Songs from Simon Ó Faoláin
<p style="text-align: center;line-height: 28px">Simon Ó Faoláin, a noted sean-nós singer and one of the Festival Curators, ends the day’s programme with a number of songs.</p> <b>10.45pm</b>
Songs from Simon Ó Faoláin
<p style="text-align: center;line-height: 28px">Simon Ó Faoláin, a noted sean-nós singer and one of the Festival Curators, ends the day’s programme with a number of songs.</p> <b>10.45pm</b>
Alan Titley & David Kinloch
<p style="text-align: center;line-height: 28px">Alan Titley gives a deeply-considered, powerful reading on a range of socially-engaged issues. </p> <p style="text-align: center"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-11846" src="https://crosswaysfestival.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/grape30x15.png" alt="" width="30" height="15" /></p> <p style="text-align: center;line-height: 28px">David Kinloch ranges across Paris, Scots, loneliness, gay difference,
Biddy Jenkinson & Maoilios Caimbeul
<p style="text-align: center;line-height: 28px">Biddy Jenkinson’s reading shows her at her best, with her typical brilliance, irreverence and <em>joi de vivre</em>.</p> <p style="text-align: center"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-11846" src="https://crosswaysfestival.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/grape30x15.png" alt="" width="30" height="15" /></p> <p style="text-align: center;line-height: 28px">Gently questioning, the Skye poet, Maoilios
Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill & Aonghas Dubh MacNeacail
<p style="text-align: center;line-height: 28px">Nuala Ní Dhómhnaill takes us on a whistle-stop tour of her internationally acclaimed poetic career, reading some of her most celebrated works. </p> <p style="text-align: center"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-11846" src="https://crosswaysfestival.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/grape30x15.png" alt="" width="30" height="15" /></p> <p style="text-align: center; line-height:
Áine Uí Fhoghlú & Iain Mac a’ Phearsain
<p style="text-align: center;line-height: 28px">Áine Uí Fhoghlú reads poems skewering social injustices, as well as taking a humourous look the dangers of speaking Irish to our monolingual civil service. </p> <p style="text-align: center"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-11846" src="https://crosswaysfestival.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/grape30x15.png" alt="" width="30" height="15" /></p> <p
Philip Cummings & Pàdraig MacAoidh
<p style="text-align: center;line-height: 28px">Philip Cummings shares his biting insight and world-weary wit in a memorable reading. </p> <p style="text-align: center"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-11846" src="https://crosswaysfestival.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/grape30x15.png" alt="" width="30" height="15" /></p> <p style="text-align: center;line-height: 28px">Pàdraig MacAoidh’s impressionistic, allusive poetry works out the hurts
Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh & Catriona Lexy Chaimbeul
<p style="text-align: center;line-height: 28px">Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh considers the impact of motherhood and aspects of language. </p> <p style="text-align: center"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-11846" src="https://crosswaysfestival.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/grape30x15.png" alt="" width="30" height="15" /></p> <p style="text-align: center;line-height: 28px">The novelist, Catrìona Lexy Campbell, reads from <em>Samhraidhean Dìomhair (Secret
Jessica Traynor & Andrew O’Hagan
<p style="text-align: center;line-height: 28px">Jessica Traynor moves seamlessly through a series of poems registering both the local and global: Dublin rivers, histories of the Irish State, and family life; ecological calamity and the migrant crisis; national nostalgia and corrupt privilege;
Peter Sirr & Robert Alan Jamieson
<p style="text-align: center;line-height: 28px">With work of rich metaphorical and writerly reach, Peter Sirr offers rare and multifarious insights across a variety of contexts: a hymn to bookshops and reading; a whale’s afterlife; atmospherics of a Covid summer; the