In the latest Pantisocracy on RTÉ Radio 1, Panti Bliss is talking nationality and identity. Is it nature or nurture, DNA or destiny? Listen to the episode above...
Watch: Panti's Monologue - Belonging
Guests with the Queen of Ireland are Erin Fornoff, an American in Dublin, Irish by choice, who has crafted her gift for razor sharp, spoken word here, and the singer-songwriter Declan O'Rourke, who reaches into both national and family history to tell song stories drawn from the famine and migration.
Watch: Declan O'Rourke sings Stars Over Kinvara.
Joining them in the parlour is Afro-Irish singer Tolu Makay, a new vocal talent emerging in Ireland and composer Síobhra Quinlan who uses music to help give voice to the new migrant communities, including refugees and asylum seekers living in Direction Provision.
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Watch: Tolu Makay performs Goodbye
There are performances by all four guests in this show, with Erin Fornoff sharing her spoken-word piece HOME while Tolu Makay performs her song Goodbye, and Declan O'Rourke sings his autobiographical song Stars Over Kinvara. Síobhra Quinlan is joined by concert harpist Maebh McKenna and they perform a contemporary classical piece Quinlan wrote called Flux.
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Watch: Síobhra Quinlan & Maebh McKenna perform Flux.
Pantisocracy, Tuesdays at 10pm on RTÉ Radio 1, from July 16th - listen back here.
