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The one-woman show, “Mother of All Behans” starring Imelda May returns this summer. Adapted from the book by Brian Behan, the show, directed by Peter Sheridan, gives a “fascinating record of a remarkable life” of Brendan Behan's mother, Kathleen.Star of the show Imelda May chatted to Pat this morning on the show.
fWotD Episode 2750: Costello's Welcome to Featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia’s finest articles.The featured article for Thursday, 14 November 2024 is Costello's.Costello's (also known as Tim's) was a bar and restaurant in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, from 1929 to 1992. The bar operated at several locations near the intersection of East 44th Street and Third Avenue. Costello's was known as a drinking spot for journalists with the New York Daily News, writers with The New Yorker, novelists, and cartoonists, including the author Ernest Hemingway, the cartoonist James Thurber, the journalist John McNulty, the poet Brendan Behan, the short-story writer John O'Hara, and the writers Maeve Brennan and A. J. Liebling. The bar is also known for having been home to a wall where Thurber drew a cartoon depiction of the "Battle of the Sexes" at some point between 1934 and 1935; the cartoon was destroyed, illustrated again, and then lost in the 1990s. A wall illustrated in 1976 by several cartoonists, including Bill Gallo, Stan Lee, Mort Walker, Al Jaffee, Sergio Aragonés, and Dik Browne, is still on display at the bar's final location.The bar was founded in 1929 as a speakeasy on Third Avenue by brothers Tim and Joe Costello, who had emigrated to the United States from Ireland. Tim was known as an affable, intelligent proprietor with an interest in literature. In the early 1930s, the bar moved to the corner of East 44th Street and Third Avenue, before moving one door away on Third Avenue in 1949. The bar moved to its final location at 225 East 44th Street in 1974. Costello's closed in 1992; the Turtle Bay Café took over the space, operating until 2005. Since then, the location has been occupied by a sports bar called the Overlook. The bar is remembered through the stories that have been told about it over the years. The writer John McNulty is credited with creating a mythology around Costello's—which he called "this place on Third Avenue"—through a series of short stories published in The New Yorker in the 1940s.This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 00:43 UTC on Thursday, 14 November 2024.For the full current version of the article, see Costello's on Wikipedia.This podcast uses content from Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.Visit our archives at wikioftheday.com and subscribe to stay updated on new episodes.Follow us on Mastodon at @wikioftheday@masto.ai.Also check out Curmudgeon's Corner, a current events podcast.Until next time, I'm neural Matthew.
This year marks the 40th anniversary of Red Roses For Me, the first album from The Pogues. Borrowing its title from Sean O'Casey, it also carries literary influences like Ulysses and Brendan Behan proudly. As an exhibition on the London-Irish currently runs in Dublin's EPIC emigration museum, what better time to discuss this defining London-Irish band who still mean so much? Here Comes Everybody by James Fearnley (Faber & Faber) is available now.
Patreon exclusive number 9: Originally aired March 16, 2022 Let's learn about the only place in Ireland where citizens could get a pint on St. Patrick's Day ----the Royal National Dog Show! And, an Irishman steps up to help injured wildlife by converting his pub to Ireland's FIRST wildlife hospital during the 2020 pandemic."There's no bad press except an Obituary" - Brendan Behan, Irish PoetResources: https://www.irishcentral.com/roots/history/all-pubs-ireland-closed-st-patricks-dayhttps://www.irishcentral.com/opinion/niallodowd/irish-pubs-will-finally-have-beer-on-good-fridayhttps://www.irishcentral.com/roots/desperate-for-a-drink-on-dry-good-friday-in-ireland-146406725-237584801https://www.history.com/news/st-patricks-day-origins-americahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Kavanaghhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Behanhttps://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20210221-locked-down-pub-becomes-ireland-s-first-wildlife-hospitalhttps://www.wbur.org/news/2010/03/12/evacuation-day-holidayhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2013/03/17/the-irish-american-population-is-seven-times-larger-than-ireland/http://traleetoday.ie/greyhound-stadium-to-receive-boost-with-good-friday-drinking/https://news.sky.com/video/irelands-wildlife-hospital-under-threat-12503946https://www.independent.ie/life/the-curious-history-of-our-disappearing-dogs-35519917.htmlAnd for fans of Ted Lasso - Trent Crimm, the Independent would support this:https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/alcohol-on-good-fridaywhat-you-need-to-know-from-off-licences-and-supermarkets-to-takeaway-pints-40266929.html#:~:text=While%20buying%20alcohol%20on%20Good,the%20first%20time%20since%201927. Support the showIntro/Outtro music: Tiptoe Out The Back - Dan LiebowiczInterstitial Music: MK2Additional music: Freesound.com, Pixabay.org Instagram: @EggAndNugget (chicken stan account) or @MelissaMcCueMcGrathWebsite: BewilderBeastsPod.comSupport the Show and get stuff! Patreon.com/BewilderbeastsPodYour host, Melissa McCue-McGrath is an author, dog trainer, and behavior consultant in Southern Maine. She'll talk about dogs all day if you let her. You've been warned :)
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1125, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Lakers 1: Locals in this Upstate New York City know it hosted the 1980 winter Olympics. Lake Placid. 2: Folks on the Nevada border know this lake took its name from the Washoe word for "Big Water". Lake Tahoe. 3: Workers are way above average in ports such as Duluth on this Great Lake. Lake Superior. 4: People walk like Egyptians around this lake formed by the creation of the Aswan High Dam. Lake Nasser. 5: U.N. office workers in Switzerland overlook this lake and have a view of the Alps. Lake Geneva. Round 2. Category: Nyc Authors 1: Walt Whitman, Henry Miller, and Betty Smith's "tree" all grew up in this borough. Brooklyn. 2: Tho he "looked homeward" to North Carolina, he lived in NYC because "You Can't Go Home Again". Thomas Wolfe. 3: James Baldwin called this "the only human part of New York", but left it anyway. Harlem. 4: Mark Twain, Dylan Thomas and Arthur Miller all lived in this famed hotel named for a London district. The Chelsea. 5: The Algonquin Hotel apparently threw this "Borstal Boy" out when he chased the maids thru the halls. Brendan Behan. Round 3. Category: 20Th Century Books 1: "What is fire? It's a mystery", says this novel; "Its real beauty is that it destroys responsibility and consequences". Fahrenheit 451. 2: In a Steinbeck tale this title object is thrown back into the water after causing trouble. the pearl. 3: Modern Library's pick as one of this century's top English-language novels is this 1969 Philip Roth book. "Portnoy's Complaint". 4: This novel begins on the porch of Tara. Gone with the Wind. 5: Lucy steps into this part of the title in a 1950 tale and discovers a "second row of coats hanging up behind the first". a wardrobe. Round 4. Category: Statuesque Authors 1: Much of her 6th century B.C. poetry is lost, but her reputation as a female writing pioneer remains. Sappho. 2: That's not such an ugly duckling beside the statue of this Dane in Central Park. Hans Christian Andersen. 3: Never mind the "Nevermore",he's been in Baltimore since 1921. (Edgar Allan) Poe. 4: As you might expect, this author's statue is relaxing at the bar in the El Floridita in Havana. Hemingway. 5: The statue of this Victorian author, born Mary Ann Evans, is in Warwickshire, where she set many of her novels. George Eliot. Round 5. Category: Smarties 1: In 1800 William Nicholson managed to break water molecules into atoms of these 2 elements. hydrogen and oxygen. 2: The temperature scale that this Swede invented in 1742 is used pretty much everywhere except the U.S.. Anders Celsius. 3: We'd have much dirtier windows if Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau hadn't liquefied this gas in 1798. ammonia. 4: In 1996 Gary Hack discovered the sphenomandibularis, a previously unknown one of these in the face. muscle. 5: Last name of the French brothers who introduced the pneumatic tire for cars. Michelin. Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia!Special thanks to https://blog.feedspot.com/trivia_podcasts/ AI Voices used
In this episode from the Dublin Festival of History 2023, Peter Sheridan marks the centenary of the birth of the writer Brendan Behan. Raised in Dublin's north inner city and with strong connections to Dublin's tenements, Behan is regarded as one of the greatest Irish writers and poets of all time.Sheridan discusses his engagement with the work of Behan and his career more broadly.Peter Sheridan, is a playwright, screenwriter and director.This episode was recorded at 14 Henrietta Street, on October 11, 2023.Please note: This broadcast contains strong language and themes throughout.The Dublin Festival of History is brought to you by Dublin City Council, and organised by Dublin City Libraries, in partnership with Dublin City Council Culture Company. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
One of the most uniquely recognisable, and critically and popularly lauded, voices in Irish music, Radie Peat – of multi-award winning Lankum and ØXN – collaborates with the Abbey Theatre on its production of Brendan Behan's The Quare Fellow, lending her vocals to the lyrics of 'The Old Triangle', which ring out hauntingly throughout the performance. Read more here: https://www.abbeytheatre.ie/the-old-triangle/
In today's episode, we delve into the world of Irish literature and explore the works of some of the best Irish authors you must read. From the celebrated CS Lewis, who straddled the line between British and Irish, to the incomparable James Joyce and his masterpiece "Ulysses," we'll take you through a journey of influential writers who have shaped modern literature. Join us as we uncover the rich literary heritage of Ireland and provide insights into these renowned authors. So, whether you're searching for your next book club read or simply looking to expand your literary horizons, this episode is for you. Stay tuned as we explore the works of Oscar Wilde, Maeve Binchy, Bram Stoker, Roddy Doyle, John Banville, Brendan Behan, and Samuel Beckett. Let's dive into the fascinating world of Irish literature.Support the showIf you enjoyed the show please leave a review on Apple. And if you have any questions you can find me on Twitter @BryanJCollinsThanks for listening!
