This week Niall chooses five pieces played by the cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason.
11:00 -TAKING FLIGHT
Taking Flight is a series of radio essays celebrating the work and continued influence of the poet Patrick Kavanagh. It was commissioned by The Patrick Kavanagh Centre with the support of Monaghan County Council and Creative Ireland. Participants in this series include writers, a filmmaker and poet. These creative responses to Kavanagh’s work illustrate the significance of the poet in our culture and the potency of his own work as a source of continued artistic exploration. Kavanagh once remarked that his more successful works achieved ‘weightlessness’, ‘that I had become airborne and more’. This series celebrates Kavanagh’s brilliance and his encouragement to successive generations of artists and thinkers to achieve weightlessness and take flight.
Episode 2 ‘Gulder, foosey, splinc & crig: Kavanagh’s Lost Language’ – by Manchán Magan
A patchwork of linguistic influences surrounded Patrick Kavanagh growing up in rural Monaghan, from Elizabethan English to Gaelic Irish, and Ulster Scots. Manchán Magan explores the visible and invisible impact these had on Kavanagh’s poetry.
Narrated & Written by Manchán Magan
Producers: Eithne Hand and The Patrick Kavanagh Centre
Contributors: Brian Mac An Bhaird & Gretta Kieran
Sound Editing: Eithne Hand
Producer for RTÉ lyric fm: Eoin O Kelly
Patrick Kavanagh’s original works reproduced with kind permission of the Trustees of the Estate of the late Katherine B. Kavanagh, through the Jonathan Williams Literary Agency
This project is funded by Monaghan County Council & Creative Ireland. The broadcast partner is RTÉ lyric fm
RTÉ lyric fm, Friday 15th October, 10am-1pm