Following on from many other events I’ve had the privilege to be involved with for IMRAM with legendary poets of the Irish language medium, here’s an event celebrating Tarot, of which i know little or nothing! But seemingly some of Bob Dylan’s songs are filled with imagery from Tarot Cards and the three I’ll be interpreting will be Isis, Changing Of The Guards and No Time To Think, all translated wonderfully by Gabriel Rosenstock. These are all epic songs. Very different to the short songs I’m used to singing and writing. To be honest I never gave his longer songs enough attention, (with the exception of Masters of War which totally blew me away) so it’s a challenging experience for me but I’m enjoying it and looking forward to the event in Smock Alley Theatre.

I’ll be joined not for the first time by two amazing poets, Dairena Ní Chinnéide (in Irish) and Helen Ivory (in English) and by the wonderful visual artist Margaret Lonergan (She’s deadly – see below) . Curated as usual by Liam Carson of IMRAM.

An Túr: Tionscadal an Tarot / The Tower: The Tarot Project
Dairena Ní Chinnéide, Helen Ivory & Enda Reilly

Sunday, 20 May 8:00pm
Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin
Price€10 / €8
Tickets: https://ilfdublin.ticketsolve.com/shows/873587792

The art of Tarot poetics began in Renaissance Italy with Teo lo Folengo and his contemporaries, and since then poets including W B Yeats, T S Eliot and Marge Piercy have used the Tarot in their work. Curated by Liam Carson, The Tower features Dairena Ní Chinnéide (in Irish) and Helen Ivory (in English)reading work inspired by the Tarot cards, with on-screen projections created by Margaret Lonergan. On his albums Desire and Street-Legal, Bob Dylan wrote a series of songs drenched in Tarot imagery, and a selection of these, transcreated into Irish by Gabriel Rosenstock, will be performed by Enda Reilly.

Ba san Iodáil a cuireadh tús le healaín éigse an Tarot agus ó aimsir Teo lo Folengo agus na lí a bhí comhaimseartha leis tá leas á bhaint ag lí as an Tarot, ina measc W B Yeats, T S Eliot agus Marge Piercy. Is é Liam Carson coiméadai An Túr/The Tower, seó a léireoidh dánta le Dairena Ní Chinnéide agus Helen Ivory a tháinig faoi thionchar na gcártaí Tarot. Teilgfidh Margaret Lonergan físeanna draíochtacha ar an scáileán. Chum Bob Dylan roinnt amhrán sna halbaim Desire agus Street-Legal atá ar maos in íomhánna Tarot agus canfaidh Enda Reilly cuid acu sin, traschruthaithe ag Gabriel Rosenstock.

Here’s a performance of  Down By The Sally Gardens  from the event, I hear it in the Deep Hearts Core, live in Pearse Street Library on Poetry Day last week. Cathal Quinn and I had a lovely audience thanks to Dublin City Libraries and Guthanna Binne Síoraí. The Irish in the song and the show was translated by the one and only Gabriel Rosenstock.

the Whorls album version is over here

hearts core poster

Related show

• Artist: Enda Reilly
• Date: 26/04/18
• Time: 6:30pm
• Venue: Pearse Street Library
• City: Dublin
• Address: Pearse Street
• Country: IE
• Admission: Free
• Age restrictions: All Ages/Licensed
• Notes: Poetry Day Ireland 2018 Pearse Street Library – “I Hear It in the Deep Heart’s Core” with Guthanna Binne Síoraí. Celebrating the poetry of WB Yeats in word and song. Artistic Director Cathal Quinn and musician, composer and singer Enda Reilly take you on a journey through the poetry of Yeats, spoken and sung in English and Irish, with translations by Gabriel Rosenstock. Enda sets many of the well-known Yeats poems to music, adding a rich addition to these magnificent works, with some pithy and witty explanations in between the poems. Booking recommended.
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