Claddagh Records, President Michael D Higgins And A Surprise Poem At Electric Picnic

The President of ireland has a spoken word albumLet us do that one more time for you.The President of Ireland has a spoken word album. What a sentence, and you know what, it’s a brilliant piece of work. We discuss the release with chairman of Claddagh Records James Morrissey about the release, spoken word in Ireland and how the project came to be. If you were at the live podcast of Keep It Light with Deidre O’Kane and Emma Doran at Electric Picnic, you’d have also heard the presidents voice. Well, it was a good impression at least by Lee Sheridan who took to the stage after the conversation between the comedians turned to poetry and that no one can recite a poem off the cuff…or so they thought We also catch up on our own EP weekend, share the bad poems we forced festival goers to write for us and wrap up the show with Luke Clerkin who was brilliant in his set on the Sunday. Thanks to all our new followers after James Mooney took one of Ryan’s poems and turned it into something special last week. Stick around and get some poems into ya!Ryan and LeonSupport the showOriginal music by Matthew Keating Artwork by Paddy DowneyIntroduction by Lisa DowneyProduced by Ryan Duggins