Stephen James Smith
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Camán/Hurley by Paul Casey | Fancy a Lift? | Poetry Postcard 5/5
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Poetry video postcard 5/5 of the 'Fancy a Lift?' series, created in partnership with the Well Festival of Arts & Wellbeing 2023.
Today’s poem is Camán/Hurley by Paul Casey.
Narrated by Stephen James Smith.
Graphic design by Alina O'Shaughnessy.
Video edit by DGM Photographic.
Recording and soundscape produced by Gavin Glass at Orphan Recording Studios, Wexford.
The Well Festival celebrates all the ways the arts help us to feel good and is presented by Garter Lane Arts Centre, Waterford City and County Libraries and Waterford Healing Arts Trust.
The festival is kindly funded by the Arts Council, the HSE and Waterford City and County Council, with additional support from Sanofi.
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Bog Medicine by Annemarie Ni Churreáin | Fancy a Lift? | Poetry Postcard 4/5
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www.StephenJamesSmith.com Poetry video postcard 4/5 of the 'Fancy a Lift?' series, created in partnership with the Well Festival of Arts & Wellbeing in Waterford. Today’s poem is Bog Medicine by Annemarie Ni Churreáin. Narrated by Stephen James Smith. Graphic design by Alina O'Shaughnessy. Video edit by DGM Photographic. Recording and soundscape produced by Gavin Glass at Orphan Recording Studi...
Seed by Paula Meehan | Fancy a Lift? | Poetry Postcard 3/5
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www.StephenJamesSmith.com Poetry video postcard 3/5 of the 'Fancy a Lift?' series, created by the Well Festival of Arts & Wellbeing in Waterford. Today’s poem is Seed by Paula Meehan. Narrated by Stephen James Smith Graphic design by Alina O'Shaughnessy. Video edit by DGM Photographic. Recording and soundscape produced by Gavin Glass at Orphan Recording Studios, Wexford. The Well Festival celeb...
My Wife Thinks I’m at a Poetry Reading by Phil Lynch | Fancy a Lift? | Poetry Postcard 2/5
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www.StephenJamesSmith.com Poetry video postcard 2/5 of the 'Fancy a Lift?' series, created for the Well Festival of Arts & Wellbeing in Waterford. Today’s poem is My Wife Thinks I’m at a Poetry Reading by Phil Lynch. Narrator: Stephen James Smith Graphic design by Alina O'Shaughnessy. Video edit by DGM Photographic. Recording and soundscape produced by Gavin Glass at Orphan Recording Studios, W...
Amber by Eavan Boland | Fancy a Lift? | Poetry Postcard 1/5
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www.StephenJamesSmith.com Poetry video postcard 1/5 of the 'Fancy a Lift?' series, created for the Well Festival of Arts & Wellbeing in Waterford. Today’s poem is Amber by Eavan Boland. Narrator: Stephen James Smith Graphic design by Alina O'Shaughnessy. Video edit by DGM Photographic. Recording and soundscape produced by Gavin Glass at Orphan Recording Studios, Wexford. The Well Festival celeb...
Christmas Gift Suggestions! 🎄
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Hohoho 🎅🎄get your Christmas gifts here: sjswords.myshopify.com #ArtistsAreForLifeNotJustChristmas
Mother Tongues (Voice of Ireland) - Stephen James Smith @sjswords
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www.StephenJamesSmith.com​ ICYMI here is my poem ‘Mother Tongues’ which was commissioned for the Sky Arts TV series ‘Voice of Ireland’. My part was filmed on Curracloe Beach, Co. Wexford, June 12th, 2021. I’m delighted to say, in April it won the award for Best ‘Specialist Factual’ from the Royal Television Society. Special thanks go to Imelda May and Moya Brennan for inviting me to be part of ...
I've Had Lovers [Lyric Video] - Stephen James Smith @sjswords
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www.StephenJamesSmith.com​ Listen to my debut album 'See No Evil' here: Bandcamp: nymphsandthugs.bandcamp.com/album/see-no-evil Spotify: open.spotify.com/album/6JCK335pCrHmMILwIafhET Apple Music: music.apple.com/ie/album/see-no-evil/1613725400 SoundCloud: soundcloud.com/stephenjamessmith/sets/see-no-evil Deezer: deezer.page.link/Ja1VpZbu7X43YiyJ9 Get your ticket's for my Irish & UK tour this Ap...
Only For This - Stephen James Smith & Basciville
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www.StephenJamesSmith.com​ basciville Filmed & Edited by Lorcan & Cillian Byrne. Featuring Brendan O'Brien and his family. Listen to 'tell it to a tree' an EP by Basciville, Cursed Murphy & Stephen James Smith here: found.ee/TellItToATree Spotify: ​​open.spotify.com/album/58Nc2BuGWKfDGZLqoeZStq Apple Music: music.apple.com/us/album/tell-it-to-a-tree-ep/1604847156 UA-cam Music: musi...
Dublin You Are - Live @ Vicar Street - Stephen James Smith - Turning Pirate NYE Mixtape 2016
