Ukranian Voices From Ireland

Ukranian Voices From Ireland

The Ukrainian Voices in Ireland podcast shares stories from the Ukranian community and helps to build communication with Ireland’s new residents. The podcast gives Ireland’s newest community, Ukrainian refugees, a voice and a chance to introduce themselves to the people of Ireland. With so many arrivals, spread so widely across the country, there’s been a lack of a coherent narrative or voices from the newest residents of Ireland. Ireland’s Classic Hits Radio wants to play its part in welcoming the newest members of Ireland’s community and giving them a voice and an opportunity to speak for themselves and introduce themselves to a wider Irish audience.

Episodes

August 20, 2024 15 mins

Marina chats to Trina Mara about leaving Ukraine with her mother as her town was occupied by the Russians.  Her two brothers are soldiers fighting in the war.  Marina has lost many friends who have died during the war.  

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Michael speaks to Trina about leaving Ukraine unaccompanied at the age of 17, how he worries about his family and his big plans to work hard in Ireland

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August 6, 2024 2 mins

18-year-old Mykola Rubliuk chats to Trina Mara about moving to Ireland 9 months ago.  He came here with his mother who misses her husband who is back in Ukraine.  

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18-year-old Mykola Rubliuk is a youth leader at the Lisdoonvarna Youth Cafe. It's a place where teenagers ages 13-18 cam come to meet friends, gain knowledge and skills and find something to their liking.  The main goal of the project is to create a safe place where each teenager is respected and accepted.

The youth cafe has many master classes, for example, cooking, DIY, growing plants aswell as trips for the teenagers to festival...

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16-year-old Daria Rudkovska chats to Trina Mara about her involvement with the Lisdoonvarna Youth Cafe, how she was welcomed to Ireland and the challenges of living in a hotel room for over 2 years.  

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Oksana tells Trina about moving to Ireland with her husband and 3 young children.  Ukrainian law states the men can leave if they have three or more young children.  She asked for help on Facebook and received a number of offers with a place to stay in Ireland 

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Oksana moved to Ireland from Kharkiv, Ukraine after the Russian invasion and tells us about her experience of living here with her family.  She was living only 30 kilometres from the Russian border.

 

 

 

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Artist and art teacher Yana Koretska from Kremenchuk, Ukraine tells Trina Mara about her experience of living in Ireland 

She tells us about her well-being workshops

https://yanakoretska.art/art-workshops

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Yana Koretska came to Ireland after the invasion of Ukraine in 2022.  In Part One, she tells Trina about her career as an artist and how she has been welcomed by her host family.  Her mother and 11-year-old sister decided to stay in Ukraine.  

Instagram - yanessa_ukrainian.artist

www.yanakoretska.art

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Ivan Soraka chats to Trina Mara about the realities of having family members still living in the thick of the war in Ukraine.  

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Ivan Soraka chats to Trina Mara about moving to Ireland at a young age and how his parents adapted to life in Ireland 

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Ivan Soroka chats to Trina Mara about his Ukrainian parents and what it was like moving to Ireland at the age of six. 

 

 

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Alla Mikhnova chats to Trina Mara about the Russian invasion and how her husband is still in Ukraine.  She checks the news every morning to see what has happened overnight.  

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Reporter Eoin Glackin chats to Fr.Vasyl Komitsky from Donnycarney Church in Dublin.  He came here from Ukraine in 2012 and has been working closely with the local Ukrainian community.  

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Reporter Eoin Glackin spoke with Ukrainian priest Father Vasyl Kornitsky of Our Lady of Consolation Church in Donnycarney, Dublin. Fr Vasyl came to Ireland in 2012. He told us about how his job changed after the war broke out. 

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Alla Mikhnova speaks to Trina Mara about her life in Ireland after fleeing the war in Ukraine with her two children.  

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Alla Mikhnova speaks to Trina about leaving her husband behind in Ukraine to stay with his mother as she came to Ireland with her two sons after her town was occupied on the first day of the war.  She told us how her children have struggled as a lot of their friends are now living in other European countries. 

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Sergiy Balan's 22-year-old nephew was killed on the first day of occupation by the Russians.  Sergiy's mother, who is 82, has said she is too old to travel and "better to die in her own hometown".  

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Sergiy Balan is the Chairman of the Association of Ukrainians in Ireland.  He tells Trina Mara about how lost he was when he came to Ireland over 20 years to learn English.  

www.ukrainians.ie

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Radion tells us about the printing business he has started in Ireland since fleeing the war 2 years ago

 

www.steekaz.ie

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