An Homage to Shane MacGowan - Music, Readings & Chats

A Cercle Littéraire Irlandais event - 'An Homage to Shane MacGowan'

This event is free to attend. Everyone is welcome! It will be covered for by .

Where?

Patio room, O'Sullivans Franklin D. Roosevelt, 63 Av. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 75008 Paris

When?

Gathering at 15h30 until 19h00

What To Expect:

Gathering at 15h30 - O’Sullivans Franklin D. Roosevelt

Approx 16h00 - Welcome by Desmond McGettrick, President, Cercle Littéraire Irlandais

Approx 16h15 - Lead musicians Niall Regan & Susan McCarthy will open the show in music with many Shane MacGowan songs and will finish by welcoming special guest musician Martyn Mulhere who once performed with MacGowan.

Approx 17h45 - Stephanie Nic Cárthaigh will sing "Éamonn an Chnoic", reminiscing of the good times MacGowan spent on holidays in his mother’s native Tipperary.

Approx 18h00 - A one-hour presentation interspersed with songs and readings in homage to Shane MacGowan. Keyspeaker/singer Marcolino da Costa, singer Stephanie Nic Cárthaigh and lead vocalists/musicians Niall Regan & Susan McCarthy. Readers Alma Fakhr and Virgine Roche –Tiengo

Approx 19h00 - Writer and performer Maria D’Arcy will read a homage to Shane MacGowan – an epitaph entitled ‘Shane MacGowan Sails on to Heaven’s Shore’ penned by her especially for this event.

Approx 19h15 - In a final homage, the musicians will invite everyone present to stand up and belt out ‘Dirty Old Town’ Pogues style!

Telephone O’Sulllivans to reserve if you’d like to stay for dinner - 01 45 63 28 34

Our Speaker:

Marcolino da Costa is an Irish-Portuguese Frenchman whose deep attachment to his maternal family’s roots in rural Ireland drew him to study Irish history and literature in Paris and Limerick. A teacher of English and History, Marcolino was a lead vocalist in rock bands in his youth and remains an enthusiastic amateur singer of Irish folk songs. In 2008, on a whim, he created a Facebook group called “Shane MacGowan is a fantastic poet”, which has grown into the network’s second-biggest fan base of the Pogues’ front man.

Our Organiser:

Born in Dublin, Patricia Killeen travelled extensively before finally settling in Paris. She graduated with a Master’s degree in English literature and culture from the Sorbonne, Paris 3. She previously worked in public relations and currently writes for various anglophone publications.

Fascinated by the changes Paris unleashes in many of its expatriates’ lives, she hosts the “Turning Points” show for “World Radio Paris.” Patricia also enjoys organising cultural events in the City of Light, and has been one of the leaders of the Cercle Littéraire Irlandais since 2019.

Our Singer:

Stephanie Nic Cárthaigh is a key actor in the promotion of the Irish language, via singing and poetry. She organises the Club Amhránaíochta Phárais, which is part of An Ghaeltacht-sur-Seine, the Paris-based branch of Conradh na Gaeilge, and she directs the Cór Choláiste na nGael at Saint Patrick’s Chapel in Rue des Irlandais. She transmits her country’s cultural heritage, particularly that of the province of Munster, with the enthusiasm of an activist, whether it’s to history students, session musicians, or to her students at the workshop she leads at the Association irlandaise de Paris.

Our Musicians:

Niall Regan is from Castlebar, Co. Mayo. He has been living in Paris since 2018 and plays regularly in Irish bars around the city. He has played many festivals throughout the world including the St Patrick’s day festival, Savannah, Georgia, USA and others including Spain, Portugal, Germany, Switzerland, Denmark and Finland. He has also performed with a local Castlebar band, the Four and Nines, last year in the Centre Culturel Irlandais during the St. Patrick’s day celebrations.

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Susan McCarthy studied the flute at the Royal Academy of Music in London with William Bennett and Sebastian Bell. She works as a freelance flautist and was the principal flute player of the Athens Chamber Orchestra before moving to Paris, France.Susan also teaches the flute to underprivileged children in Paris 19th area and freelances with various different groups playing a mix of styles such as classical, Irish, pop-rock, jazz, world and contemporary music with musicians from numerous different nationalities. Her curiosity in mixing styles with her Irish musical background and classical training has made her the flute player she is today.

Hosted by Cercle Littéraire Irlandais

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

O’Sullivans, 63 Avenue Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Paris, France