The incredible language rights activist, teacher and MBE Linda Ervine, founder of Turas project in East Belfast, talks to Jools about her roots, and the routes that led to the innovative Turas project that breaks barriers and advances reconciliation in Ireland through the Irish language. Her story is an incredible story of passion, ability, teaching and reconciliation in the midst of a community that would (until recently) given little credibility (if any) to one of their own learning and teaching Irish. She also takes the time to correct Jools’s attempts at a chat in Irish!

In this conversation we are so proud to have Jools in conversion with the first female Provost of Ireland’s number 1 University, Trinity College Dublin. They talk about how and why Linda got to where she is. And amongst other things they talk about leadership and what is required in these days to run a university that truly exists to transform the world through a Common Good for all.

In this episode we revisit a Facebook Live held back in March in which Jools talks with Simon Anholt, creator of the Good Country Index. This episode is a bit longer than prior episodes, because what Simon says is amazing and our Editor struggled to cut things out because everything was so good!