Paul Brady, top, and ‘I Like How You Think’, above listen, written with Paul Muldoon. After poised tone perfect readings from Samuel Beckett’s short prose work Fizzles during Happy Days in August Skintown’s Ciarán McMenamin returns in conversation with the Belcoo based Irish language novelist Séamas Mac Annaidh, known most for the hugely cult Mo Dhá Mhicí. Bumping into Séamas at the #WeDeserveBetter “dormant Stormont” protest he told marlbank how much he is looking forward to the event and meeting up with Ciarán once again. Ahead of the very high profile television dramatisation of Death and Nightingales he also reminisced about attending the launch of the Eugene McCabe novel in the Townhall, a venue chosen as it is fictionalised by the county Monaghan John McGahern in what has become recognised in the meantime as a modern classic. On the festival fringe spun by the makers of The Thing Itself dreamweaving underground literary scene that crosses literal and figurative borders as confidently as it melts genre, the open mic Across the Lines is also a must. SG
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