ICC Hammersmith

About ICC Hammersmith

Music, literature and radio shows from the Irish Cultural Centre in Hammersmith, London.

Publisher

Irish Cultural Centre

Category

arts

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

29 Jan 2021

Latest episode

2 Mar 2022

Latest episodes

23 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   2 Mar 2022

   Musical Voices & Stories: Richard Balls in conversation with Anne Flaherty

   MUSICAL VOICES AND STORIES Featuring a Novel, a Memoir and a Biography This 3-part series of interviews in which the worlds of music and literature intersect has been specially produced for ICC Digital. The highly successful singer-songwriter Declan O’Rourke will discuss his recent novel The Pawnbroker’s Reward which is set during the Famine; the renowned fiddler Martin Hayes will discuss his memoir, Shared Notes: A Musical Journey;  Richard Balls will discuss his biography of Shane McGowan, A Furious Devotion: The Life of Shane McGowan. Richard Balls, A Furious Devotion: The Life of Shane McGowan (Omnibus Press, 2021) The complete and extraordinary story of Shane McGowan, the Pogues’ notorious frontman, legendary drinker and Irish musical icon has never been told until now.  A Furious Devotion: The Life of Shane MacGowan vividly recounts the experiences that shaped one of the greatest songwriters of his generation: the formative trips to his mother's homestead in Tipperary, the explosion of punk which changed his life and the drink and drugs that nearly ended it. As well as exclusive interviews with Shane himself, author Richard Balls has secured contributions from his wife and family, and people who have never spoken publicly about Shane before: close associates, former girlfriends and the English teacher who first spotted his literary gift. Nick Cave, Aidan Gillen, Cillian Murphy, Christy Moore, Sinead O’Connor and Dermot O’Leary are on the roll call of those paying tribute to the gifted songwriter and poet. This frank and extensive biography also includes many previously unseen personal photographs. Richard Balls was a newspaper journalist for twenty years, almost half of which he spent in Ireland. He is an established writer and rock biographer, whose previous books are Sex & Drugs & Rock’n’Roll: The Life of Ian Dury (2011) and Be Stiff: The Stiff Records Story, (2014). Interviewer: Anne Flaherty A journalist born in London and growing up in County Clare, Anne has worked for The Irish Press in Dublin and  The Irish Times in Belfast as well as reporting from  Africa and Asia.  She is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin, and holds an MA in Anglo-Irish Writing from Queen’s University Belfast and an MA in Children’s Literature from the University of Surrey.

2. 

   23 Feb 2022

   Musical Voices & Stories: Martin Hayes in conversation with Anne Flaherty

   MUSICAL VOICES AND STORIES Featuring a Novel, a Memoir and a Biography This 3-part series of interviews in which the worlds of music and literature intersect has been specially produced for ICC Digital. The highly successful singer-songwriter Declan O’Rourke will discuss his recent novel The Pawnbroker’s Reward which is set during the Famine;  the renowned fiddler Martin Hayes will discuss his memoir, Shared Notes: A Musical Journey;  Richard Balls will discuss his  biography of Shane McGowan, A Furious Devotion: The Life of Shane McGowan. Martin Hayes, Shared Notes: A Musical Journey (Transworld, Ireland, 2021) Martin Hayes is a renowned fiddler from County Clare. He won his first of six All-Ireland Fiddle Championships at the age of 13. He has toured and recorded with guitarist Dennis Cahill for over twenty years, he is a founding member of the Irish-American band The Gloaming, and a member of The Martin Hayes Quartet and The Common Ground Ensemble. He has played with many of the greatest traditional Irish musicians of the past thirty years, as well as Sting, Paul Simon and Yo-Yo Ma. He has won TG4 Gradam Ceoil Musician of the Year and BBC Instrumentalist of the Year. He is widely regarded as one of the most significant talents in Irish traditional music. In his memoir Shared Notes Hayes traces the remarkable journey from his childhood on a farm in County Clare in a household steeped in musical tradition, to dropping out of college, working as an illegal immigrant in the States and ultimately to building a hugely successful musical career. Interviewer: Anne Flaherty A journalist born in London and growing up in County Clare, Anne has worked for The Irish Press in Dublin and  The Irish Times in Belfast as well as reporting from  Africa and Asia.  She is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin, and holds an MA in Anglo-Irish Writing from Queen’s University Belfast and an MA in Children’s Literature from the University of Surrey.

3. 

   16 Feb 2022

   Musical Voices & Stories: Declan O'Rourke in conversation with Anne Flaherty

   MUSICAL VOICES AND STORIES Featuring a Novel, a Memoir and a Biography This 3-part series of interviews in which the worlds of music and literature intersect has been specially produced for ICC Digital. The highly successful singer-songwriter Declan O’Rourke will discuss his recent novel The Pawnbroker’s Reward which is set during the Famine;  the renowned fiddler Martin Hayes will discuss his memoir, Shared Notes: A Musical Journey;  Richard Balls will discuss his  biography of Shane McGowan, A Furious Devotion: The Life of Shane McGowan. Declan O’Rourke, The Pawnbroker’s Reward (Gill Books, 2021) Declan O’Rourke is one of Ireland’ most popular and successful singer-songwriters.  His award-winning album, Chronicles of the Great Irish Famine, was released to critical acclaim in 2017. It illuminated an extraordinary series of eye-witness accounts, including the story of Pádraig and Cáit ua Buachalla. Four years on, in Declan’s meticulously researched literary debut, the story of the ua Buachalla family is woven into a powerful, multi-layered work showing us the famine as it happened through the lens of a single town – Macroom, Co. Cork – and its environs. Local pawnbroker Cornelius Creed is at the juncture between the classes. Sensitive and empathetic, he is a voice on behalf of the poor, and his story is entwined with that of Pádraig ua Buachalla. Through these characters – utilising local history and documentary evidence – Declan creates a kaleidoscopic view of this defining moment in Ireland’s history. Interviewer: Anne Flaherty A journalist born in London and growing up in County Clare, Anne has worked for The Irish Press in Dublin and  The Irish Times in Belfast as well as reporting from  Africa and Asia.  She is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin, and holds an MA in Anglo-Irish Writing from Queen’s University Belfast and an MA in Children’s Literature from the University of Surrey.