SET aside your evening of Saturday May 26 for a bohemian get together at Belltable for Limerick Writers Centre. The wine reception will magnetise at 8pm, moving on to 8.30pm sit-down for entertainment of a stimulating kind. A theme of identity is invoked by the various elements, first by writer/ lecturer Gerard Hanberry’s slide show and talk on Oscar Wilde. A year ago the Galway based Hanberry brought out his book ‘More Lives Than One: the Remarkable Wilde Family through the Generations’, through Collins Press.
According to LWC’s organiser, Dominic Taylor: “This fresh narrative, which includes new insights on Oscar’s time in prison, has recently discovered information on his brother Sir William’s cover-up of his illegitimate daughters’ deaths in Monaghan”.
Expect a glimpse at various Wildes and generations, unfolding “against a background of a country torn apart by rebellion and famine”.
Part two of Saturday 26’s event “will concern poetry, music and performance,” Taylor continues. “The Galway poet Fred Johnston, who does a lot work with us, will read from his work in French and English, accompanied by the violinist Charlene Donabédian. Some traditional tunes next and two performance poetry pieces, with Shaun Leonard’s concentrating on how we define ourselves as Irish.
“Fergus Costello won this year’s Eigse prize for performance poetry and made last year’s national poetry slam finals. He is excellent and over the entire evening, we hope to offer people a good night our”.
A modest tenner at the door goes to the not-for-profit Limerick Writers’ Centre.
