Irish Talkers

We are delighted to bring you the audio from the second placed winner in this year's World Championship of Public Speaking, Lindy-Marie Miller with her speech “Pretending Not to Know". ______________________________________________________________________ This is part 2 from Programme 9 of 2020/21 season - published on September 198th with Ted Mellamphy, Moira O'Brien & Paul O’Mahony. The show...

The introductory segment to this week's series of podcasts including: Word of the Week: BENIGN and Thought for the Week: Benjamin Franklin - "Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing" ______________________________________________________________________ This is part 1 from Programme 9 of 2020/21 season - published on September 18th with Ted Mellamphy, Moira O'Brien &...

Moira takes apart Mike Carr's body language and movement on screen to illustrate how he used these for maximum effect in his screen presence. ______________________________________________________________________ This is part 4 from Programme 8 of 2020/21 season - published on September 14th with Ted Mellamphy, Moira O'Brien & Paul O’Mahony. The show is in four parts and usually has this forma...

Paul talks about what happens when, as a new member of a Toastmaster club you discover that it is not just about public speaking. ______________________________________________________________________ This is part 3 from Programme 8 of 2020/21 season - published on September 13th with Ted Mellamphy, Moira O'Brien & Paul O’Mahony. The show is in four parts and usually has this format: (1) Intro...

The winner of the World Championship of Public Speaking, Mike Carr, with his speech "The Librarian & Mrs Montgomery". ______________________________________________________________________ This is part 2 from Programme 8 of 2020/21 season - published on September 12th with Ted Mellamphy, Moira O'Brien & Paul O’Mahony. The show is in four parts and usually has this format: (1) Introducing a...

The introductory segment to this week's show includes: Word of the week: ABJECT and Thought for the week:  "Martin Seligman, the Happiness Professor, has revealed that optimism is the most important quality you can develop for personal and professional success and happiness. It transpires that optimists have four characteristics, all learned through repetition and practice. Firstly, they see...

In part 2 of our series on rhetorical devices, Moira covers:  epistrophe, epizeuxis, exemplum, hypallage, hyperbaton, hyperbole, hypophora, litotes, and metabasis ______________________________________________________________________ This is part 1 from Programme 7 of 2020/21 season - published on August 14th with Ted Mellamphy, Moira O'Brien & Paul O’Mahony. The show is in four parts and...

Paul dips into the Toastmasters magazine for August and discusses a statement by Deepak Menon, outgoing International President, that "today we are strong". ______________________________________________________________________ This is part 3 from Programme 7 of 2020/21 season - published on August 16th with Ted Mellamphy, Moira O'Brien & Paul O’Mahony. The show is in four parts and usually ha...

We listen here to a collage of speeches by Jeff Bezos, boss of Amazon and the world's richest man, talking about passion and business success, following which we analyse the speech and we Ah Count it. ______________________________________________________________________ This is part 2 from Programme 7 of 2020/21 season - published on August 15th with Ted Mellamphy, Moira O'Brien & Paul O’Maho...

The introductory segment to this week's series of four podcasts including: Word of the Week: STUPENDOUS and Thought for the Week:  Stiofáin Ó Máille - "Morning is the rudder of your day". ______________________________________________________________________ This is part 1 from Programme 7 of 2020/21 season - published on August 14th with Ted Mellamphy, Moira O'Brien & Paul O’Mahony. The...

Moira introduces rhetorical devices and goes through a list of some her favourite ones. ______________________________________________________________________ This is part 4 from Programme 6 of 2020/21 season - published on August 10th with Ted Mellamphy, Moira O'Brien & Paul O’Mahony. The show is in four parts and usually has this format: (1) Introducing a “Thought for the Week” and a “Word o...

Paul introduces the subject of how much power does the individual Toastmaster Club have and how much power do the Area, Division etc.... up to Toastmasters International have. ______________________________________________________________________ This is part 3 from Programme 6 of 2020/21 season - published on August 9th with Ted Mellamphy, Moira O'Brien & Paul O’Mahony. The show is in four pa...