Second half of a conversation with Sharon Shannon covering all manners of things, most of which centre around Galway including performing for ‘The Hostage' by Brendan Behan in the Druid Theatre in Galway and beyond, Alec Finn, Frankie Gavin, Seán Smyth, The Quays, Brendan Regan, Kevin Hough, composing, Steve Earle, Gerry Hanley, life in Doolin, life in Cork, Páraic Mac Donnchadha, Andrew McNamara, The Tulla Céilí Band, sessions in Tigh Neachtain's, the difference in sessions in Doolin and Galway, Arcady, The Waterboys, her daily routine at home, her manager John Dunford, The Purty Loft, Dún Laoghaire, Mike Scott, BP Fallon, her favourite cities in the world (apart from Galway), the excesses on the road, the success of Galway Girl, Director James Clenaghan and her work with him, Top Dog Gaffo video, O'Connors pub in Doolin, driving through Salthill as a kid, favourite place in Galway, Bruce Du Ve, Tom Giblin, her sister Mary and her brother Garry, her tribute to Gerard ‘Gerry' Mulholland (Jarír al-Majar) as well as other topics. Sharon is an ambassador for Madra: an organisation which rescues, rehabilitates and rehomes unwanted, neglected, abused and abandoned dogs. You can find out more information here: www.madra.ie. Sharon is also the National Ambassador for Rosabel's Rooms, a Galway-born child loss project that is reaching out to bereaved parents and families all over Ireland. https://hospicefoundation.ie/our-supports-services/bereavement-loss-hub/rosabels-rooms/ The other half of this conversation is available on The Ireland Podcast. Top Dog Gaffo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3UE55kshmk
Celebrating 100 years of Brendan Behan, the Museum of Literature Ireland has remembered the literary giant's life through an audio-visual tribute. The Borstal Boy writer, who was considered the first Irish celebrity, was considered a genius in field however his struggle with alcoholism took him at the ripe age of 40. Behan departed, leaving audiences with the legacy of his words and his celebrated plays. Author of the Butcher Boy, Pat McCabe, created the museum tribute to Behan and recounts on his life as a novelist, playwright, social commentator and Irish Republic. He joined Sean to discuss the literary great...
Celebrating 100 years of Brendan Behan, the Museum of Literature Ireland has remembered the literary giant's life through an audio-visual tribute. The Borstal Boy writer, who was considered the first Irish celebrity, was considered a genius in field however his struggle with alcoholism took him at the ripe age of 40. Behan departed, leaving audiences with the legacy of his words and his celebrated plays. Author of the Butcher Boy, Pat McCabe, created the museum tribute to Behan and recounts on his life as a novelist, playwright, social commentator and Irish Republic. He joined Sean to discuss the literary great...
In his conversation with Nathalie Lamprecht, Alan Gilsenan discusses his documentary film The Laughing Boy (2022), which tries to uncover how the song The Laughing Boy, written by a young Brendan Behan and later used in his play The Hostage, travelled via Paris to Greece and there became an anthem of defiance for the Greek left. Gilsenan discusses the circumstances that facilitated this process; the importance of translation and the way the documentary draws attention to it; the image of Behan as a kind of James Dean that obscures his talent as a writer; and Brendan Behan's collaboration with theatre director Joan Littlewood.
Thanks for your patience! This new episode explores the incredible life and influence of Peadar Kearney, a key figure in the Cultural Revival then, and the folk revival now. My guest is Macdara Yeates of 'The Night Before Larry Was Stretched', a monthly singing session in The Cobblestone. He's also co-producing 'One Hundred Years of Brendan Behan'. https://ilfdublin.com/whats-on/one-hundred-years-of-brendan-behan/
Imelda May chats with Miriam about preparing for her theatre debut in 'Mother of All the Behans', Peter Sheridan's story of Brendan Behan's mother Kathleen (it opens at Dublin's 3Olympia from August 15th / www.3olympia.ie)
In the week of St. Patrick's Day, we celebrate with a chat about one of Ireland's greatest writers Brendan Behan, together with the creators of a new show about him. Written by John Merrigan with songs and music by Danielle Morgan, "Brendan - Son Of Dublin" is a fresh look at his life and work, and not least those around him who helped catapult his undoubted talent to global fame and renown.
Hello and welcome back to the second and final part of the Brendan Behan story. Just as a heads up, in this episode we cover Behan's decline which does include some graphic readings of sexual assault and other bleak enough stuff so bear that in mind.We also put a bit of bonus stuff about the other Behans up on the patreon which you can find a link for below (as well as tickets to our gig in Belfast this Friday the 3rd of March)Shite Talk: Links
Hello and welcome back to the second and final part of the Brendan Behan story. Just as a heads up, in this episode we cover Behan's decline which does include some graphic readings of sexual assault and other bleak enough stuff so bear that in mind.We also put a bit of bonus stuff about the other Behans up on the patreon which you can find a link for below (as well as tickets to our gig in Belfast this Friday the 3rd of March)Shite Talk: LinksThis show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/5645402/advertisement
Music and chat from the hugely-talented singer/songwriter as he marks the centenary of the birth of Brendan Behan (for copyright reasons the full tracks performed during the interview cannot be made available in the podcast)
Hello and welcome to part one of us talking about the Borstal Boy, Brendan Behan. It was the man's birthday on the 9th of Febuary which means he would have been turning 100 this year, if he hadn't of died 59 years ago. Makes you think. Part two will be out later this week and we've got some bonus stuff about the other Behan boys going up on the patreon as well, which you can sign up to here:Shite Talk: Links
Hello and welcome to part one of us talking about the Borstal Boy, Brendan Behan. It was the man's birthday on the 9th of Febuary which means he would have been turning 100 this year, if he hadn't of died 59 years ago. Makes you think. Part two will be out later this week and we've got some bonus stuff about the other Behan boys going up on the patreon as well, which you can sign up to here:Shite Talk: LinksThis show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/5645402/advertisement
(Reupload, apologies due to podcast hosting gremlins!) Part II of the Brendan Behan centenary special, this journey brings us through some surprising places. From Littlewood's London to strange times in North America, this is the story of the fame and fall of Brendan Behan.
Celebrating with Alex and FraRepublicans don't say thank you often enough to each other. Fra McCann and Alex Maskey are 50 year activists. That is they have both been involved in the struggle for over 50 years. The two of them stepped down from the Assembly two years ago. Fra was replaced by Aisling Reilly and Alex by Danny Baker. Alex still remains the Ceann Comhairle – Speaker of the Assembly – until such times as the DUP agree to elect a new Speaker.Last Friday evening several hundred family, friends and comrades of both men came together to celebrate their lives of activism. They were also interviewed by Joe Austin about their experience of community activism, struggle, imprisonment and elected politics. Prison Book Ban liftedLast week I wrote a piece about books and the prison system here. That literary ramble through our penal institutions was triggered by news that some books by republicans are banned from the prisons here. Pat Sheehan MLA, a former prisoner and hungerstriker, wrote to the prison authorities. He said: “Twenty-five years after the signing of the Good Friday Agreement I find it incomprehensible that republican literature should still be censored in this way. I thought those days were long behind us. The Irish republican analysis of our history is as valid as any other, and attempts to censor that analysis only serve to indulge the view that the prison service is politically partisan.” Brendan BehanLast week, 9 February, marked the centenary of the birth of Brendan Behan. Behan was a hugely influential writer whose books were rooted in his working class experience and republicanism. His parents, Stephen Behan and Kathleen Kearney, were republicans. His mother's brother - Peadar Ó Cearnaigh – was a veteran of the 1916 Rising and wrote The Soldier's Song (Amhrán na bhFiann).At the age of eight Brendan joined the Fianna. Later he joined the IRA. In December 1939 he was dispatched to Liverpool to identify possible targets for the then bombing campaign. In his eagerness he brought with him explosives he had personally prepared. He was arrested. Because he was aged 16 Behan was sentenced to three years in a juvenile centre. Almost 20 years later that story was told in Borstal Boy. The book was banned in the South.
