{"id":44794,"date":"2022-07-29T16:22:49","date_gmt":"2022-07-29T15:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=44794"},"modified":"2022-07-29T16:22:49","modified_gmt":"2022-07-29T15:22:49","slug":"brendan-swan-remembers-ballymun-poet-pat-tierney-ceannt-tower-rhymers-club-and-book-launch-of-spring-song-at-the-mansion-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=44794","title":{"rendered":"Brendan Swan remembers Ballymun Poet Pat Tierney, Ceannt Tower Rhymers&#8217; Club and Book Launch of Spring Song at the Mansion House."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brendan Swan was a young child 30 years ago, living in Ceannt Tower, where his parents were part of the Tenants&#8217; Association and whose family were neighbours and close friends of ballymun Poet and Community Activist Pat Tierney.<\/p>\n<p>In 1991, Pat organised the book launch of Spring Song, a collection of poetry from the children from the Ceannt Tower Rhymers Club.<\/p>\n<p>Brendan speaks to NearFM&#8217;s John Connell about Pat and how his example and ideas nurtured poetry in Ballymun and inspired young children. <\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_8500\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/PodcastBrendanSwan.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('8500','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/PodcastBrendanSwan.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\/PodcastBrendanSwan.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=44794-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/PodcastBrendanSwan.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"PodcastBrendanSwan.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 22:33 &#8212; 31.0MB)<\/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>Brendan Swan was a young child 30 years ago, living in Ceannt Tower, where his parents were part of the Tenants&#8217; Association and whose family were neighbours and close friends of ballymun Poet and Community Activist Pat Tierney. In 1991, Pat organised the book launch of Spring Song, a collection of poetry from the children [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_8501\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/PodcastBrendanSwan.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('8501','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/PodcastBrendanSwan.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\/PodcastBrendanSwan.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=44794-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/PodcastBrendanSwan.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"PodcastBrendanSwan.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 22:33 &#8212; 31.0MB)<\/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":[1],"tags":[21546,21544,21545,21548,15560,1614,18268,21543,9862,21547],"class_list":["post-44794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ballymun-poet","tag-brendan-swan","tag-ceannt-tower","tag-childrens-poetry","tag-community-activist","tag-irish-language","tag-john-connell","tag-pat-tierney","tag-poetry-book","tag-spring-song"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44794","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=44794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44795,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44794\/revisions\/44795"}],"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=44794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}