Our interviewee this week is Eugenio Jaramillo, author of "The Purple Squirrel Speaks", born in Columbia,  now resident in Florida and a member of South Dade Toastmasters. ______________________________________________________________________ This is part 2 from Programme 6 of 2020/21 season - published on August 8th with Ted Mellamphy, Moira O'Brien & Paul O’Mahony. The show is in four p...

The introductory segment to this week's series of podcasts including the word of the week "INCIPIENT" and a thought for the week from Maya Angelou - "I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel". We are joined for this segment by Eugenio Jaramillo, author of "The Purple Squirrel Speaks". __________________...

We talked a few weeks ago about the equipment needed to hold a successful hybrid meeting  and in the meantime some of our clubs have held hybrid meetings as well as much experimentation around our equipment suggestions. Moira gives an update and more thoughts on the practicalities of holding hybrid meetings in the Covid-19 era, _________________________________________________________________...

This year the International Convention is being held entirely online - and most importantly, it is going to be free for everyone! Get registering folks. ______________________________________________________________________ This is part 3 from Programme 5 of 2020/21 season - published on August 2nd with Ted Mellamphy, Moira O'Brien & Paul O’Mahony. The show is in four parts and usually has thi...

Our interviewee this week is Elizabeth Jordan, the new Public Relations Officer for District 71 - UK and Ireland.  Elizabeth is a member of Cornerstone Communicators and Hertfordshire clubs as well as Presentation Zen Masters online club.  She was Area Director for Area 20 in 2017. ______________________________________________________________________ This is part 2 from Programme 5 of 2...

The introductory segment to this week's podcasts, as always including: Word of the Week: EXPANSIVE and Thought for the Week:  Admiral William H McRaven - ‘If you want to change your life and maybe the world start off by making your bed.’ ______________________________________________________________________ This is part 1 from Programme 5 of 2020/21 season - published on July 24th with Ted Me...

Sound, in speechmaking, both online and onsite, is of great importance. Moira discusses ways in which we can avoid falling into sound pitfalls. ______________________________________________________________________ This is part 4 from Programme 4 of 2020/21 season - published on July 27th with Ted Mellamphy, Moira O'Brien & Paul O’Mahony. The show is in four parts and usually has this format:...

In the past few months, here in districts 71 and 91 we have been introduced to a new term - TLI. Paul goes into detail as to what exactly is it and how is it different to Club Officer Training. ______________________________________________________________________ This is part 4 from Programme 4 of 2020/21 season - published on July 26th with Ted Mellamphy, Moira O'Brien & Paul O’Mahony. The s...

Simon Sinek is a philosopher, a thought leader, an author of five books and a great motivational speaker.  In this short talk, he talks about being players in multiple infinite games every day of our lives - The Most Honest 10 Minute Speech". ______________________________________________________________________ This is part 2 from Programme 4 of 2020/21 season - published on July 25th with T...

 The introductory segment to this week's series of podcasts including: Word of the Week: GREGARIOUS and Thought for the Week: Jim Rohn - "Don’t join an easy crowd; you won’t grow. Go where the expectations and the demands to perform are high." ______________________________________________________________________ This is part 1 from Programme 4 of 2020/21 season - published on July 24th with...

Moira talks about identifying and then overcoming your weaknesses. ______________________________________________________________________ This is part 4 from Programme 3 of 2020/21 season - published on July 20th with Ted Mellamphy, Moira O'Brien & Paul O’Mahony. The show is in four parts and usually has this format: (1) Introducing a “Thought for the Week” and a “Word of the Week” together wi...

Paul talks about the current situation in the world where adversity has given rise to a large amount of collaboration. ______________________________________________________________________ This is part 3 from Programme 3 of 2020/21 season - published on July 19th with Ted Mellamphy, Moira O'Brien & Paul O’Mahony. The show is in four parts and usually has this format: (1) Introducing a “Though...

In her New Orleans neighbourhood, artist and TED Fellow Candy Chang turned an abandoned house into a giant chalkboard asking a fill-in-the-blank question: "Before I die I want to ___." Her neighbours' answers -- surprising, poignant, funny -- became an unexpected mirror for the community. (What's your answer?) ______________________________________________________________________ This is part 2 fr...