On the final programme in the series –
Book
Kevin Barry – this year’s IMPAC award winner for his novel, City of Bohane – talks to John Kelly about editing the fourth Faber collection of New Irish Short Stories. Selected writers such as Paul Murray and Molly McCloskey read from their stories.
Music
One of the undoubted hits of 2009, The Duckworth Lewis Method was the first album to combine the talents of Neil Hannon (The Divine Comedy) and Thomas Walsh (Pugwash). Now they’re back with Sticky Wickets, a second album in the cricket pop genre! They play the current single, It’s Just Not Cricket, on The Works.
Art
Kevin Gildea explores the creative connections between art and cinema in the new exhibition, Cloud Illusions I Recall, at IMMA, featuring an impressive line-up of artists including James Coleman, Peter Doig, Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, Cindy Sherman, Andrey Tarkovsky.
Film review
Journalists Sophie Gorman and Philip Watson review Stories We Tell, a documentary by Canadian director Sarah Polley (best known for the feature film, Away From Her, starring Julie Christie). Here Polley turns the camera on her own family and family friends to piece together the intriguing story of her mother Diane’s life, a woman who died from cancer while Sarah was still a child.
Dance
Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre perform the Irish premiere of their Stravinsky double bill – The Rite of Spring and Petrushka – at the Galway Arts Festival in July. Artistic director Michael Keegan-Dolan talks to the Works about the new work.