Episodes
Episodes
Monday Apr 01, 2024
Kate O'Brien - Jackie's Irish Gal Pick
Monday Apr 01, 2024
Monday Apr 01, 2024
Did you think Ireland Month was over?! Well, we found a pot of gold on this April Fools Day! Gal’s Guide just happens to be so lucky because we know Jackie. Jackie is a native Hoosier who now calls Ireland home. She also runs the Castlelyons Library, which is supported and sponsored by Gal’s Guide. So for this bonus episode, Jackie Donegan tells us about the amazing Irish author Kate O'Brien!
Thursday Mar 28, 2024
Queen Medb - Riwo's Irish Gal Pick
Thursday Mar 28, 2024
Thursday Mar 28, 2024
Riwo's pick is pre-Christian times in Ireland. Her pick is also part historical but also part myth and legend. She’s a complex woman. Queen Medb (also spelled Maeve, Mave, Meave) her name is connected to alcohol - you know meade-woman - she starts a war over who has a prettier bull, and it takes 30 men in a night to satisfy her sexually. She’s a lot and she's not apologizing for any of it.
Monday Mar 18, 2024
Sinéad O'Connor - Lori's Irish Gal Pick
Monday Mar 18, 2024
Monday Mar 18, 2024
Lori continues Ireland Month by talking about singer, songwriter, and activist Sinéad O'Connor. The Pope and Prince tie into this episode as we learn about the many albums, struggles, and talents of this Dublin musician.
Monday Mar 11, 2024
Bernadette Devlin - Katie's Irish Gal Pick
Monday Mar 11, 2024
Monday Mar 11, 2024
Katie continues Ireland Month with a campaigner for social justice, elected to Parliament at age 21, served prison time, wounded in an assassination attempt, and sometimes called "Ireland's Joan of Arc", Bernadette Devlin.
Wednesday Mar 06, 2024
Lilian Bland - Bonnie's Irish Gal Pick
Wednesday Mar 06, 2024
Wednesday Mar 06, 2024
It's the start of Ireland Month! Bonnie's pick is an all-around adventurer. Lilian Bland is an aviator, horseback rider, lumberjack, painter, and car salesman. And when we say aviator we mean, she's the first woman to build her own plane 'cause it's 1910. And when we say car salesman, we mean the idea of cars is new.
Monday Feb 26, 2024
Mariama Ba - Katie's African Gal Pick
Monday Feb 26, 2024
Monday Feb 26, 2024
Katie finishes up African Gals Month by sharing about Senegalese author, Mariama Ba. So Long a Letter is a novel expressing the fate and the frustration of African women. Mariama received the Noma Award, a major book award in Africa.
Wednesday Feb 21, 2024
Agojie - Leah's African Gals Pick
Wednesday Feb 21, 2024
Wednesday Feb 21, 2024
Gal's Guide Film Club is discussing the Viola Davis movie The Women King. Leah wanted to dig deeper into the real-life all-female military regiment in the Kingdom of Dahomey known as the Agojie. If you are wondering if they are what the Dorje Milaje of Black Panther is based on - you are correct my friend.
Wednesday Feb 14, 2024
Professor Nox Makunga - Josh's African Gal Pick
Wednesday Feb 14, 2024
Wednesday Feb 14, 2024
Josh returns to the podcast to talk about the medicinal plant biologist, Nokwanda Pearl Makunga. Professor Nox is a researcher in Biotechnology at Stellenbosch University. Her work is fascinating if you have a green thumb and even if you don't!

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