On BBC Two shortly.. 9.25pm #kurtcobain #nirvana

Tonight we celebrate Amy 💘

Tune in at 9.40pm as BBC Four show her astonishing Other Voices performance from 2006.

You’ll also get another look at her in-depth interview where she shares her love of jazz, hip-hop, gospel and much, much more.

Simply Amy at her very best 🌹

10 years ago today, we gathered to sing in the Royal Albert Hall.

Big love to The South Wind Blows and Other Voices crew.

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New film THAT THEY MAY FACE THE RISING SUN is now on sale at QFT Belfast Screen Ireland Northern Ireland Screen Belfast Film Festival Queen's Film Theatre Break Out Pictures queensfilmtheatre.com/Whats-On/That-…

Oiche Mhaith
Coladh Sámh
Tabhair Aire
Sonas Oraibh

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I have had my fun if I don't get well no more

Please write my mother, tell her the shape I'm in
Please write my mother, tell her the shape I'm in
Tell her to pray for me, forgive me for my sins.

Lighten' Hopkins
Born March 15, 1912, Centerville, Texas,
Died: January 30, 1982

Stood on Dingle beach
And cast in wild foam we found Atlantic bass
Living on your western shore
Saw summer sunsets asked for more
I stood by your Atlantic sea
And sang a song for Ireland...
Dick Gaughan sings A Song For Ireland
written by Phil Colclough

Some say the heart is just like a wheel
When you bend it you can't mend it
But my love for you is like a sinking ship
And my heart is on that ship out in mid-ocean.
And it's only love and it's only love
That can wreck a human being and turn him inside out.

Anna McGarrigle 1975

Brilliant first UK review for HAGSTONE by Sinéad Gleeson in Observer New Review!

‘To what extent is solitude an act of resistance … and how can we better tune into our natural environments? For a novel so full of myth, Hagstone is wonderfully wise’

Out Thurs 4th Estate Books

'In winter 1964, in a house in Cúil Aodha, a raggle-taggle group of singers gathered in a small sitting room facing the keys of a modified Steck pianola.' Iarla Ó Lionard, next-- followed by amazing tape of his 10-year-old self singing Aisling Gheal #Ballyvourney #SeánÓRiada

Really beautiful words from Iarla O'Lionaird this morning on the radio on Sunday Miscellany. rte.ie/radio/radio1/s…

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'I was on the dole, living in a bedsit in Rathmines and three days out of seven I was literally penniless...' To close, Marina Carr recalls the support, kindness and encouragement of three men associated with
The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon: Tom MacIntyre, Phelim Donlon and Lar Cassidy RTÉ

Adrienne is coming this way !!
some exciting news to follow !!

My piece in today’s Sunday Times on Gaza.

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Stephen Walker Hugh Odling-Smee BBC Radio 4 What a magic listen indeed. Reminds one of what brilliant radio can do to elevate and evoke an experience better than TV or film can. Was transported x

Reason To Believe
How Can You Hang On To A Dream
Misty Roses
How Long
It'll Never Happen Again

Tim Hardin
1966.

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Thanks to Lorraine Courtney for this review of Hagstone (I’ll take all and any Margaret Atwood and Black Narcissus references), indobooks m.independent.ie/entertainment/…

A song is like a gift for me. A painting that you love, once you hand it to me, I will carefully trace it, and return the original back to you, forever carrying the traced image in my heart. In Tamil, the song cries the same cry:
Ganavya

Tonight on BBC Two ! 👀 🪩