Wigs On The Green

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Wigs on the Green is hosted by Tamara and Marina, two women who believe the most important stories in Irish public life are the ones that never made the front page. Each episode, we sit down with the OG upstarts of Irish grassroots politics, activism, social change, disability rights, and queer history...the people who went out on a limb before it was safe, popular, or even legal to do so. Because Ireland didn't change by accident. It changed because people got mad, got organised, and refused to go away. And right now, with so much still to fight for, there has never been a better time to hear how they did it. Expect honest conversations, the odd argument, a lot of laughter, and stories that will genuinely make you proud of this little country, and furious on its behalf in equal measure. Left wing. Unashamedly woke. Never boring. New episodes every. Find us on Instagram and TikTok @wigsonthegreenpod

Episodes

  1. Jul 21

    05 - Jacqueline Kelly on Matrescence - The Rite of Passage We Forgot to Name

    Jacqueline Kelly is a psychotherapist, matrescence practitioner, and founder of Our Brave Hearts, a community she built after becoming a mother herself and finding that the conversations she needed simply weren't happening. In this episode we talk about what it costs women to become mothers, why that cost goes unspoken, and who benefits from keeping it that way. We get into matrescence; the profound identity shift of becoming a mother that has no mainstream name, the mask of motherhood, mum guilt as a social construct, and what happens when you dare to climb down from the pedestal.  We also talk about Jacqueline's decision to speak publicly about Palestine in October 2023, what it cost her in followers, speaking opportunities and professional relationships, and why she did it anyway. Mentioned in this episode Our Brave Hearts: Wise Words for Mothers by Jacqueline Kelly, illustrated by Rosie Lovelock Matrescence by Lucy Jones Dr. Alexandra Sacks -- A New Way to Think About the Transition to Motherhood (TED Talk, 2018) Dr. Aurelie Athan, Teachers College, Columbia University -- researcher who expanded the concept of matrescence Dana Raphael -- anthropologist who coined the term matrescence Francesca Albanese -- UN Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories Swords for Palestine -- weekly vigils at Swords Castle, North Dublin Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) C**t by Inga Muscio Find Jacqueline ourbravehearts.ie | @our_bravehearts If you've enjoyed this episode, why not support the show? Find us over at patreon.com/wigsonthegreenpod Or follow us on Instagram & TikTok

  2. Jul 7

    04 - Andrea Horan: Everyone Deserves To Party!

    Andrea Horan is the founder of Dublin nail mecca Tropical Popical and previously has founded projects like The Hunreal Issues and No More Hotels. She has an interest in throwing glitter on issues without minimising them, which led her to co-present podcasts Don't Stop Repealin' and United Ireland with Una Mullally. She worked in strategic communications for 15 years in Thinkhouse and Edelman and gave a TEDx talk on 'Escaping the Economy of More' that informs her own mindset daily. The project she's most proud of is the exhibition ReNAILssance she produced with and in the National Gallery of Ireland. She was awarded the Irish Tatler Woman of the Year 2019 in the Influence category. She is obsessed with Dublin and campaigns on its many issues regularly. This conversation is a love letter to Dublin and a challenge to everyone who's given up on it. Andrea takes us from the Repeal mural that Dublin City Council tried to silence, through the dance floors we've lost to hotels, to why she turned down every offer to scale Tropical Popical into a chain. She makes the case that joy is radical, that friction creates sparks, and that the best thing you can do for this city is go into town. Find Andrea: instagram.com/andreadhoran instagram.com/tropicalpopical tropicalpopical.com Mentioned in this episode: No More Hotels Give Us the Night Ardee House occupation / Revolutionary Housing League Jenny Maguire Hasan Piker If you've enjoyed this episode, why not support the show? Find us over at patreon.com/wigsonthegreenpod Or follow us on Instagram & TikTok

  3. Jun 23

    03 - Hamada on Growing Up Under Occupation in Gaza

    Hamada is a biomedical engineering graduate from Gaza. For the past year and a half he has been building a financial bridge between the outside world and families inside Gaza; coordinating transfers, navigating the occupation's grip on the banking system, staying available at all hours to people who needed him. He never fundraised for himself. In this conversation we hear about his grandfather's displacement in 1948, what it felt like to be seven years old in the first war, and what Gaza actually was before the world started watching. We also hear what Hamada needs now, which is not a luxury life.  Please share this episode and considering sharing even a small contribution to the below link. How to help Hamada is looking for a university place and scholarship to continue his master's in biomedical or any engineering discipline. If you know of anything, get in touch. Donate to Hamada's collection If you've enjoyed this episode, why not support the show? Find us over at patreon.com/wigsonthegreenpod Or follow us on Instagram & TikTok

