episode 46:03

2M ago46:03

46:03

What a special episode we have for you this week! We have taken the time to throve through the archives to bring you some of the best bits of the podcast to date. So sit back, put the kettle on, and take off those shoes, as you relax into 46 minutes of entertainment gold! Or nonsense.. or both.. Poems from today's episode: Oscar Wilde - The Ballad …

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Our Agony Aunt Special 25:49

2M ago25:49

25:49

Today we celebrate the unsung hero of The Poetry's Dead Podcast, our Agony Aunt. Since we started the show, our resident helper has been penning poems to support all problems we get sent in by our listeners, so today we are putting them all in one giant, whopper Agony Aunt episode. Do you have a problem you'd like a poem for? You know what to do! E…

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Mary Shelley, Lord Byron And A Tribute to James Earl Jones 41:46

2M ago41:46

41:46

If you were born before 1995, you'd have felt the loss of James Earl Jones. The father of our childhood and the king of the monologue left our world for the next on the day of recording, so we wanted to share his voice on the show. He does a belter of a rendition of a Christina Rossetti poem that we hope you enjoy. Ryan's been losing his mind over …

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The Queens Of Electric Picnic 2024 and Wendy Cope 43:57

3M ago43:57

43:57

We know. We agree. Last week was an absolute sausage fest. Too many misters and not enough sisters if you ask us, which is why today's episode we are celebrating the powerful women of the Electric Picnic who had blown us away with their poetry over the festival. We both felt very 'seen' when Tess McKevitt performed her poem all about the red flags …

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Live At Electric Picnic 1:16:03

3M ago1:16:03

1:16:03

We survived Electric Picnic. Just. As we were doing our best to thrive over the weekend at Ireland's biggest music festival, we also grabbed a few poetry peeps to lend us their ears for a whopper episode of The Poetry's Dead Podcast! Jan Brierton hadn't met Stephen James Smith before their in-conversation chat at the Manifest stage, so we did the h…

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Kate Bush, Chat GPT And Electric Picnic 46:36

3M ago46:36

46:36

The robots are taking over lads, and they are starting with this podcast! We wanted to see whether or not AI could put together a couple of decent verses, and you know what, we are regretting inviting AI on as it's shown just how bloody easy writing a few verses is. Before that, inspired by a trip to Paris, we discuss one of France's most iconic ra…

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Muhammad Ali, Emily Brontë And The Importance Of Friendship 38:42

3M ago38:42

38:42

Because you're there for me toooo, oooohh! Yes ladies and gentleman, we were too worried about copyright law to use the Friends theme song for the intro, but today we are in the feels and talking about the value of friendship. Muhammad Ali, when he wasn't being the best fighter that ever lived, was also a very talented poet and we kick off the show…

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Shakespeare, Hemingway And Why Do We Write? 42:44

4M ago42:44

42:44

You Shall Not Pass...without listening to this episode! Ian Mckellen and his BBC Radio 2 interview where he discusses the value of remembering Shakespeare's sonnets have pushed us to jump into the brain of Bill Shakespeare and see if we can pick a sonnet each that doesn't give us PTSD of having to study those bloody plays at school After Ryan took …

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Kendrick Lamar, Wretch 32 and Emmet O'Brien 43:56

4M ago43:56

43:56

Yo, dawg! Whattup, homey! Whatcha...geezer? It didn't take us long to to run out of rap slang terms for friend as you can see, but we wanted to get you into the spirit of the show early as this week's episode is a special on rhythm and poetry, or as you lot would know it better as, RAP! We have left the library this week and entered the basement ra…

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Fontaines D.C, Luke Kelly and The Poetry Edit Competition 40:57

4M ago40:57

40:57

And the winner is.. On today’s episode, we reveal the winning poem for our competition in collaboration with The Poetry Edit. It’s been incredible to read the pieces that have been submitted, and we can’t wait to share all three finalist’s with you. As well as the competition, we talk about THAT interview between Jools Holland and Grian Chatten as …

