Sophie White of The Creep Dive and Mother Of Pod joins us to talk about the best cancelled-before-its-time show of them all, Freaks and Geeks . As a podcast with one foot firmly in both the freak and geek camps, we were very excited to talk about it. Follow Sophie on Twitter and Instagram @sophie_white_ , she needs to get to that 5K! Her new novel Filter This is out in September Alan is @alan_maguire . Sarah is @griffski . Sarah's new novel Other Words For Smoke is out now. Juvenalia is on all o...
Jun 06, 2019•56 min•Season 1Ep. 78
Alan and Sarah were at the Spice Girls gig in Croke Park. So were Cassie and Sophie from The Creep Dive. They all happened to be in the Tall Tales studio the day after so they decided to record their thoughts. Two of them were very hungover. Two of them weren’t. Enjoy. social media things : Cassie is @cassielorraine Sophie is @sophie_white_ Sarah is @griffski Alan is @alan_maguire Juvenalia artwork by Dee McDonnell Juvenalia and The Creep Dive are Tall Tales Podcasts...
May 28, 2019•16 min
Get to the roof, we’re talking about Tremors! Poet and Lingo Festival co-founder Erin Fornoff joins us to talk about maybe the greatest b-movie of all time and definitely the greatest one to star Kevin Bacon and the dad from Family Ties. Follow Erin on Twitter @jarsofshine . Her debut collection Hymn To The Reckless is available now from Dedalus. Alan is @alan_maguire . Sarah is @griffski . Sarah's new novel Other Words For Smoke is out now. Juvenalia is on all of the social medias, if you searc...
May 23, 2019•47 min•Season 1Ep. 77
It’s a Buffy episode! Director Kate Dolan joins us to talk about her childhood love of the slayer. We talk about the deep wells of queer subtext in Buffy, favourite episodes, re-evaluate Xander, Once More With Feeling, and generally indulge in some fan behaviour. Follow Kate on Twitter @caatdolan and watch her video for Pillow Queens’ Gay Girls here Alan is @alan_maguire . Sarah is @griffski . Sarah's new novel Other Words For Smoke is out NOW and it's excellent. Juvenalia is on all of the socia...
May 09, 2019•1 hr 26 min•Season 1Ep. 76
Get out your poster paint and safety scissors because we’re talking about Art Attack! Cassie Delaney, co-host of The Creep Dive and our boss and new best friend, joins us to talk about her childhood as a committed maker of Art Attack projects, we marvel at the scale of the big Art Attacks, and we find out what Neil Buchanan, gentle king of Art Attacks large and small, is up to now. Follow Cassie on Twitter and Instagram @cassielorraine and listen The Creep Dive and all the other Tall Tales podca...
Apr 25, 2019•47 min•Season 1Ep. 75
So no-one told you life was gonna be this way? It's hard to believe it has taken 74 episodes but it's finally here - The One With The Friends Fan. Writer and beauty editor Aisling Keenan joins us in our new home at Tall Tales studio to reveal what it is about the sitcom that gives her such joy. Follow Aisling on Twitter and Instagram @aislingmkeenan . Her sex and relationships podcast Private Education is coming soon Alan is @alan_maguire . Sarah is @griffski . Sarah's new novel Other Words For ...
Apr 11, 2019•1 hr 25 min•Season 1Ep. 74
Sarah Davis-Goff is an author and co-founder of Independent publisher Tramp Press (<3). She joined Sarah and Alan, live from The Lexicon, to talk about The Terminator and remind us that a dystopian tech-ruled future may not be lightyears away. Sarah’s debut novel Last Ones Left Alive is out now. Follow Sarah on Twitter @ SarahDavisGoff and follow her work with Tramp Press @TrampPress . Alan is @alan_maguire . Sarah is @ griffski . Juvenalia is on all of the social medias, if you search for Ju...
