Well Padraig, so is Monasterarden Fancy...
in fact, we fancy going there this year with it being in Sligo and all...
in fact, we fancy going there this year with it being in Sligo and all...
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So it is, Global. We both better get the spelling right or, in your case, you won't be able to find it.Comment
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I tracked down this 2017 film about the life of Joe Heaney. You have to jump through a few hoops, register with the BFI, pay yr dough (3.50) then eventually you get to see it. in another window.Originally posted by Globaltruth View Post
It is worth it.
This is an impressionistic piece of work, shot in tones of grey and white, attempting to capture the complex personality of Joe Heaney (the effect of some of the suprising decisions he took) and featuring some fine Sean-nós performances along the way, plus attempts to capture the sense of place which is vital to the understanding of this work.
Did we ever discuss it here in 2017 when it came out? I don't remember. We should have. The actors chosen to play Joe in the 3 stages of his life (Colm Seoighe, Michael O'Chonfhlaola, Macdara Ó Fátharta) are excellent in many ways. The odd mix actually works well and avoids the hackneyed linear approach to bio film making. Surprise - Lisa O'Neill sings this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGA6YGnoDww
Here's the blurb:
Anyone else seen it?
Blending ‘fictional’ re-creation, archive footage and musical performance, Pat Collins’ formally inventive, engagingly impressionistic film about Irish folk singer Joe Heaney is no conventional biopic. Like Collins’ acclaimed Silence, Song of Granite is both audacious and perfectly accessible as it chronicles Heaney’s life from boyhood in 1940s Connemara, through urban hardship as a labourer in Britain, to fame and further exile in North America, from the mid-1960s to his death.
More interested in questions of Irish identity and cultural legacy (the sparse dialogue is largely in Gaelic) than in biographical detail, Collins tends to avoid linear drama; once Joe leaves his native village, the narrative itself begins to fragment, as if mirroring his divided sense of self. Yet this tender but unsentimental film remains wholly coherent, thanks partly to the marvellous monochrome camerawork, partly to the music: unaccompanied, old as stone, authentically heartfelt. *Please note: No English subtitles are included for the Irish-language songs in the film (including in the Closed Captions), although spoken dialogue is translated. This is an intentional decision by the filmmakers, in order that viewers are not distracted from the songs and their performances.*
The DVD is a tenner
Good old Topic records once again the only record label interested in recording him.Last edited by Globaltruth; 03-02-19, 15:14.Comment
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An interesting project, G. I always enjoyed Joe Heaney's singing, though he seems to have left his usual track with The Galway Shawl?
Here's Tommy Makem with a variation of an old song. If you have not heard this before (some hope) you're in for a laugh. Even if you have - and I have a good few times - you might manage a slight grin.
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John, a very friendly between Scotland and Ireland, where both traditions win. Julie Fowlis and Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh in lovely form.
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'Dance to Your Daddy - Cucanady-Nandy - What Would You Do?' by Elizabeth Cronin
and a happy International Women's Irish Friday to one and all!Comment
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And so say I, John.
I don't know Elizabeth Cronin, but her voice reminds me of voices I have long heard and ignored through childishness, or bad manners or just plain ignorance. I think it was my grandmother, or one of her circle, who used to sing old songs to my acute embarrassment and, I know now, to my lasting disadvantage.
I can hear in Elizabeth's voice her difficulty with breathing, but there's not much wrong otherwise. I notice she used the old di-diddle-di to finish, though the lilt was always present. What she must have been in her prime!
I'll follow up later with a lovely sean nos song by Roisin Elsafty, for Women's Day.Comment
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bong chingComment
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Funny you should say that, Padraig. She was reminding me of my Grannie who used to occasionally give us a wee song, from what I could recall from so long ago. I heard Elizabeth Cronin on a programme by Fife singer/songwriter James Yorkston. She was singing the 'Good Ship Kangaroo' and I really enjoyed it - couldn't see it on youtube but saw that insteadOriginally posted by Padraig View Post
...and glorious it was!Originally posted by Padraig View PostComment
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Bit of Irish punk for an Irish Friday - 'Big'by Fontaines DC - just to get me worked up for a Friday.
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BBC4 is having an Irish night tonight, what with St Padraig's Day in the offing. Among the programmes is one about Christy Moore, and another where Ardal O'Hanlon, he of the Father Dougall, introduces a programme about Irish Showbands called 'Showbands: How Ireland learned to Party'. I thought they always knew how to party, but perhaps I'll learn more here.
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I'll be having a look, John, but all I'll say at this stage is: "That lad in your punk link is wearing my sweater."Comment
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Well I flipping love that JC...not only because it includes a shot of F X Buckley’s earlier on, where I used to dine with my friend Jim as a treat from time to time, because the young feller is clearly an embodiment of Padraig (style and charisma in abundance) because it’s a dead straight banging toon.Originally posted by johncorrigan View PostComment
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