We pay a lot of attention to our romantic relationships. Whether it's selecting a mate or maintaining one's relationship with them. Apps make millions of dollars promising to streamline this process. Hundreds of books are published every year telling us how to do it better. And don't get me wrong: long-term romantic partnerships are hard, no doubt. But that difficulty is not lost on us. Multiple industries are designed around giving us tools to help overcome it. It's something we spend a lot of effort on trying to do better.But what about friendship? We also know it's important, sure. But we don't give friendships the same treatment as our romantic relationships. There are no holidays meant to carve out time to express appreciation toward our friends. A few books are written each year about Platonic friendship, but far fewer than those about romantic relationships. And yet friendship is one of the most important aspects of our lives. In some ways, it's even more important than the handful of long-term romantic partners we'll have in our lifetime.This, at least, is the claim made in a recent book by my guest today, Robin Dunbar. Robin is a legendary figure within social and evolutionary psychology. He is perhaps best known for the idea of Dunbar's number: the number of stable, close relationships an individual can maintain is reliably right around 150. But from the broadest level, the major question of Robin's work asks, “What do our circles of friendships look like? What should they look like?”The way that I've come to think about the core of Robin's research is that we all face the same fundamental problem: limited resources. Specifically, limited time. Each of us has to choose how we're going to allocate our limited time to work, family, hobbies, exercise, friendships, and all the other activities and pursuits which we'd like to do. Often when our temporal resources become scarce, the first thing to get cut are our friendships. Friendships don't come with urgent deadlines. We know our friends—our true ones at least—will forgive us if we don't see them as often as we'd like. After all, we've both got a lot going on. What all this adds up to is that the disintegration of friendships over the course of adult life feels all but inevitable.And yet—most of what is known scientifically about friendships is not generally discussed. For example, you have probably heard of Dunbar's 150 figure. But that's not the only important number. There are layers here. Essentially, Dunbar's research shows there are concentric circles of friendships, beginning with your five most intimate friendships, then fifteen close friends, fifty good friends, 150 general friends, then 500 acquaintances, 1500 known names, and 5000 known faces. There's a mountain of evidence showing that these numbers are consistent across cultures—even with the advent of social media. In other words, there's a connection between the quantity of friends we have at any given level and the quality of relationship we should have with them. Maintaining this balancing act has huge consequences for us across all aspects of our well-being.Personally, I believe the acquisition and maintaining of friendships is one of the greatest challenges of adult life. It's especially difficult in a post-pandemic world, where we're less tied down to living in a single place and more free to work in other locations. The cost of this flexibility is increased loneliness. We find ourselves adrift from the usual social rhythms of life which we humans are used to. But unfortunately, the problem of solid friendships is one we spend almost no time trying to solve.Robin's book is Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships. It's out now.[This interview has been edited and condensed. Full conversation available via the podcast.]In the beginning of your book, you present your thesis on why friendship matters. A lot of the evidence you marshal has to do with some pretty convincing studies. Could you say a little bit about what those studies show, and present that argument for why friendship matters so much?One of the big surprises of the last 15, maybe 20, years has been the absolute deluge of studies—some of them short-term cross-sectional, many of them long-term studies— showing that the single best predictor of your mental health and well-being, your physical health and well-being, and even how long you live into the future is determined by one factor and one factor alone. And that's the number and quality of close friendships you have.So typically, this number would be about five people. In collaboration with a bunch of people in Denmark, we did a big study across 13 European countries. We looked at the likelihood that somebody would develop symptoms of depression in the future, and asked what factors predicted that development. What seemed to preserve you from falling prey to depression in the future was having about five close friends and family. So if you had fewer than that, you're more likely to develop symptoms of depression. And if you have more than that, you are more likely to develop symptoms of depression.But there was an alternative. And that was volunteering in a social context, or helping out in a charity shop, or being involved with helping running the scouts, or helping with flowers at your local church, or being involved with a political party—any of those kinds of things that were essentially social activities. So if you had about three of those that was as good as having about five friends, and they were kind of interchangeable. But you couldn't add them together. You couldn't have five friends and three voluntary activities, and hope to live forever—because you wouldn't.And the reason is very simple. It's the reason why having more than about five or six friends isn't really very good for you. It's that you spread yourself too thinly among these people involved in the social environments. So having a smaller number where you can really get to know the people and be engaged with them—that's what's beneficial. If you try and spread yourself too thinly, you don't create relationships of the quality that's necessary to buffer you against things like depression.One of your core ideas has to do with what you call the seven pillars of friendship. These are: having the same language, growing up in the same location, having the same educational and career experiences, having the same hobbies and interests, having the same worldview, the same sense of humor, and the same musical tastes. It's clear how these can play out in face-to-face interactions. But what does this mean for remote friendships—the kind of modern friendships we try to maintain digitally across distance?Okay, so the evidence is both good and bad. Because there's no such thing as Nirvana in the world, everything has a benefit and a drawback. The upside is that, from our work, it seems that different media of interaction—ranging from face-to-face, Zoom video calls, telephone, texts, or emails—are kind of substitutable in terms of how many friendships they allow you to maintain. Because we see exactly the same layers, with exactly the same frequencies of contact, in data from all of these environments, suggesting that they all work pretty much in the same way, and are subject to the same limitations.In other words, just because you use Facebook doesn't create the opportunity to have 1000s of friends—true friends. In your social network, yes, you can be connected to 1000s of people on Facebook. But you're connected to 1000s of people in the everyday world. Some of them we call them friends and family. Some of them we call acquaintances. Some of them we call just people we know—we don't know much about them, but they're part of our social environment. For people who have a very large number of friends on Facebook, a lot of those are in that category.But it seems that there's still something missing in terms of our satisfaction of relationships in those kinds of environments—like Facebook or Zoom—compared to those we have face-to-face. And that seems to be primarily because what's missing is touch. And we use touch constantly with our close friends and family, perhaps out to the 50-person layer of our social network. We don't go around hugging strangers usually, or anything like that. We're very circumspect in who we do it with. But for those, whom we regard as good friends, intimate friends, we do an awful lot of very casual—what's generally referred to now as soft taps and hugs, strokes, pats on the knee, perhaps around the shoulder, all these kinds of things goes on constantly if you just watch people in an informal social environment. And that seems to be very important in creating this sense of relationship quality.I sometimes say, if you want to know how somebody really feels about you, then see the way they touch you—stroke, pat, hug, whatever. This gives you a better sense of what they mean, or what you mean to them, than 1000 words that they might say to you. And that's because words are slippery things. We're very good at saying what we don't mean and making it sound extremely plausible. But it's very difficult to lie in the way you touch somebody, perhaps because it's so, so intimate. So there are those kind of drawbacks, which clearly Zoom and Facebook and anything else you can think of are never quite going to overcome. I just don't see how they can do it.You recently co-authored a paper in Nature Human Behaviour on social isolation and the brain in the pandemic era. Certainly, there was something anomalous with social life during the COVID years. But with the post-pandemic switch to remote work and outsourcing more and more of one's social interactions to online—all the drawbacks, such as lack of touch—what do you think the role of loneliness is in modern life? And how does that play out for us today?John Cacioppo, the late neuroscientist, pointed out that the feeling of loneliness act as an alarm bell. The alarm means you're not meeting enough people: get out and do something, or go find a friend. It's not very good for you to experience loneliness, because it exposes you to the risk of increasing downward spiral of depression. And that has knock-on consequences for physical illnesses, as well as mental health and well-being. So it really is kind of the signal or reminder to for you to try and do something to restore your social environment.The problem is, of course, that's not easy to do. We've suffered from a pandemic of loneliness, particularly in the 20-somethings age cohort, for the better part of 30 years now. It's really surfaced in the big cities in terms of people having their first job after leaving university. Your whole life up to that point has basically been cocooned in a ready-made social environment at school. You had a bunch of people who would make perfectly decent friends. You're used to having potential friends on demand all the time. You go to university and live in student halls or something like that—it's kind of bumpy to begin with, while you just get your feet under the table. But very quickly, you build up friendship circles, because they're there 24/7 and you're seeing a lot of them.Then suddenly you graduate. You get a job in London, New York, or Los Angeles—wherever. And you don't even know where to go to meet people. All the people at work who are the only people you meet regularly already have their sexual lives sewn up. Some of them have families, and they want to get back at five o'clock. Even the ones that don't have families, they've already got their friends and circles and the things they do on an evening with them.So we've had this tendency for the newcomers in businesses or government departments or whatever to be thrown in completely at the deep end with nowhere to go, and it's caused this pandemic of loneliness. It's not good for employees. And it's not good for employers. Everybody's been looking at this going, “We've got a problem. What are we going to do?”One solution is to make the work environment a social environment, which is what they used to be. Until perhaps 50 years ago, when new management practices came in, most big companies had their own social clubs, their tennis clubs, theatre clubs, football clubs, where people hung out after work. And that created this sense of belonging, and a sense of community. And of course, when you came new to that company, or, or business or whatever, you were thrown straight into this social environment where it was safe, everybody knew everybody else, everybody was on the same page. They all shared a lot of their seven pillars of friendship in common simply by being employees in that same environment. And it was a good place to make friends. Some Silicon Valley companies have done that in an encouraging way. But it's not the norm. We can't let it continue, this widespread loneliness. Because it's not good for business. And it's not good for individuals.I'd like to ask you about the difference between a strong romantic relationship and a strong friendship relationship. What does a romantic relationship require that friendship does not?Not a lot. In terms of emotional content, they seem to be very similar. Obviously, romantic relationships tend to have a sexual component to them—which is, by and large, absent in Platonic friendships.But there are important gender differences here, particularly with our closest friends. What you find is that women, in particular, commonly have a” best friend forever,” who's another woman, as well as the romantic partner. Occasionally, about 15% of the time, there'll be another male—a male rather than a female—but most of them typically have a best friend who is a female. The opposite is the case for guys. They will tend to have a male best friend, sometimes a female best friend. But the quality of those relationships is very, very different to the quality of best friends that you find with female “best friends forever.” They're much more casual, and they tend to have been around a lot longer. They tend to date back to kind of high school or college period. If you look at people in their mid 40s, they'll say, “Yes, I've known him since we were at school together, that's my best friend.”In contrast to these kind of best friends, Platonic friends tend to be much more recent. Best friends are more stable than both Platonic friendships and romantic partners—which tend to have a lot more turnover. So female best friendships and romantic partners, they're very fragile in that sense. They're based on deep trust, and therefore you tolerate infringements of that trust. Until it happens once too often, you've had enough and then that's it. And then you have catastrophic breakdown. Whereas in general, other kinds of friends and men's best friends tend to just drift apart.One final question. What are three books that have most influenced the way you think?Actually, I'm going to point in a slightly different direction in terms of what influenced me and offer up the following three.One is a Victorian spoof. Not too many people know about it. It's called Flatland. And it was written by a couple of guy masquerading under the pseudonym “A Square.” It is a kind of spoof on hierarchies in society. So it imagine the world consists of different kinds of dimensions. So you're a two dimensional person, and you enter into this world where one dimensional people are dots and three dimensional people are cubes—and you're trying to negotiate this strange social world. It's a reminder that your particular viewpoint or your particular culture is not necessarily the ultimate good thing. You should take other cultures at face value and enjoy them, get to know them and understand them—in the sense of how the square would have to understand the cube world or the one dimensional world.As a second book, I'm going to pick T.S. Eliot's poetry. I actually studied Eliot in high school for my high school final exams (A Levels as we call them here). I think he's just the most amazing poet who ever came our way. In many ways: mentally complex, and extremely well read, and immensely deep.As the last choice, I'm actually going to pick something I'm sure nobody's ever heard of. It's the Irish writer Brendan Behan's semi-autobiographical book called Hold Your Hour and Have Another. It just has that Irish flow and fun—that sense of fun and “life is a gas,” as the as the saying goes. It's just wonderfully well-written little vignettes on his experiences in life. Great guy: he died very young, at the age of 41. Same age actually as the other greatest poet ever, Dylan Thomas, the Welsh poet, who I might otherwise have included, because his sense of observation is absolutely extraordinary. T.S. Eliot is more internal and intellectualizing and looking at himself. Dylan Thomas's observations on the foibles of other people is just unbelievable in his way with words. It's just beautiful. It's absolutely fantastic stuff. So you get four for the price of one.Robin Dunbar, thank you so much for taking the time to talk today.You're very welcome. It's been great fun.[I hope you find something good for your next read. If you happen to find it through the above links, I get a referral fee. Thanks!] This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit codykommers.substack.com/subscribe
Jack O'Rourke this week released his latest single. Entitled "Oscar", it's based on the work of Brendan Behan, and his poem about Oscar Wilde. So it was a pleasure to welcome Jack O'Rourke back into Studio One for a chat with Elmarie and Conor. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Niall's wife, Ann, cared for their son and is now not eligible for a pension. A photographer charged Michelle extra to photograph her son because he has special needs. Bridget wants to bring St. Brigid's skull back to Ireland. Michael met Brendan Behan as a child. Tina wants to celebrate the work of Niamh Bhreathnach.
