Big Irish World: An Irish Diaspora Podcast

Seosamh

This podcast is about visibility, awareness, connection, and healing as a culturally connected community spanning the global Irish diaspora. What we're building together is a grassroots community devoted to the exploration of the many stories, lives, and voices of the global Irish diaspora. We seek deeper understanding of how Irish culture shows up in the world today, and how a better fluency with this culture can nourish us and bring us that little extra hope, warmth, and resilience that has become one of many familiar calling cards of the Gaels. We seek better visibility and connection across our massive family of humans scattered to the four winds across as many lands as years, and at least as many stories as storytellers. We seek to better understand our collective place in the larger cultural narrative of this Big Irish World. Together. Please forgive our dust as we get our feet under us, and for any production chaos in the beginning as we get spun up. We really have some amazing things planned for the first season, and we can't wait to share them with you. "What's up with these Patreon Tiers...?" At this time there are only two categories of support, and each has three pay-what-you-can options. This is an attempt to create as much access as possible for those carrying or seeking this culture, while allowing patrons to select the entry point that makes the most sense for them.So there are effectively only two “Whatever feels fair, GRMA." tiers "Cara" (friend), and "Laoch" (hero). Everyone in the same tier gets the exact same access, regardless of amount contributed, and any level of support is deeply appreciated. Although the tops of each tier are considered the “main” levels of support for that tier, the world is on fire, everybody is struggling, and I get that. Every contribution helps keep me housed and fed and makes this podcast - and community - possible, and every bit of it helps. This is all still actively forming in realtime. backers get immediately added to our (new) Discord server. — stay tuned! Join our community as a Patron (or join as a Free member) for additional content: https://www.patreon.com/bigirishworld Leave us a voicemail!  No downloads, apps, sign-ups, or fees required. https://www.speakpipe.com/BigIrishWorld Reach out to us on email! bigirishworld@gmail.com buy Seosamh a coffee https://ko-fi.com/bigirishworld https://www.bigirishworld.com

Episodes

  1. Apr 25

    Conversations with the Diaspora - Sasha Piton

    As the first episode of a series of conversations with members of the Irish diaspora living within Ireland and abroad, we have some coffee with Sasha Piton! You may know Sasha from her article in The Journal.ie discussing her experiences transitioning from the US to Ireland in the current political moment, or as one of her more than 135,000 followers on Instagram. In this conversation over the span of about 3 cups of coffee, we chat about Identity, Immigration, Personal Sovereignty, Trump, the 1926 Irish Census, Firearms, American Extremism, Gaeilge, Confronting Upsetting American History, The Dark History of the Oregon Trail, Diaspora struggles, and more than one cat attack!  holy smokes we got rolling! So grab a cup and settle in for a fantastic unscripted convo (in the early morning) between two recently acquainted Gaels navigating this Big Irish World.  NOTES: * The chorus I sing is from Emma Langford's "BirdSong".  Available now on Apple Music and Spotify. * Annie Ramos, 22, the newlywed wife of U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Matthew Blank, was released on April 7, 2026, after being detained by ICE for five days at Fort Polk, Louisiana, while trying to register for military benefits. Send us Fan Mail Thanks for Listening! Support the show Support our community as a Patron (or join as a Free member) for additional content: https://www.patreon.com/bigirishworld Leave us a voicemail!  No downloads, apps, sign-ups, or fees required. https://www.speakpipe.com/BigIrishWorld Reach out to us on email:  bigirishworld@gmail.com buy Seosamh a coffee:  https://ko-fi.com/bigirishworld Gach rud eile:  https://www.bigirishworld.com

    1h 8m

About

This podcast is about visibility, awareness, connection, and healing as a culturally connected community spanning the global Irish diaspora. What we're building together is a grassroots community devoted to the exploration of the many stories, lives, and voices of the global Irish diaspora. We seek deeper understanding of how Irish culture shows up in the world today, and how a better fluency with this culture can nourish us and bring us that little extra hope, warmth, and resilience that has become one of many familiar calling cards of the Gaels. We seek better visibility and connection across our massive family of humans scattered to the four winds across as many lands as years, and at least as many stories as storytellers. We seek to better understand our collective place in the larger cultural narrative of this Big Irish World. Together. Please forgive our dust as we get our feet under us, and for any production chaos in the beginning as we get spun up. We really have some amazing things planned for the first season, and we can't wait to share them with you. "What's up with these Patreon Tiers...?" At this time there are only two categories of support, and each has three pay-what-you-can options. This is an attempt to create as much access as possible for those carrying or seeking this culture, while allowing patrons to select the entry point that makes the most sense for them.So there are effectively only two “Whatever feels fair, GRMA." tiers "Cara" (friend), and "Laoch" (hero). Everyone in the same tier gets the exact same access, regardless of amount contributed, and any level of support is deeply appreciated. Although the tops of each tier are considered the “main” levels of support for that tier, the world is on fire, everybody is struggling, and I get that. Every contribution helps keep me housed and fed and makes this podcast - and community - possible, and every bit of it helps. This is all still actively forming in realtime. backers get immediately added to our (new) Discord server. — stay tuned! Join our community as a Patron (or join as a Free member) for additional content: https://www.patreon.com/bigirishworld Leave us a voicemail!  No downloads, apps, sign-ups, or fees required. https://www.speakpipe.com/BigIrishWorld Reach out to us on email! bigirishworld@gmail.com buy Seosamh a coffee https://ko-fi.com/bigirishworld https://www.bigirishworld.com