An enjoyable trip to Liverpool, making our contribution to the city's 2011 Irish Festival.  At the launch event Festival organisers emphasised how pleased they were to be involving our venue, St Michael's Irish Centre, as an active participant in the celebrations.

The audience created a wonderful attention to the performance - along with a moment of anxiety for our Producer: at the end of the show, as applause died down, no-one moved.  Was something wrong?  Well, no.  It became clear, as quiet conversation arose across the tables, that people were choosing to hold the moment, and reflect on images, ideas and recollections the show had triggered.

One elderly man told us about his early experience of poems - being forced to learn and recite them in school, beaten if the memory failed.  Later on, and free from that dread, a love of words managed to resurface and establish a place it continues to hold in his life.  Long may it do so.