#Ciaran Bourke

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#OTD in 2012 – Death of Bernard Noël 'Banjo Barney' McKenna, a musician and a much-loved founding member of The Dubliners.

Barney McKenna was the last surviving founding member of the Irish folk group the Dubliners. With Luke Kelly’s powerful voice and force of nature on stage, Ronnie Drew’s gravelly memorable vocal sound, it was McKenna’s playing of the tenor banjo, coupled with John Sheahan’s fiddle, that gave the Dubliners their original instrumental quality. In the process, McKenna redefined the role of the banjo…

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Much Ado pics! (c) Manuel Harlan

(it’s glorious. 1940s Italy, Dogberry is that rare screamingly funny cos George Fouracres, it’s very LadsLadsLads, everyone’s flinging themselves about the stage, Claudio isn’t a complete arsehole for once and we ship Leonata and Don Pedro something chronic. Not totally sure about the concept of Ciaran O’Brian with unbleached hair, mind.)

Ralph Davis as Benedick Peter Bourke as Conrade, Ciarán O'Brien as Boracio and Patrick Osborne as Watchman Lucy Phelps as Beatrice and Ralph Davis as Benedick Ciarán O'Brien as Boracio Ralph Davis as Benedick, Ferdy Roberts as Don Pedro, Patrick Osborne as Claudio and Katy Stephens as Leonata Joanne Howarth as Antonia and Katy Stephens as Leonata Lucy Phelps as Beatrice and Ralph Davis as Benedick Joanne Howarth as Antonia and Katy Stephens as Leonata

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A Midsummer Night's Dream @ The Globe

THEATRE REVIEW: A Midsummer Night's Dream @ The Globe ⭐⭐⭐⭐ @The_Globe @f_omole @hackneycolliery

The fate of Hermia (Faith Omole) at the start of director Sean Holmes’ technicolour take of A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Globe echoes Boris Johnson’s steely resolve to leave the EU by Halloween in that she must “do or die”.

With “do” referring to the decree from the Athenian duke Theseus (Peter Bourke who doubles as Oberon) that she obey her father’s command to marry Demetrius (Ciaran…

