{"id":15,"date":"2007-05-14T07:44:48","date_gmt":"2007-05-14T06:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/?p=15"},"modified":"2007-05-29T09:59:39","modified_gmt":"2007-05-29T08:59:39","slug":"all-ireland-poetry-slam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/all-ireland-poetry-slam\/","title":{"rendered":"All-Ireland Poetry Slam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"silver\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"140\" height=\"105\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/mchughspub.jpg\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p><i><strong>First All-Ireland Poetry Slam team announced<\/strong><\/i><\/p>\n<p>On Friday the 11th of May 2007, history was made as 2 regional winners from each province sized up their compositions at McHugh&#8217;s pub in Belfast, the oldest building in the city. The eight poets had only 2 minutes and 15 seconds to perform each of their pieces in rounds one and two. Then four went through to the final round; Gerard McKeown (Ulster), Colin McKeown (Ulster &#8211; unrelated), Noel Sweeney (Leinster) and Brendan Murphy (Connaught).<\/p>\n<p>The excellent organising from Mark Madden (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.creativewritersnetwork.org\/cwnhome.htm\" target=\"blank\">Creative Writer&#8217;s Network<\/a>) and dazzling MC work from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/chloepoemsmusic\" target=\"blank\">Chloe Poems<\/a> made this a truly great event, and benchmarks the beginning of many to come. The intention is for the annual event to alternate throughout the four provinces.<\/p>\n<p>First and second places went to Brendan Murphy and Gerard McKeown, who now represent the Irish team. They&#8217;ll be up against the Welsh, English and Scottish at the BBC Radio Four Slam Championships in July.<\/p>\n<p>Videos of the performances can be viewed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/?page_id=18\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First All-Ireland Poetry Slam team announced On Friday the 11th of May 2007, history was made as 2 regional winners from each province sized up their compositions at McHugh&#8217;s pub in Belfast, the oldest building in the city. The eight poets had only 2 minutes and 15 seconds to perform each of their pieces in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-events-and-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}