The title is as wide ranging as show this week guys but stick with us!

Over 1 million people were on the streets of Dublin last weekend to support the runners taking on the city's marathon, and we think only 800,000 of them were there to perv over Colin Farrell! Leon ran it and has a poem for us.

The next day, Ryan went into The Secret Book Store for the first time, picked up a random poetry collection, opened it at a random page when enjoying a pint at Devitts on Camden Street in a journey that proves that poetry will see you before you see poetry. Enjoy this piece from the late Patricia Monaghan.

We get into the weeds of Irishness next with the work of James Clarence Mangan as Leon has been reading Finding Mangan by Bridget Hourican, a devil of a book going into the deeps of his life. On the flip-side, a man who got a lot of inspiration from Mangan was Shane MacGowan. Ryan is reading his pub-crawl book 'A Drink With Shane MacGowan' at the moment so we share poems from both, and spar over the history of Ireland and the ignorance of education in England about what happened.

We have a lovely end to the show through a short and sweet piece about love by Shiv Hickey. Beautiful work.

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Ryan and Leon

Poems from the show

Leon Dunne - What Are You Running From?
Instagram - @nomanticz

Patricia Monaghan - The Butterfly Tattoo Effect
https://www.amazon.com/Dancing-Chaos-Salmonpoetry-Patricia-Monaghan/dp/1903392276

James Clarence Mangan - Dark Rosaleen
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/50353/dark-rosaleen

Shane MacGowan - The Dunes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5UH3Iik8Jg

Shiv Hickey - Loved Out Loud
Instagram - @whisperedwordsaftermidnight

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Original music by Matthew Keating
Artwork by Paddy Downey
Introduction and co-produced by Lisa Downey