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Updated / Friday, 16 Apr 2021 16:53 Come, Come, Let the Blazing Truth Blind (clockwise, from left): Annemarie Ní Churreáin, Kimberly Campanello, Caelainn Hogan, Connie Roberts, Vicky Langan and Jess Kavanagh In a poem titled 'Inheritance' from her 2015 collection Little Witness, poet Connie Roberts responded to the Poor Clare Orphanage Fire of 1943: "…I won’t sing/ of winged angels and burnished gold;/ I won’t tell it slant – come, let the blazing truth blind". On Saturday 17 April, a host of Irish writers and performers will participate in a public zoom event drawing attention to...

Rebel Matters: Cork-made podcast covers all sorts of bases for Ainle Ó Cairealláin From his podcast and alternative gym on Leeside, to organising gigs, Irish-language activism and fundraising for Palestine, Ainle Ó Cairealláin has been a busy man on numerous fronts. Unfortunately, the past year has also been marked by personal tragedy  Ainle Ó Cairealláin, host of the Rebel Matters podcast.  Wed, 10 Feb, 2021 - 05:00 Ellie O’Byrne While podcasts suddenly seem to springing up from every corner, Ainle Ó Cairealláin can consider himself a veteran of the format. The Cork-based Belfas...

The latest in the hugely popular 'Rebel Matters' series of podcasts, featuring musician and self-confessed "weirdo" Ian Lynch, is now available for download. Many people will know Lynch as the singer and uilleann piper with acclaimed folk group Lankum and more recently through his own monthly podcast 'Fire Draw Near', which delves into Irish trad music and song and all of its myriad forms. In the podcast Lynch opens up to presenter Ainle Ó Cairealláin about an unseen aspect of being in a regularly gigging band, giving people a sense of the havoc that a heavy touring schedule can wreak on th...

Radie Peat and Katie Kim to collaborate for Nollaig na mBan Updated / Thursday, 10 Dec 2020 12:00 Radie and Katie. Photographed by Bríd O'Donovan for Quiet Lights Radie Peat of Lankum and fellow musician and friend Katie Kim are set to collaborate on an audio/visual streaming event to celebrate Nollaig Na mBan on January 6th. The live stream takes pace on Wednesday, January 6th, 2021 at 8.00pm and limited tickets are now on sale Together with drummer/singer Eleanor Myler (Percolator), sonic wizard John Spud Murphy (producer of RTÉ Choice Music Prize award winning album The Livelong Day ...