The Patrick Kavanagh Celebration at the Palace Bar just gets better every year. Organiser PJ Brady from the Phoenix Dawn began the evening with his life-long learned stories about (and poems by) Kavanagh before giving the floor over to eMCee Desmond Swords. The best of Dublin’s performance poets and open-mic enthusiasts turned up and gave their all, to a packed house.
The night pushed on as late as it could possibly go, and with tight emceeing almost 50 poems by over 15 poets were recited in Kavanagh’s own, old haunt. Sleepy Rise and Sean Óg filled the breaks with cheerful trad music and this annual event is turning out to be one of Irish poetry’s not to be missed.
PJ Brady
Paddy Finnegan
Fintan O’Higgins
Margaret Biggs
Noel Sweeney
Orla Martin
Eamonn Lynskey
Gene Barry
Maria Ganovska
Patrick Boyle
Karl Parkinson
Ag gabháil cheoil
