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Sligo Secrets

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Sligo recommendations from gifted Sligo photographer Val Robus.

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No visit to Sligo should be attempted without first taking a look at Val's blog. We haven't met yet, but I feel I know her through her photographs of my mother's county by birth and my emotional home.

She greatly enriches my experience of Sligo, both real and virtual. Thanks Val!

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Laughter is wine for the soul--laugh soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness. Comedy and tragedy step through life together, arm in arm... Once we can laugh, we can live..

 

Sean O'Casey

 

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JOHN McSHERRY TRIO, 'live' at "Folk at the Meadows", Belper

Here's John, Francis McIlduff & Brendan Quinn with "El Garrotin", recorded live at "Black Dog Radio Presents....Folk at the Meadows" during a wonderful gig on 2nd December 2023

https://johnmcsherry.com/

https://black-dog-radio.com/black-dog-radio-presentsEl Garrotin
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preparing early for the March madness that is the often beautiful 🎵 sometimes bonkers ☘️ celebration of all things Irish ! 
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Imelda May sings tribute to Shane McGowan You're the One

Imelda May joined by Declan O'Rourke and Liam Ó Maonlaí pays tribute to Shane McGowan by singing You're the One at his funeral
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Poem Of The Week: As You Get Older By Dermot Healy (1947-2014)

Poem Of The Week: As You Get Older By Dermot Healy (1947-2014) | Irish Life | Scoop.it
As You Get Older

As you get older
and the pen begins to run out

you begin – without thinking –
to thank the god

you do not believe in.
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https://www.theirishworld.com/brendan-behan/

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Roger Doyle Synthesizing Sounds, Ireland 1983

Composer Roger Doyle is embracing new approaches to creating sound through the Fairlight Computer Musical Instrument.

Operating Theatre, is an avant-garde music theatre company founded by composer Roger Doyle and actress and performer Olwen Fouéré. Roger Doyle plays the Fairlight CMI with Olwen Fouéré on vocals for their first public performance of ‘Part Of My Make-up’. This piece was first composed on a piano and then transferred to the Fairlight CMI.

Roger Doyle describes the thinking behind the Operating Theatre project and explains how he uses the Fairlight CMI.

Operating Theatre is a group of actors and musicians who come together for various artistic adventures.

Operating Theatre is one part theatre and one part music, with a core membership of Roger and Olwen with other artists joining them for various different projects.

The Fairlight CMI comprises a synthesizer, sampler and workstation and uses samples to generate sounds and create music. Roger Doyle demonstrates how the instrument works creating a sound he calls ‘Live Arts’ with a teacup from the RTÉ canteen. A monitor displays the waveform of the particular sounds created.

It’s just a little squiggle at the beginning and the rest is silence.

The Fairlight can synthesize any conventional instrument. Roger Doyle is using it for more of his composing.

It’s more interesting to work with new sounds.

He describes the Fairlight as “a composer’s tool” that allows him to think in new ways about the creative process.

He does not believe that Fairlight technology will replace traditional orchestras. There are about 50 Fairlights in the world and just one in Ireland and according to Roger Doyle, nobody is using it to replace traditional instruments. The technology is now being used by musicians such as Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush as well as by advertising agencies and in film production.

This episode of ‘Live Arts Show’ was broadcast on 17 October 1983. The presenter is John Hutchinson.

‘Live Arts Show’ was a monthly arts programme presented by Moya Doherty and John Hutchinson. The programme was produced by Anne McCabe.
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Poem of the Week: Coda –

Poem of the Week: Coda – | Irish Life | Scoop.it
A new work by Patricia McCarthy
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Bettina Seitz , sculptural installation at Oyster Island, Sligo 

Bettina Seitz , sculptural installation at Oyster Island, Sligo  | Irish Life | Scoop.it
“For the 2021  Tread Softly Festival, sculptor Bettina Seitz collaborated with videographers Fionn Rogers and Peter Martin to create Ancestors, a sculptural installation of ghost-like, life-size figures representing the former inhabitants of Oyster Island, an uninhabited island off the Sligo coast.

Watch a series of haunting videos capturing the installation. “
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Blue Plaques by Elizabeth Ryan –

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"Blue Placques," a poem by Elizabeth Ryan, celebrates the small Irish town that often goes unnoticed from media attention.
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https://www.rte.ie/culture/2022/0718/1310826-women-the-state-annemarie-ni-churreain-revisits-irish-history/

https://www.rte.ie/culture/2022/0718/1310826-women-the-state-annemarie-ni-churreain-revisits-irish-history/ | Irish Life | Scoop.it
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The Reluctant Carer: Dispatches from the edge of life –

The Reluctant Carer: Dispatches from the edge of life – | Irish Life | Scoop.it
A troubling but important read; an honest, warts-and-all glimpse into the reality of unpaid caring
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Notes on resilience by Olivia Fitzsimons

Notes on resilience by Olivia Fitzsimons | Irish Life | Scoop.it
My son wonders aloud if there are whole communities of people who live in the letter O, who listen to me read stories to him at night. Do you think their houses shake when you make the oooo sound, he asks? Do you think the people in the little O read stories too? His primary … Continue reading "Notes on resilience"
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This secured my attention from that first O.
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Poguemahone by Patrick McCabe review – unquiet spirits | Patrick McCabe | The Guardian

Poguemahone by Patrick McCabe review – unquiet spirits | Patrick McCabe | The Guardian | Irish Life | Scoop.it
Folklore, superstition and music fuel this funny and frightening epic verse novel about displaced Irish siblings in 70s London
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Seamus Heaney interview | Poetry | Afternoon Plus | 1980

An interview with acclaimed and highly respected Irish poet and playwright Seamus Heaney.
Host: John Edwards
First shown: 02/04/1980
If you would like to license a clip from this video please e mail:
archive@fremantlemedia.com
Quote: VT22625
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Mick Flannery | Full Set | Live at Other Voices 2023

Cork songsmith and OV favourite Mick Flannery returned to St James' Church on Sunday night, bringing with him old favourites and new tunes from his latest album 'Goodtime Charlie', out now on John Prine's record label. Flannery's 2021 collaborative album 'In The Game' with Clare’s Susan O’Neill picked up accolades on both sides of the Atlantic and nabbed Phoebe Bridgers’ seal of approval. His style of storytelling is brimming with compassion, vulnerability and observation.

