Rebel Matters Podcast

Today's episode  episode was recorded in the East Belfast Mission, on the Newtownards Road with Linda Ervine. Linda has been the driving force behind setting up Turas, which provides Irish lessons and talks on the Irish language on the Newtownards Road, making it the only Irish language centre based in a Unionist community, It was great to record this episode with Linda to get an insight into how Turas came about, its challenges, and what they have planned for the future. In this episode we also talked about the current political landscape within Unionism, and quite a few other interesting topics that will give you a real perspective on some of the problems that exist in the north today, and especially how they relate to the irish language. To give you a bit of perspective on the political geography of Belfast if you are not familiar with it, many areas in Belfast were separated in the late 60's, early 70's by what are known as peace walls which separated protestant areas from catholic areas, and the walls ar