This poem was written after meeting Willie and Mary Corduff of Rossport in their home, after Willie had been beaten up at Shell's work site in Glengad, by Shell's private security forces. The poem was recorded at Liberty Hall in Dublin as part of Lingo: A Spoken Word Festival 2016 as part of an interconnected piece I wrote called Remember. Res Dumhach and The Stags of Broadhaven are also part of the Rossport series of poems. Words by Sorcha Fox, original music by Dee Armstrong, Lughaidh Armstrong Mayock and Megan Lawlor.

Cor Dubh - for Willie and Mary Corduff of Rossport, Erris, Co.Mayo

The Stags of Broadhaven are a group of seastacks in Broadhaven Bay off Erris, Co. Mayo in Ireland that local fishermen use for navigation. This poem is dedicated to Pat and Mary O'Donnell and the fisher people of Erris. Resisting Shell by sea.
Words by Sorcha Fox, original music by Dee Armstrong, Lughaidh Armstrong Mayock and Megan Lawlor.

The Stags of Broadhaven

This poem is dedicated to Treasa and Uinseann in the Seanscoil in Rossport or Ros Dumhach (it is a Gaeltacht) in Erris, who have spent years collecting all the old names in Irish of every inlet, road, field, grave and house on their peninsula. It is an incredible labour of love. I used their book Logainmneacha as a source for this poem. Cultural resistance. This poem is also dedicated to Caitlín and Micheál O Seighin of Rossport.
 Words by Sorcha Fox, original music by Dee Armstrong, Lughaidh Armstrong Mayock and Megan Lawlor.

Ros Dumhach - Rossport, Erris, Co. Mayo

This poem was written after discovering the existence of people known as The Runners in Ireland. These were kids who would escape from the Irish Industrial schools, despite been beaten and punished when they were caught and brought back, often informed on by local Irish adults - they would run again, and again. There was something in the children that would not remain incarcerated.
Words by Sorcha Fox, original music by Dee Armstrong, Lughaidh Armstrong Mayock and Megan Lawlor.

Remember The Road

This was written as part of the Remember collection of poems for Lingo: A Spoken Word Festival 2016. It kind of explains itself.
Words by Sorcha Fox, original music by Dee Armstrong, Lughaidh Armstrong Mayock and Megan Lawlor.

Remember Success

Part of the Remember sequence of poems written for Lingo: A Spoken Word festival in 2016. 
Words by Sorcha Fox, original music by Dee Armstrong, Lughaidh Armstrong Mayock and Megan Lawlor.
Written in protest and hope for courage and change.

Remember Dublin/ Remember Mary

Sorcha Fox - Irish performance poet 
contact: whoamireland@gmail.com

Sorcha is a poet, actor and writer. She was Artist in Residence in The Dock in Carrick on Shannon, Leitrim Ireland in 2016, along with supporting the writing of these pieces, it is an ongoing project aimed at amplifying Traveller voices in the Northwest. 
Thanks to the UNESCO New Work Award, Sorcha wrote and performed Remember, a 35 minute poetic sequence with live original music by Dee Armstrong, Lughaidh Armstrong Mayock and Megan Lawlor, for Lingo: A Spoken Word Festival, in 2016.
Sorcha has been the recipient of an Irish Arts Council Bursary Award for her ongoing poetry project Who am Ireland? performed in Sligo, Lusaka, Zambia and Haverfordwest, Wales for the Manning Truthfest in support of Chelsea Manning. 
She was Theatre Artist in Residence at The Glens Centre, Manorhamilton with her project Who is Manorhamilton? She has worked with sculptor Jackie McKenna in Loughan House prison with the inmates there on The Mask Project, about identity. 
Sorcha studied Drama and Theatre studies at the Samuel Beckett Centre in Trinity College Dublin. She is co-director of Benbo Productions with Donal O’Kelly - Benbo won the Prix Europa in Berlin for their Radio production of Francisco in 2012. 
In 2015/16 Sorcha performed with Donal O’Kelly in his play Little Thing, Big Thing which won the Stage Award for Best Acting in Edinburgh and toured to New York and Australia. She won Best Actress Award at the 1st Irish Festival in New York in 2011 and 2015. 
She directed the Irish Theatre Award-nominated ‘Jimmy Joyced!’ and the Fringe First winning Fionnuala - both by Donal O'Kelly. She performed in The Cambria which toured the U.S and ran at The Irish Arts Center, New York in 2009 in rep with Frederick Douglass Now and in conjunction with The Classical Theatre of Harlem. The Cambria travelled to the Harare International Festival of the Arts in Zimbabwe and Lusaka in Zambia. She directed and toured Jimmy Gralton’s Dancehall in 2011 and ’12 –with Benbo Productions.
She currently performs in Dublin soap Fair City and acts and storylines for Irish language soap Ros na Rún. 
She is a member of the team that organizes PalFest Ireland, an Irish arts festival in support of Palestine. 
She has just returned from Jenin Refugee Camp in the West Bank, Northern Palestine where she completed a week long course in Theatre and Cultural Resistance with The Freedom Theatre.
All of these tracks were recorded in Liberty Hall in 2016 as part of Lingo: A Spoken Word Festival. Also performing that night were Irish poet Sarah Clancy and Palestinian poet Rafael Ziadah - amazing poets. 

Recording by John McKeown @ Lingo: A Spoken Word Festival 2016, Liberty Hall
Photo Credit: Turlach O Broin @ Lingo: A Spoken Word Festival 2016, Liberty Hall 
Cover Image: Conor Gallagher

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