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www.StephenJamesSmith.com​ Here’s a blast from the past! Yesterday my friend Úna Molloy tweeted some videos from the brilliant New Years Eve Turning Pirate Mixtape gigs she ran in Vicar Street over the years. It reminded me I had some footage of my performance from 2016 sitting on my hard drive that never saw the light of day, so I thought I’d share it with yis all today. It’s funny, I remember...
Ode to the Olympia - Stephen James Smith ft. Kormac - @sjswords
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www.StephenJamesSmith.com​ Tonight I’m going to my first gig in The Olympia Theatre, Dublin in ages (I’m going to see For Those I Love @forthoseilove, check ‘em out). It’s one of my favourite venues in my hometown and I’m really looking forward to the gig later, no doubt more brilliant memories will be created there for all in attendance. ICYMI earlier this year I was invited to write a poem fo...
Redemption Song by Robert Nesta Marley
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Felt cute might delete later… Redemption Song by Robert Nesta Marley from his 12th album Uprising, June 1980 Thanks to Enda Reilly for helping to learn this song and making a silk purse out of my sow’s ear, or have I got that the wrong way around? ;) #PoetsShouldNtSing #OutOfTune #BobMarley #RedemptionSong Watch ‘ReMastered: Who Shot the Sheriff?’ www.imdb.com/title/tt9046548 www.StephenJamesSm...
Step By Step - A St Patrick's Festival Celebration 2021 - Stephen James Smith
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www.stephenjamessmith.com​ icymi... On St. Patrick’s Day my new commission ‘Step By Step’ featured on RTÉ 1’s ‘A St. Patrick's Festival Celebration’. I was nervous about writing it, as I was asked to include a line for 32 children from 32 counties across the island. But never fear young people will always shine bright. So a special thanks to all of them for taking the time to get involved! The ...
Addressing The Nations - Stephen James Smith - Centre Culturel Irlandais - 28/01/2021
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www.stephenjamessmith.com icymi here's 'Imagine Yourself a Map' form the Centre Culturel Irlandais' #AddressingTheNations - 28/01/2021 Info: www.centreculturelirlandais.com/en/agenda/addressing-the-nations Merci beaucoup to Nora Hickey M'Sichili, the Embassy of Ireland in Paris and Culture Ireland. Addressing the Nations: An online project curated by the Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris Four ev...
Russian Fruit - Stephen James Smith @sjsWORDS
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Russian Fruit - Stephen James Smith @sjsWORDS
First Fortnight '21 - RTÉ Supporting The Arts
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First Fortnight '21 - RTÉ Supporting The Arts
May You - Stephen James Smith & Kormac ft. Jess Kav
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May You - Stephen James Smith & Kormac ft. Jess Kav
Collectively Counting - Stephen James Smith - Solstice Sessions
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Collectively Counting - Stephen James Smith - Solstice Sessions
Here Now Know - @sjsWORDS & @GarethQR
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Here Now Know - @sjsWORDS & @GarethQR
Our Darkest Night - Púca Festival - Stephen James Smith @sjswords
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Our Darkest Night - Púca Festival - Stephen James Smith @sjswords
We Must Create - Liverpool Irish Festival @LivIrishFest - Stephen James Smith
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We Must Create - Liverpool Irish Festival @LivIrishFest - Stephen James Smith
#ThisIsWhoWeAre - @Epic2020_Group
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#ThisIsWhoWeAre - @Epic2020_Group
Synonymous with Strength - Stephen James Smith & Elma Orkestra
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Synonymous with Strength - Stephen James Smith & Elma Orkestra
Movember Projections: Conversation Piece - We Stand Together
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Movember Projections: Conversation Piece - We Stand Together
Hozier - IG Live - 17/07/2020 - 'On The Bus' by Stephen James Smith
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Hozier - IG Live - 17/07/2020 - 'On The Bus' by Stephen James Smith
Solstice Sessions - Stephen James Smith - @SJSwords
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Solstice Sessions - Stephen James Smith - @SJSwords
'London Irish Night In' - Stephen James Smith - Livestream 11/06/20
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'London Irish Night In' - Stephen James Smith - Livestream 11/06/20
Imelda May - The Late Late Show - RTÉ - 15/05/2020
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Imelda May - The Late Late Show - RTÉ - 15/05/2020
Collectively Counting - Stephen James Smith @sjswords
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Collectively Counting - Stephen James Smith @sjswords