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WAVE  A man wakes from a coma speaking a fully formed but unrecognizable language baffling linguistic experts from around the globe. Follow on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WaveShortFilm Folllow on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/waveshortfilm/ WAVE - TRAILER: https://vimeo.com/214217381 Director’s Bios Benjamin Cleary is an Irish filmmaker living between London and Dublin. In 2015 he wrote, directed and edited his first short film, Stutterer, which won the Oscar for Best Live Action Short at the 88th Academy Awards in February 2016. Stutterer has played at more than 80 festivals worldwide and has won over 20 awards including a Cannes Young Director Award, an Irish Film & Television Award (IFTA) and a London Critic’s Circle Award. In addition to this Benjamin was selected for the esteemed Les Nuit En Or scheme in France as one of 30 award-winning directors from around the world to tour Europe presenting their work. Benjamin is represented by Anonymous Content for film & TV in the US. In the UK he is repped by Ian Benson of The Agency, London. TJ O’Grady Peyton is an Irish director who graduated from the London Film School’s prestigious graduate program in 2010. Fresh into the professional ad space, he was shortlisted for the Young Director Award at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity in 2013 and 2015, later earning a People’s Voice Award at The Webby Awards in 2016. He has created narrative-driven commercials for such top clients as BMW, Gatorade, Cadillac, Coke, Nespresso, and Conde Nast, among others. A cinephile from a young age, TJ infuses a cinematic edge and emotional through line in all of his work, no matter what length. TJ is represented by Decon in New York and he is currently studying screen acting in one of Ireland’s leading creative hubs, Bow Street. Later this year he will be acting alongside Ellen Page in zombie thriller “The Third Wave”. The Story of Wave July 2015. Ben had spent over a year making STUTTERER which had just started its festival run. After editing the film for ages and caught in the throws of festival submissions, he was in dire need of jumping into something non STUTTERER related. TJ had just returned from directing a commercial in Australia for Gatorade with NFL Quaterback Cam Newton and was very eager to direct a short while also sink his teeth into some more acting. Ben and TJ had been mates for years and have always wanted to collaborate. After chatting one night, TJ mentioned that he wanted to give acting a proper go. Ben had seen him in a small Irish indie feature a few years previously and was impressed. They decided that Ben would write something for TJ to act in and both would co direct. The rules were simple: zero budget, under five minutes, and something they can shoot on a weekend with a few mates… Cut to: nineteen months later. 14-ish shoot days. Over thirty crew members. Twelve actors. Twenty locations. Fourteen outfit changes. One made up language. One Phantom. One Alexa. One 5D. Dawn shoots. Night shoots. Storm shoots. Sleepless nights. Three post houses. 46 VFX shots. Entire vats of coffee. Sixty youtube videos from every continent. And a world premiere in Tribeca. That original plan to come up with something tiny and contained went out the window when Ben read an article about an Englishman who had suffered a severe stroke. When he recovered, the man was speaking fluent Welsh even though he hadn’t lived in Wales since he was a young boy. Ben became fascinated with the phenomenon and started to discover similar cases around the world. He wrote a script loosely based on these strange happenings – but the kicker being that the protagonist would be speaking an entirely new language. Over the course of an intense month of work, Ben and TJ started planning how they would bring WAVE from script to screen.  Excitement started to build! Enter: producer extraordinaire, Rebecca Bourke. For the first week or two Ben and TJ started rounding up a few mates and loosely planning a shoot in Ben’s flat (while they worked out how to create a made up language that would sound believable). But things really got going when they managed to convince Rebecca to join the team. Rebecca is a talented producer who runs a production company called Assembly in Dublin. Suddenly the whole thing took on a more professional feel and started to gain momentum. Over the next nineteen months, the team found themselves pulled in all directions. Everyone was busy, many of us being taken away to work outside the country. WAVE became this process where like it’s protagonist – our production had to discover its own short hand to make this passion project come to life. We would get together every few months when everyone was in Dublin to shoot a bit here, and a little bit there. And slowly but surely everything began to fall into place. We had the excellent cinematographer Burschi Wojnar on board who has his own Alexa and was immensely generous with his time. As the lead actor, TJ was on his own in many of scenes so we