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The Brownbread Mixtape was a live monthly variety show in The Stag's Head pub in Dublin, Ireland for over a decade. Some of Ireland's very best independent musicians, spoken word artists, comedians and actors performed at the legendary themed night. Brownbread Mixtape host and founder Kalle Ryan recently discovered a hard drive full of show recordings, so he has opened up the digital archives and curated a series of mixtapes featuring the best of the batch. 

Signature tune: Written by Kalle Ryan. Produced by Enda Roche
Graphic Design: David Bagnall
Podcast Production: Kalle Ryan

The Brownbread Mixtape Vol 1 - Music

Paul Roe - Bass Clarinet, Clarinet
The Contempo String Quartet

Commissioned by Music for Galway
Recorded and Mixed by Adrian Hart

Books I-XII

Sefer
Prelude
Recitative I
Loshen
Recitative II
Levi
Rhapsody
Recitative III
Chorale
Kaddisch
Reformation
Malkuth

Quintet for Bass Clarinet and String Quartet

Poet Colm Keegan tells us about the free screening of his poetry project called "Writing Home Documentary"  in the Set Theatre Kilkenny.

The Way It Is: "Writing Home Documentary" by Poet Colm Keegan

Harbour Angel

Spirits Of Flight

Broadcast on 26 September 2016

As part of the RTE Radio 1 Culture Night special, Inside Culture comes to you from The Coach House stage in Dublin Castle. 

We’re looking at identity through ideas of citizenship, place, our bodies and race. A panel of cultural commentators and thinkers join us on the show. We’ll also be hearing short talks and performances responding to the theme of identity by poets, campaigners and essayists. 

The panel consists of Peter Murphy, writer and spoken word performer, Chris Kissane historian & writer, as well as BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker, and Emma Dabiri, teaching fellow in the Africa Department at the School of Oriental and African Studies, who is currently completing her PhD at Goldsmiths University. Her work explores the category 'mixed-race' and its relationship to the concept of 'identity'. 

To kick off the live show, Aoife McLysaght, head of the Department of Genetics in Trinity College, gives us a talk on the natural history of our DNA and its influence on our identity. 
  
Writer and performance poet, Colm Keegan, joins us to perform a piece written for this Inside Culture/Culture Night special, responding to that notion of voice and identity. Colm is one of the organisers of Lingo, the spoken word festival, which is coming to Dublin next month. See lingofestival.com for more.

As identity becomes increasingly valuable, and access to our personal information online is easier to get hold of, it’s no surprise that our identity is something that can be stolen. Louise Williams, broadcaster and human rights campaigner, joins us now to tell us about why we should never take our identity for granted.

Towards the end of the show, we turn to the idea of the self. The ‘self’ is possibly the least tangible aspect of our identity. Essayist Mark O’Connell gives us a sneak preview of his new book, To Be A Machine, which investigates the future of our personhood in a very real future of machines replacing human parts, or what’s called transhumanism.  To Be A Machine - Adventures amount Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists solving the modest problem of Death, will be published by Penguin later this year.

Inside Culture #22 (Culture Night Live Show)

Lewis Capaldi - Bruises (Delta Jack Remix)
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Lewis Capaldi - Bruises (Delta Jack Remix)

Lewis Capaldi - Bruises (Delta Jack Remix) Key Change

Colm Keegan's poetry is a soulful yet visceral evocation of what it is to live in a Dublin rarely seen in its un-exaggerated form in the literary world. A life and a mode of living and seeing that refuses to be marginalised are set against a backdrop of palpable geography. Rarely has a poet's voice, unfamiliar but true in it's every utterance, been captured so well as it is in Keegan's first collection. From the first poem to the last the energy of the verse of his life and living never flags. Family, friends, children and the urban sprawl he renders sparely yet lyrically, all are grist to the mill of Colm Keegan's poetics. 

“Sometimes you meet poets with soul, sometimes with experience, sometimes with talent. But you seldom meet a poet with all three. Colm Keegan is one such poet.” Dave Lordan

“The poetry of Colm Keegan brims with frenetic energy and a hard-earned street-wise lyricism, bereft of false notes or unearned experience. These new poems for a new era grow into a powerful and often dark portrayal of contemporary Dublin: an exploration of the streetscape of urban estates teeming with the complexity of life. It delves into the richest and the darkest corners of the human condition, without Keegan ever compromising the deep humanity at the core of his unblinking vision of life passing by.” Dermot Bolger

http://www.salmonpoetry.com/details.php?ID=258&a=219

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Colm Keegan is a writer and performance poet from Clondalkin, Dublin. Since 2005, he has been shortlisted  four times for the Hennessy New Irish Writing Award, for both poetry and fiction. He was shortlisted for the International Seán Ó Faoláin Short Story Competition in 2008 and won the All Ireland Poetry Slam in 2010.

In 2011, he was nominated for the Dublin Fringe's 'Little Gem' Award for the play he co-wrote with Stephen James Smith and Kalle Ryan - Three Men Talking About Things They Kinda Know About - which had a sold out run at Dublin Fringe Festival’s recent TurnAround Season, and is currently touring Ireland.

He co-runs the monthly arts event ‘Nighthawks at the Cobalt’ and is co-founder and facilitator ofor the Inklinks Project, a creative writing initiative centred around a young writers’ club in Clondalkin. He also teaches creative writing in secondary schools across Ireland.

He reviews for and contributes material to RTÉ Radio One’s Arena and is currently working on his first novel and a collection of short stories.

 'Sometimes you meet poets with soul, sometimes with experience, sometimes with talent. But you seldom meet a poet with all three. Colm Keegan is one such poet' - Dave Lordan

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