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  • @yogauge
    @yogauge 4 місяці тому

    Saw this in school

    • @sjswords
      @sjswords 3 місяці тому

      Hope you enjoyed it!

    • @yogauge
      @yogauge 3 місяці тому

      i enjoyed it so much to watch it at home@@sjswords

    • @sjswords
      @sjswords 3 місяці тому

      @@yogauge ah thanks! 🙏

  • @elsemariecunningham8120
    @elsemariecunningham8120 6 місяців тому

    Beautiful

    • @sjswords
      @sjswords 6 місяців тому

      Thanks for watching 💚

  • @karolspeight1968
    @karolspeight1968 Рік тому

    Love it pal

    • @sjswords
      @sjswords Рік тому

      Thanks @karolspeight1968

  • @AlisonCassidy
    @AlisonCassidy Рік тому

    I love this poem deeply, and the narrator absolutely nails it. And I keep coming back here when I’m homesick. Dub, 5,000 miles from home. I just played this for my kid, and he loved it too.

    • @sjswords
      @sjswords Рік тому

      Thanks @AlisonCassidy

  • @user-sz6fo9bs8i
    @user-sz6fo9bs8i Рік тому

    ❤ i haven't heard anything as good as this in a very long time well done lads

  • @Tc-sp7hi
    @Tc-sp7hi Рік тому

    amazing rendition. Thank you

  • @ainemcgowan9622
    @ainemcgowan9622 Рік тому

    Romantic Ireland, isn't dead and gone, it's alive and well its in my heart....I love William Butler Yeats as well and this rendition is absolutely beautiful, Go riabh maith agat.

    • @sjswords
      @sjswords Рік тому

      Fáilte. Thanks so much!!!

  • @nicolelochren9560
    @nicolelochren9560 Рік тому

    Put on this video by accident and I was pleasantly surprised how beautiful and haunting.

    • @sjswords
      @sjswords Рік тому

      Thanks for watching Nicole!

  • @davethecrow
    @davethecrow 2 роки тому

    beautiful. and my favourite place in Ireland.

  • @dermhurl
    @dermhurl 2 роки тому

    Amazingly i just wrote a poem inspired by the death of Michael furey five minutes before I found this.

    • @sjswords
      @sjswords 2 роки тому

      I love it when things like that happen!

  • @matheryn03
    @matheryn03 2 роки тому

    This expresses a thought I've been having for a long time. Language is one of the most powerful cultural identifiers we have. It keeps us connected to each other, to our ancestors, to our stories and our histories. Thus, the deliberate destruction of language is one of the most powerful tools of subjugation and assimilation a colonising power wields over another culture. As an Australian, one of the first things we did to our first nations people was strip away their language. Well, after we decided that wholesale murdering them all was altogether too much effort. We stole their children, took their language, and along with it their most important link to their ancestry and culture. I saw the same methods used against the Pueblos of New Mexico at their cultural museum. First, you take their children: their future. Then you take their language--their present. Then, you watch as their ability to connect with their past erodes away.

