DisComBoBuLatE presents Ireland's Greatest Living Genius: The Book Launch
Thursday 8 September 2011
8:00pm
Adult: £3.00
Venue: CCA 5, Sauchiehall Street
Ages: all
The £3 entrance fee will be deducted from the cost of the book.
Ian Macpherson has just spent 15 years editing legendary poet Fiachra MacFiach's memoir, The Autobiography Of Ireland's Greatest Living Genius.
The Everlasting Book Launch is a unique literary event: Macpherson and special guests read from MacFiach's memoir, and try to divert the audience while they await the arrival of the famously reclusive author.
But will they manage to hold audience attention for an hour of high culture? Can they persuade someone to read MacFiach's Heaneyesque poem about his mother's plump plunger with the required gravitas? And will The Great Man arrive before the evening is up?
GNARLED TREE WEBSITE: irishgenius.me
'Comedy’s answer to James Joyce’
ARTHUR SMITH – BBC RADIO 4
'Pre-dating and pre-empting all contemporary Irish comics, and the originator of the most influential joke of all time, Ian Macpherson is the Newgrange Megalithic Passage Tomb of stand-up comedy’
STEWART LEE
'The Comedians’ Comedian’
IRISH TIMES
'Ian was one of the first stand ups I ever saw live, and I longed for gags like his’
HARRY HILL
'One of the most creative and intelligent comedians I've ever seen’
GUARDIAN
'DisComBoBuLatE – with host Ian Macpherson – delivered a brilliant, thought-provoking and highly entertaining mix of literature and comedy at the Edinburgh International Book Festival. It was one of the popular hits of the festival and also one of my own personal highlights’
NICK BARLEY – DIRECTOR – EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL
'Travis Bickle meets Holden Caulfield and William McGonagall down Ireland's mean streets. Read this and you'll never sleep with a poet again’
ALAN BISSETT
'The Spinal Tap of Irish Literature’
BRIAN BOYD – IRISH TIMES
'Macpherson's book has more typographical errors than Flannigans Wake, and they provide the reader with welcome comic relief’
ALASDAIR GRAY
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