Among the Heather Rocks
Poet Annemarie Ní Churreáin goes back to the Donegal Gaeltacht, where she grew up, and explores the folklore and history, landscape, language and personal experiences that all influenced her poetry. This is the first of two programmes for Seachtain na Gaeilge in which bilingual Irish poets reflect on working and living in both Irish and English.
She meets historian Brian Lacey to hear more about the local myth of Balor and the Poison Glen, talks with Lucy Ní hAodhagáin of Wild Awake about reconnecting with nature and our past, views workhouse documents with Donegal County Archivist Niamh Brennan, and takes part in Ireland’s only Irish-language Pride parade, Bród na Gaeltachta, before speaking with its founder, Pól Penrose. Throughout the programme we hear poems by Annemarie from her collections Bloodroot (Doire Press), The Poison Glen (The Gallery Press) and Ghostgirl, published as part of the Donegal Decade of Centenaries programme.
Music in the opening sequence of the programme, Difference in Clouds, was composed by Michael Gallen and performed by the Prima Quartet.
Produced by Claire Cunningham
A Rockfinch Production for RTÉ lyric fm.
A Rockfinch Production for RTÉ lyric fm supported by Coimisiún na Meán’s Sound and Vision broadcasting funding and RTÉ Independent Radio Productions.
RTÉ lyric fm, Sunday 9th March, 6pm-7pm
