A week ago we went to Favorite Poems: In Tribute to Seamus Heaney, presented by the Irish Arts Center at St. Ann's Warehouse in Brooklyn. The evening began, as the crowd gathered, with songs the great poet said he would want to have with him if he were a castaway stranded on a desert island. The original was broadcast in 1989 on BBC's Desert Island Discs.
Paul Brady – “Arthur McBride”
Joe Heaney – “Roisin Dubh”
Luke Kelly/Dubliners – “Raglan Road”
Declan O’ Rourke – “Galileo”
Lisa Hannigan & the Chieftains – “My Lagan Love”
McGarrigle Sisters – “Hard Times Come Again No More”
Paul Brady – “The Lakes of Ponchartrain”
John McCormack – “Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms”
Joni Mitchell – “Both Sides Now”
Planxty – “My Heart is Tonight In Ireland”
Iarla O’Lionaird – “Taimse Im’ Clodladh”
Cat Power – “The Greatest”
David Hammond – “My Aunt Jane” can't find it so try Ardboe Heritage
Gillian Welch – “April 14th Part 1”
Julie Feeney – “Just A Few Hours”
The Cake Sale (Gary Lightbody & Lisa Hannigan) – “Some Surprise”
Joe Heaney – “An Buinnean Bull”
Iris Dement – “Our Town”
Cara Dillon & Paul Brady – “Streets of Derry”
Readings from Favorite Poems in Tribute to Seamus Heaney
Intro: Gabriel Byrne IN A FIELD
1. Elise Paschen, BLACKBERRY PICKING
2. Meghan O'Rourke, MID-TERM BREAK
3. Colum McCann, MOSSBAWN (SUNLIGHT and DIGGING)
4. Colette Bryce, A SOFA IN THE FORTIES
5. Conor O'Callaghan, CLEARANCES #4
6. Alice McDermott, ST KEVIN & THE BLACKBIRD
7. Bernard O'Donoghue, AT THE WELLHEAD
8. Marie Howe, from SEEING THINGS
9. Matthew Sweeney, THE TOLLUND MAN
10. Nick Laird, STATION ISLAND Sec VII
11. Kevin Holohan, SINGING SCHOOL #4 SUMMER 1969
12. Henri Cole, OYSTERS
13. Craig Morgan Teicher, SQUARINGS
14. Mark Doty, from FROM THE REPUBLIC OF CONSCIENCE
15. Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill, reading her own poem newly written for Seamus
16. Enda Walsh, CLEARANCES #3
17. Paul Muldoon, KEEPING GOING
