Éagsúil- Arts Show on West Limerick 102: Recent Episodes
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Éagsúil- Arts and Culture Show on West Limerick 102. An hour long show going out every Friday evening from Studios in Newcastle West and Abbeyfeale. Featuring events and artists from the West Limerick area and hinterland stretching to Limerick City and North Kerry
Limerick born actor Adrienne Lee spoke to us recently about her new play Striptease. The play, produced by you and me productions, premiers in the Focus Theatre in Dublin. It deals with the topic of cancer. Apart from writing Adrienne is known to Limerick audiences for for her stage work and to wider audiences from her screenwork with the tv show Concy Ryan
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Striptease: Adrienne Lee talks about her new play opening in Dublin by éagsúil
Just a quick post to acknowledge some impressive achievements within the general Limerick region over the last month.
Templeglantine- Ceomhaltas branch in euphoric mood after the magnificent triumphs recorded at the Fleadh Cheoil Na hEireann in Cavan last month. Good night over at Halla Inse Ban at the end of August for Heritage Week, simple but effective lay-out on the night; local musicians, old photos and press cuttings, some vintage artifacts and a short but wonderful screening of scenes from Glantine in the 1970s (most noticeable change since then the amount of houses that have gone up in the locality)
Abbeyfeale- There was a remembrance last Sunday at St. Marys Graveyard for the memory of Patrick Harnett and Jeremiah Healy, two local men murdered by the Black and Tans in September 1920. Nice ceremony, most impressive however was the beautiful state of this historic graveyard. A voluntary committee has in the last couple of year rescued St. Mary's from its dilapidated state (that attracted much anti-social activity), and while constant maintenance will always be needed, all involved deserve great credit for the work done so far.
Glenroe- Not quite in the West Limerick region, but spent many summers over there as a child and the dramatic landscape is indelibly sculpted in my mind. A massive congratulations to the volunteers involved in the local GAA club for the trojan work they put into staging the week-long Harvest Festival (essentially a fundraiser to fund the new pitch, clubhouse etc) Was there on the Saturday night and while initially slightly disappointed on seeing that Shane McGowan could not attend due to sickness, that feeling quickly evaporated to be replaced by a sense of awe at the scale of the event and how smoothly it was run. Sharon Shannon gave a great show, Mundy proved a good replacement for McGowan and although I rarely eat burgers, have to say they were top-class at this event!(the meat supplied by local farmer Colm Maguire) Left in the early hours of Sunday Morning with a warm glow inside, glad that my memories of Shane McGowan were confined to seeing him on TV in the late 80s and early 90s, and a great recollection from a Kerrywoman I met on a bus, who used to meet a friend in a pub where McGowan drank in London back in the 1980s, and pretend to be chatting amongst themselves although they were really listening to his ruminations on life...sometimes one vision of legends is best confined to the mind.
Just to say thanks to those who posted comments on the Jerry Harmon interview and the Bowls programme, was actually conversing with a Ballincollig man recently who recounted the tale of Mick Barrys' incredible feat. We've had some technical problems with the Abbeyfeale studio in the last few months, so a lot of energy has been diverted from this blog but hope to have a few podcasts up within the next few days. Finally, outside of the arts and culture realm, big shout out to all who supported the table quiz at the Winners Circle bar in Abbeyfeale on the 22nd January. An enormous crowd turned up to raise funds for Abbeyfeale native Linda Sweeney, who is based with the Red Cross in the Caribbean area and is presently working with that organisation in Haiti, and a huge sum was raised on the night.
Featuring interviews with Sheila Deegan on Culture night in Limerick, James Kennedy on the new album put together with his group Avatar, Like river to ocean, and Nora Murchu previewing the Tweak festival.
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Just a quick post to say first up, apologies for not updating this site for the last month or so, just got caught up with other stuff involving the station. Hope to have a few reviews of some of the cultural events of the last few months up on the page soon, as well as a few podcasts.
Thanks are due to all of you who have continued to trawl through the site and to those who have left comments of positivity, much appreciated. Finally, I am most grateful to Denis Hobson who presented the show in my absence when I took a break back in March, was good to hear a new approach and perspective to the show.
