Fancy a natter?
Pure Daycent Chats with Paddy O’Brien and Noelle Ní Ríagáin.
The opening event of this year’s Pitch’d Circus & Street Arts Festival in Cork
Jean Kearney writes:
Paddy and Noelle are two Master Storytellers and Listeners, who are inviting the public to join them at the Douglas Street Parklet by the Cork Flower Studio for a cuppa and a chat from September 2nd to 5th and 9th to 12th.
How do you feel about where you live, what you love or hate about it, and how do you see it in 100 years? Tell them what the funniest thing that’s happened to you on the streets of Cork, or what’s your favourite Cork expression? Pure Daycent Chats want to know!Paddy is a writer, poet and archaeologist, everything within the realms of literature and culture floats his boat, and Noelle performs and collaborates with people across many different art forms and is a lover of mythology, folklore, and people’s personal stories and she knows the importance of “putting the kettle on and having the chat.”
Register for a free chat here
Pitch’d Circus & Street Arts Festival
First time I went to Cork as an ‘adult’ was with my Dad. He was using our van to move the worldly goods of one of his friends from the Army who was retiring back home. First time I remember seeing Cobh, and I had wondered at the steepness of the hill in Kilmeague. Oh, me, what a young green fool I was!
Anyway, after visiting his sister, my wonderful Aunt, he went down to his former local for a pint. Murphy’s, of course. When we entered, Dad asked if I wanted a pint of Cork’s finest. I demurred, saying having had it in Dublin I had not enjoyed it.
A complete stranger, still awaiting the settling of his own pint, turned and said ‘What! That’s sacrilege! Try a taste of that.’ and gave me his pint. After containing his laughter, my Dad and he got into a discussion as to where the line was that you could get the last good pint of Murphy’s before having to descend into Guinness hell.
They eventually agreed on The Horse and Jockey
Love your weekly column and this tale. Rings true from my time around that part of the country