{"id":40689,"date":"2021-08-06T19:55:07","date_gmt":"2021-08-06T18:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=40689"},"modified":"2021-08-06T19:55:07","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T18:55:07","slug":"michael-connaughton-talks-about-painting-watercolour-art-music-and-some-poems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=40689","title":{"rendered":"Michael Connaughton talks about painting watercolour art, music and some poems."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Connaughton is a poet and a creative presence living in Howth Village.<\/p>\n<p>Michael is very active in the literary culture of North Dublin. Michael is a go-to person in the community network of writers and artists that look for an outlet for their work in the many poetry readings, art exhibitions and self publishing projects that Michael has pioneered throughout the years\u00a0 .<\/p>\n<p>John Connell asked Michael to talk about his creative way of painting watercolours, both abstract and still life.<\/p>\n<p>He also plays piano and in this podcast showcases three original piano pieces as well as reciting some of his poetry.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_4510\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/PodcastForMichaelConnaughton.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('4510','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/PodcastForMichaelConnaughton.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/powerpress\/playbutton-443.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/PodcastForMichaelConnaughton.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=40689-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/PodcastForMichaelConnaughton.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"PodcastForMichaelConnaughton.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 25:58 &#8212; 35.7MB)<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Connaughton is a poet and a creative presence living in Howth Village. Michael is very active in the literary culture of North Dublin. Michael is a go-to person in the community network of writers and artists that look for an outlet for their work in the many poetry readings, art exhibitions and self publishing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_4511\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/PodcastForMichaelConnaughton.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('4511','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/PodcastForMichaelConnaughton.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/powerpress\/playbutton-443.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/PodcastForMichaelConnaughton.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=40689-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/PodcastForMichaelConnaughton.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"PodcastForMichaelConnaughton.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 25:58 &#8212; 35.7MB)<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53656,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-2","category-listenagain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40689"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40691,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40689\/revisions\/40691"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/53656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}