were able to shoot whenever we wanted. And we had Rebecca on hand to organize a watertight shoot and call in the favours whenever needed. It was tough at times and frustrating and the project went through many ups and downs, but it was actually a great way to make a film and WAVE became a passion project that everyone loved being a part of. The genre police would probably call WAVE a dramedy, and there’s probably truth to that, but from deep pain, comes great comedy, and Ben + TJ do feel deeply connected to the films tragic current. Its those moments Ben + TJ find most fascinating to explore. Alienation. Isolation. Loneliness. Empathy. At it’s heart the directors hope WAVE is successful in exploring the human condition in an interesting way. In the end, the team have (finally) made a film that they’re all very proud of. If they had to do it all again starting tomorrow, would they be crazy enough to dive back into the deep end? The answer might just be yes. Credits: CAST Gasper Rubicon - TJ O’Grady Peyton Frank - Emmet Kirwan Leaf - Tiny James Huldvar - Danny Kehoe Doctor - Daniel Reardon Speech Therapist 1 - Caoimhe O’Malley Speech Therapist 2 - Barry Kinsella Russian Doctor 1 - Conor Fleming Russian Doctor 2 - Rebecca Bourke Girl at bus stop - Sarah Flanagan Extras on Bray promenade - Pauline Curtin, Margaret Colgan, Matthew Pereira, Sandra Kurova, Casper & Bear, Owen Quigley, Bridie Horan, Neal Swaine, Andrew Kingston, Julien Torades, Jack Nother, Marguerite Collins VO Artist - TBC CREW Director - Benjamin Cleary & TJ O’Grady Peyton Writer - Benjamin Cleary Producer - Rebecca Bourke Production Company - ASSEMBLY Director of Photography - Burschi Wojnar 1st AD - Stephen Rigney Art Director - Jill Beecher Phantom Operator - Seamus Connolly Costume Designer - Sarah Flanagan Script Editor - Seamas O’Reilly Gaffer - Kevin Fox Focus Pullers - Mark Hannon, Gosia Zur, Keith Pendred Clapper Loaders - Conor Fleming, Denise McKenna Camera Assistants - Sam Whelan Sound Recordist - Frank Asencio, Dean Murray, Rob Moore Boom Operators - Anthony Assad Make Up - Orlaith Shore Assistant Art Dept - Brian Quinn Production - Dave Minogue Paramedic - Ian Fitzgerald Camera and Grip - Widescreen, Film Equipment Hire and Viko Nikci Lighting - Teach Solais and Cine Electric Studio - Replay House Post Production - Screen Scene Editor - Nathan Nugent Post Producers - Alan Collins, Peter Greene Motion Graphics - John O’Riordan VFX - Bob Corish Compositor - Zdravko Stoitchkov - Absolute Post Production Assistant - Geri Krasteva - Absolute Grade - Gary Curran - Outer Limits Caoimhe Maguire - Outer Limits Graphic Designers - Sinead Foley and Emma Grattan Sound Editor, Sound Designer and Foley Artist - James Latimer Music - Nico Casal Blogs - Dave Byran entertainment.ie, Buzzfeed Social Media - Annabel Cleary LOCATIONS Bray Head Hotel Royal City of Dublin Hospital Roma Takeaway Sandymount Strand Dublin City DART SPECIAL THANKS Jim Duggan, Jake Walshe and Hubert Montag at Screen Scene Absolute, Adam Clarke, Outer Limits YouTube Ena Cummins at Bray Head Hotel Lulu and Shay Cleary Sarah Flanagan Hannah Vickers Caoimhe Doyle Gemma Davey Donnacha Brady John Keepler Sean Sheehy Alison Callinan Ian Fitzgerald John Nally Renaldas Damijonaitis Historic Interiors DenLors Tools Geri Krasteva Amy De Bhrun Mike Donnelly Gareth Averill Roisin Scott Credits Dagmar Barr Ciaran Irwin Maria Fiorentini Emer Casey Stephen Doring Flaminia Iacoviello Hazel Lowry Jessica Massey Manuel Pombo Jake Fox YouTube Video Contributors Joe O’Grady, Teresa O’Grady-Peyton, Michael Garvey, Marco Hinojosa Patricia Cahuantzi, Carmen Tarín, Karl Moran, Spesialista Band Michael Binchy, Suhaila Binchy, Aurelia Binchy, Tess Bunworth Sheelin Conlon, Billy Clark, Mark Hayes, Flaminia Iacoviello,Fiona O’Farrell Stephanie Burchell, Marcella McLoughlin, Sheila Lynam, Don Veale Emma Fleetwood, Nykol O’Shea, Ciaran Murray, Jennifer Dunne, John McCoy Annabel Cleary, Winnie Cleary, Lulu Cleary, Shay Cleary, James Hartshorn Gosia Zur, Carmen Leuthi, Burschi Wojnar, Matt Cooper, Gemma Fitzgerald Mark Fitzgerald, Ian Fitzgerald, Michael O’Connor, Jenny Bourke, Kristof Van Marsenille, Ruth Bourke, Adrian Bourke, Hugo Bourke, Adrien Bourke Julien Bourke, Jane Bourke, Lochlainn Sweeney, Suina Sweeney, Eoin Sweeney Henry Bourke, Emily Kennedy Bourke, Beibhinn Bourke, Isabel Gargollo Nicole Hajj, Josua Gerner, Jan Gerner, Danilo, Ariandia, David Magnier Lisa Fawsitt, Keith Elliott, Caroline Elliott, Megan Campbell, Alex Moran Roderigo González-O’Brien, Pelayo Vazquez-Roderiguez, Javier RomeroCumbreras, Javier Blanco-Villarroel, Luke Arragutainaq, Eva Arragutainaq Annabelle Arragutainaq, Aaron Zaska,Todd Davis, Michael White Savannah James-Bayly, Laura Murphy, Luke Kenny, Michael Mello William Langslet, Santiago Munez, Kaori Taketani + friends, Mark Kearney Tara Kearney, Katerina Graham MUSIC Emilie Simon - Franky Knight - “Les Amants Du Même Jour” The Chantels “Sure of Love” Margaret Murray The Childrens Opera Group “Sumer is Icumen” Margaret Murray The Childrens Opera Group “Simple Simon” David Bowie “Rock n Roll Suicide”

