The Dublin Lesbian Line Podcast

llewyn máire

Wed, 12 Aug 2026 23:00:00 GMT

llewyn máire (they/ sí) known in community as yE, is currently the primary facilitator and maker for Savage Craic Apothecary, an organiser with Queer Sheds an Chláir, and a member of the Black Flag Herbal Clinic.

lle is currently dedicated to supporting community resistance through skill share/ education, the joy and resilience of fermetation, Trans+ Herbal heathcare, land stewardship, 1:1 queercare, and disability justice.

Savage Craic is a living partnership between llewyn máire (they/sí), Dr. Lisa Newman (she/they), Irish soil and seed workers, local and international herbalists, artists, makers, and an eclectic family of plantcestors, microbial mates, and fungikin— fermenting lifeways in the Irish Free State since 2015. https://savagecraic.ie/

References in this podcast include:

Mushrooms and Roses Festival - A Festival of Irish Botanical Lifeways for Liberatory Herbworkers, Community Carers, & Radical Plant Folk will be taking place 02 - 04 Oct 2026 at The Common Knowledge Centre, An Chláir V95DK38

Find more info here https://savagecraic.ie/herbfest/

Queer Sheds https://www.queersheds.org/

Savage Craic Free Zines & Papers https://savagecraic.ie/resources/

Dublin Herb Bike https://herbalista.org/projects/herb-bike/

Credits:

Host: Orla Vaughan

Editors: Caitríona Murphy and Orla April Koivisto

Production Coordinator: Linda McGrath

Production Support: Dani Lovera Teixeira, Megan Atkinson and Kai Allen

Episodes were recorded on location in Co Clare, Ireland and in the Creative Studio, Ballyfermot Library, Dublin. Our sincere thanks to the library staff who assisted us in the recording.

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Pam Connolly

Wed, 05 Aug 2026 23:00:00 GMT

Pamela Connolly is a Dublin-based songwriter and musician, best known as a member of Pillow Queens. She writes songs rooted in honesty, melody and lived experience, with a love for storytelling that runs through her work both with the band and beyond

Pillow Queens (Pamela Connolly, Cathy McGuinness & Sarah Corcoran) have released 2 EPs, 3 albums and are currently working on their fourth studio album which will be released in Spring 2027. Pillow Queens Band https://www.pillowqueens.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pillowqueensband/

References in this podcast include:

Attica Studios https://www.atticaaudio.ie/

The Cabin Crew https://www.thekabin.ie/

Queer Hawk https://queerhawk.square.site/

Queer Sheds https://www.queersheds.org/

Irish Music Week https://www.irelandmusicweek.com/

Credits:

Host: Orla Vaughan

Editors: Caitríona Murphy and Orla April Koivisto

Production Coordinator: Linda McGrath

Production Support: Dani Lovera Teixeira, Megan Atkinson and Kai Allen

Episodes were recorded on location in Co Clare, Ireland and in the Creative Studio, Ballyfermot Library, Dublin. Our sincere thanks to the library staff who assisted us in the recording.

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Karina Murray

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 23:00:00 GMT

Karina Murray (she/her) is the founder of Conscious Connections. It provides opportunities for women and non binary people in the LGBTQ+ community to make connections in healthy environments, aiming to inspire them to take proactive steps and assert control over their well-being.

Conscious Connections https://www.kmurray.ie/

References in this podcast include:

Ballyfermot Library Studios https://www.dublincity.ie/libraries/using-your-library/creative-studio

Meet Up https://www.meetup.com/

Running Amach https://www.instagram.com/runningamach/

Sporting Pride https://www.sportingpride.ie/

Quare Clare https://quareclare.ie/

Phoenix Tiger Football Club https://www.instagram.com/phoenixtigersfc/

Outhouse https://outhouse.ie/

Roscommon Pride https://roscommonpride.ie/

Queers for Palestine https://www.instagram.com/queers_for_palestine_ireland/

Switchboard https://www.theswitchboard.ie/

iDonate DLL https://www.idonate.ie/cause/dll

Credits:

Host: Orla Vaughan

Editors: Caitríona Murphy and Orla April Koivisto

Production Coordinator: Linda McGrath

Production Support: Dani Lovera Teixeira, Megan Atkinson and Kai Allen

Episodes were recorded on location in Co Clare, Ireland and in the Creative Studio, Ballyfermot Library, Dublin. Our sincere thanks to the library staff who assisted us in the recording.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Azmia Riaz

Wed, 22 Jul 2026 23:00:00 GMT

Azmia Riaz (she/her) is a journalist with the Irish Independent. Azmia was born and raised in South India where she started out as an education journalist with The New Indian Express, a role she held for four years. She moved to Ireland in 2021 to pursue her Masters at UCD where she worked with local radio stations and the LGBTQIA+ society. She joined the Irish Independent as a MET news reporter and went on to cover human interest stories for daily features and rural affairs. She currently works in the role of Local Democracy Reporter for Dublin. She also contributes to the first person section of the Irish Independent and has written about subjects like identity, gender and migration.

