{"id":463689,"date":"2026-05-23T17:12:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T17:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/463689\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T17:12:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T17:12:11","slug":"how-irish-music-helped-break-the-catholic-churchs-power-in-ireland-the-last-mixed-tape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/463689\/","title":{"rendered":"How Irish Music Helped Break the Catholic Church\u2019s Power in Ireland \u2013 The Last Mixed Tape"},"content":{"rendered":"

For much of the twentieth century, the Catholic Church shaped almost every aspect of Irish life education, sexuality, politics, family and silence.<\/p>\n

But long before Ireland changed politically, Irish artists began documenting the emotional cost of that world through music.<\/p>\n

From Christy Moore\u2019s haunting response to the death of Ann Lovett<\/a>, to Sin\u00e9ad O\u2019Connor\u2019s infamous Saturday Night Live protest, to Hozier\u2019s Take Me To Church, the Marriage Equality referendum, the Repeal the 8th movement and Fontaines D.C.\u2019s reflections on post-Catholic Ireland, this episode explores how Irish music became both witness and protest during one of the most dramatic cultural transformations in modern Irish history.<\/p>\n

Part music documentary, part cultural essay traces how songs carried truths Irish society often struggled to say aloud until eventually the silence itself began to collapse.<\/p>\n

The Last Mixed Tape is hosted by Stephen White, and is also available on\u00a0Spotify<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Apple Podcasts<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"\"Sin\u00e9ad O\u2019Connor served as the inspiration for this week\u2019s podcast<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For much of the twentieth century, the Catholic Church shaped almost every aspect of Irish life education, sexuality,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-463689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}