Almost everything

Kavanagh, Patrick, 1904-1967, composer, performer.

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Almost Everything is a two-part album. The first, features 15 of Ireland's best-loved artists reading Kavanagh's poetry against the backdrop of a truly stunning musical composition. The second, is a remaster of the 1964 album from Claddagh Records, the only recording of Patrick Kavanagh reading his own poetry. The sleeve notes include fellow poet John Montague's description of Kavanagh as "a writer who already has his place among the Irish immort...

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Irish poetry 20th century

Kavanagh, Patrick, 1904-1967. Works. Selections

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2 audio discs : digital ; 4 3/4 inches
4 3/4 in
digital
optical
1.4 m. per second
stereo
audio file
CD audio

Notes:

Compact discs
Title from container
Performed by the author and various performers

Contents:

Disc 1. On Raglan Road (read by Bono)
Stony Grey Soil (read by Michael D. Higgins)
Memory of My Father (read by Liam Neeson)
Canal Bank Walk (read by Imelda May)
Peace (read by Hozier)
Inniskeen Road: July Evening (read by Lisa McGee)
In Memory of my Mother (read by Kathleen Watkins)
The Hospital (read by Lisa Hannigan)
Pegasus (read by Rachael Blackmore)
October (read by Christy Moore)
Shancoduff (read by Aisling Bea)
Lines Written on a Seat on the Grand Canal, Dublin (read by Evanna Lynch)
Extract from 'The Great Hunger' (read by Aidan GIllen)
A Christmas Childhood (read by Sharon Corr)
Epic (read by Jessie Buckley)
Disc 2. Autobiographical Prose
The Same Again
Jungle
Narcissus and the Women
Epic
God in Woman
Kerr's Ass
Peace
The Hospital
On the Death of Jim Larkin
Extract from 'The Great Hunger'
Living in the Country: Part One
Dear Folks
Miss Universe
About Reason, Maybe
To Hell With Commonsense
October
Come Dance With Kitty Stobling
Prelude
Having Confessed

Control Number:

3213348

UPC:

602445286997

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