Buile Shuibhne: Sweeney's Madness: Cork World Book Fest 2025

Triskel Arts Centre, Tobin St.

Sat 26 Apr 2025 (note: this event has already taken place)
8:30pm
€5



Experience – for the first time in Cork – the multi-media staging of multi-media staging of Sweeney’s Madness featuring modern Irish and Scottish Gaelic versions by poet Rody Gorman; with live music by composer Seán MacErlaine and singer Diane Ni Channáin; and screen projections by artist Margaret Lonergan.

Rody Gorman’s multilingual version of Buile Shuibhne (in Irish, English, Scottish and Manx Gaelic) is acclaimed by Robert Mcfarlane as ‘an utterly extraordinary work’.

Gorman’s Sweeney: An Intertonguing is a multilingual journey like none other – with poems in modern Irish and Scottish Gaelic, as well as English prose versions that burst with startling composite words charged with the homonyms and synonyms of the original Irish. It is an ocean of gorgeous lyric poems, delicate songs and tidal litanies in modern Irish, Scottish Gaelic and English.

Rody Gorman was born in Dublin in 1960 and lives in the Isle of Skye. He works as a writer, an editor, a translator and a lecturer. He has published collections of poetry in English, Irish

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Venue Info


Triskel Arts Centre

Tobin Street, Cork (off South Main Street)
+353 (021) 4272022

www.triskelartscentre.ie

    



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