Author Patrick McCabe speaks to us about the "The Holy Hour: A Requiem for Brendan Behan" and exhibition due to open next month
He is one of Ireland's best-known poets, storytellers, novelist, and playwright to name just a few and today marks 100 years since his birth. It was the 9th of February 1923 that marked the birth of Brendan Behan in Crumlin in Dublin and there are events taking place to mark the event. Speaking about Brendan Behan this morning was Peter Sheridan is a playwright, screenwriter and director
He is one of Ireland's best-known poets, storytellers, novelist, and playwright to name just a few and today marks 100 years since his birth. It was the 9th of February 1923 that marked the birth of Brendan Behan in Crumlin in Dublin and there are events taking place to mark the event. Speaking about Brendan Behan this morning was Peter Sheridan is a playwright, screenwriter and director
This week marks the centenary of the birth of Brendan Behan. Over two editions, Three Castles Burning will explore the life and times of this remarkable talent. In the first part, we look at Behan's revolutionary days and the impact of Borstal on him.
Saints and swallows, the early days of Dublin Airport, and Brendan Behan's love of the sea, with Blanaid Behan, Conall Hamill, Máirín O'Malley, Jim Culleton, Rachael Hegarty, Noelle Lynskey and John MacKenna
Professor Diarmaid Ferriter, Professor of Modern History, UCD
Las grandes historias no solo se encuentran en los libros. A veces, las historias más fabulosas, aquellas que nos parecen inverosímiles, te los topas cuando abres un periódico, o enciendes la televisión. O pones la radio. Y este Club hemos querido rendir homenaje al periodismo. Al periodismo ejercido desde el exterior.Con una figura, la del reportero, envuelta en un halo mítico, heroico, aventurero... pero que no se diferencia tanto del trabajo que hace un profesional que está encerrado en una redacción: hacernos entender mejor el mundo que nos rodea. Darnos respuestas.Y aprovechando que Nueva York nos ha vuelto a reclamar (es mi ciudad favorita, un amor a primera vista que comenzó en 2011), le pedimos cita a José Ángel Ábad, corresponsal de Antena 3 Televisión, que ha conectado Gijón con la Gran Manzana, y que está en plena madurez periodística, ahora que ha cruzado la frontera de los 50 años. Quedamos citados en el Downtown, no muy lejos de Union Square, en la librería Strand, que presume de sumar hasta 30 kilómetros de libros, si juntamos todos los volúmenes que almacena. Como periodista que soy, estaba deseando preguntarle por cada una de sus vivencias. El Nueva York de calles desnudas de turistas por culpa de la pandemia, el trabajo en la Casa Blanca, las dificultades de discernir la verdad de lo que solo tiene apariencia de serlo en un país radicalmente polarizado como ahora es Estados Unidos, la ceremonia de los Oscars, y hasta de su desafío profesional de mayor envergadura: la cobertura del desastre y devastación que dejó el huracán Katrina.Brendan Behan, que bebió, disfrutó y amó como pocos Nueva York, dejó escrita una frase que es toda una declaración de amor a la ciudad: “Manhattan es como un gran madre con los brazos abiertos”. Pues así recibió José Ángel Abad a Onda Regional. Con los brazos abiertos… y con una auténtica clase de periodismo que escuchamos con atención, y que compartimos con vosotros.En este Club también conocemos a Valentí Fargnoli, que dejó atrás a su familia italiana para instalarse en Barcelona en busca de una vida mejor, en la segunda mitad del siglo XIX. Y se aficionó a un arte nuevo, revolucionario: la fotografía. Fue así, ya oficiando de fotógrafo ambulante de prestigio, como recibió un encargo: la casa real lo llamó para documentar, en 1906, el matrimonio de Alfonso XIII con Victoria Eugenia. El fabricante de recuerdos es una novela escrita en tonos sepia, y que ha puesto en pie Martí Gironell, con una prosa evocadora que nos desplaza a una época de anarquismo, de cambios, de efervescencia y de grandes artistas que ensancharon la dimensión de Barcelona.Y en Barcelona se falló hace unos días el premio Planeta, que ha sido para Luz Gabás, con una obra de género histórico titulada Lejos de Luisiana.En la sección de Audiolibros, nos paseamos por los cuentos de Chejov.
In a new book Kevin Rafter explores how art and artists have been treated by our taoisigh, from W.T. Cosgrave to Micheál Martin, and how those men have been portrayed by artists in turn. The book is a history of the relationships between well-known artists and the taoisigh of their day, such as that between Brendan Behan and Sean Lemass.Kevin Rafter is a professor of political communications at DCU and currently serves as chair of the Arts Council. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
An Buachaill Geal Gáireach/The Laughing Boy is an Irish song written by Brendan Behan in memory of, Michael Collins - Elaine Shay Chow reads the opening scene from Disorientation - Author of Room and the Wonder, Emma Donoghue has a new novel, Haven - On the 100th anniversary of Michael Collins death, The Chief, is a new play by Jimmy Murphy.
An Buachaill Geal Gáireach/The Laughing Boy is an Irish song written by Brendan Behan in memory of, Michael Collins - Elaine Shay Chow reads the opening scene from Disorientation - Author of Room and the Wonder, Emma Donoghue has a new novel, Haven - On the 100th anniversary of Michael Collins death, The Chief, is a new play by Jimmy Murphy.
An Buachaill Geal Gáireach/ The Laughing Boy is an Irish song written by a teenage Brendan Behan in memory of, Michael Collins, inspired by the respect his mother had of the slain leader. Theo Dorgan and Alan Gilsenan who's documentary film An Buachaill Gealgháireach will air on TG4 this week tell us more about the song.
W centrum Dublina, w dzielnicy Phibsborough, znajduje się więzienie dla mężczyzn zwane Mountjoy. Powstało w połowie XIX wieku jako więzienie przejściowe dla skazanych na transportation, tę brytyjską karę już znamy. Więźniowe po krótkim pobycie byli przewożeni na wyspę Spike, z której byli zabierani statkami do Ziemi Van Diemena, dzisiejszej Tasmanii. Więzienie Mountjoy jest nietuzinkowe z paru powodów: to tu została stracona jedyna kobieta skazana na karę śmierci przez wolne państwo Irlandzkie. To tu doszło do spektakularnej ucieczki 3 więźniów należących do IRA porwanym helikopterem. To tu wreszcie wyrok odbywał Brendan Behan, a z Irlandzka Breandan Ó Beachain, poeta pisarz i dramatopisarz, zajmujący zacne miejsce w panteonie literatury irlandzkiej. Właśnie podczas odsiadki wyroku w Mountoy Gaol Brendan napisał swoją pierwsza sztukę. Po paru latach akcję jednej z kolejnych sztuk umiejscowił właśnie w tym więzieniu. Jej tytuł to „The Quare Fellow” – niezwykły gość. Dramat jest ponurym portretem życia więziennego w Irlandii w czasach kiedy homoseksualizm był nielegalny a kara śmierci powszechna. Opowiada o dniu oczekiwania na egzekucję głównego bohatera. Rytm dnia więźniom Mountjoy Gaol wyznacza bicie trójkątnego dzwonu znajdującego się w centrum więzienia, dzwonu zwanego starym trójkątem, czy też „The Old Triangle”. I taki tytuł nosi dzisiejsza piosenka, którą Brendan Behan umieścił we wprowadzeniu do sztuki. Dziś częściej używany jest tytuł „The Auld Triangle” – brzmi bardziej tradycyjnie
The guest in this episode is Irish poet Brendan Behan and we follow him as he, like Dylan Thomas, drinks himself to death at the Chelsea Hotel.Then we follow his biographer Ulick O'Connor as he goes looking for the traces of the great poet and finds his cousin, Dracula
Happy St. Patrick's Day, or is that St. Paddy's Day? Either way, when it comes to beer and brewing, perhaps the real Saint we should be admiring could very well be St. Brigid (more on that in this episode). Speaking of episodes, we start this shindig off by tasting some excellent Irish/St. Paddy's themed beers and then give it a lash to discuss the history of the Irish Pub, learning about Ireland's patron saints, Publicans, Barmen, Alewives, Spirit Grocers, SheBeens, Patrick Cavanaugh and Brendan Behan “dog days to drink” legend, and the lot that brought us into the era of the Public Houses we so fondly adore and frequently adjourn to. As for theater on the table, we start with Mike's home brewed Red Ale, a tasty, roasty, clean, easy drinker, if there ever was one ;) that finished off fast (1.5 weeks) at 4.5 ABV. We also sip on Urban Forest Landmire Spring, a zest black IPA that warms the soul. Then on to more traditional fermentations from Smithwick Red Ale (the most consumed ale in Ireland…ever!) and Guinness Extra Stout, a beer that some have called the perfect balance of bitter and sweet, smooth and dry with a yummy creamy head, first brewed in 1821. Happy listening…we're off to the pub! While we'll miss out on the ultimate Irish authenticity on this March 17, we have a nice selection of traditional ale houses to drink until we're gilded green with envy. Special shout out to our sponsors, especially the boys at Pig Minds Brewing who are always brewing for perfection! If you're seeking a hard-to-find commercial craft beer, wine or spirits to take home or as a gift, then stop in to Artale & Co, Anthony and Aaron have plenty of great ideas. When you are ready to start a new indoor gardening project stop in to 815 Gardens, Bob will be happy to help. And of course, the aforementioned Urban Forest, hard at work making awesome moments for your taste buds. Tell them that HomeBrew Rockstars sent ya. As always, we appreciate if you make sure to Like us, Follow us and RATE US, or hate us, but do something! Prost! #drinkitup 00000097 00000097 00007424 00007424 0011EA87 0011EA87 00007E86 00007E86 00023E49 00023E49
Leprechauns are fun, but is there more to Irish literature?! Diving into our Irish inheritance, Charity Hill offers insight into Irish literature. She suggests that what makes Irish literature distinctive is the way it navigates paradoxes. Charity uses Thomas Cahill's How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role to identify characteristics of Irish literature. Because literature emerges from cultural context, Charity notices how the literature reflects the paradoxes of pagan and Christian Ireland: high/low, darkness/light.Don't miss the radio theatre production of The Trials of St. Patrick. View this trailer with John Rhys-Davies...Pretty heart-stopping.As promised, I am listing all the hard-to-find books!(*These links do not pay me any percentage; but better to have them than not!)The Prince of Ireland and the Three Magic Stallions by Bryce MilliganThe King of Ireland's Son by Brendan Behan (master oral storyteller!)Flying Feet: A Story of Irish Dance by Anna Marlis Burgard and Dees McCloskeyThe Names Upon the Harp: Irish Myths and Legends by Marie HeaneyThe one and only...Prince Boghole by Erik Christian Haugaard or these copiesThe Cottage at Bantry BayFrancie On the RunPegeenYou will find the rest of our suggested books HERE.(*This link gives me a 10% commission. Thank you.)
