IN THE SMOKE (Patrick McCabe & Timothy O'Grady): A Night Of Words, Music, Song & Images

ICC Proudly Presents The World Premiere Of ‘I Could Read the Sky – Poguemahone’: A Night Of Words, Music, Song and Images           

Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Publication of Timothy O’Grady’s Acclaimed Book “I Could Read The Sky”, Featuring The Photographs Of Steve Pyke. Also Celebrating the Publication of Patrick McCabe’s New Book, “Poguemahone”  

Timothy O’Grady & Patrick McCabe will be joined by Three of Ireland’s Greatest Traditional Musicians: Michael McGoldrick, Dezi Donnelly and Cathy Jordan. Plus Singer-Songwriter, Minstrel, Whistler, Larry Beau.

Writers Patrick McCabe and Timothy O’Grady go on the road with this music / spoken word event based on their novels Poguemanhone and I Could Read the Sky with some of Ireland’s top musicians, Michael McGoldrick, Dezi Donnelly, Cathy Jordan and Larry Beau.

Memory swings, drifts, soars, lies, weeps, haunts, embellishes, laughs, sings and dances. Few things stir memory quite like emigration. Memories of lost land, people, events. Memories of the new place’s challenges. Poguemahone and I Could Read the Sky, published twenty-five years apart, unite in their renderings of the acts of an emigrant’s memory. Memories of pig killing, kitchen dances, London squats, ghosts, fairground boxing, psychedelia, Soho drinking clubs, trenches, leaps from windows and music both melancholy and ecstatic.

Both writers have toured Ireland and Britain with unique music-spoken word events and now they come together for the first time in this show featuring some of the most authentic and innovative musical talents from Ireland.

This show will be a lament and a celebration of the history of the Irish in London…

McCabe & O’Grady will do a Book-Signing following the event.