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Saol na mBan

Series 1

Episode 1

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio UlsterLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio Foyle

Labhraíonn Ceara Ní Choinn le mná a rugadh sna 1920idí ar aghaidh, ina measc Máire Mhic Sheáin, duine de na cónaitheoirí Gaeltachta is sine in iarthar Bhéal Feirste; Maggie Nic Pháidín a rugadh ar oileán iargúlta Inis Bó Finne amach ó chósta iarthuaisceart Dhún na nGall agus Patricia Herald a tháinig ar an tsaol i ndílleachtlann i mBaile Átha Cliath ach a uchtaíodh roinnt bhlianta ina dhiaidh sin agus a chaith bunús a saoil i nGaeltacht Loch an Iúir, Tír Chonaill. Roimh dheireadh an chláir, cluineann muid ó Nóra Ní Raghallaigh, iar-bhean a' tí agus seanchaí ó Ghaeltacht Rann na Feirste agus ón tSiúr Mairéad Ní Fhearáin, bean bhródúil de bhunadh Ard Mhacha theas ó dhúchas, a chuaigh isteach sna Cláiríní nuair a chríochnaigh sí an scoil.
Is léiriú de chuid Clean Slate í an tsraith seo do BBC Gaeilge agus RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta, le maoiniú ó Chiste Craoltóireachta Gaeilge, Scáileáin Thuaisceart Éireann.

Ceara Ní Choinn speaks to women who were born in the 1920s and beyond. Featuring Máire Mhic Sheáin, one of the oldest Shaw’s Road Gaeltacht community residents in west Belfast; Patricia Herald who was born in a Mother and Baby Home in Dublin and who was later adopted and spent most of her life in the Loch an Iúir Gaeltacht; Maggie Nic Pháidín who was born in 1926 on the remote island of Inis Bó Finne off the coast of north west Donegal; Nóra Ní Raghallaigh, a former bean a’ tí and seanchaí from the Rann na Feirste Gaeltacht in County Donegal and finally proud south Armagh native, Sister Mairéad Ní Fhearáin who entered the Poor Clare’s sisterhood upon finishing school.
Produced by Clean Slate for BBC Gaeilge and RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta, with support from Northern Ireland Screen’s Irish Language Broadcast Fund.
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