Gabriel Byrne chats to Marty about meeting Brendan Behan on the wrong bus, debating whether to ask a Beatle for an autograph and his upcoming show at the Gaiety Theatre, Walking with Ghosts.
Binge reading - 19 - Brendan Behan, Confessions d'un rebelle irlandais (L'échappée) by RadioVino
2.00" Mark Henry, author of 'In Fact, an optimists guide to Ireland' tells us 100 reasons to be positive about Ireland and its economy. And he starts by telling us we're no longer a nation of begrudgers. What would Brendan Behan make of that! He'd also be fascinated by the substantial drop in alcohol consumption over the last couple of decades.Mark's 'hire in a heartbeat'? Bob Geldof23.00" Dr. Lollie Mancey, who is 'not fragile like a flower, but fragile like a bomb', talks about women being underrepresented in business, what the UCD Innovation Academy where she works, is doing to help, Imposter Syndrome and what can be done about that, and of course she has a 'hire in a heartbeat' or two, or three...47.00" Paula FitzSimons, founder of Going for Growth, the Enterprise Ireland and KPMG backed six month course to help female entrepreneurs 'go for growth'. It's been running for fourteen years and has proven to be exceptionally positive for participants, many who have joined TeamGBS since the podcast started. Paula details how best to get on the programme and she reminds listeners that the closing date is coming up very soon.Her 'hire in a heartbeat'? She wouldn't say. Find out why. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Barry Sheppard is joined by historian and broadcaster, Donal Fallon to talk about the life and work of author, playwright, and republican Brendan Behan.
Janet Behan carries on the family tradition of creativity in both her acting and writing. The London-born daughter of Dublin-born playwright Brian Behan & Celia Behan, great niece of the songwriter Peadar Kearney (author of Amhrán na bhFiann, the Irish National Anthem), and niece of the writers Dominic Behan and Brendan Behan.On this serving of The Stew, she tells of a deprived but happy childhood “that took a bit of recovering from” and how “playing the fool” to ease family tensions led her to the stage and screen. Trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama , she is known for her roles in National Theatre productions and in the popular TV series EastEnders.“I've always had a fear of being ordinary, just an ordinary human Behan,” she says quoting her uncle Brendan.She channeled the spirit of her uncle in writing Brendan at the Chelsea which caught the eye of Adrian Dunbar who'd go on to direct and star in it's Lyric Theatre of Belfast production which earned rave reviews in an Off-Broadway run. Recently she realized she was old enough to play her indomitable grandmother, which she did in the recent film Kathleen and Me.Janet tells us of being too Irish for the English and too English for the Irish, saying “I think of myself as somebody who is always on her knees, begging and pleading to be allowed into Ireland...culturally and psychologically.”Janet Behan Links:TwitterLinkedInRepresentation
durée : 00:05:22 - Le coup de cour des Libraires France Bleu Belfort Montbéliard
durée : 00:54:05 - Et je remets le son - par : Matthieu Conquet - De Fontaines D.C. à Dexy's Midnight Runners, l'influence de l'écrivain irlandais Brendan Behan est partout. Retour gagnant aussi pour Jacques et les Sparks, un certain goût tropical avec Club Club Coco et un live fantastique de CAN... Bonne écoute ! - réalisé par : Benjamin Riquet
This week we're reading the last third of The Scorching Wind by Walter Macken. The final section of the book brings us to the apex of the Irish struggle for independence. Dominic's character trajectory from vacillating fellow traveler to full blooded Irish Republican is brought to fruition, as is the cementing of Dualta's and Dominic's relationship as brothers. The conflict between Irish Republicans and British imperial soldiers heats up to the point where Dominic is constantly on the run - sleeping in the houses of brave Irish citizens, ditches, and eventually finds himself in a tomb with Dualta after Dualta assassinates the Irish traitor Sergeant Nick. The wiley Sam finds Dominic and Dualta to tell them that the British and Irish authorities have entered negotiations and Dualta heads to be part of the treaty settlement while Dominic goes home to his mother. The Peace Treaty is signed and two factions emerge - on the one hand the radical Republicans who see the peace treaty as a farcical betrayal and those that accept the Peace Treaty as a step towards freedom. Surprisingly Dominc takes up the former, whereas Dualta becomes an agent of the state. The final tragedy of the book is in it's description of the war between brothers, both generally within the Irish community and specifically between Dominc and Dualta, as the sparkish Irish Civil War takes form. The final scene is an attack on an Irish army barracks by Dominic and company where Dualta is killed by Dominic. From the book: “Walter Macken was born in Galway in 1915. He was a writer of short stories, novels, and plays. Originally an actor, principally with Taibhdhearc in Galway, and the Abbey Theatre, he played lead roles on Broadway in M.J Molloy's The King of Friday's Men and his own play Home Is The Hero. He also acted in films, notably in Arthur Dreifuss' adaption of Brendan Behan's The Quare Fellow. He is perhaps best known for his trilogy of Irish historical novels. Seek The Fair Land, The Silent People and The Scorching Wind. He passed away in 1967.”
This week we're reading the second third of The Scorching Wind by Walter Macken. This section opens up with Dominic on a train, bringing with him weapons and grenades for the Irish Independence movement. While he is on the train, two British soldiers, Skin and Mac, take seats next to him. They chat Dominic up about playing snooker (pool in American), poker, and politics. Dominic escapes without being found out and is picked up by Sam in a buggy which brings them to a “safe” house. In this house is Dominic's brother Dualta and their mother. Unsurprisingly in this tale of constant action the house is raided by British soldiers, including Skin and Mac, Dominic is beaten half to death while they try to coax out of him Dualta's whereabouts. This is a kind of coming of age moment for Dominic, who is thoroughly converted to the Irish Independence movement. The rest of the section is a mix of cloak and dagger guerilla warfare, prison escapes, remembrances of the dead, drowning torture scenes, and soliloquies on the meaning of the Irish struggle for freedom. By the end of Chapter 21, Dominic has become a man embroiled in the struggle for Irish Independence, for good or ill. From the book: “Walter Macken was born in Galway in 1915. He was a writer of short stories, novels, and plays. Originally an actor, principally with Taibhdhearc in Galway, and the Abbey Theatre, he played lead roles on Broadway in M.J Molloy's The King of Friday's Men and his own play Home Is The Hero. He also acted in films, notably in Arthur Dreifuss' adaption of Brendan Behan's The Quare Fellow. He is perhaps best known for his trilogy of Irish historical novels. Seek The Fair Land, The Silent People and The Scorching Wind. He passed away in 1967.”
In his conversation with Jonathan McCreedy Jack Harte talks about narrow definitions of the short story that limit the genre's potential, about the emotional force of the aisling, the influence of the Catholic church and of economic migration to the Irish midlands in the 1950s as represented in his novel In the Wake of the Bagger; as well as his literary connections to Bulgaria and writing out a contract on a serviette. The conversation also revolves around the difficulties of staging plays during lockdown, Killing Grandad and Jack Harte's new play The Laughing Boy, Brendan Behan, Michael Collins and Greece; as well as the trilogy of novels he is currently writing.
🎧 Escúchanos aquí ➡️ https://hypel.ink/tel-n-y-cuenta-nueva 01:34 - Entrevista a María San Miguel 37:44 - Entre el foso y el telón 42:07 - Dramedia 46:57 - El camerino 50:47 - La apuntadora 56:17 - Entrevista a Juan Ceacero 1:17:05 - El comodín de la claqueta 1:24:24 - Con brevedad 1:28:11 - Dime qué lees 1:36.39 - Verso a verso 1:44:23 - Veo veo 2:01:43 - La despensa del tiempo 2:08:22 - Versionando que es gerundio A SIN CAFÉ COMO EXCUSA ha venido la actriz y dramaturga María San Miguel quien nos acerca a su último proyecto, I´m a survivor en la Sala Mirador. Además, nos acompaña el actor y director José Ceacero para llevarnos hasta Clusten en la Sala Exlímite. ENTRE EL FOSO Y EL TELÓN vamos hasta los Teatros del Canal para disfrutar de Man Ray, y en DRAMEDIA recomendamos El príncipe constante en el Teatro de la comedia, Mapa de heridas en la Sala Cuarta pared, y Dime que todo está bien en la Sala Nueve Norte. Entramos en EL CAMERINO del Teatro del Barrio para disfrutar de Estado B y LA APUNTADORA nos lleva hasta Maricón y tontico en la Sala Contexto. En EL COMODÍN DE LA CLAQUETA indagamos en El tour de los muppets en Disney +, en DIME QUÉ LEES pasamos las páginas de Las intermitencias de la muerte de Saramago, y en VERSO A VERSO descubrimos la vida y la obra de Brendan Behan . Miramos a través del objetivo de VEO VEO para conocer la Expedición Terranova, y en LA DESPENSA DEL TIEMPO desgranamos la obra de Los milagros de los santos médicos: Cosme y Damián de Fernando del rincón . Cerramos en HISTORIARTE con el inicio del turismo en Egipto por Thomas Cook, y en VERSIONADO QUE ES GERUNDIO I just called to say i love you de Strevie Wonder. ¿Con qué versión te quedas? ¡TE ESPERAMOS! 📱Síguenos aquí ➡️ https://hypel.ink/tel-n-y-cuenta-nueva
Dicen de ella que es una ciudad de la que te enamoras. Para siempre. Con la que es imposible no vivir una historia de amor. Brendan Behan escribió de ella que era como una madre que siempre te acogía con los brazos abiertos. Hablamos de Nueva York. Y en el Club nos paseamos por ella, dejándonos deslumbrar por los neones de Times Square, cruzando el puente de Brooklyn, yendo de compras a la Quinta Avenida, a ver si encontramos a Audrey Hepburn mordisqueando un cruasán, mientras se asoma al escaparate inalcanzable de la tienda de Tiffany's. La prosa de Alberto Gil y el talento dibujante de Fernando Vicente han creado un libro muy hermoso: Espíritus de Nueva York. Un viaje a la ciudad de los rascacielos a través de 25 personajes de leyenda, como Marilyn Monroe, Frida Kahlo, John Lennon o Federico Garcia Lorca.Nos metemos en las páginas de El asesinato de Platón, para pasearnos por la Grecia Clásica, con un guía turístico siempre fiable: Marcos Chicot.Y recomendamos una vez más Patria, una de las novelas de esta década, escrita por Fernando Aramburu, publicada hace ya cuatro años, pero que está teniendo una segunda vida gracias a la serie dirigida por Aitor Gabilondo.