WAVE - TRAILER

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This is a rendition of The Auld Triangle, led by The Dubliners. Before it, Ciaran Bourke, the lead singer recites The Lament for Brendan Behan from memory. Ciaran was paralysed from illness down his left side and this was to be his last public appearance. The song first appeared in Behan's play The Quare Fellow in 1954. It is rumoured that Dominic Behan wrote it for his brother but there is no solid evidence. I first heard the song last week, as a version of it is performed in Inside Llewyn Davis. That version is lovely but the singers adopt faux Irish accents, and fail to truly capture the Hibernian soul. I think I would like this to be done at my funeral, decades from now. Really set the mood!

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Luke Kelly & Ciaron Burke - Preab San Ol.

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#OTD in 1935 – Birth of musician, Ciarán Bourke, in Dublin. He was one of the original founding members of The Dubliners.

Ciarán Bourke was one of the original members of The Dubliners, his versatility was his hallmark which included the playing of the tin whistle, harmonica, and guitar, as well as singing. He was the only member of the group to receive a university education and was also fluent in Irish. Bourke collapsed on stage from a brain haemorrhage during a performance in 1974. He never made a full recovery,…

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Dream cast announced

Directed by Sean Holmes, the show will feature Jocelyn Jee Esien as Bottom. Jee Esien returns to the venue following her appearance in Dr Faustus at the Sam Wanamaker Theatre.

Joining her will be Rachel Hannah Clarke-Grey as Snug, Nadine Higgin as Quince, Jacoba Williams as Snout and Billy Seymour as Flute.

The rest of the cast includes Peter Bourke as Theseus and Oberon, Victoria Elliott as Hippolyta and Titania, Ciaran O'Brien as Demetrius, Faith Omole as Hermia, Ekow Quartey as Lysander and Amanda Wilkin as Helena.

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The Ronnie Drew Group’s Ciaran Bourke tickles the tin whistle in Donegal Reel (1962/3) Early #TheDubliners with a rare appearance by Bob Lynch on RTE’s Ballad Session. Here’s that full show.

There’s so much great Dubliners songs I’m going to have to break this list up with Dubliners Days.

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Obit of the Day: The Last of The Dubliners

Barney McKenna, the last of the original foursome who composed one of the most influential Irish folk bands, passed away on April 5, 2012. He was 72 years old. McKenna performed his last concert with the Dubliners the night before his death.

The group, originally called The Ronnie Drew Ballad Group, began with McKenna on banjo and mandolin, Ronnie Drew as lead singer and guitar, Ciarán Bourke on guitar, tin whistle and harmonica, and Luke Kelly on banjo and vocals. They formed up in 1962 to play at O'Donoghue's Pub in Dublin.

The band changed their name because Drew was uncomfortable with the original group name and Luke Kelly was reading James Joyce's classic collection of short stories, Dubliners.

Luke Kelly died in 1984. Ciarán Bourke died in 1988. Ronnie Drew died in 2008.

This was the 50th anniversary of the group's founding. (Coincidentally, Marshall amp inventor, Jim Marshall, who also died on April 5th, was celebrating the 50th anniversary of his amps)

Additional source: wikipedia.org

("Whiskey in the Jar" from The Very Best of The Dublinersis copyright of EMI Records, 2010.)

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The Lament Of Brendan Behan - Ciaran Bourke.

{Happy St. Patrick's Day -- Lets Try Not To Turn It Into A Completely Offensive Cultural Stereotype, Again. Erin Go Bragh.}

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#OTD in 1984 – Singer and musician, Luke Kelly, was laid to rest at Glasnevin Cemetery.

‘His legacy was putting his own stamp on a song such that it became the definitive version of a song for others to come along and emulate.’ –John Sheahan. The mass was celebrated by Fr Michael Cleary at the Church of the Holy Child in Whitehall and The Dubliners performed during the ceremony. Kelly’s brothers, John, Jimmy and Paddy carried his coffin along with banjo player Barney McKenna. Luke…

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#OTD in 1984 – Death of Luke Kelly, lead vocalist and 5-string banjo member of the Dubliners.

Luke Kelly was a singer and folk musician from Dublin, most famous as a member of the band ‘The Dubliners’. Indeed, while Luke often sang of the poor, the oppressed, the worker, the lover or the rebel –the realities of his own life and upbringing enlivened and gave weight to his songs and the emotional way in which he sang them. And his own childhood and youth was anything but privileged. Born on…

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#OTD in 2008 – Death of singer and folk musician, Ronnie Drew.

Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam. Ronnie Drew was born in Dún Laoghaire, Co Dublin. He was best known for his long beard and his voice, which was once described by Nathan Joseph as “like the sound of coke being crushed under a door”. For more than 30 years, the distinctive voice of the Irish folk band the Dubliners belonged to Ronnie Drew, who died at aged 73. His gravelly voice, described by Mary…

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#OTD in 1944 – Birth of entertainer and folk musician, Jim McCann.

As a young man, McCann attended University College Dublin as a student of medicine, but became interested in folk music during a summer holiday in Birmingham in 1964. He began to perform in folk clubs in the area, and, upon his return to Dublin, he joined a group called the Ludlow Trio in 1965. In the following year, the Ludlow Trio had a hit with their recording of Dominic Behan’s “The Sea…