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b'If you stood on Henry Street with a big smile and asked a hundred Dubliners who it was named after, it\\u2019s unlikely you\\u2019d get a single correct answer. If you walked into a history tutorial in one of the city\\u2019s finest universities and asked the students who Westmoreland was, you\\u2019d definitely get a few blank stares. And what\\u2019s the significance of Nassau Street - does Dublin have a Caribbean connection to celebrate?\\n\\n\\nIs it unusual that Dubliners are so ambivalent about the origins of these street names and, in light of the recent passing of John Hume (surely a candidate to have a boulevard or a town square named in his honour) is it time to consider renaming some of them?\\xa0\\n\\n\\nIn this week\\u2019s episode, Darach and Peadar look behind the true meaning of some of Dublin\\u2019s well-known streets, the red tape associated with renaming and consider if the positive civic engagement that led to the Rosie Hackett and Mary Elmes bridges can be built upon and turned into a way of engaging citizens with history.\\n\\n---\\n\\n\\nSupport Motherfocloir on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/darach\\xa0\\n\\n\\nGet Kirsten Shiel art prints here: https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/kirstenshiel/\\xa0\\n\\n\\n---\\n\\n\\nContact the show:\\n\\n\\ntwitter - @motherfocloir and @theirishfor\\n\\n\\nemail - motherfocloir@headstuff.org\\n\\n\\n\\n---\\n\\n\\nWant to record your own podcast? Check out our studios at https://thepodcaststudios.ie\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'