Mar 28, 2019•1 hr 16 min•Season 1Ep. 73
Kiva Reardon is the lead programmer for contemporary world cinema at the Toronto International Film Festival and the founding editor of cléo journal. She joined Alan and Ellen to talk about the career of Irish footballer Robbie Keane and what he means to her as an Irish-Canadian. Alan and Ellen are not sport people but now they love Robbie Keane FIERCELY. You can find Kiva on Twitter at @kiva_jan e, and follow her work with TIFF and cléo journal . Alan is @alan_maguire , Ellen is @incogellen . J...
Mar 14, 2019•54 min•Season 1Ep. 72
Peter Kavanagh of Motherfoclóir, Pop-Up Gaeltacht, and the Green Party, joins Alan and Ellen to talk about the hero who hasn't gotten pollution down to zero just yet but he's trying his best: Captain Planet! We try to stay positive about the future of the planet even though Captain Planet came out twenty nine years ago and the bad guys who like to loot and plunder are still doing it. You can hear Peter regularly on Motherfoclóir and find him on Twitter @TheKavOfficial Alan is @alan_maguire Ellen...
Feb 28, 2019•46 min•Season 1Ep. 71
Your favourite fake DJ Michael Fry joins Alan and Sarah to talk about the obscure fantasy series Harry Potter. Michael read the first Harry Potter book when he was seven and the last film came out when he was eighteen. (If your Juvenalia topic overlaps perfectly with the entirety of your childhood then it's called a Golden Topic.) You can find Michael's work at Joe.ie and he's @BigDirtyFry on Twitter. Alan is @alan_maguire Sarah is @griffski . Her excellent novel Spare And Found Parts is out now...
Feb 14, 2019•1 hr 19 min•Season 1Ep. 70
Fair City actor Roxanna Nic Liam joins Alan and Sarah to talk about the greatest teen soap of them all, Home And Away. We talk about Roxanna's history with Home And Away, some of our favourite storylines, what it's like to work on a soap, and Roxanna's very unexpected professional encounter with her favourite character. [CW: We discuss a Home And Away storyline involving rape and gaslighting in this episode] Roxanna is currently starring as Erica Allen on RTÉ's Fair City. You can find her on Twi...
Jan 31, 2019•1 hr 6 min•Season 1Ep. 69
Naomi O'Leary, journalist and co-host of The Irish Passport, joins us to talk about maybe the bleakest book in children's literature, Marita Conlon-McKenna's famine classic Under The Hawthorn Tree. We talked about the unrelenting horror of the book, the historical accuracy, and how maybe it should be on the British school curriculum as well as the Irish one. There's also a whole load of talk about Brexit and we try to solve the mystery of forgotten Irish author Mary Regan's The Secret Of Yellow ...
Jan 17, 2019•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 68
Welcome to 2019! We decided to kick off with just Alan and Sarah talking about something that was pretty important to both of them but especially to Sarah, The X-Files. We talked about how good the pilot is, the once in a lifetime chemistry of Mulder and Scully, The X-Files Companion, GameStop discounts, going to the cinema alone, TV show tie-in magazines, and lots more. Alan is @alan_maguire , he does stand up sometimes Sarah is @griffski . Her excellent novel Spare And Found Parts is out now a...
Jan 03, 2019•54 min•Season 1Ep. 67
Welcome back to part two of our roundup of the year. This part has a little taste, just a little mind you, of every episode from July to December. We hope it inspires you to go back and listen to some episodes that you missed during the year! Ok happy new year bye x Episode Contents Section 1 Babe with Andrea Cleary Gilmore Girls with Ruth Hunter Stardoll with Fionnuala Jones (with guest co-host Caroline O'Donoghue) Section 2 Rapper's Delight with Claire Beck Little Women with Emilie Pine - LIVE...
Dec 27, 2018•36 min
We've had a fun year here at Juvenalia. Maybe you skipped a couple of episodes along the way because you weren't familiar with the topic or you were just busy. Well that's fine. We've put together a little appetizer plate of bits from every episode this year for you to make sure you get a chance to try them all properly. Part 1 covers January to June including our live 50th episode extravaganza in the Workman's. Episode Contents Section 1 The Simpsons With Just Ellen & Alan Abba With Tara Fl...
