{"id":612,"date":"2014-09-18T17:26:14","date_gmt":"2014-09-18T17:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=612"},"modified":"2014-09-18T17:26:14","modified_gmt":"2014-09-18T17:26:14","slug":"foundation-14-tullamore-culture-scene-blooms-again-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/foundation-14-tullamore-culture-scene-blooms-again-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Foundation 14 – Tullamore Culture Scene Blooms Again – Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the wake of the exhaust fumes of the Cannonball Run – about whom even I was unable to pen a verse rhyming or otherwise – we are heading into a busy night with Foundation 14 and Culture Night, as the aftermath of the Banagher Fair rumbles on, and the campaign to get it saved for next year comes together.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Tonight, as part of Foundation 14, the second Foundation festival after last years successful Foundation 13, the Scene of the Rhyme event that is regular in Joe Lees pub, but is in the Foundation 14 venue in the Tanyard today, features the Tullamore Rhymers as per usual, also Stephen Murphy and a plethora of new acts having their debut in Tullamore town.<\/p>\n

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A Facebook campaign<\/a> to save the Banagher Horse Fair has been started, after the standoff between the Guardai and Dept of Agriculture on one side and locals and traders on the other.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Stephen Murphy was the author this year of the highly successful viral youtube video “Was It for This<\/a>“, which brings our spiritual world and the mammonism of politics and corruption to a titanic clash in a set of verses, showing how much we have strayed from the ethos that once upon a time marked us as a people.<\/p>\n

Talking of traditions and viral posts, both the blog post<\/a> on the Banagher Horse Fair, and the original verse “Long May Horses Shit the Streets<\/a>” have been getting a lot of interest online, showing where verse meets relevance there is a place for poets and poetry in the wider world, to some degree indeed poetry does matter.<\/p>\n

Mankinds relationship with horses, and our supposed non eating of horsemeat – apart from in Burgers!!!! – is something that I have reflected on in verses such as “A Horse is a Horse<\/a>“… as I said in that verse, they are less of a cow than they are mankind in my view.<\/p>\n

Horses convey a sense of power and loyalty, and were the topic of a love song I wrote some years back, the words of which were put to music by Guillherme Schroeter, “I Loved Her, She Loved Horses<\/a>“, and have proved to be an inspiration to writers throughout the ages. Indeed so powerful is the iconography of horses, that the Native Americans, for whom the horse was as new and as an exotic a creature as the White Man when the Europeans arrived over, we always think of them as being on horseback, and think of them with as much a twinship of sorts as we do the Irish Travellers<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the wake of the exhaust fumes of the Cannonball Run – about whom even I was unable to pen a verse rhyming or otherwise – we are heading into a busy night with Foundation 14 and Culture Night, as the aftermath of the Banagher Fair rumbles on, and the …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[2360,718,891,892,719,869,893,317,896,254,894,895],"class_list":["post-612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-banagher","tag-banagher-horse-fair","tag-blog-2","tag-foundation-14","tag-horse-fair","tag-horses","tag-joe-lees-tullamore","tag-scene-of-the-rhyme","tag-stephen-murphy","tag-tullamore-rhymers-club","tag-viral-post","tag-viral-youtube-video","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-9S","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":383,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/busy-september-for-tullamore-rhymers\/","url_meta":{"origin":612,"position":0},"title":"Busy September for Tullamore Rhymers","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"28th August 2014","format":"status","excerpt":"Its shaping up to be a busy Septemnber in 2014 for the Tullamore Rhymers Club, with Scene of the Rhyme on tonight, the Offaly Culture Night launch tomorrow at 3pm, the Camillus Boland Fundraiser Night after that at 8pm or so, and then a busy few weeks of which the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Blog"","block_context":{"text":"Blog","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/category\/blog\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":641,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/a-crazy-week-scottish-turkeys-vote-for-christmas-culture-week-stink-kicked-up-over-banagher-fair-blog\/","url_meta":{"origin":612,"position":1},"title":"A Crazy Week – Scottish Turkeys Vote for Christmas – Culture Week – Stink Kicked Up Over Banagher Fair – Blog","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"21st September 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Its been a crazy week, a stink has been kicked up over the shit that was raised that led to a man been cautioned for selling HENS (yes, that DOES beat banagher!) on the streets of Banagher during the fair, Scotland acted like a turkey voting for Christmas, and opted\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Art Inspired Poetry"","block_context":{"text":"Art Inspired Poetry","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/category\/art-inspired-poetry\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Chocoalte Brown","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Chocoalte-Brown-168x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":203,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/castlepallooza-rocked-in-the-rain-by-the-tullamore-rhymers-failing-to-make-fermoy\/","url_meta":{"origin":612,"position":2},"title":"CastlePallooza Rocked in the Rain By the Tullamore Rhymers – Failing to Make Fermoy","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"3rd August 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"It is with regret due to work commitments we failed to make the Fermoy International Poetry Festival and the Poetry Bus ran by organiser Gene Barry, but two local events we did get to make were the monthly Scene of the Rhyme in Joe Lees in Tullamore, and of course\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Blog"","block_context":{"text":"Blog","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/category\/blog\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Saul Philblin Bowman reading at Scene of the Rhyme","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Saul-Philblin-Bowman-reading-at-Scene-of-the-Rhyme.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Saul-Philblin-Bowman-reading-at-Scene-of-the-Rhyme.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Saul-Philblin-Bowman-reading-at-Scene-of-the-Rhyme.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Saul-Philblin-Bowman-reading-at-Scene-of-the-Rhyme.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":2360,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/willie-rimes-at-the-quare-horse-fair\/","url_meta":{"origin":612,"position":3},"title":"Willie Rimes At the Quare Horse Fair","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"12th October 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"We think there was one lawbreaker at the 2015 Banagher Horse Fair.. of course it would have to be that pal of our Cartys, the bould Willie Rhymes... the never seen member of the Tullamore Rhymers Club... awful troublemaker that lad! 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