Irish Independent https://www.independent.ie/

Credits:

Host: Orla Vaughan

Editors: Caitríona Murphy and Orla April Koivisto

Production Coordinator: Linda McGrath

Production Support: Dani Lovera Teixeira, Megan Atkinson and Kai Allen

Episodes were recorded on location in Co Clare, Ireland and in the Creative Studio, Ballyfermot Library, Dublin. Our sincere thanks to the library staff who assisted us in the recording.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Luíse O’Donovan

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 23:00:00 GMT

Host: Orla Vaughan

Editors: Caitríona Murphy and Orla April Koivisto

Production Coordinator: Linda McGrath

Production Support: Dani Lovera Teixeira, Megan Atkinson and Kai Allen

Luíse O'Donovan (they/them) is a queer ecologist with a focus on seabird conservation and marine ecosystems. They work on seabird tracking projects, and have contributed to seabird censuses and monitored breeding wader populations. Luíse values wildlife for its own sake, and for how it connects us to our culture & to each other.

Recommendations & Resources:

Queer Sheds- https://www.queersheds.org/

Faoin Tuath- https://www.queersheds.org/faointuath

Lucy O’Hagan at Wild Awake https://www.wildawake.ie/

Bird Watch Ireland, with books in their shop https://birdwatchireland.ie/

Free online resources for learning bird identification: Birdwatch Ireland's species profiles, the BTO's bird identification videos & Nord University has a free Bird ID app that gamifies learning by sight and sound if that's something that helps you learn.

The Call of the Birds by Séraphine Menu https://www.easons.com/the-call-of-the-birds-seraphine-menu-9781836270034?srsltid=AfmBOoqCiVTt4HQog9kl9GVZ09hbLmdEQG4TxJou_Ky3lh9Lpiegr7Xn

Great IG follows for queer ecology/foraging/culture to follow:

@wildawakeireland

@savage.craic

@queernature

@atmos

@bláthannafiáine

@blackforager

@nationalfolklorecollection

Books:

The first few are available through your local library. I love the ‘Collins Bird guide’, or Birds of Ireland for a more concise ID guide.

‘Braiding Sweetgrass’ by Robin Wall Kimmerer will recentre your idea of where humans exist in the web of life!

I read ‘Forest Euphoria’ by Patricia Kaishan recently and really loved it,

and recommend ‘Slugs: a Manifesto’ by Abi Palmer to those who are grossed out by our slimy compatriots and those who love them equally.

Credits:

Host: Orla Vaughan

Editors: Caitríona Murphy and Orla April Koivisto

Production Coordinator: Linda McGrath

Production Support: Dani Lovera Teixeira, Megan Atkinson and Kai Allen

Episodes were recorded on location in Co Clare, Ireland and in the Creative Studio, Ballyfermot Library, Dublin. Our sincere thanks to the library staff who assisted us in the recording.

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Philipa Ryder

Tue, 07 Jul 2026 16:08:18 GMT

Philippa Ryder (she/her) is a transgender woman. She joined the Irish civil service, the Property Registration

Authority, in 1980 and retired in 2022. She is married with one daughter.

Philipa’s memoir ‘My Name is Philippa’ is available as an e-book and audiobook from Mercier Press https://www.mercierpress.ie/books/my-name-is-philippa/ and is available in all good bookshops, libraries, online and audiobook platforms.

Paperback copies are available via Banner Books, Co. Clare, Ireland https://bannerbooks.ie/shop/discover-irish-books-and-authors/my-name-is-philippa and https://www.bookworld.ie/products/my-name-is-philippa-1

Philipa became involved with LGBTQ+ activism when she came to terms with herself as transgender, eventually transitioning about 15 years ago. She was very involved with both the Marriage Equality and Repeal the 8 th referenda. She describes herself as a passionate, inclusive feminist.

Over the past 20 years she has been a board member and chair of Transgender Equality

Network Ireland (TENI) and part of the Steering Committee of Transgender Europe (TGEU).

She was a founding committee member of Sporting Pride, Ireland’s LGBTQ+ sports

organisation and represented Ireland at the World Gay Games in Paris in 2018.

She was also Chair of the Board of Dublin Pride, retiring in 2026. She was Grand Marshal of Dublin Pride 2026.

Credits:

Host: Orla Vaughan

Editors: Caitríona Murphy and Orla April Koivisto

Production Coordinator: Linda McGrath

Production Support: Dani Lovera Teixeira, Megan Atkinson and Kai Allen

Other references in this podcast include:

TENI - Transgender Equality Network Ireland https://teni.ie/

Sporting Pride https://www.sportingpride.ie/

The Gay Games https://www.gaygames.org/

TGEU - Trans Europe and Central Asia https://www.tgeu.org/

Credits:

Host: Orla Vaughan

Editors: Caitríona Murphy and Orla April Koivisto

Production Coordinator: Linda McGrath

Production Support: Dani Lovera Teixeira, Megan Atkinson and Kai Allen

Episodes were recorded on location in Co Clare, Ireland and in the Creative Studio, Ballyfermot Library, Dublin. Our sincere thanks to the library staff who assisted us in the recording.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.