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The Poetry's Dead Podcast LIVE at Beyond The Pale 39:18

5M ago39:18

39:18

It was sunny. There were beers. But, most importantly, there were poems! We spent the weekend bumping between music tents and food vans down at Beyond The Pale Festival, hosted in 'The Garden Of Ireland' Glendalough, County Wicklow Amongst a backdrop of pretty landscapes were the two fellas, a microphone and their poems. We grabbed anyone we could …

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W.H Davies, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Online Dating 45:15

5M ago45:15

45:15

This one is a little loose people, so get ready! Reason being: The sun was shining and we enjoyed a few garggles before going into the world of poetry this week, so if you fancy grabbing yourself a scoop before you listen, you'd be absolutely so welcome. Speaking of enjoying yourself, we start the show with the iconic 'stand and stare' line from th…

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Pat Ingoldsby, Eavan Boland and The Irish Leaving Cert 42:46

5M ago42:46

42:46

The Poetry’s Dead Podcast x Leaving Cert Special! Well. Kind of. We couldn’t do a whole bloody show about it, that would be as dull as doing the actually exams. But! We’ve got a few leaving cert stories from Leon, poetry from Eavan Boland @eavanbolandpoetry (anyone over 22 that just got a shot of PTSD, don’t worry, you don’t have to do the leaving …

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Whitney Hanson, Kim Kardashian and Reality Television 46:36

6M ago46:36

46:36

Wake up slowly on this Bank Holiday Monday (here in Ireland) my child and allow us to soothe you back into life with another fun episode of The Poetry's Dead Podcast! We whizz around every conversational topic known to man on this one like two ADHD teenagers having their first pint, and we had a great time with it. Our patreon community's first fea…

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Kae Tempest, Sylvia Plath And Stag Parties 51:56

6M ago51:56

51:56

Oh we bloody missed you, and we hope a few of you missed us too! We're back with a bang or two as we share stories of stag parties, proposals and ask the question that everyone is asking. How depressing is it to be a poet? We talk about the magic of Kae Tempest, and the way she twists words around sound like nobody else. Sylvia Plath makes her debu…

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Oscar Wilde, Dylan Thomas And Taylor Swift 44:43

6M ago44:43

44:43

We are finally showing just how basic we both are with this latest episode guys, so be warned! We've been putting Oscar WIlde on the back burner since the show launched, but today's the day we give him a proper segment with a journey around his one-liners, plays, fictional works and poetry. A little moan about Dylan Thomas being a bit 'up himself' …

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Pam Ayres, Charity Shop Books And Staying On The Right Path 47:03

7M ago47:03

47:03

This. One. Was. Fun We parade around the fun and freeing mind of Pam Ayres, as she gives us a lovely spring in our steps with her warm and giggly poetry. We share some tips on getting back into reading, and our love of spending time in charity shops and picking up a book for a euro. David Hynes comes in with his Perfectly Polished Poem flooded with…

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Seamus Heaney, Carol Ann Duffy And Skipping Meals By Accident 41:45

7M ago41:45

41:45

Another episode with the lads yapping on about poems just for your enjoyment! This one, we challenge some preconceptions that can sit in front of poets by talking about the whole Poet Laurete role and share some of Carol Ann Duffy's work. We delve into the muddy fields of Seamus Heaney next, one of Ireland's most celebrate modern poets of our time.…

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Emily Dickinson, Harry Baker And A Tribute To Paddy Downey 41:18

7M ago41:18

41:18

A special PACKED episode for you after a short break which we are very excited to share. We pay tribute to our own Paddy Downey, who not only created the logo for our show, but was also a poet himself. We heard the incredibly sad news that Paddy had passed a few weeks ago, so we asked his daughter Lisa (who is the voice of our show's intro) to come…

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Edgar Allen Poe, Benjamin Zephaniah and Parenting 33:30

