Irish Performance Poet Mac Lochlainn in Kansas City, MO

On Friday, August 29, 2008 Irish performance poet and musician, Belfast’s Gearóid Mac Lochlainn, reads at the Writers Place in midtown Kansas City, Missouri, and before that at UMKC during lunchtime.

I think you might like Gearóid and the noises he makes, even if you don’t have any Irish (language not ancestors).

Mac Lochlainn has published several books of poetry as Gaeilge and an award winning collection in English translation, Stream Of Tongues which you can purchase here.

At Queens University, Belfast he’s been writer in residence and he’s also taught Irish language poetry in the University of Ulster.

Gearóid has also published Rakish Paddy Blues, a collection of poems from Mac Lochlainn and paintings from J.B. Vallely inspired by the travelling musicians of Ireland. It’s a collection much loved by Irish musicians for its musical rhythms.

On Friday, August 29, 2008 from 12:30pm - 2:00pm at UMKC Gearóid discusses his work in a program entitled Teaching Across Cultures. The event takes place in the UMKC Faculty Center for Excellence in Teaching (FaCET) located in Miller Nichols Library, Room MNL 122.

The Writers’ Place is located 3607 Pennsylvania, on the corner with Valentine just in behind the Uptown Theatre. It’s one of my favourite places in Kansas City.

Gearóid starts reading at 8pm that Labor Day weekend Friday. If you want more information you can always call the Writers Place at (816) 753 1090

You can watch Mac Lochlainn read/perform Teanga Eile/Second Tongue on RTE’s arts programme The View HERE. He’s introduced by John Kelly. The bits you don’t understand are in Irish. Unless you can’t understand his accent in which case they might be in English.

This event is posted on the Kansas City Irish Events calendar.

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