The Cuban Revolution in 7 Stories and 7 Songs
Saturday 1 June
Anita’s, Mountshannon - 2pm
€10/ €8 with wristband
‘One of the finest journalists writing today.’ – Naomi Klein
In a carefully curated selection of stories and songs, writer Michael McCaughan teases apart the tangled threads of the Cuban Revolution, still alive after 65 years in power. What is the connection between Carmen Miranda and Fidel Castro? What is the gap between myth and reality in Cuba today?
In a unique reflection on the Cuban Revolution, seven stories and seven pieces of music grapples with the complexity and contradictions of a revolution, providing a window into the revolution and a mirror out of which we see our own reflected desires.
There will be an opportunity for discuss the performance after the show, which lasts 70 minutes.
Michael McCaughan is a writer, researcher, broadcaster and activist who lived and worked in Latin America for almost three decades.
Michael McCaughan
Described by Naomi Klein as ‘one of the finest journalists writing today’, Michael McCaughan is a parent, writer and researcher living in the Burren. He worked as a foreign correspondent in Latin America for many years, primarily with the Irish Times. His work focuses on punk rock, memory, resistance and rebellion.
His books include ‘True Crimes; Rodolfo Walsh; the life and times of a radical intellectual,’, ‘The Battle of Venezuela’ and ‘The Price of our Souls; Shell, Gas Mayo’ (Afri 2008), which chronicles the Corrib Gas controversy in County Mayo.
In Colombia McCaughan investigated Carton de Colombia, a company owned by Irish entrepreneur Michael Smurfit. That story, published in the Irish Times, sparked a public campaign to improve worker conditions and safeguard the lands of indigenous people displaced by the company’s operations.
In his last book, ‘Coming Home’, McCaughan described his journey back to the Irish language, travelling the length and breadth of Ireland in order to better understand our complex relationship with an Ghaeilge.
