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b"To keep you all going during these strange times, here is Motherfocl\\xf3ir's own Darach \\xd3 S\\xe9aghdha in conversation with Sam Blake on another HeadStuff Podcast, Behind the Bestseller.\\xa0\\n\\nStay safe and well.\\n\\n..\\n\\nNon-fiction is a different beast to fiction, and in this episode Sam Blake chats to Darach \\xd3 S\\xe9aghdha, the Irish writer, podcaster and Irish language activist. The author of Motherfocl\\xf3ir: Dispatches from a Not So Dead Language (Head of Zeus, 2017), and Craic Baby (Head of Zeus 2018) Darach won Ireland AM Popular Non-Fiction Book of the Year in the 2017 Irish Book Awards with Motherfocl\\xf3ir. Revealing how his Twitter account @TheIrishFor grew into a book, driven by his personal journey and relationship with his father, a gifted linguist, Darach reveals the key issues with taking an online presence into print. Sam Blake delves into the writing process and deciding what exactly goes into a book.\\n\\n\\n\\nBrought up in an Irish speaking household, \\xd3 S\\xe9aghdha\\u2019s father and mother used to speak Irish together but spoke English to their children. When \\xd3 S\\xe9aghdha\\u2019s father became very ill, \\xd3 S\\xe9aghdha became interested in learning Irish and used Twitter to share interesting Irish phrases and words he came across.\\n\\n\\n\\n\\xd3 S\\xe9aghdha describes Irish as \\u201cthe amazing buried treasure\\u201d. In his writing he wants to show people how they, through Irish, can make sense of the world around them, through words and phrases that do not exist in the English language.\\n\\nHe runs the popular Irish-language-trivia Twitter account The Irish For. He is also the main host of the podcast Motherfocl\\xf3ir, part of the HeadStuff Podcast Network, a fascinating podcast focusing on elements of the language.\\n\\n\\n\\nThe follow-up to Motherfocl\\xf3ir, published in 2018, Craic Baby: Dispatches from a Rising Language, explores the very new and very old parts of the Irish language from a personal perspective, covering the topics multilingualism, Brehon Law, Gaelscoils and especially lexicon.\\n\\n\\n\\nCheck out all the Behind the Bestseller episodes here\\n\\n\\n\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices"