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“Soul Clap its Hands and Sing”: Mary O’Malley & Tommy Keane
Thursday 30 April 2020
Almost two years ago on Thursday, 20 June 2018, poet Mary O’Malley and uilleann piper Tommy Keane took part in the live ITMA/Poetry Ireland series "Soul Clap Its Hands and Sing".
To celebrate Poetry Day Ireland 2020, Mary & Tommy have generously given permission to share the reading of 'Ixion Stopped Tony Mc Mahon Plays Raglan Road' and the playing of Fáinne Geal an Lae.
Poetry Day Ireland 2020 / Mary O'Malley, poet, and Tommy Keane, uilleann pipes
If Playing The Octopus is 'about' anything, it is how life takes hold of us, about the howls and screeches it squeezes out of us, the sweet or grieving music it plays on us and how much we call the tune or how often it is the tune that calls us. So there are poems that consider tunes, and what is worth keeping and celebrating in this republic of Ireland.
I work at an oblique angle to music.
Tommy Keane, uilleann piper / Tony Kearns, photographer
© Tony Kearns
An ITMA Field Recording of Tommy Keane playing a reel set ('The hornless cow' / 'Gorman's reel') at the pipers' Wednesday lunchtime recital, 2010 Willie Clancy Summer School.