Patrick McCabe & The Songs That Inspired His Books | Loopline Films

To get the flavour of Patrick McCabe ahead of the upcoming ICC show 'IN THE SMOKE', here is an extract from the Loopline book show 'Imprint', where Patrick McCabe illustrated the songs that inspired his books.

To get tickets to the event, visit: https://irishculturalcentre.co.uk/event/i-could-read-the-sky-poguemahone-a-night-of-words-music-song-and-images/

ICC Proudly Presents The World Premiere Of ‘In The Smoke’ : A Night Of Words, Music, Song and Images

Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Publication of Timothy O’Grady’s Acclaimed Book “I Could Read The Sky”, Featuring The Photographs Of Steve Pyke. Also Celebrating the Publication of Patrick McCabe’s New Book, “Poguemahone”

Timothy O’Grady & Patrick McCabe will be joined by Three of Ireland’s Greatest Traditional Musicians: Michael McGoldrick, Dezi Donnelly and Cathy Jordan. Plus Singer-Songwriter, Minstrel, Whistler, Larry Beau.
Writers Patrick McCabe and Timothy O’Grady go on the road with this music / spoken word event based on their novels Poguemanhone and I Could Read the Sky with some of Ireland’s top musicians, Michael McGoldrick, Dezi Donnelly, Cathy Jordan and Larry Beau.

Memory swings, drifts, soars, lies, weeps, haunts, embellishes, laughs, sings and dances. Few things stir memory quite like emigration. Memories of lost land, people, events. Memories of the new place’s challenges. Poguemahone and I Could Read the Sky, published twenty-five years apart, unite in their renderings of the acts of an emigrant’s memory. Memories of pig killing, kitchen dances, London squats, ghosts, fairground boxing, psychedelia, Soho drinking clubs, trenches, leaps from windows and music both melancholy and ecstatic.

Both writers have toured Ireland and Britain with unique music-spoken word events and now they come together for the first time in this show featuring some of the most authentic and innovative musical talents from Ireland.

Sat 03 June 2023
Doors: 7.30pm; Starts: 8pm

Tickets: £20/£18

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