Blood On The Rose
/Fuil Ar An Rós
Nobody Told Me:
Poetry And Parenthood
Noir At The Bar Evan Marshall
Curated By Gerard Brennan
Spirit Of ’58
With Adrian Logan
The Poems Of 1916
With Chelley McLear
Cultúrlann Mcadam Ó Fiaich
Wednesday 15 June – 7.30pm
Tickets: £8/£6
Crescent Arts Centre
Wednesday 15 June – 8.30pm
Tickets: £8/£6
The Errigle Inn
Wednesday 15 June – 8:30pm
Tickets: £6/£4
Crescent Arts Centre
Wednesday 15 June – 8:30pm
Tickets: £6/£4
The Blood on the Rose/Fuil ar an Rós
recording came about when Gabriel
Rosenstock had the idea of celebrating
the artistic contribution of many of the
signatories of The Proclamation, and Tristan
Rosenstock had the idea to record poems
and songs of 1916.
With Kate Tempest describing her poetry
as welcoming, galvanising and beautiful,
her fans range from Robin Ince, to Marian
Keyes to most of the UKs midwives. Hollie
McNish is a poet whose readings are not to
be missed!
Literary history is littered by wasted writers.
The pen and the bottle have gone hand in
hand since the first scribble. The Northern
Irish crime fiction set embody this spirit.
Join Brian McGilloway, Stuart Neville,
Steve Cavanagh, Kelly Creighton and
Gerard Brennan as they trade harsh words
for hard liquor.
In the summer of 1958 tiny Northern Ireland
stood just one game away from a semifinal appearance in the World Cup against
the mighty Brazil. The heroic story of this
uniquely blessed squad of players, led by
the peerless Danny Blanchflower, takes
in the Munich Air Disaster, a fight against
Sabbath Observers within the IFA who
tried to stop them going to the tournament,
and a violent win-or-bust struggle against
Italy to qualify. And yet it has almost been
forgotten.
Together with Artistic Director Cathal
Quinn, they thrashed out the content of the
CD. It was recorded in December 2015 in
Stoneybatter, mixed in January 2016 and
launched February 2016.
Three tracks were premiered in Pearse St
Library as part of the launch by Dublin City
Council of its 1916 commemorations:
The Watchword of Labour by James
Connolly
Easter 1916 by WB Yeats I see his blood
upon the rose/ An fhuil is léir dom ar an
rós by Joseph Plunkett, translated into
Irish by Gabriel Rosenstock. This staged
performance of the CD should be an event
not to be missed!
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Hollie McNish
In partnership with Creative Centenaries
She is an Arts Foundation Fellow in Spoken
Word, has garnered over two million
YouTube views for her online poetry
performances and was the first poet to
record at Abbey Road Studios.
The book is a unique blend of poetry and
storytelling, taken straight from Hollie’s
personal diaries. As she states herself it is
not a polished collection; rather, it is a very
candid, at times gutting, at others hilarious,
look at her experiences from pregnancy
to the pre-school drop off. Expect strong
language as she talks colours, cravings,
politics, transformers, sex, tree climbing,
feeding, train journeys, lots and lots of love
and occasionally locking herself in toilets to
cry a little.
This is Noir at the Bar.
Spirit of ‘58 tells the story of how Northern
Irish football came of age under the
management of Peter Doherty, and the
team’s journey from also-rans to being
two games away from the World Cup final
of 1958. Including interviews with all the
surviving players, the book finally tells the
full story of Northern Ireland’s greatest ever
team. A gripping rollercoaster of a story
brought to you by Evan Marshall that will
thrill football and sports fans.
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