Dec 20, 2018•30 min
Hello and welcome to the Juvenalia Christmas Smalltacular 2018! Alan, Ellen, and Sarah met up to share a Terry's Chocolate Orange and talk about Christmas stuff like Furbies, Puppy in My Pocket, Big Tunes 2000, the bridge from Star Trek: The Next Generation, loungewear, relaxing in jeans and a belt, Candle Check 2018, more selection box talk, Alan gets shamed for his love of Cadbury's Fudge, and chocolate spreads. Don't listen to this episode when there are small children around because you know...
Dec 13, 2018•1 hr 1 min
Valerie Loftus of Stellar Magazine and The Glow Up joins Alan and Sarah to talk about the most successful girl group of all time and inventors of feminism, the Spice Girls. We talk about which Spice Girls Valerie and Sarah saw themselves as, Geri's betrayal, the solo careers, the reunion, and much more. Valerie is @valerieloftus on Twitter. Her book Thanks Penneys, with illustrations by Ciara Kenny is out now and it's very good and funny. Sarah is @griffski . Her excellent novel Spare And Found ...
Dec 06, 2018•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 66
Jack Fennell, editor of Irish sci-fi collection, A Brilliant Void, joins Alan and Sarah to talk about Star Trek: The Next Generation. Alan was obsessed with TNG when he was young, Sarah was not but she has many questions which Alan and Jack enthusiastically try to answer. You can find Jack on Twitter @JFennellAuthor . A Brilliant Void is out now from our good friends at Tramp Press Alan is @alan_maguire , he does stand up sometimes. Sarah is @griffsk i. Her excellent novel Spare And Found Parts ...
Nov 29, 2018•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 65
CW: This episode includes discussions about drug abuse, domestic violence, and sexual assault. Tony Duffin, CEO of Ana Liffey, joins Alan and Ellen to talk about being a London-Irish teenager in the 80s, harm reduction, drug decriminalisation, and The Pogues, specifically their song The Old Main Drag, and how it influenced his decision to work for harm reduction charities. You can find Tony on Twitter @tonyduffin . For more information on harm reduction and the work that Ana Liffey does go to sa...
Nov 22, 2018•46 min•Season 1Ep. 64
Caroline O'Donoghue joined Alan earlier in the year to co-host a couple of episodes. In between those episodes we had an hour to kill so we turned the mics back on and talked about The Sims! The Sims was a huge part of every millennial's childhood so we had a lot to talk about. We covered Death, Fires, The Sims Extended Universe, Paul St. Emos, Sexy Suave Goths, Seeing Famous People In Real Life, Reality Shows, and lots more. Caroline's novel Promising Young Women is still out and is still excel...
Nov 08, 2018•56 min•Season 1Ep. 63
Writer and podcaster Anne T. Donahue returns to Juvenalia to tell Alan and Ellen about her teenage obsession with Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet and Leonardo Di Caprio in general. We talk about beige food, huge teenage emotions, Titanic, John Leguizamo, Harry Styles, and just like a lot of other stuff. You can find Anne on twitter @annetdonahue . Her amazing book Nobody Cares is out now. Anne's podcast, also called Nobody Cares, is excellent and will be right up your street if you like Juvenalia....
Oct 25, 2018•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 62
We kicked out the jams at The Soundhouse as part of the Dublin Podcast Festival with our fourth live show. Since it was our second time at the DPF we decided to go twice as big and have two guests. Niamh Farrell of Ham Sandwich told us all about her childhood love of Take That and Mark Owen and then Nadine O'Regan of the Sunday Business Post told us about being a teenage grunge fan in West Cork. We had lots of fun and we can't thank Nadine and Niamh enough for being fabulous guests. You can find...
Oct 11, 2018•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 61
Shane Langan of Diet Of Worms, The Walshes, Becca's Bunch, and the WGM podcast joins Alan and Sarah to talk about something that's very close to all of their hearts, Spaced. We're all very enthusiastic about it in a low energy way because it was very warm in the studio. Shane Langan is @Shaneinho on Twitter. Find The WGM on your podcast app AFTER you've finished this episode. Alan is @alan_maguire and Sarah is @griffski . Sarah's book Spare and Found Parts is out now and her second book Other Wo...
