{"id":4016,"date":"2017-09-29T00:59:43","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T23:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=4016"},"modified":"2017-09-29T01:03:47","modified_gmt":"2017-09-29T00:03:47","slug":"culture-night-in-cafe-45-longford-leads-in-literature-and-arts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/culture-night-in-cafe-45-longford-leads-in-literature-and-arts\/","title":{"rendered":"Culture Night in Cafe 45 – Longford Leads in Literature and Arts"},"content":{"rendered":"

This Culture Night I was in Longford reading with Longford Writers Group who I joined lately, in Cafe 45, after which I ran into friends from Tullamore of all places, before visiting the art exhibit in Providers. While at home after I was listening to a show from Cavan where there was great recitations of a funny story of a farmer who went on holiday with disastrous results, and I thought to myself, the culture of old and new are both alive and well and living in Longford and its hinterland!<\/p>\n

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Longford Writers in Cafe 45 for Culture Night 2017 – Photo Montage by Sally Martin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I read the hilarious and true story of a rather evil prank that my dad pulled on a neighbour who kept criticizing his bodhran… the verse was “The Bodhran and the Goat”<\/a><\/strong>… \u00a0there was a great story of a mother and child shopping in Dublin as the child as children do posed the hard questions of life… why did folk give money to the busker and not the homeless guy and so forth…<\/p>\n

Talking of music, it was provided by Primary Colours<\/em><\/strong> who I first heard singing at the PIETA House gig in Edgeworthstown, and lovely to hear again. A discussion piece on what culture was and the ownership of words posed points to ponder, and a story of a child calling her dad home as her mother was dead during the famine brought that part of our history to our attention, and Eileen Moynihan contributed her piece “Cultivating Culture”<\/a><\/strong>, while the scene of the town pub was recalled as the thing that unites the ages…<\/p>\n

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"Primary Colours" play Cafe 45 in #Longford as part of #culturenight<\/a><\/p>\n

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