  4. Jun 9

    02 - Frankie Fenton: Art, Activism and the Nuclear Question

    Frankie Fenton is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and co-director at Kennedy Films. His work spans disability, gender equality and climate, screening in over 50 countries on Channel 4, Al Jazeera, PBS and RTÉ. In this episode, Frankie talks about the films that shaped him, nine years cutting his teeth in London post-production, and what drove him back to Ireland to make work that actually meant something. We go deep on Atomic Hope, his 2022 documentary following pro-nuclear activists, and why the nuclear conversation in Ireland is more urgent now than ever. It's Not Yet Dark on Apple TV Atomic Hope on Apple TV Kennedy Films If you've enjoyed this episode, why not support the show? Find us over at patreon.com/wigsonthegreenpod Or follow us on Instagram & TikTok

  5. May 25

    01 - Pierre Yimbog: Being Black & Irish in 2026

    This episode was not planned for now. Pierre Yimbog had been booked well in advance, but when Yves Sakila, a 35-year-old Congolese man who had lived in Ireland for over two decades, died on Henry Street on 16 May 2026 after being restrained by security personnel, we moved the release date forward.  Pierre Yimbog is Cameroonian-Irish, a law graduate of DIT, former Vice President for Education and President of DIT Students' Union, and the first ever President of Technological University Dublin Students' Union in 2019. He is Co-founder and COO of Black & Irish, Company Secretary of the Irish Development Education Association (IDEA), Co-Founder and CEO of SoloBook, and National President of Junior Chamber International Ireland. He is also one of the calmest, most measured people we have spoken to. Given the week that was in it, that calm felt like its own form of resistance. In this episode we talk about: Growing up Cameroonian-Irish in Rathfarnham and Dundrum, and what it took to find his voiceHow Black & Irish began as a conversation during COVID lockdown and became one of Ireland's most important advocacy organisationsThe stories that started it all, and how those stories have changed since 2020The death of Yves Sakila, what the Black and African community in Ireland are feeling right now, and what Pierre wants the wider public to understandThe pattern: George Floyd, George Nkencho, the November 2023 riots, and now Yves SakilaWhere the white Irish solidarity of June 2020 went six months later, when George Nkencho was shot dead on his doorstepWhether Pierre still has faith in Irish institutions, and the exhausting, necessary work of maintaining hopeWhat he wants from government right now, including the Private Security Authority, the National Action Plan Against Racism, and hate speech legislation that was quietly droppedWhat is next for Black & Irish, including their inaugural conference on 29 MayWe also talk, in the debrief, about bystander syndrome, the weaponisation of the Irish flag, and how radicalisation happens in small moves and can be undone the same way. Black & Irish Conference, 29 May 2026. Find details at blackandirish.com. Links Black & Irish: blackandirish.comBlack & Irish on Instagram: @black_andirishPierre Yimbog on Instagram: @pierreyimbogAmanda Ade on Instagram @amandaadeIrish Network Against Racism: inar.ieIf you've enjoyed this episode, why not support the show? Find us over at patreon.com/wigsonthegreenpod Or follow us on Instagram & TikTok

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Wigs on the Green is hosted by Tamara and Marina, two women who believe the most important stories in Irish public life are the ones that never made the front page. Each episode, we sit down with the OG upstarts of Irish grassroots politics, activism, social change, disability rights, and queer history...the people who went out on a limb before it was safe, popular, or even legal to do so. Because Ireland didn't change by accident. It changed because people got mad, got organised, and refused to go away. And right now, with so much still to fight for, there has never been a better time to hear how they did it. Expect honest conversations, the odd argument, a lot of laughter, and stories that will genuinely make you proud of this little country, and furious on its behalf in equal measure. Left wing. Unashamedly woke. Never boring. New episodes every. Find us on Instagram and TikTok @wigsonthegreenpod

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  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
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