Éigse agus Eacnamaíocht

Oíche Dé Máirt 3 Márta, tháinig slua mór de lucht éigse na tíre le chéile sa Seomra Caidrimh Coláiste Phádraig, Droim, Conrach le páirt a ghlacadh i Siompóisiam ar an ábhar ‘Éigse agus Eacnamaíocht/ Poetry and Politics’, a d’eagraigh an file Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, atá ag obair mar Scríbhneoir Cónaithe sa Choláiste faoi láthair.                  

Nuala, who is currently Writer-in-Residence in the College, introduced the writers and invited them to offer their reflections on the role of the arts and the artist in coming to terms with contemporary global crises. What followed was a wonderfully diverse feast of poetry and prose, in which political, economic, religious, scientific and aesthetic concerns were voiced in a manner which left the audience with a sense  of hope and optimism that human values and human imagination will overcome the greed and excesses of recent years.

Introducing her poem ‘Death of a field’, Paula Meehan stated that ‘the big victim in all this massive development that we’ve just been through and we’re watching collapse, is the land itself, and if there is an injunction on poets to speak on behalf of anything it may well be on behalf of the landscape and their own communities.’ Truth to oneself and to one’s art, service to living communities, imaginative power and ethical responsibility were recurring themes in all the presentations. 

Ba iad na scríbhneoirí a bhí rannpháirteach ná: Liam Ó Muirthile, Paula Meehan, Liam Mac Cóil, Biddy Jenkinson, Simon Ó Faoláin, Ríona Nic Congáil, Colm Breathnach, Ciarán Ó Coigligh, Theo Dorgan, Greagóir Ó Dúill, Liam Carson, agus Bríona Nic Dhiarmada.

Chuir na sár-amhránaithe Katerina Garcia agus Máire Ní Choilm barrchríoch leis an seisiún le hamhráin bhinne a d’ardaigh croí an lucht éisteachta. Katerina sang the Robbie Burns poem ‘On both sides the tweed’, set to music by Dick Gaughan, followed by a lively Greco-Jewish ballad of working-class life, agus chas Máire dhá amhrán grá ó thraidisiún Thoraí, ‘A Phaidí, a Ghrá’ and ‘Neansaí Bhán Ní Ghiobarlaí’. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Last Updated: Monday March 09 2009