Episode 99 - Ninety Nine Lead Balloons - From U.S. to Us

Talking Derry Girls

One recording away from the big 100 and the TDGs are still in different timezones. Not sure what the lead balloons are in this week's episode…the definition of a lead balloon is -”something that you say or show to people that they do not like…something which fails miserably and is utterly unsuccessful”

So it most definitely isn’t anything to do with Lisa McGee and her continued award winning successes. This week accepting the Christopher Ewart Biggs award for promoting peace and reconciliation in Ireland.

Pauline hosts a Factory Girls event, when she isn’t hunting Brad Pitt, Marie-Louise talks Holywood glamour and how it became connected to one of Derry’s impoverished communities and Jeanie has her underwear swabbed for explosives…Bombshells aplenty…poteen anyone?

NOTES:

Friends of the Factories -

https://www.friendsofthefactories.com/

https://www.facebook.com/FriendsoftheFactories

Mayor of Derry City and Strabane District Council learning to swim https://www.derrystrabane.com/news/mayor-takes-the-plunge-in-aid-of-local-charities

Maeve McLaughlin - Manager Bloody Sunday Trust

https://museumoffreederry.org/bloody-sunday-trust/

Madeline McCully Storyteller -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWY83rDJDy0

William Deery -

http://springtowncamp.com/willie-deery/280.html

William Deery’s play Factory Girls and Rock and Roll

https://www.millenniumforum.co.uk/shows/factory-girls-and-rock-n-roll-2/

Springtown Camp

http://www.springtowncamp.com/

Springtown Camp march -

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-foyle-west-49197625

MEMORIAL 2019 WILLIE CAMPAIGNED FOR IT FOR 60 YEARS.

Marie-Louise’s Radio Documentary - Jane Russell and the Springtown Mother.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05n1hwn

Jane Russell Obituary by Mark Cousins -

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2011/mar/01/jane-russell-obituary

Jane Russell in conversation with Mark Cousins (May 1999)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Gx4k6qR6_M

Osceola Island Trail -

https://tndaytrips.com/osceola-island-your-next-hidden-gem-adventure-in-tennessee/

Brad Pitt and fly fishing in East Tennessee (Pauline wasn’t making it up)

https://tnhomeandfarm.com/travel/east-tennessee-lakes-rivers-perfect-fly-fishing/

Lisa’s latest award -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Ewart-Biggs_Memorial_Prize

Some past winners:

Robert Kee - Ireland a television History (1980)

https://www.bbc.com/historyofthebbc/anniversaries/december/ireland-television-history

Lost Lives - The stories of the men, women and children who died as a result of the Northern Ireland troubles:

https://cain.ulster.ac.uk/issues/violence/mckittrick.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Lives

Brian Friel for his play Translations -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Translations_(play)

Frank McGuinness -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observe_the_Sons_of_Ulster_Marching_Towards_the_Somme

Julieann Campbell - book; On Bloody Sunday

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/jan/30/on-bloody-sunday-by-julieann-campbell-review-the-most-powerful-account-of-a-brutal-day

Poteen -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poit%C3%ADn

Talking Derry Girls episodes referred to:

Ep 52 and Ep55 - chat with Madam Mayor Sandra Duffy

Ep 31 - Derry Ghost Stories (stories and chat with Madeline McCully)

Ep 89 - ‘Stolen’ with Margo Harkin

Ep61 - Pick me up - International Womens Day (2023)

Ep 62 - Shirt Tales part 1

Ep 81 - Shirt Tales part 2

Ep 82 - Shirt Tales part 3

Ep 42 - Season 3 finale - The Good Friday Agreement (Lisa won her latest award for this episode of Derry Girls)