Cormac Fitzgerald
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With blazing sods of turf in their hands, the Wren Boys marched through Listowel (opens the original)
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In this series, journalist and spoken word artist Cormac Fitzgerald travels to a different town or suburb each week to write about the gigs and cultural experiences you rarely see covered by Irish media outlets. This week’s subject: Watching the Wren Boys at the Harvest Festival in Listowel, County Kerry. DECKED OUT IN colourful jackets, vests, hats and other regalia, and lit by blazing sods of turf stuck to the end of pikes, the Brosna Wren Boys made their way down Church Street in Listowel las
Deals with the devil and an escape artist cat: Among the storytellers on a small Irish island (opens the original)
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In this series, journalist and spoken word artist Cormac Fitzgerald travels to a different corner of the country each week to write about the gigs, cultural experiences and pastimes you rarely see covered by Irish media outlets. This week’s subject: Among the storytellers on a small island off West Cork. IT WAS A dark, wet Saturday afternoon on Cape Clear Island, the rain coming in misty off the Atlantic, as people piled into Ciarán Danny Mike’s pub. There was standing room only, and hardly any
A black bra thrown onstage and Hold Me Now four times as Johnny Logan belts it out for Bohs (opens the original)
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In this series, journalist and spoken word artist Cormac Fitzgerald travels to a different town or suburb each week to cover the gigs and cultural experiences you rarely see covered by Irish media outlets. This week’s subject: Johnny Logan at Dalymount Park. EUROVISION LEGEND JOHNNY Logan emerged onto the stage at Dalymount at exactly the appointed time of 8.30pm and launched right into his 90-minute set. A smouldering sunset had just disappeared over the western rooftops of Phibsboro, and a dec
Circus family's terrifying ordeal of convoy being struck by wrong-way driver (opens the original)
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ONE OF IRELAND’s oldest family circuses has spoken about their fear and concern after they were involved in a collision in Mayo last month when a car drove on the wrong side of the road towards them. Tom Duffy’s Circus, run by the Duffy family for decades, was travelling from Ballina in Mayo to Maynooth in their convoy on Sunday night, 16 August, when the incident occurred. News of the fatal M9 crash that killed five teenagers and left four members of another family with serious injuries had bro
Why nostalgia can be 'a bit like snorting Pop Rocks': Sharing memories of 1980s Dublin (opens the original)
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In this series, journalist and spoken word artist Cormac Fitzgerald travels to a different town or suburb each week to write about the gigs and cultural experiences you rarely see covered by Irish media outlets. This week’s subject: Reminiscing about the 1980s at The Teachers’ Club. “THE PAST IS a foreign country. They do things differently there.” So states the iconic opening line of L.P. Hartley’s 1953 novel, The Go-Between. I was thinking of this as I sat in one of the rooms in The Teachers’
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