Sep 28, 2018•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 60
Jenna Stoeber, video producer at Polygon and co-host of Fandalites, joined Alan and guest co-host Caroline O'Donoghue to talk about the classic anime series Sailor Moon. Now, Sailor Moon had a very limited run on our side of the Atlantic so we're very grateful to Jenna for being patient with us and answering our questions and guiding us through the beautiful, complicated world of the Pretty Guardian Sailors. We talked about representation and merch and Barenaked Ladies and all kinds of topics. P...
Sep 13, 2018•57 min•Season 1Ep. 59
Emilie Pine, author of the best-selling essay collection Notes To Self, joined Alan and Sarah in the All Curious Minds tent at the All Together Now festival in Co. Waterford to talk about a book that was very important to her when she was young, Louisa May Alcott's Little Women. We talked about boxes of books, rebel girls, gothic novels, not having a tv, and all about Jo. Thank you so much to Linda and Erin of All Curious Minds for having us and to Lisa and Sarah of Tramp Press for their help. W...
Aug 30, 2018•48 min•Season 1Ep. 58
Claire Beck, DJ and host of the podcasts Fear/Fun and Tug Life, takes Alan and Sarah to school about the history of hip hop and Rapper's Delight's place in it. Claire is an amazing DJ and listening to her talk about the art of DJing was one of the most interesting experiences we've had doing Juvenalia. Claire is @clairebeck1052 on Twitter. Fear/Fun is on the HeadStuff Podcast Network and Tug Life is on Mixcloud Alan is @alan_maguire and Sarah is @griffski . Sarah's first novel Spare And Found Pa...
Aug 16, 2018•55 min•Season 1Ep. 57
Daily Edge writer Fionnuala Jones joins Alan and special guest co-host Caroline O'Donoghue to talk about Stardoll, a fashion-based social network for teenz from 2006. We talked about Fionnuala spending hundreds of euro for Superstar status, the Olsen twins, making friends online, Second Life, Love Island, and fashion, fashion, FASHION. Fionnuala Jones is @FionnualaJay on Twitter Alan is @alan_maguire and Caroline is @czaroline . Caroline's novel Promising Young Women is published by Virago Books...
Aug 02, 2018•48 min•Season 1Ep. 56
Comedian Ruth Hunter joins Alan and Ellen to talk about Gilmore Girls. We talk about all aspects of all the seasons so there are tons of spoilers. You have been warned. Topics covered include: good kissing gifs, the evolution of Jess, #LaneDeservedBetter, rich people are bad, and the relative sexlessness of Gilmore Girls. Ruth Hunter is @ruthokhunter on Twitter. Her show Science Idiot is running at the Edinburgh Fringe from Aug 4-27th in Barbados, Cowgate (Room 6). Alan is @alan_maguire and Elle...
Jul 19, 2018•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 55
Music writer and co-host of The Nialler9 Podcast Andrea Cleary joins Alan and Ellen to talk about the best little pig in the world, Babe. We talked about vegetarianism, feeling all the feelings, teaching moral lessons with animals, is Babe a sports film?, the many ways in which James Cromwell is wonderful, Alistair MacLeod short stories, Ulysses, Christine Cavanaugh, and just generally about how Babe is the sweetest little guy in cinema history. Andrea Cleary is @AndreaCleary_ on Twitter. Her mu...
Jul 05, 2018•55 min•Season 1Ep. 54
Author and awards-magnet Louise O'Neill joined Alan and Sarah to talk about Enid Blyton's classic series about a fantastical tree that's not nearby, The Magic Faraway Tree. We talked about the Famous Five vs Secret Seven, the comforting repetition of Enid Blyton, updating books for modern audiences, and, seeing as we had two of Ireland's best YA authors in the studio, a lot of talk about writing YA. Then we had a patented Juvenalia digression into Adele's Titanic-themed party, the Met Gala and c...
Jun 21, 2018•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 53
