Sunday 8th November 2009

Duration: 43.40

This programme, originally broadcast in May 2009, to mark the publication of The Life and After Life of PH Pearse - Pádraig Mac Piarais: Saol agus Oidhreacht edited by Roisin Higgins and Regina Uí Chollatáin, was recently short-listed for a 2009 PPI National Radio Award. The programme is breing re-broadcast to mark the 130th aniversary of the birth of Patrick Pearse on this week on Tuesday 10 November.

All the spoken contributions were written specially for this radio programme. The programme was recorded live in front of an audience in the Pearse Museum, Rathfarnham, Co. Dublin.

Programme Spoken Content:

The Ghosts of Saint Enda's by Brian Crowley
Brand Recognition by Roisín Higgins
Meeting Miss Pearse by Bairbre O'Hogan
Sowing Seeds of Equality: Padraig Mac Piarais: Editor of An Claidheamh Solais by Regina Uí Chollatáin
Mister Dog by Elaine Sisson
Pearse and the Hand of History by Pat Cooke

Music on the programme was:

I Saw from the Beach by Thomas Moore performed on the Harp by Aisling Ennis
The Road to Galway: A Mrs Kenny Tune by Liam O'Connor
Cujus Animam: from Stabet Mater by Rosini sung by Brian Gilligan and accompanied by Mairead Hurley
Táimse Im' Chodladh performed by Gay McKeon and Liam O'Connor
Óró mo Churraichín Ó performed by Aisling Ennis