Nearfm have produced a ten part radio series reinterpreting the Dublin: One City One Book \u2018If Ever You Go: a Map of Dublin in Poetry and Song\u2019 edited by Pat Boran and Gerard Smyth. This series takes a unique look at the book from a northside Dublin perspective by focusing on the poems, poets and songs associated with Northside Dublin.<\/p>\n
The series features many well known poets reciting and being interviewed about the poems they have featured in the book including Paula Meehan, Theo Dorgan and Dermot Bolger as well as up and coming poets such as Colm Keegan, Jessica Traynor and Alan Jude Moore.<\/p>\n
Contributions also come from Poetry Ireland, Dedalus Press, Dublin City of Literature, Trinity College Dublin and St David\u2019s Boys National School in north Dublin. There are also well known ballads performed by Gerry Cooley, Vincent Smith and Stephen Heffernan.<\/p>\n
Poetry recital\u00a0contributions for the series were made by Mary McNamara and Michael Sharp from the Near Drama Company.<\/span><\/p>\n Programme 2 Podcast: Play in new window<\/a> | Download<\/a> (Duration: 27:10 — 37.3MB)<\/p>
\n– Flute Fixing In McNeils of Capel Street \u2013 Nessa O Mahony
\n– Rites of The Flesh \u2013 Biddy Jenkinson
\n– O\u2019Connell Street by Francis Ledwidge discussed by Philip Coleman TCD
\n– Voxpops with St Davids NBS, Artane, and member of the general public
\n– Monto \u2013sung by Stephen Heffernan<\/p>\n![\"Play\"](\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/powerpress\/playbutton-443.png\" "\\"Play\\"")
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