Stream the full Sunday night show, also featuring Kae Tempest, The Joy, CMAT, Qbanaa and Niamh Bury here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KaRTBZtQ80

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0:00 INTRO
0:03 Mick Flannery - 'Wasteland'
5:21 Mick Flannery - 'Machine'
9:45 Mick Flannery - 'Okla'
14:09 Mick Flannery - 'Someone To Tell It To'
18:40 Mick Flannery - 'Push The Cart'
22:27 Mick Flannery - 'Neon Tonight'
26:30 Mick Flannery - 'Young'
29:37 OUTRO

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Thanks to Reed, Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, RTÉ, Tourism Ireland, Kerry County Council & IMRO for making Other Voices Series 22 possible.
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Relentlessness: A Syllabus from Colm Toibin 

Relentlessness: A Syllabus from Colm Toibin  | Irish Life | Scoop.it
“Sometimes, there is little left to lose.”
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Lisa O'Neill :: Rock The Machine (This Ain’t No Disco)

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Lisa O'Neill performs live for This Ain't No Disco, the online Irish music showcase directed by Myles O'Reilly hosted by DJ and visual artist Donal Dineen.
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Violet Gibson. The Irish woman who attempted to assassinate Mussolini. 
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John Banville: ‘I’m 76 now, and I’m as baffled by the world as I was when I was five’ –

John Banville: ‘I’m 76 now, and I’m as baffled by the world as I was when I was five’ – | Irish Life | Scoop.it
The Singularities, his new novel, may be the acclaimed author’s final work of literary fiction. If not, ‘I’ll call my next book Sinatra’s Last Tour’
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Edna O'Brien: Winner's Speech •

Edna O'Brien: Winner's Speech • | Irish Life | Scoop.it
The Pleasure of Reading Prize 2022, Edna O'Brien's winner's speech. "It is an honour and an encouragement to be receiving this award..."
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Growing up in Northern Ireland's Bible belt –

Growing up in Northern Ireland's Bible belt – | Irish Life | Scoop.it
In Ian Cochrane's F for Ferg, the struggle is not with the moral dangers of Ian Paisley’s imagination but with poverty, domestic violence and mental illness
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FALLEN FROM HEAVE (CAÍDA DEL CIELO) - Rocío Molina

Dublin Dance Festival is delighted to present Fallen From Heaven (Caída Del Cielo) by Rocío Molina, a wild and boundary-breaking star of the flamenco world.  

Fallen From Heaven is a journey between opposing forces. Flamenco’s hallmarks – the passion, the proud stance and piercing eye contact – jostle for position with flashes of the avant-garde and the absurd in a radical celebration of womanhood.  

Performed to live music which combines original composition, flamenco and rock, this daring work transforms a traditional dance form into an explosive, theatrical experience. In this masterful and irreverent exploration, Molina cycles through multiple incarnations of the feminine archetype – from virtuous beauty to bondage-clad toreador to bloodied supernatural being, expertly fusing the fiery intensity of flamenco with a contemporary aesthetic.  

Praised as “a force to be reckoned with, in art and in life”, Rocío Molina has been recognised for her contribution to dance with the coveted Silver Lion Award at the Venice Biennale (2022) and an Olivier Award nomination for Outstanding Achievement in Dance in 2018.

Abbey Theatre, on the Abbey Stage  
Tues 24 & Wed 25 May, 7:30pm 
€13 – €40 (concession rates available)  
Book Online: dublindancefestival.ie
https://www.dublindancefestival.ie/events/festival/fallen-from-heaven-ca%C3%ADda-del-cielo

Choreography & Musical Direction Rocío Molina 
Artistic Direction Rocío Molina, Carlos Marquerie 
Performers Rocío Molina (Dancer), Eduardo Trassierra (Guitar), Kiko Peña (Song, Electric Base), José Manuel Ramos “Oruco” (Percussion, Handclapping and Beat), Pablo Martín Jones (Percussion, Electronics)

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Julie Morrissy on how poetry can bring us closer to the women of the revolution years - Independent.ie

Julie Morrissy on how poetry can bring us closer to the women of the revolution years - Independent.ie | Irish Life | Scoop.it
You’re poet-in-residence at the National Library of Ireland — what does that entail? It’s such an exciting role that has opened up new ways of working. I often engage with family and legal archives as secondary material in my poems, but this is the first time I’ve looked at the revolutionary period in depth, particularly the pivotal role of women. I spend time at the National Library in the manuscript archives and reading room, examining documents and reading correspondence between the inspirational women who helped to build Ireland.
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The Actualities - Stephen Sexton - View media - Northern Ireland Screen | Digital Film Archive

The Actualities - Stephen Sexton - View media - Northern Ireland Screen | Digital Film Archive | Irish Life | Scoop.it
Over 117 years of moving images from Northern Ireland, featuring amateur and professional films from 1897 to 2014, brought to you by Northern Ireland Screen.
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