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“Soul Clap its Hands and Sing”: Mary O’Malley & Tommy Keane
Monday 25 June 2018
On Thursday, 20 June 2018 at 7pm, poet Mary O’Malley and uilleann piper Tommy Keane are taking the stage in Poetry Ireland to explore the oblique angles and intersections between words, sounds, and people. Discover what's in store through examples of Mary and Tommy's poetry and music.
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.