Declan O‘Rourke in Kinvara
Folk on Foot
Matthew Bannister
4.8 • 526 Ratings
🗓️ 17 December 2021
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
The acclaimed singer and songwriter Declan O’Rourke takes us for a scenic walk near his home in the beautiful fishing village of Kinvara on the west coast of Ireland, singing songs inspired by the area as he goes. Declan’s grandfather, an artist, was born and brought up in Kinvara. On our walk, Declan reflects on his first performance at an open mic night in Dublin where he suffered “an instant addiction” to singing live, on his fascination with the Great Irish Famine of the 1840s and 50s and on the exhibition of his grandfather’s paintings he staged in the village.
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| 0:00.0 | We've never been this far west before. |
| 0:04.0 | We're in the Republic of Ireland. |
| 0:06.0 | We're in Galway Bay. |
| 0:08.0 | We're right in the tip, the inner tip of Galway Bay at a town called Kinvara. |
| 0:13.0 | And we're standing in the harbour, and the sun has just broken through the clouds |
| 0:17.0 | and is glinting off the water and illuminating the red boat and the green boat |
| 0:22.1 | and the yacht that's moored up here against the stade. |
| 0:26.7 | And we're here to meet a wonderful Irish singer-songwriter. |
| 0:31.7 | Music Declin O'Rourke's seventh solo album Arrivals has been in the official UK folk albums chart for months now. |
| 0:57.9 | And when I first heard it, I thought this is such a beautiful, poetic, stripped-back set of songs, produced by none other than Paul Weller. |
| 1:06.9 | I'd love to know more about the man who wrote these songs and about why he's made his home here in Kinvara on the very western coast of Ireland. |
| 1:16.6 | So that's what we're here to do today, to walk with him through the town and hear his music. |
| 1:21.6 | Declan, good morning. |
| 1:32.2 | What a beautiful, beautiful morning it is to be in the harbour at Kinvara. |
| 1:36.8 | I think the gods are smiling on us with this weather after a crazy week of rain. |
| 1:41.6 | The sun is out. |
| 1:42.5 | We're very lucky. |
| 1:43.4 | Yeah, it's brilliant. you picked a good time tell us |
| 1:45.9 | about kinvara what sort of a place is there well it's a it was a fishing village traditionally and a very |
| 1:52.0 | busy port many years ago before the roads were good all of the trading was done by boats from here |
| 1:59.1 | back and forth to golly and what have you and now it's just a |
| 2:02.6 | quaint little beautiful place what sort of community is here now really nice people a lot of artists and |
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