From Joe Jackson's introduction to his 2017, RTE Radio 1 programme, The Joe Jackson Tapes Revisited: JP Donleavy, which, was “pulled” from broadcast by RTE and has never been heard until now. Copyright Joe Jackson. ‘If like me you came of age during the 1970s and dreamed of one day becoming a writer you must have read, loved, and being influenced by, at least one of JP Donleavy's books. Be it The Ginger Man, Fairy Tale of New York - yeah one of the inspirations behind Shane McGowan's song of the same name – or, The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar B. But back in 1990, despite my delight in meeting one of my old literary heroes, and my fondness for many of his old books at a time when one of his more recent was JP Donleavy's Ireland, I did bring a more critical - deconstructionist, in fact - sensibility to bear on the man's work. Specifically, when it came to his representation of women, sexual politics, race, class, and more so what to me and two others seemed to be Donleavy's deification of the Anglo Irish ascendancy.'
A veces, las mejores lecciones nos vienen en un formato inesperado. Y esto es lo que ocurrió en la conferencia que dio en una famosa universidad estadounidense el escritor Brendan Behan.
Dublin is a city famed for her bookshops, but what was in them? Throughout the twentieth century, censorship kept many of the greatest works of literature away from the shelves. In this podcast, we explore where Irish censorship came from, and ask what it meant for a variety of writers. Who helped to end it, and what escaped the censor? My guest is Aoife from the brilliant Censored Podcast. On Acast, it is available on all platforms, TCB listeners will love it. Stay safe and wash your hands. www.patreon.com/threecastlesburning.
On this weeks episode (99) of FNI Wrapchat, Paul Webster is joined by Director Maurice Sweeney For the last ten years, Maurice has been regarded as one of Ireland's leading documentary filmmakers. In more recent years he has also begun to focus on fiction. His Doc Trial of the Century, a historical drama series for Treasure Films was a critical hit for, Loose Horse and TV3. Other work includes drama documentary series Barbarians Rising for the History Channel and October Films. Having worked on diverse films from drama documentary Cromwell In Ireland to creative portraits of Irish writers Flann O' Brien and Brendan Behan and crime writer John Connolly, Maurice also recently directed his first major drama feature, Saving The Titanic, to wide critical acclaim. The film has been sold throughout the world, including America, Canada and Britain with Channel 4 and has been watched by an estimated 10 million people. It was selected for the British Independent Film Festival, where it has just won three awards, including Best Director. It has also just won Best Feature at the Celtic Media Festival in Swansea. Saving The Titanic also won a prestigious Gold World Medal award at the New York Festivals, and the Award of Excellence in a Feature Film at the Accolade Competition in California. As a Director, Maurice has won four IFTAS. In 2010, he filmed and directed the widely acclaimed __The Forgotten Irish_, dealing with the emigration to Britain in the 1950′s. Always returning to his love of sport, Maurice has made lasting portraits of his heroes Michael O Muircheartaigh and Vincent O Brien. Other credits include the follow up to Forgotten Irish with Ireland's Forgotten Voices. Penance, TV Series, Blood (TV Series, Virgin Media TV) I-Dolours (Documentary) NEXT UP*** FNI @ HOME is an online networking event
On this weeks episode (99) of FNI Wrapchat, Paul Webster is joined by Director Maurice Sweeney For the last ten years, Maurice has been regarded as one of Ireland’s leading documentary filmmakers. In more recent years he has also begun to focus on fiction. His Doc Trial of the Century, a historical drama series for Treasure Films was a critical hit for, Loose Horse and TV3. Other work includes drama documentary series Barbarians Rising for the History Channel and October Films. Having worked on diverse films from drama documentary Cromwell In Ireland to creative portraits of Irish writers Flann O’ Brien and Brendan Behan and crime writer John Connolly, Maurice also recently directed his first major drama feature, Saving The Titanic, to wide critical acclaim. The film has been sold throughout the world, including America, Canada and Britain with Channel 4 and has been watched by an estimated 10 million people. It was selected for the British Independent Film Festival, where it has just won three awards, including Best Director. It has also just won Best Feature at the Celtic Media Festival in Swansea. Saving The Titanic also won a prestigious Gold World Medal award at the New York Festivals, and the Award of Excellence in a Feature Film at the Accolade Competition in California. As a Director, Maurice has won four IFTAS. In 2010, he filmed and directed the widely acclaimed __The Forgotten Irish_, dealing with the emigration to Britain in the 1950′s. Always returning to his love of sport, Maurice has made lasting portraits of his heroes Michael O Muircheartaigh and Vincent O Brien. Other credits include the follow up to Forgotten Irish with Ireland’s Forgotten Voices. Penance, TV Series, Blood (TV Series, Virgin Media TV) I-Dolours (Documentary) NEXT UP*** FNI @ HOME is an online networking event
What shenanigans did Brendan Behan get up to in prison and borstal between 1939 and 1941? He enjoyed baiting the Brits, warm cocoa, snuggly blankets and … other things. In this episode, I’ll tell you about the rude bits in a book whose banning in Ireland and Australia provoked derision. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
On this week's show. Matt got to sit down with Paddy McEvoy. Paddy is a tour guide from my streets Ireland. Paddy has gone from being homeless to finding love. In this episode, Paddy talks was about his childhood, the difficulties he had growing up. The early years when he began drinking and driving. He openly talked about the troubles of his mind. He also spoke to us about difficult he had with members of his family. And the difficult time he had with his mother. Paddy shared with us the love he had for his dad and the impact his death had on him. this led to paddy spending a number of years on the streets homeless. Paddy talked about the tours that he gives and his love for Brandan Behan, Patrick Kavanagh and Luke Kelly. Paddy also gives us a rendition of his favorite poem from Brendan Behan which was powerful and moving. This was powerful interview, one that will go down in the history of our podcasts for a remarkable of experience. Paddy is a lovely decent honest and funny human being who revealed his vulnerabilities. Paddy has now turned his life around. He's now living with a beautiful lady that he absolutely loves. Paddy has gone from lacking with childhood attachment ,love, kindness, compassion, understanding to now living his life filled with love kindness, compassion and understanding for humans. We want to thank Paddy for coming on the show and sharing this story with us. If you'd like to know more about Paddy or going on his tour, check out my streets Ireland- www.mystreetsireland.com Special thanks to our: Sponsors: Niall Reilly- www.rooneymedia.com Andrew O'Connell- www.libertiesphoto.ie Supports: Shannon's Hopeline - www.shannonshopeline.ie Mental Health Warriors - https://www.facebook.com/Mental-Health-Warriors-373240606467593/ Magic Minds Podcast Team Matt Burke- Host Andrew O'Connell- Video Production & social Media - --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/magic-minds/message
In this weeks episode Kevin tells Jason the story of Elizabeth Sugrue aka Lady Betty aka the woman from hell. Oscar Wilde's father recorded the story in his book "Ireland: Her wit, Peculiarities and Popular Superstitions" after asking the people of Roscommon about the infamous executioner who lived in their town Gaol. Also some shite talk about Brendan Behan and Jason's relationship with his mother.
In this weeks episode Kevin tells Jason the story of Elizabeth Sugrue aka Lady Betty aka the woman from hell. Oscar Wilde's father recorded the story in his book "Ireland: Her wit, Peculiarities and Popular Superstitions" after asking the people of Roscommon about the infamous executioner who lived in their town Gaol. Also some shite talk about Brendan Behan and Jason's relationship with his mother.
