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Updated / Wednesday, 10 Mar 2021
22:01
Joyce with a voice
Musicians including Adrian Crowley, Lisa Hannigan, and Cora Venus Lunny will perform new versions of James Joyce poems as part of this year s St. Patrick’s Festival, with a double vinyl album of their interpretations set to follow.
Lisa Hannigan. Photo: Cormac Scully
Making its first release on its own label, Ireland’s only Record Pressing Plant, Dublin Vinyl, will release the musical take on Joyce’s poetry book,
Pomes Penyeach, which was published in 1927 as thirteen short poems.
The album features Crowley (vocals, piano, acoustic guitar and mellotron), Hannigan (vocals), Matthew Nolan (electric guitar), Sean Mac Erlaine (reeds and electronics), Lunny (violin and viola) and Kevin Murphy (cello).
Éamon Sweeney
, January 16th, 2021 10:00
With the publication of Simon Young s authorised biography,
So Much for the 30 Year Plan, Eamon Sweeney looks back at the troubled career of Northern Ireland s Therapy?
David Holmes, whose home was pipe bombed when he was four years of age, calls the Troubles a lottery of death, where people died for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. In 1989, Holmes brought rave culture to Northern Ireland by putting on the first Sugarsweet night in Belfast. During that same year, a noise trio called Therapy? played their first gig.
So Much for the 30 Year Plan: Therapy? – The Authorised Biography by Simon Young chronicles how the band crawled out of a brutal and violent time, when the Troubles was still at a murderous fever pitch.