Audio 30: Athea's Ahern Athletes, Reviews of 2008

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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Audio 29: Colm Keane, The Beatles, Shane Serrano, Crude 5/12

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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Audio 28: 28/11 Neilus O Connor festival Knocknagoshel

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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Audio 27: Andrew Flynn director of Character by Mark Dillon

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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Audio 26: Catherine Eaton, Athea, Preston Reed 14/11/08

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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Audio 25: Pat Kinevane, knocknagoshel, Samhlaiocht

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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Audio 24: Jerry Harmon storyteller 24/10/08

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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Audio 23: Saviours, Cuisle, Ellio Villafranca 10/10/08

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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Audio 22: Kieran Herlihy, Keith O Rahilly, Jim Corbett 3/10/08

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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Audio 21:Nu Killa Beats, There are Little Kingdoms 26/09/08

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

Audio 20 : Tweak, Last Train from Holyhead, Film club

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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Audio 19: Melodica Deathship, Brahms in Castleconnell 29-08-08

This podcast is a full show. The first guest is Exile Eye, an irish rapper. He talks about the Melodica Deathship, a new EP of his, the irish hip hop scene and the influence of Bobby Sands whose track 'Back home in Derry' is reworked on the EP. Next up is Joan McKernan from the Limerick county arts officer who talks about the upcoming Brahms season in Castleconnell and the perception that classical music is elitist.

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Audio 18: Mamuska in Kerry

The Mamuska night which has been such a success in Limerick happened in Listowel County Kerry in June. In this short piece there is some feedback from audience, interviews with participants and snippets of music. This piece was first broadcast on July 6th.

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Audio 17: Kate O Brien, Kerry Drama and Torch Players

Sheila Deegan , Limerick City Arts Officer talks about the Kate O'Brien Weekend which had as its theme "The transforming power of money"
Jerome Stack speaks about the Kerry Drama Festival which is ongoing in the Ivy Leaf theatre in Castleisland this week.
Finally Maurice O'Sullivan of Torch Players in Limerick talks about their production of "Playboy of the Western World" which runs in the Belltable
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Audio 16: Jeff Culbert, Canadian director 22-02-08

Impact theatre's production of George F. Walker's play "Problem Child" has been one of the major hits of the unfringed festival. It's Canadian director, Jeff Culbert, took some time out on the show to discuss how he got involved, the theatre scene in London, Ontario and the suitability of Stix to the play.
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Photo of Jeff Culbert with the cast from Problem Child within frame. Photo by Latchiko

Audio 15: Kevin Barry 15-02-08

Kevin Barry's first collection of short stories "There are Little Kingdoms" won the Rooney Prize for Literature in 2007. A fantastic collection, Kevin was back in his home city of Limerick for the unfringed festival to do a reading from the book.
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Audio 14: Abbeyfeale Drama Group- 15-02-08

This was the week we begun broadcasting the show live from Abbeyfeale studio after nearly three years in Newcastle West. Unfortunately some minor technical issues meant we have to suspend podcasts of the full show, but they will return. In the meantime we are putting up some segments of the shows. Thanks for all the positive feedback on the podcasts.

In this item, Abbeyfeale Drama group talk about their upcoming production of John B Keane's 'The Field'. In studio were Denis Hobson, Joan O'Connell, Angeline O'Donnell. The dates for the play which runs in The GAA clubhouse are here.

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Audio 13: Des Keogh, Flamenco, John MacKenna, Unfringed, Athea Drama

In this full show, Des Keogh talks about his one man show in the LIT theatre 'The love hungry farmer'. In this interview he talks about his respect for the John B Keane material and disdain for modern irish comics. Then we talk to John MacKenna about his play 'Corner Boys' which is upcoming in St Johns Listowel and Friars Gate Kilmallock. Set in the 60's John talks about the disappearing corner boys who in themselves were seen as quite subversive. Then an interview with Eduardo Niebla, a flamenco jazz musician who played in Listowel this week. Joanne Beirne of the unfringed festival then spoke about the upcoming events in the festival, theatre, music, comedy and readings. We finished with Oliver McGrath talking about the Athea Drama Group production 'The Cobwebs Glory'. He talks about the play which will run on 14th, 16th, 17th, 21st, 23rd and 24th of February in Athea Memorial Hall.