You can find us on Twitter: @thebeanspod and email us stories you'd like to see covered at beanspodcast@gmail.com Erin wants to know - why do we like True Crime? Our show is hosted by Valerie Mullen (@v_glenmullen), Sam Gonçalves (@SidlingBears) and Erin Farley (@aliasmacalias). Music for this episode was created by Alex Auldsmith, whose work you can find on alexauldsmith.bandcamp.com/ and themicroband.bandcamp.com/
Brendan Behan is one of Ireland's greatest writers. Some of his most important work was influenced by time he spent in Paris just after World War II where he mixed with some of the most important writers of the 20th century. In an interview never previously broadcast, Behan reveals the influence Paris had on him as a writer. (2019)
First off, thanks to everybody who's nipped over to https://www.patreon.com/blarneypilgrims and subscribed to the podcast. If you've not yet done it, and have been meaning to, there's never been a better time. Your reward will be great in heaven. And thanks. Now, this episode is a slight departure for us in that nobody mentions Planxty. Not once. And there's less of a strictly traditional Irish feel to this one. But basically we had a chance to record Bush Gothic at Portarlington, so we said ‘Yes please.' If you're not yet familiar with them, Bush Gothic reimagine traditional songs - from Australia, Ireland, England, wherever they find them - in the deepest sense of that word ‘reimagine.' What happens when that happens? Songs are suddenly visible in new light, with new contours and meanings evident. It's pretty amazing. You think about words you've heard maybe hundreds of times before in a whole new way. And as I mention in the intro to the episode, they leave space in their arrangements, so you can really hear the songs, the music, unfurl. So listen, with headphones if possible, cos this is seriously beautiful music. And here's some things to get you going after you're done listening: Darren mentions one of the band's films, which you can see here – their version of the (I think) English song, Jim Jones: https://bit.ly/2H3JUBP Then there's the toxic masculinity of Kenneth McKellar. (I know, right?) Here he is singing ‘The Wee Cooper of Fife', the song I referred to…nickety nackety noo… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcH0qtyvbQE …The Ould Triangle, as sung by Brendan Behan… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7red9Rw4450 …and following on from our chat about Burns, some thoughts on the great Scottish poet as a ‘Weinsteinian Sex Pest': https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2018/jan/24/robert-burns-was-the-beloved-poet-a-weinsteinian-sex-pest …and a suggestion that Veronica Forrest-Thomson might be a poet more worthy of your attention: https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2017/jan/25/burns-night-celebrates-the-wrong-scottish-poet-robert-burns So, why were we (me and my pals) celebrating Burns, as discussed in the episode? At the time I took shelter in the notion that what I felt we were celebrating was not Burns the man, with his qualities and his failings, but the idea of Burns. A man, a poet, a romantic and an espouser in verse of liberal ideals of the kind found in ‘A Man's A Man For A' That': Is there for honest Poverty That hings his head, an' a' that; The coward slave – we pass him by, We dare be poor for a' that! For a' that, an' a' that. Our toils obscure and a' that, The rank is but a guinea's stamp, The Man's the gowd for a' that… Then let us pray that come it may, (As come it will for a' that,) That Sense and Worth, o'er a' the earth, Shall bear the gree, an' a' that. For a' that, an' a' that, It's coming yet for a' that, That Man to Man, the world o'er, Shall brothers be for a' that. Sung, in an amazing, emotional moment, by Sheena Wellington at the official opening of the Scottish Parliament: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hudNoXsUj0o But maybe my explanation was a cop out, I'm not sure. Also, I've just realized, I fell in love with Burns's song Now Westlin' Winds, as recorded by Dick Gaughan, at the same time as I fell in love with a girl who didn't fall in love with me. If you're looking for the poem from which the song derives, it's called Song Composed in August, and it's gorgeous: http://www.robertburns.org/works/31.shtml Check out that nature imagery ya bas. Here's Dick Gaughan's version: https://bit.ly/2H5cK4L So I'm sure my unrequited teenage love had something to do with something. And, finally, you can't ignore the fact that if nothing else, Burns Night is a great excuse for a massive, ceremonial piss-up in the middle of winter. So there's that. And then there's the English band The Unthanks: http://www.the-unthanks.com/about/ I first came across their music through their…what…heart-stopping version of the King Of Rome: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fL3E8FRxiw …which sends shivers through me every time I hear it, and puts me in mind of both Elbow, and Kate Rusby's ‘My Young Man,' which is also completely heart-stopping: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AjblYI9KEY And finally, Darren references Turkey In The Straw and the debate that comes and goes in the Old Time world, I suspect, about whether it's possible to unweave a melody from the words it has traditionally been attached to. This is the NPR feature on the song's origins: https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2014/05/11/310708342/recall-that-ice-cream-truck-song-we-have-unpleasant-news-for-you?t=1565685084013 I wonder too, as Jenny says, if there are some songs, melodies – whatever – that we should just bury once and for all, because they're so damaging. Which, when all's said and done, seems fine to me. Jenny M Thomas, Dan Witton and Chris Lewis, thanks again. Bush Gothic's live filming is happening on Monday September 2nd at the Retreat Hotel in Abbotsford. You can get tickets here: https://www.facebook.com/events/the-retreat-hotel-abbotsford/music-clip-filming-concert-bush-gothic/898136590560546/ And you can get hold of their albums at their bandcamp page: https://bushgothic.bandcamp.com/ ... If you liked this episode and think you got some worth from it, then please pledge $2 over at www.patreon.com/blarneypilgrims. Of course, you don't have to become a patron to listen, but we guarantee you'll enjoy each episode more because you'll be safe in the knowledge that you're a deadset legend. If you can't afford to pledge on Patreon, and we totally understand if you can't, all is not lost. 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Enrico Terrinoni is an Italian academic and literary translator. He has written several books and regularly publishes articles regarding Irish matters on “Il Manifesto”, an Italian newspaper. He has also translated several books by James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, Brendan Behan, Francis Bacon and many more. The post Hey, Sal! Podcast #17 – Enrico Terrinoni (Academic, Literary translator) appeared first on Hey, Sal!.
It is fitting that a book set in a cemetery has come to be known as the graveyard of translators. Máirtín Ó Cadhain’s masterpiece Cré na Cille was described in the New Yorker as “too good to translate” although different individuals have tried. It is widely regarded as the finest novel in the Irish language. In this week’s episode, Peadar (who has read it) tells Darach (who hasn’t read it) all about the wonders of this novel, where the occupants of the graveyard are doomed to gossip amongst each other about the petty concerns and jealousies that poisoned their lives. Comparisons to Ulysses (and Star Trek) are considered, as well as the validity of different approaches to translation, Ó Cadhain’s relationship with Brendan Behan, and the overlapping Irish obsessions with death and property. --- Contact the show at https://twitter.com/motherfocloir or email us at motherfocloir@headstuff.org.
The golden age of Irish censorship ended in 1967 when Brian Lenihan Sr introduced a time limit on certain banning orders, leading to thousands of forbidden texts becoming available. Since 1929, a wealth of modern literature and medical writing had been denied to the public by a censorship board which was not required to explain its decisions - Edna O'Brien, Brendan Behan, Aldous Huxley and many others ran afoul of its high hand. However, during this period a wealth of Irish language literature and drama was being produced which slid under the censors' radar, material which still packs a punch today to audiences who feel misled by the notoriety of Lady Chatterley and Holden Caulfield. One such work is the play "An Triail" by Máiréad Ní Ghráda, first produced in 1964 and dealing with topics like religious hypocrisy, abortion, suicide and Magdalen Laundries - all in an Ireland where Disney's Fantasia was banned. In this week's episode, Darach, Peadar and Gearóidín discuss the impact of Ní Ghráda's great work and its relevance today. Darach remembers a less resonant text he studied for his reading, unlocking a wave of '90s memories and Gearóidín reflects on the similarities between the schoolmaster Pádraig and the f*ckboys of 2018. This episode deals with mature themes and contains some explicit language --- Contact the show at https://twitter.com/motherfocloir or email us at motherfocloir@headstuff.org.
Grabbers! Grabbers! What's a grabber? It's some kind of octopus-like tentacled creature. On this St Patrick's Day episode of the Really Awful Movies Podcast, we talk Ireland, JP Donleavy, Brendan Behan, Father Ted, pub culture, drinking, and cultural similarities between Canada and Ireland. We have quite a few listeners in Ireland, and we thought we'd … Continue reading Really Awful Movies: Ep 212 – Grabbers →
A very special St. Patrick's Day edition of Ringside, starring your favorite converted pagans! Enjoy a hilarious yet deep conversation about how Mafia Movies, Oscar Romero, Martin Scorcese and prayer! It all fits together! Check us out on Facebook - ringsidepreachers. ringsidepreachers.com thejaggedword.com We are sponsored by 1517 Legacy and the thejaggedword.com topics: 1. Why are we attracted to mafia movies? Why do people join the mafia? Gang mentality, identity, purpose. Do you have a favorite mafia movie? Paul references the book Tribe, by Sebastian Junger 2.Why is praying so hard? How can we improve our prayer life? Law or Gospel. Why do we not pray? Are we secretly mad that God doesn't answer prayers as we would want? the movie "Silence" by Martin Scorcese is referenced 3. Mark 10 Jesus give me what I want? Watch out God might give you what you pray for! The disciples were looking for glory and we do too! 4.Oscar Romero! Recently pronounced a saint by Francis (yes we make fun of that) Romero was an interesting controversial figure within Christendom, so obviously we like him! 5. Augsburg Confession, article 1, The Trinity! Is the trinity the first thing you should teach someone about Christianity? Do your eyes glaze over when you recite the athanasian creed? music: Brendan Behan sings 'who fears to speak..' intro - dead bees outro - Broke by Joel Allen Hess check him out at soundcloud under willingvirginia references: Tribe - Sebastian Junger Book of Concord Silence by Martin Scorcese Big Lebowski - Cohen brothers St. Patrick's breast plate recited in the beginning of the show
De titel van dit blog is een parafrase op de uitspraak: Te jong om te sterven en te dronken om te leven. Ik las het eens over de Ierse dichter en toneelschrijver Brendan Behan. Over zichzelf zei hij: Ik ben een drinker met een schrijfprobleem.
Like mixing Campari with Plymouth Gin while watching Raging Bull, ya gonna like what you experience in the latest podcast by these righteous fools! Great topics for everyone - don't be the last one to talk about it around the watercooler monday! topics: 1.Hows your prayer life? 2. teach your kids to turn the other cheek AND fight? 3. Proverbs make sense, but not without Jesus! 4. Working out is for modern weak and vain man? or is there a higher history? 5. Should the government spy on us? 6. If Abraham were alive today would he go to a church or synagogue? pic- Brendan Behan.
