Events 2017
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin & Vincent Woods
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, current Ireland Professor of Poetry in Conversation with poet and broadcaster Vincent Woods
Paddy Bushe
Winner of the Poetry Now Irish Times award 2017
Sunday Miscellany
The Raging Foam, a poem for Leland Bardwell, by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin; L’Irlande Profonde, by Paddy Bushe; Maggie and Frank, a poem by Noelle Lynskey; A Heart, by Doireann Ní Ghríofa; Roscommon Rain, a poem by James Harpur and Calling on Leland Bardwell, by Brian Leyden. Music: Bagatelle no. 1 from Six Bagatelles by Gyorgy Ligeti, played by Cassiopeia Wind Quintet; Novelette in C Major by Francis Poulenc, also performed by Cassiopeia Winds; Sí Beag, Sí Mór, by Turlough O’Carolan, played on flute and fiddle by Patsy Hanly and John Carty; Variations from Faronell’s Divisions on A Ground (La Folia), by members of Sligo Baroque Orchestra: Rod Alston on harpsichord, Nicola Cleary on violin and Anna Houston on cello; Easter Snow, played by Patsy Hanly on flute; And Three Diversons for Wind Quintet, final movement, by Joan Trimble, also performed by Cassiopeia Winds.
Maura Dooley
Maura Dooley & Cathal O’Searcaigh
James Harpur
James Harpur – Talk – Flights of Imagination: the golden chain of poetry through the ages’
