‘Prodigals and Geniuses’ in print
ABBEYFEALE born Brendan Lynch’s latest book is a celebration of the notional ‘Baggotonia’ quarter of Dublin which has been the realm of writers, painters and actors. Dublin is, after all, a UNESCO City of Literature. Liffey Press has published Lynch’s ‘Prodigals and Geniuses’, with its comment and stories told of those who lived in the “unmapped village, centred on Baggot and Leeson Streets and girdled by the Grand Canal”.
The Limerick man has based his book on interviews and contemporary accounts of greats such as Francis Baacon, Mainie Jellett, Camille Souter, Yeats, Kavanagh, Frank O’Connor, O’Flatherty, Lavin. Banville, Binchy and Colm Tóibín came later. There are stories of resonant events such as the prosecution of The Pike Theatre for alleged indecency in the staging of ‘The Rose Tattoo’ play in 1954.
Voices of Limerick’s Children
THE choir at Redemptorist Church at Mt St Alphonsus is again host to Voices of Limerick in a major charity fundraiser on Friday November 11. The 7.30pm concert is in aid of The Blue Box creative learning centre for children and their families, located at LEDP in Roxboro.
Redemptorist Church Choir and Voices of Limerick will be joined by three other altruistic bodies: St Philomena’s Preparatory School Choir, Our Lady Queen of Peace School Choir and Irish Youth Harp Orchestra. Family and sole tickets are selling at The Redemptorist Shop at the top of Henry Street.
‘The Pushcart Peddlers’
TORCH Players returns to Loft Venue at The Locke Bar for three nights with two American comedies. ‘The Puschcart Peddlers’ by Murray Schisgal and ‘Bobby Gould in Hell’ by David Mamet will run back to back from 8.00pm, Tuesday November 15 to Thursday 17.
A naive female being duped by a business shark forms the premise of the Schisgal play directed by Maurice O’Sullivan. Majella Sutton, Sheena Murphy and Mary Harvey play out the triangle.
Pius McGrath directs Peter Hayes, Jeanne O’Connor, Aine O’Connell and Zeb Moore in ‘Bobby Gould in Hell’, a place where Bobby annoys the lights out of The Interrogator.
