Wigs On The Green
Wigs on the Green is hosted by Tamara and Marina, two women who believe the most important stories in Irish public life are the ones that never made the front page. Each episode, we sit down with the OG upstarts of Irish grassroots politics, activism, social change, disability rights, and queer history...the people who went out on a limb before it was safe, popular, or even legal to do so.
Because Ireland didn't change by accident. It changed because people got mad, got organised, and refused to go away. And right now, with so much still to fight for, there has never been a better time to hear how they did it.
Expect honest conversations, the odd argument, a lot of laughter, and stories that will genuinely make you proud of this little country, and furious on its behalf in equal measure.
Left wing. Unashamedly woke. Never boring.
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Wigs On The Green
04 - Andrea Horan: Everyone Deserves To Party!
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Andrea Horan is the founder of Dublin nail mecca Tropical Popical and previously has founded projects like The Hunreal Issues and No More Hotels. She has an interest in throwing glitter on issues without minimising them, which led her to co-present podcasts Don't Stop Repealin' and United Ireland with Una Mullally. She worked in strategic communications for 15 years in Thinkhouse and Edelman and gave a TEDx talk on 'Escaping the Economy of More' that informs her own mindset daily. The project she's most proud of is the exhibition ReNAILssance she produced with and in the National Gallery of Ireland. She was awarded the Irish Tatler Woman of the Year 2019 in the Influence category. She is obsessed with Dublin and campaigns on its many issues regularly.
This conversation is a love letter to Dublin and a challenge to everyone who's given up on it. Andrea takes us from the Repeal mural that Dublin City Council tried to silence, through the dance floors we've lost to hotels, to why she turned down every offer to scale Tropical Popical into a chain. She makes the case that joy is radical, that friction creates sparks, and that the best thing you can do for this city is go into town.
Find Andrea:
instagram.com/andreadhoran
instagram.com/tropicalpopical
tropicalpopical.com
Mentioned in this episode:
No More Hotels
Give Us the Night
Ardee House occupation / Revolutionary Housing League
Jenny Maguire
Hasan Piker
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