We have a more unusual episode for you today. I’ll be chatting with Poppy Keogh from Wicklow who has been living in Canada for the past five years, spending her first two years in St. John’s, Newfoundland and the past three years in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Poppy and myself arrived in St. John’s in the same month, August 2019. However she remained a fictional character to me. Our mutual friend, Axelle, from France, did her best to introduce us but it was not to be as Poppy had other ideas about hanging out with Irish people. Through another mutual friend, Alex Dawe, from St. John’s, we were finally able to meet each other last summer on a camping trip in Cape Breton where I made Poppy promise she would do the podcast as her penance for ignoring me in Newfoundland all those years ago.

Poppy is obviously not living in Toronto but this conversation is flush with references to being Irish in a different part of the world and Poppy has some unique insights into what it means to be Irish on the east coast of Canada.

I would still encourage people to download the episodes and to share them with friends and family. Downloads are the easiest indicator for me to gauge how many people I am reaching with these conversations so I would really appreciate it.