You were definitely MISSED at the Avant celebration, I assure you! Have a
wonderful visit to Dublin. They are lucky you'll be there. Take extra care
with those crutches. Sorry you have to experience that.
Bon voyage! Sheila
On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 1:52 PM, Séamas Cain <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Thank you Sheila!
>
> I will be hobbling about on crutches, but I hope to be there. (I had
> a big injection in my left-hip on Monday; doctors are trying to get me
> into better shape for moving about in Dublin.) I don't want to miss
> another important event this year, as I had to miss the Avant Writing
> Symposium!
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Séamas
>
> _______
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 3:45 PM, Sheila Murphy <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> > Séamas, WOW. This is really quite extraordinary. I wish I could be there
> to
> > experience this! Bravo! Very important. Sheila
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 1:41 PM, Séamas Cain <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> >
> >> _______________
> >>
> >>
> >> IMRAM, a national literary festival in Ireland, in association with
> >> the Dublin City Arts Centre and TíAitreo, will present "The Prairie
> >> Gaeltacht" by Séamas Cain. Performances will begin at 7:00 p.m. on
> >> Monday and Tuesday, September 20 and 21, 2010 at CITY ARTS, 15
> >> Bachelor’s Walk, Dublin 1, Ireland.
> >>
> >> Describing the script for The Prairie Gaeltacht, Liam Carson, director
> >> of the IMRAM Festival, said "poetic, beautiful, moving, simple,
> >> evocative. I'm really looking forward to experiencing the
> >> performance."
> >>
> >> And the Irish writer Gabriel Rosenstock described the script as "very
> >> moving."
> >>
> >>
> >>
> http://www.cityarts.ie/events/2010/09/20/-the-prairie-gaeltacht-gaeltacht-na-bhfarthailte/
> >>
> >>
> >> THE PRAIRIE GAELTACHT
> >>
> >> "I remember herds of buffalo on the prairie, beautiful Indian ponies
> >> ... the coyotes howling at dusk." So speaks one voice in Séamas
> >> Cain’s dramatic evocation of what he calls The Prairie Gaeltacht.
> >>
> >> Drawing on his own conversations with relatives, Séamas Cain’s
> >> narrative probes deep into family, land and language. Through their
> >> plain but poetic voices, history is relived. Here Irish settlers
> >> learn from Indians "where strawberries grew and which birds were most
> >> delicious to hunt." Here is Thomas Burke, kinsman of Edmund, fleeing
> >> to the Irish Colonies of Minnesota in 1878. We are brought from the
> >> time of the wagon trains to the day electricity arrived in the village
> >> of Murdock in 1922. Along the way we hear stories of the Molly
> >> Maguires, the communitarian Connemaras and their vision of creating a
> >> Gaelic socialist utopia on the prairies of western Minnesota; of
> >> fiddlers and harmonica players at dances; of droughts, crop failures,
> >> snowstorms, and swarms of locusts.
> >>
> >> The Prairie Gaeltacht is an extraordinary bi-lingual journey into a
> >> haunting past. Actors from TíAitreo will re-create in Irish the words
> >> and stories of Séamas Cain’s grandparents and their cousins and
> >> friends, whilst Cain himself will narrate in English.
> >>
> >> A unique insight into an almost forgotten history, The Prairie
> >> Gaeltacht is a deeply personal odyssey from one of America’s most
> >> radical and inventive of poets.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> http://www.cityarts.ie/events/2010/09/20/-the-prairie-gaeltacht-gaeltacht-na-bhfarthailte/
> >>
> >> _______________
> >>
> >>
> >> Séamas Cain
> >> http://www.saorsainn.net
> >> http://alazanto.org/seamascain
> >> http://seamascain-writernetwork.org
> >>
> >
>
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