When I bought an old bar in Jefferson City 16 years ago, the rumor had been propagated for many years, by previous owners and others, that it was the oldest bar west of the Mississippi River. At the time, I was working for the State Historic Preservation Office, and I knew that the bar wasn’t even considered to be the oldest in our state. Folks who live here will come to the bar, usually with friends from out of town, and they’ll say, “Tell them, tell them- isn’t this the oldest bar west of the Mississippi?” It takes a little diplomacy to tell them that it isn’t true without embarrassing them in front of their friends. I usually say something like, “Well, we used to think that it was, but some research has shown that it isn’t,” or “yeah, it’s easy to make that mistake, but it’s just the oldest bar here in town.” They always look disappointed. Sometimes even miffed, I guess because I shattered their cherished beliefs, something they had boasted to others; “Our pub is the oldest bar west of the Mississippi!” I’m sorry, folks, but its just not true. Don’t be upset with me; I can’t in good conscience perpetuate the myth. But people want to believe, they want to have a connection, a physical connection, an emotional connection, to their history and their past. When I take tour groups to Ireland, the old pubs are some of the biggest attractions. They want to have a drink in the bar where Michael Collins took his last pint before he was assassinated, or where JFK hung out when he worked in Dublin in the late 1940’s, or where Brendan Behan and Patrick Kavanagh used to have it out. There is something about these places; these old bars, these dens of imbibing from a time of antiquity. For those of us who like to bend an elbow, there is something neat about having a drink in one of these touchstones to the past. Back to the question; what is the oldest bar west of the Mississippi River? Well, I wanted to know that myself, and now you probably do, as well. Over the years I have done some digging. The list that I’ve pulled together, is not exactly the ten oldest bars west of the Mississippi, but it is the oldest bar in each of 10 different states west of Mississippi- The complete list of the oldest bar in each of the 24 states west of the Mississippi River can be found at the bottom of the blog So by process of elimination, the oldest bar on this list is going to be the oldest bar west of the big river. Another thing, these are just a list of the oldest verifiable bar in each state that I could find. All of these establishments have been historically documented to have either been built or had the business started on the year given, in as much as I could authenticate the dates. I double-checked as much as the internet and the National Register of Historic Places would allow, and there is not a lot of scholarly research done on this subject; so, for all of you aspiring History PhD candidates out there, especially those in Historic Preservation, you’re welcome, here’s the start of your thesis subject. And regarding Prohibition from 1920 to 1933; everybody gets a pass. Some areas of the country the Volstead Act was not enforced at all, while in other states, violators were staunchly cracked down upon. Also, some of these listed, after doing the research, I found were not continuously open. But, unless I found another property that had a stronger claim, I went with these...
BRENDAN BEHAN raccontato da Riccardo Michelucci
Nollaig Shona Daoibh! That's Merry Christmas for those who don't speak Gaelic, like myself. It may be Christmas, but that doesn't mean we can't enjoy some splendid Celtic music for the holidays from these great Celtic musicians: Mithril Duo, Battlefield Band with Leo McCann, Poor Clares, Musical Blades, Ceol Gan Achar, Marc Gunn & Jamie Haeuser, Bow Triplets, Poitin, Fionnuala Sherry, Good Foot, Jacie McConnell, The Led Farmers, Sylvia Platypus, Black 47, Beyond the Pale. If you enjoy this podcast, then please rate the show on iTunes or your favorite podcatcher. Then subscribe to our Celtic Music Magazine. This is our free newsletter and your guide to the latest Celtic music and podcast news. Subscribe today to download 34 Celtic MP3s for free. Remember to support the artists who support this podcast: buy their CDs, download their MP3s, see their shows, and drop them an email to let them know you heard them on the Irish and Celtic Music Podcast. And remember to Vote in the Celtic Top 20. Your active voting will help define the Top 20 songs of 2015 at the end of the year. Today's show is brought to you by Patrons of the Podcast There is a lot that goes into the production of a successful podcast. I want to thank the 127 kind patrons of this podcast for your generosity, especially during the holiday season. You too can become a patron for as little as $1 per episode. Go to SongHenge.com for more details. And if you're not giving to this podcast, support a band in the podcast, or make a donation to your favorite charity. Spread the love this holiday season. Notes: * Thanks to the Patrons of the Podcast. Your kind and generous support keeps this show running every week. Become a Patron. Special thanks to our newest Patrons: Rebecca * The Celtic Christmas Podcast four episodes this year. Don't miss the show and please celebrate the holidays with us. You can find more Celtic Christmas resources here. * I WANT YOUR FEEDBACK: What are you doing today while listening to the podcast? Send me pictures of what you're doing or picture of one of your travels to Ireland or Scotland This Week in Celtic Music "O'Carolan's Favorite Jig" by Mithril Duo from Bottom of the Punch Bowl "Reels: The Five Mile Chase / The Black Haired Lass / Miss Girdle" by Battlefield Band with Leo McCann from Beg & Borrow "Stone Whispers" by Poor Clares from Change of Habbit "Foggy Dew" by Musical Blades from Treasures of Old "Hedigans Fancy Hawson" by Ceol Gan Achar from Ceol Gan Achar "Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ye" by Marc Gunn & Jamie Haeuser from How America Saved Irish Music "Here's a Great Night" by Bow Triplets from Never Too Early "Honeycake" by Poitin from Bofiguifluki "The Last Rose" by Fionnuala Sherry from Songs From Before "Mountain Road/Hunter's Purse" by Good Foot from Good Foot "Cuan Sianail (Storm on the Ocean)" by Jacie McConnell from Mystical Moments A Sign Of Things To Come "Drinking with the Lads" by The Led Farmers from Lucy "Raggle Taggle Gypsy" by Sylvia Platypus from Sylvia Platypus "Ballad of Brendan Behan" by Black 47 from Last Call "Farrel O'Gara's/Bellharbor/Siobhan O'Donnell's" by Beyond the Pale from Queen of Skye The Irish & Celtic Music Podcast was produced by Marc Gunn, The Celtfather. To subscribe, go to iTunes or to our website where you can become a Patron of the Podcast for as little as $1 per episode. You can post feedback in the shownotes or email me music@celticmusicpodcast.com.
Brendan Behan's masterpiece marks the 50th anniversary of his death
Chapter 18: Perhaps H.G. Wells (Paul F. Tompkins) will have better luck than previoius chat show hosts in getting a few coherent sentences out of Irish poet, playwright, and sot Brendan Behan (Brian Stack). But probably not. Listen to find out for sure! Why else are you here? What a pointless one-sided conversation this has been! Thanks to The Time Travel Mart and 826LA. 826 National is a nonprofit organization that provides strategic leadership, administration, and other resources to ensure the success of its network of eight writing and tutoring centers. 826 centers offer a variety of inventive programs that provide under-resourced students, ages 6-18, with opportunities to explore their creativity and improve their writing skills. We also aim to help teachers get their classes excited about writing. Our mission is based on the understanding that great leaps in learning can happen with one-on-one attention, and that strong writing skills are fundamental to future success. Last year our tutoring centers — located in Ann Arbor, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Seattle and Washington, DC — served over 29,000 students. For more information: http://826national.org/chapters/ Visit The Time Travel Mart online: http://826la.org/store/
Brendan Behan was and still is regarded as one of Ireland’s greatest writers. Born in Dublin city in 1923, Brendan wrote poetry, novels and plays, in both English and Irish. This is his story, told by the people who knew him. It also features the voice of Brendan and his music. (First Broadcast 1974)
Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the writer J P Donleavy. The author of a dozen novels as well as numerous plays and short stories, he remains best known for his first novel, The Ginger Man, which is widely regarded as a modern classic. Born in 1926 and raised in New York, J P Donleavy was the son of Irish immigrant parents. They told him little of Irish culture when he was growing up but, after the war, he moved to Dublin to take up a place at Trinity College. He was already a skilled boxer when he arrived in Ireland and found that street-fighting was almost a form of public entertainment in the city - and one which he excelled in. Despite Trinity's stature, his student life revolved around drinking, partying, writing and painting. He became friends with Brendan Behan and the legendary Irish writer became the first person to read the completed script of The Ginger Man. Although The Ginger Man was banned in Ireland and expurgated in Britain and America it became a word-of-mouth success. But its publication plunged J P Donleavy into a legal battle that took 20 years to resolve. It was a legal struggle, though, that was worth fighting for - for the past 50 years it has never been out of print.[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]Favourite track: 2nd movement of Emperor Concerto by Ludwig van Beethoven Book: 1972 Social Registry of New York Luxury: His own long-handled spoon to make dressings.
Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the writer J P Donleavy. The author of a dozen novels as well as numerous plays and short stories, he remains best known for his first novel, The Ginger Man, which is widely regarded as a modern classic. Born in 1926 and raised in New York, J P Donleavy was the son of Irish immigrant parents. They told him little of Irish culture when he was growing up but, after the war, he moved to Dublin to take up a place at Trinity College. He was already a skilled boxer when he arrived in Ireland and found that street-fighting was almost a form of public entertainment in the city - and one which he excelled in. Despite Trinity's stature, his student life revolved around drinking, partying, writing and painting. He became friends with Brendan Behan and the legendary Irish writer became the first person to read the completed script of The Ginger Man. Although The Ginger Man was banned in Ireland and expurgated in Britain and America it became a word-of-mouth success. But its publication plunged J P Donleavy into a legal battle that took 20 years to resolve. It was a legal struggle, though, that was worth fighting for - for the past 50 years it has never been out of print. [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs] Favourite track: 2nd movement of Emperor Concerto by Ludwig van Beethoven Book: 1972 Social Registry of New York Luxury: His own long-handled spoon to make dressings.
Sue Lawley's castaway this week is the artist and illustrator Paul Hogarth. He has portrayed A Year in Provence for Peter Mayle, depicted Doris Lessing's Africa and captured Majorca with Robert Graves.Born into a working-class family, his parents disapproved of his two great loves - travel and drawing. In the face of their opposition, he won a scholarship to art school where he was drawn into radical politics, becoming a communist and abandoning both art and family to fight in Spain. A popular figure with writers, he could match Brendan Behan drink for drink, and survived a 30-year working relationship with Graham Greene. Now 80, he says he still has the urge to travel, and continues to draw on his rich and varied life. [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs] Favourite track: Far Horizons by Glyn Boyd Harte Book: Times Atlas of World History Luxury: Solar-powered Apple Mac
Sue Lawley's castaway this week is the artist and illustrator Paul Hogarth. He has portrayed A Year in Provence for Peter Mayle, depicted Doris Lessing's Africa and captured Majorca with Robert Graves. Born into a working-class family, his parents disapproved of his two great loves - travel and drawing. In the face of their opposition, he won a scholarship to art school where he was drawn into radical politics, becoming a communist and abandoning both art and family to fight in Spain. A popular figure with writers, he could match Brendan Behan drink for drink, and survived a 30-year working relationship with Graham Greene. Now 80, he says he still has the urge to travel, and continues to draw on his rich and varied life. [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs] Favourite track: Far Horizons by Glyn Boyd Harte Book: Times Atlas of World History Luxury: Solar-powered Apple Mac
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