This informal event begins with a chaired discussion between performer Susie Kennedy and musician Luka Bloom, both of whom contributed to the festivals. This discussion includes a screening of original footage from the 1978 festival filmed by Ken Lynam.  The second part of the event involves a contribution from Alanna O’Kelly who is presenting work in the touring exhibition at Ormston House, Wexford Arts Centre, and Uillin:West Cork Arts Centre. This event includes a sound screening of O’Kelly’s seminal Chantdown Greenham Common. The exhibition is open to the public both before and after the event at Belltable Theatre.

Luka Bloom (aka Barry Moore) is a folk singer-songwriter from County Kildare, whose career in music started in 1969 as he supported his brother Christy Moore while on tour in the UK.  Moore played at the four large anti-nuclear rallies at Carnsore Point and also recorded several anti-nuclear singles which are on display at Ormston House.

Susie Kennedy is an actor, jazz singer, drama teacher and humanist celebrant. Kennedy began working in theatre in Dublin in the 1970s and made a career of one-woman music revues. Kennedy performed in a play “DRINK THE MERCURY” at the first Carnsore Point festival in August 1978. She also performed in the ‘Anti-Nuclear Roadshow’ which, for two weeks later in 1978, toured across Ireland, North and South, connecting with local anti-nuclear groups.

Alanna O’Kelly attended the National College of Art and Design and the Slade School of Art, London. Her practice incorporates sculpture, performance and film. Influenced by feminist politics, O’Kelly explores ideas of the psychic conflicts of our shared history and the continuity of tradition. O’Kelly went to Greenham Common in 1983 to take part in ‘Sounds Around the Base’ that had 30,000 to 50,000 women surrounding the 9-mile perimeter fence of the military base.