On Raglan Road: Great Irish Love Songs and the Women Who Inspired Them
Date: Fri 02 March
Time: 6.30pm
Venue: Scéal Eile
Price: Free
Gerard Hanberry will talk about the wonderful women who inspired some of Ireland’s finest love-songs. The talk is based on his recently published book On Raglan Road – Great Irish Love Songs and the Women Who Inspired Them (The Collins Press). Who exactly was Grace Gifford, the young woman who married Joseph Plunkett hours before his execution in 1916? Who is the real ‘Galway Girl’ and was there ever such a person as ‘Nancy Spain’? Who was the woman who enchanted Patrick Kavanagh when he saw her for the first time on ‘Raglan Road on an autumn day’?