Anyway, that's enough blathering for now, more substantial posts coming onstream very soon.
Short piece from early March on the play Foul Play which was put on by students from St Joseph's Abbeyfeale. Here the students do some beatboxing and rapping which are integral parts of the production and director Niamh Bowen talks about working with the students and devising the play.
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From 27th February an interview with Original Rasta MC Brother Culture, who was in Limerick for a gig in Roots Factory. The MC speaks about life on the soundsystems since the 80s, recording, the prodigy and even the spice girls!
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On this full show
Elaine Hennessy (Abbeyfeale Drama Group) on 'Philadelphia, Here I come'
Henry Woulfe (Godot Company) on 'Endgame'
Singer-songwriters, Jimmy McCarthy and Vincent Fitzgerald
Newcastle West Film Club preview
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Feedback from the Baader Meinhof Complex that played at the film club in Listowel
Footage of members of the Abbeyfeale Travelling Community playing Road Bowling, recorded by Georgina Downes
Interview with Fintan Lane, author of Long Bullets; A History of Road Bowling in Ireland
Mary Carroll of the NCW film club reviews Emmas Bliss
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If you like this road bowling special you might like to check a short piece we did on outdoor handball alleys in Ireland back in 2005. Read and hear it here.
Full show from Friday 30th January featuring
Feedback from Listowel Film club showing of Hunger
Interview with Blake Steel
Interview with Simon Yadoo, Love and Madness theatre Company, London about two plays, 'La Ronde' and an adaptation of 'Oliver Twist'
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From this weeks show we have an interview with Michael Cabot of the London Classic Theatre Company, who is the director of the Charlotte Jones play Humble Boy that will play at St. Johns Listowel next Tuesday.
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-Feedback from film club in Listowel (Voxpop item)
-Interview with Joanne Beirne on the line up for the unfringed festival
-Interview with Jamie Hanrahan of Cork based band Fred who will be playing at the aforementioned festival
-Interview with Fiona Brennan, PRO of the Sliabh Luachra Drama group on the two Synge plays they will be doing
-NCW film review with Liam O'Sullivan
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Most of us remember watching home videos at some stage, this writers own memory being the setting up an old white sheet in the kitchen, and watching 1970s weddings, communions and nuffield tractors drawing silage recorded on our uncles old super 8 camera. This experience was taken to a new level, so to speak, with a showing of some Listowel legend John Lynch's films at St. Johns on Wednesday, January 7th.
While John's work has featured on RTE in the past, and much of his archival footage has been shown at St. Johns prior to this, there was still a sense of awe and wonderment amongst the huge crowd, owing to the superb quality of the film (16mm camera), the depth and richness of the colour, and ultimately the recognition of familiar faces, many of whom have passed to their eternal reward.
The films on the night covered a wide stratum of events, featuring the 1972 Fleadh Cheoil in Listowel, Writers Week in the same year, wren-boys, a rás from the mid 1970s, St. Micheals College Centenary 1979 and much more, fantastic stuff but only a fraction of what John has recorded and leaving many hoping for future nights like this and the possibility of some footage from West Limerick.
Full show from Friday 9th January featuring
-Johnny Corkery of the Cloncaugh/Knockaderry drama group talks about their upcoming production of the Frank McGuinness play Factory Girls
-Ciaran Gleeson gives the run-down on the list of films coming up at the Classic Cinema in Listowel as part of their film-club
-Mike Fitzpatrick on the two exciting exhibitions coming up at Limerick City Gallery of Art next Thursday, as well as the launch of the new website for the LCGA
-Ed O'Connor reviews the film, The Third Man, the first in the NCW film club's new season
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Full show from 12th of December 2008 featuring:
Interview with Tom Ahern who has written about the Ahern Brothers from Athea. The four brothers were outstanding athletes at the start of the 20th century. Tim won the Olympic Gold medal in 1908 in London for the hop step and jump while his brother Dan's world record for the same event stood for 11 years between 1909 and 1920. " Ahern Brothers of Athea, Olympic and World Champions" is available in most local bookstores.