8M ago33:30

33:30

Happy Easter Everyone! Not that we are going to church or anything, but we have a few days off the rat-race so thank you Jesus and all that were involved for such a gift! As we mumble through eating our chocolate eggs, we have a ton of lovely stuff on this week's episode. We tribute the late Benjamin Zephaniah and his work to help those impacted by…

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Brendan Behan, Jan Brierton And James Joyce's Obsession With Farts 34:13

8M ago34:13

34:13

Well, well! It was a long week after St Patrick's Day weekend ladies and gentlemen, but we have climbed out of our beds finally to bring you a fresh new episode This week, Leon delivers on his promise of blowing Ryan's mind with a James Joyce love letter. Just...wow. We climb into the world of Brendan Behan for a little bit before we talk about Jan…

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St Patrick's Day Special - WB Yeats, Imelda May and Irishness 32:24

8M ago32:24

32:24

Get it up ya, lads! It's our St Patrick's Day special, bringing you all the soothing poetic sounds you're going to need after drowning yourself in stout and singing 'Wild Rover' at least 16 times across the weekend festivities. Leon kicks us off with the story of Luke Kelly and Patrick Kavanagh's meet which gave us the song Raglan Road We head back…

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John Cooper Clarke, The Late Ann Delaney and Staying Happy 32:15

8M ago32:15

32:15

Episode 2. We've had an incredible first date and now we choose to go on that hike... Uh oh. In our second episode we gush over 'The Bard of Salford' Dr John Cooper Clarke as well as wind it way back to one of the lesser known Irish poets from yesteryear, James Clarence Mangan We then tribute the late Ann Delaney, the former nurse who was living ho…

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Maya Angelou, Seán Watmore and STI's 28:38

9M ago28:38

28:38

The teasing is over. The flirting is done. Time to grab the coats and hail down a cab. Welcome to the first full episode of The Poetry's Dead Podcast. In episode one, we kick things off by sharing our thoughts and love for two of the greats, Maya Angelou and Charles Bukowski. We had to have the big cynic in episode one. We then share a piece from I…

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Welcome to The Poetry's Dead Podcast with Ryan Duggins and Leon Dunne 11:39

9M ago11:39

11:39

A warm welcome to the introduction episode of The Poetry's Dead Podcast with Dublin poets Ryan Duggins and Leon Dunne. You are very welcome indeed to our cool corner of spoken word and poetry hidden at the back of the pub where the locals aren't interested in joining in. Join Ryan and Leon on a short exploration into how poetry became such a big bl…

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TCD Physics Student Podcast Episode 4: Lobsters and Nuclear Fusion 47:22

9y ago47:22

47:22

On this episode the gang talk about lobsters, weird internet humour and nuclear fusion.By a group of physics students from Trinity College Dublin, each at varying stages of degree completion and varying stages of trying to understand what's going on, who get together to discuss anything and everything.

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TCD Physics Student Podcast Episode 3: Star Wars and Internships 36:11

9y ago36:11

36:11

On this episode the gang discuss Star Wars and summer internships.By a group of physics students from Trinity College Dublin, each at varying stages of degree completion and varying stages of trying to understand what's going on, who get together to discuss anything and everything.

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TCD Physics Student Podcast Episode 2: on lecture sizes and tea during labs 38:38

9y ago38:38

38:38

In this episode the gang talks about everything from lecture sizes to varying degrees of lab demonstrators.By a group of physics students from Trinity College Dublin, each at varying stages of degree completion and varying stages of trying to understand what's going on, who get together to discuss anything and everything.

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TCD Physics Student Podcast Episode 1: Science Communication 51:27

9y ago51:27

51:27

The inaugural episode of the new hit physics podcast. On this episode the gang talk about teaching methods, science communication and N-dimensional spheres.By a group of physics students from Trinity College Dublin, each at varying stages of degree completion and varying stages of trying to understand what's going on, who get together to discuss anything and everything.

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