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Pisrógs

Pisrógs

By: Luke Pisrogs Conroy & Aran Pisrogs Reidy
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Pisrogs podcast is an audio adventure of Irish myth, folklore, history and more. The podcast started with hosts Luke Conroy and Aran Reidy trawling through the Duchás Folklore Archives for the most spell-binding, peculiar, imaginative and funny Irish folk stories they could find. With Aran having emigrated to the plains of Tír na nÓg, Luke returns with a brand new season of interviews, investigations and oddities. Artists, Musicians, Elders and even Wrestlers join Luke to dig into the obscure myths behind their area, their families and their crafts.Luke Pisrogs Conroy & Aran Pisrogs Reidy Art
Episodes
  • The Lover's Knot & The Frog Man - Anna (Luke's Mam)
    Mar 31 2026

    In Kildallan lies the Relic, an ancient graveyard where two trees wrapped around eachother above the graves of two forbidden lovers.

    Luke and his Mam share memories of their tight knit rural community of Kildallan.

    The pair read the stories of some of their community's oldest residents. Uncovering stories of Cock Fights, Cursed Families, Pig Gangs and Riverside Hags.

    Anna shares tales of her unusual childhood: selling frogs to ‘The Frog Man,’ exploring the fields around her home, and the rhythms of life at Kildallan National School, a tiny, a small schoolhouse over a century old.


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    1 hr and 12 mins
  • Naas, Rónán Ó Raghallaigh - Fionn Mac Cumhaill, Haunted Pilgrimages & Faction Fights
    Mar 24 2026

    Returning guest, Naas-born visual and performance artist Rónán Ó Raghallaigh.

    Rónán’s work moves between indigenous Irish art and ritual action, and after a few years it was time for Luke to catch up with an old friend.

    Fire throwing Fairies , Swords from Arabia, Headless horsemen and Faction Fights. This episode goes far beyond the Naas Ball.

    In his new work Turais Taibhsí (“Haunted Pilgrimages”), Ó Raghallaigh translates personal pilgrimages to sacred Irish sites into layered painting and performance. Each work is rooted in on‑site research into folklore, place‑names and archaeology, and reflects how these landscapes have been altered - by colonialism, by religion and by industrial extraction.

    The boys discuss how the quarrying a sacred mount like the Hill of Allen isn’t just industrial change but a violation of a spiritually‑charged place...the burial ground of Fionn mac Cumhaill.

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    59 mins
  • Granard, CBL - Wrestling, Bulls, Fairies & Teen Discos
    Mar 17 2026

    This week on the podcast, Luke is joined by Irish professional wrestler Conor Brady Lee — better known as CBL, or simply The Bull.

    Luke and CBL wander through the strange backrooms of Longford folklore old and new: The Burning of Granard, Mermaids, Fairy Horsemen, Local Characters and Teen Disco Scraps.

    A Longford native and rising force in Irish wrestling, CBL carries himself with the grounded presence of someone reared on beef nuts, pat the baker and parish halls as by ropes and rings. Recently earning a WWE tryout in New Jersey, his reputation is growing, but his roots remain planted firmly in his home soil.

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    1 hr and 29 mins
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