Vicky O Sullivan of the Newcastle West Bookstore talks about the big books of 2008 commercial, sport and local and makes some suggestions about stockings fillers.
Donal O Sullivan talks about the best films of the year just gone, including a selection of some arthouse and foreign language films.
Brief Vox pop with audience feedback on the film "Then she found me" which played in Listowel Film Club at the Classic.
Listings
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Full show from 5th December
Colm Keane on his new book "The Beatles, Irish concerts" which talks the Beatles concerts in 1963-4
Shane Serrano, editor/publisher of new bi-monthly magazine Crude taks about the venture.
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Full show from November 28th featuring
Preview of upcoming films in the Classic Listowel, with Kieran Gleeson and Film Club in Newcastle West with Rose Bennis.
Georgina Downes reports from the 5th Neilus O Connor Traditional Music Festival in Knocknagoshel.
Listings.
Music from Niall O Connell, Tom O Connor, Cormac O Connor, Glenn Hornibrook and Ned Casey.
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Interview from the show of the 21st of November with Andrew Flynn director of 'Character' a play by Mark Dillon which received its World Premier in Limerick recently.
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Full show from 14th of November featuring
-Catherine Eaton, talking about her play Corsetless that played at St. Johns Theatre, Listowel
-Vox pop from the fair day in Athea
-Interview with Preston Reed, famed guitarist
-Vox pop, preview of Bernadette Soubirous, play by Glórach Players, Abbeyfeale
-NCW film club preview, Ed O'Connor on Shut up and Shoot Me
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This full show from 31st October 2008 features
Pat Kinevane talking about his play 'forgotten'
A vox pop taken by Georgina Downes at the Halloween festival in Knocknagoshel
An interview with Jason O Mahoney about the Samhlaiocht Kerry film Festival
Preview of the Newcastle West film club
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An interview from the October 24th show with Jerry Harmon. Deep in the foothills of the Blue Ridge/ Appalachian mountain chain in North Carolina, Jerry was born into a family rich in the tradition of story telling and music. Jerry is recognized as an accomplished guitarist with a unique style and a gifted songwriter and singer. He was in Ireland for the Lough Gur Story tellers festival
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Full show from Friday 10th October
featuring
Liam Nolan, co-director of the acclaimed new Irish boxing Documentary "Saviours" talks about the film. Concentrating on three boxers from this North inner city Dublin Club, it has run on the festival circuit but now gets its commercial release. It runs in Storm Cinema in Castletroy from Friday 10th.
Vox pop from Classic Cinema Listowel film club showing of the 'The Visitor'
Preview of Cuisle poetry Festival taking place in Limerick.
John Daly of Limerick Jazz Society talks about upcoming gig with cuban musician Ellio Villafranca
Preview of Newcastle West Film Club next show "Garage"
Music on the show from Ellio Villafranca
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Full show from Friday 3rd October
featuring
Kieran Herlihy speaking about 'Full Stop' his exhibition currently running in Limerick Printmakers.
Keith O Rahilly talking about his new exhibition 'Inward' in Newcastle West Library
Author Jim Corbett interviewed about his book 'Not while I have ammo'
Preview of next Newcastle West film club offering.
and new contributor Georgina Downes reading extracts from 'Not while I have ammo'
Music from Brian McNamara
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Last Fridays show
featuring
Kevin Barry talking about the stage adaption of his short story collection "There are Little Kingdoms"
Code talking about the long running Nu Killa beats club night and his subtle audio record label.
Preview of the Newcastle West Film club showing of "Margo at the Wedding"
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photo of Mairtin de Cogain (there are little kingdoms) by Mike MacSweeney
Full show from Friday 19th September
featuring
Interview with Nora Ni Muruchú from Tweak- new digital art festival in Limerick
Interview with Kieran Gleeson of the Classic Cinema in Listowel previewing new film club season
Interview with Bernard Field, writer of the play 'Last train from Holyhead'
Mary Carroll previews next film 'savages' from Newcastle West Film Club
Music from Deirdre Scanlons new album 'faces'
and we should be dead
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