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Audio 12: Stephanie O' Keeffe, Witness festival, Dagdha 01-02-08

In this full show, Stephanie O Keeffe, a founding member of Teaspach Theatre Company talks about their upcoming production of the 'Pied Piper of Hamelin'. Adapted and directed by Naomi O Kelly, it is part of the upcoming Unfringed festival in Limerick. Interesting interview with a fascinating insight into the origin of the tale. Then an interview with Anne Marlborough of Doras Luimni who talks about the World Witness film festival which ran over the weekend. A festival inspired by Human rights issues, Anne talks about some of the films and issues covered. This is followed by a short interview detailing a new initiative from Daghdha. To download the show, click here (size 71 mbs) This is the second of the weekly shows to be made available in complete form as a podcast. You can now subscribe to Eagsuil as a podcast and all new audio will be downloaded automatically. To add to itunes, click here. For all other podcast receivers copy the address below into receiver

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Audio 11: Gerard Mannix Flynn, Michael Cabot 25-01-08

In this full show from January 25th Michael Cabot, artistic director, (London Classic Theatre) speaks about the enduring legacy of Mike Leigh's "Abigail's Party" which his company recently brought on tour in Ireland.
We then have an extended interview with artistic director of Far Cry Productions, Gerard Mannix Flynn. Well known as an author, playwright and performer, he has a new project running at the Limerick Printmakers, "Trespass & Forgiveness". In a fascinating interview, he has a lot of very valid points about the roots of a lot of problems in contemporary Ireland. He also focuses on the city of Limerick in which the interview was conducted. To download show, click here (file size 50 mb)

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Kings

The film club in the Classic Cinema Listowel kicked off on January 10th with the Irish Language film, Kings, based on the Jimmy Murphy play, The Kings of the Kilburn High Road. The film centres around five men from Connemara coming together for the wake of one of their close friends, Jackie, a member of the original gang of six that emigrated to London 30 years previously.
Joe (Colm Meaney) is the most successful of the men, although he nurses a coke habit and has guilt on his conscience over Jackie's death. Jap and Git are down and out alcoholics, while the other two cohorts have done reasonably well, although one is fighting a constant battle with the bottle.
Transferring what is a fairly intense play on to screen isn't the easiest of tasks, although Tom Collins does quite well, particularly in the first half of the film, combining the sweeping streetscape of London, its dingy pubs, and a particular focus on the withered faces of the protagonists (Jackie's father, who didn't feature in the play, is a fantastic example of this).
The film falls slightly during the wake scene in the pub. I remember seeing the play in the Glórach back in '06, and there was an almost claustrophobic tension around the stage as Joe and Jap confronted each other bitterly, and the true cause of Jackie's death in the tube station was revealed by Git. Hard to convey on screen, and while Collins uses flashbacks of Jackie effectively throughout this scene and the film as a whole, it is an ultimately depressing scene, robbed of some of the humour the play had, as the men drink a gargantuan amount of liquour, including home brewed poitín from 'back home'.
Nevertheless, an important film, and an important reminder to us all not to forget the Irish immigrants who left for England in the 1950s, 60s and beyond, and literally built two countries. The film is a microcosm of that group; some who were very successful, others who fell in the middle, and those who fell into destitution.
Great crowd at the film, the majority of an older generation if I can use that term. It would have been nice to see some more of the Celtic Tiger era kids in the audience, no harm to have a healthy dose of reality now and again and witness the sacrifice that previous generations made for the nation they live in today.