howlsIt was a hugely enjoyable evening. I hadn’t really sussed that the excellent Sugar Club is the old Irish Film Theatre. I remember, as a schoolboy, the excitement when the new IFT programme arrived, and getting in on my student card to see so many classic films there, Jarmusch, Fassbinder, [...]
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I’m on a train, Italian, to Dublin, late. A phonecall – “can you speak on radio about Ginsberg and Howl? Tomorrow morning?”Erm, “I’m on a train. Then, a plane. I’ve no books. I’ll think of something.”
A man comes in. Multicoloured mother-baked jumper, matted hair, beads adorning a wrist or two, smells of subway piss, might [...]
Thursday January 5th sees avid Beat and Ginsberg enthusiast Tommy Tiernan read the epic poem. He will be joined by Theo Dorgan, Eamonn McCann, the legendary BP Fallon, Fergus Finlay, Tony Curtis, Dermod Moore and many more in readings from work by Ginsberg, along with personal thoughts and memories of Ginsberg and his visits [...]
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