A Place of Pointed Stones
When the town of Banagher in County Offaly decided it wanted its story told, instead of turning to a historian or academic they commissioned the poet Jessica Traynor. In A Place of Pointed Stones, Jessica explores the history and folklore of Banagher, meets some of the locals, and we hear new poems and a new song inspired by her research.
Local historian James Scully takes her around, showing her the bridge over the Shannon, the local Martello tower, the hidden graveyard, and locations associated with the town’s literary connections with Anthony Trollope and Charlotte Brontë. He also presents her with two possible versions of the origin of the saying ‘That beats Banagher and Banagher beats the devil’.
A Rockfinch production for RTÉ lyric fm co-funded by RTÉ Independent Radio Productions and Coimisiún na Meán.
Producer: Claire Cunningham
Sound mix by Tinpot Productions
Series producer: Eoin O Kelly
RTÉ lyric fm, Sunday 15th October, 6pm-7pm
