 Bois van Prombere is hoping to have her university dissertation published. This is after she wrote it about Dairy Girls. She is a real student, Dordy, and originally from the water side, but she's a final year student at University of York, studying English and related literature and joins us now. We're streaming as well as something on the radio. A real team, good afternoon to you. Good afternoon. So you took a bit of a mad notion to do your dissertation on Dairy Girls. How did it come about to the obvious question? Well, it was something that my dad kept joking about in first year, being like, you should write your dissertation on Dairy Girls. And it wasn't something that I sort of took seriously until I was writing my proposal at the end of second year. And I realised that it was something I could actually write well. So I just sort of went for the idea and here we are. Well, you you came to the conclusion you could write well because you're a big fan of the show, obviously. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I could see a good plan for it. All right. And what was what was the plan? I mean, how do you how do you take the Dairy Girls and turn it into this? Yeah, well, I'm sort of looking at the way that the show writes about well, users humor do write about the troubles in a way that nothing else really has before and just how effective it is and how funny it genuinely is and how it does that. The show is really caught on and it's not like it's gone way beyond Dairy, obviously, or the North. What about, you know, your fellow students, York, are they are they really into it? Yeah, when I first moved over and I said I was from Dairy, everyone instantly said we like Dairy Girls, like that everyone recognises and I and I've heard like Americans come up to me and people from places and like Pakistan and everything I've watched it. And it's crazy how far it's gone. And they're they're obviously getting getting the humor because sometimes you think it's kind of a dairy thing, you know, or a dairy done equal thing or it's an Northern Ireland thing. But no, it's humor, obviously. It definitely doesn't resonate. It's, I think, different parts, maybe resonate for different people. And but it is funny how much everyone enjoys the humor on it, even if they're not from Dairy. And at the same time, it's able to tell a story because it does touch on the troubles and and but it does it. It does it in a in a very for the most part, a subtle way you it's the troubles are in and around the troubles. It's not about the troubles as such and and the whole way through it. You're still able to laugh. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, I have a whole chapter on sort of those those episodes that really aren't about the troubles at all and how important they are as well and sort of represent the normality in the in the times of the conflict. As well and not just all about the troubles. And I think it helps that the the comedy is authentic. And it just it just feels very it feels very Dairy and it feels very real. Exactly, yeah. I was I was saying this before. I remember when the first episode was showing common Andy skill and everyone like just talking about how relatable it was. And everyone was saying like, you're like Orla and you're like her. And that teacher is like Sister Michael. Like it was so real and we never really had anything like that beforehand. And no, absolutely not not from Dairy. And in a way, you're one of your biggest challenges with this would have been to take something so funny and so light and and treat it as a very serious subject. Yeah, yeah, I did. It's sometimes it was a bit strange to watch the show in such a analytical sort of context. But I still I still was I found it quite easy to do in a way because there's just so much to it that that you you can write on. I also had a look at those sort of darker moments on the show, those sort of moments of poignancy that are about the troubles. And they were another part that was that was interesting to look at in such a serious sort of tone as well and write about what those episodes really mean. What about the final series and the ending? What did you think about it? Yeah, yeah, I really enjoyed it. I didn't have time to include that in my dissertation. So it's on the first two seasons. So I was able to sort of enjoy that last season without overthinking it or analyzing it. And I really, really loved that last episode if that was really, really special. The pressure was off. Yeah, yeah, it was. So so you have submitted it? Yeah, I have. OK, and what's the reaction be? Yeah, I mean, it's it's been kind of crazy. I've been getting all this radio interviews and news interviews. I never thought people would would care that much. And I've heard good things from my department so far, but I haven't had any sort of solid feedback or marks yet. So. But but the hope would be that maybe it would be considered for publication. Yeah, I've had a couple of people reach out to me with with ideas about how to publish it. So that's exciting. Brilliant. A lot more of you left in York. What's what's the plan? Yeah, nothing solid yet, but I'm staying in York for an hour and we'll see. Brilliant. Well, listen, it's it's only right that you should get so much attention for because it's just a brilliant idea. And and by the time of things, you know, I carried it off with some style right near you need a citation about Dairy Girls and something that's so close to your heart and something that is so funny. So real team already. Thank you very much for joining us. Appreciate it. Thank you very much. Bye.