S4 E4 – Home from Home
Airs Tuesday August 6th at 22:00

 

Brona C.Titley, Panti Bliss, Anthony Keigher, Caoimhe Butterly, Iarla Ó Lionáird)
Photo credit: John Howard, Athena Media 2019

 
The Irish are all over the world, ‘the diaspora’ as Mary Robinson named it, and often creating waves where ever they go. In this episode of Pantisocracy host Panti Bliss is inviting folk who have a foot in two places like acclaimed sean nós singer Iarla Ó Lionáird, of the group The Gloaming, who spends his life now between Princeton University, in the United States and his home and family in Inistioge, County Kilkenny.
 

Full length, extended Podcast Mix of the show

 

 

The Panti Monologue – Home from Home from Athena Media on Vimeo.

 

 

Panti’s parlour guests & in-studio audience

 
With him is comedy writer (8 out of 10 Cats) and actor Brona C. Titley, who has settled in London and fellow London exile, cabaret artist Xnthony aka Anthony Keigher whose stage shows are both funny and queer like the one he calls ‘Sodom & Begorrah’. Joining them is social justice activist Caoimhe Butterly who grew up in Ireland, Canada and Africa and who, through her on-going work with refugees, is back and forth from Dublin to Lebanon and Greece.
 

Iarla Ó Lionáird – Samhradh Samhradh from Athena Media on Vimeo.

 

 

 

Panti with Xnthony

 

 

Panti and Caoimhe Butterly

 

Panti and singer Iarla Ó Lionáird

 

 
Iarla is performing in Dublin from the 19th – 24th of August 2019 at The Abbey Theatre in the Irish premiere of composer Donnacha Dennehy’s opera The Hunger.
 

Iarla Ó Lionáird – Casadh an tSúgáin from Athena Media on Vimeo.

 

 

Brona C Titley and Panti

 

 
 

Broadcast Mix of the show as heard on RTÉ Radio 1