  • @colintaylor
    @colintaylor 2 роки тому

    Just followed a link on Reddit. This was very powerful. Can’t wait to show my wife

    • @sjswords
      @sjswords 2 роки тому

      Thanks, I hope they like it.

  • @useyouredge
    @useyouredge 2 роки тому

    Absolutely brillant stuff!

    • @sjswords
      @sjswords 2 роки тому

      Thanks for watching!

  • @jacklagreca3401
    @jacklagreca3401 2 роки тому

    Damn this is powerful ! I wish I'd found ya years ago , your talented af brother 🤘 Thank you......

    • @sjswords
      @sjswords 2 роки тому

      Better late than never! X

    • @jacklagreca3401
      @jacklagreca3401 2 роки тому

      @@sjswords Absofeckinlutely my friend......

  • @irinalekhmus
    @irinalekhmus 2 роки тому

    ❤️‍🔥

  • @sulsulkorean2763
    @sulsulkorean2763 2 роки тому

    Thank you. You make us realize our need to be ourselves, to be true to ourselves, to be authentic. Thank you 🙏

  • @sulsulkorean2763
    @sulsulkorean2763 2 роки тому

    Love it Stephen. Going to see you on Friday 8th April in Pepper Canister Church, mount st. Dublin. Can’t wait…I need this!

    • @sjswords
      @sjswords 2 роки тому

      Thanks for coming. I hope you enjoy the gig!

  • @ericamannea8148
    @ericamannea8148 2 роки тому

    I love these words

  • @JaneWillowMusic
    @JaneWillowMusic 2 роки тому

    Wonderful.

  • @floatinghome
    @floatinghome 2 роки тому

    wonderful

  • @Hiram1000
    @Hiram1000 2 роки тому

    Hi. Excellent. What camera was used to shoot it?

    • @sjswords
      @sjswords 2 роки тому

      Hi Paul, I'm not sure you'd have to ask the @Basciville, but I think it was cheap Nikon with a good lens.

  • @cornerback4074
    @cornerback4074 2 роки тому

    A version with only the singing and guitar would be class

  • @cormaclally9288
    @cormaclally9288 2 роки тому

    Lovely tribute dude. Mhaith tú

  • @cormaclally9288
    @cormaclally9288 2 роки тому

    Nice work dude

  • @irinalekhmus
    @irinalekhmus 2 роки тому

    Beautiful!👏

  • @AmaxMr
    @AmaxMr 2 роки тому

    Merry Christmas to you as well. May the turning of the calendar find us each in a better world both internal and external. Cheers....

  • @barbaracronin4164
    @barbaracronin4164 2 роки тому

    Me! I would want to listen. I am listening. And I will continue to listen. Thank you.

  • @bamboblima2609
    @bamboblima2609 2 роки тому

    Salvador bahia brasil

  • @Phiiphayden
    @Phiiphayden 2 роки тому

    bravo Stephen ... warms = write assessing recite memorising significations

  • @Phiiphayden
    @Phiiphayden 2 роки тому

    bravo Stephen ... warms = write assessing recite memorising significations

  • @mroflynn7769
    @mroflynn7769 2 роки тому

    You do the best poem ever written on this city proud. So well delivered and ideal footage. Excellent.

  • @godfrey_of_america
    @godfrey_of_america 2 роки тому

    Dreadful

    • @sjswords
      @sjswords 2 роки тому

      Sorry it's not to your liking, we can't win 'em all!

  • @radomiriz
    @radomiriz 2 роки тому

    Where can I get the words for this? Impossible to find on the Internet.

    • @sjswords
      @sjswords 2 роки тому

      Hi, yeah it's nowhere online. Here's a link to my Google Doc with the text: docs.google.com/document/d/1M31t8m1pE4_CBIpTEgi8WQvBIWe5shKsUNGXrDlXXEk/edit?usp=sharing

    • @radomiriz
      @radomiriz 2 роки тому

      @@sjswordsThanks, my man.

  • @codiep9844
    @codiep9844 3 роки тому

    Great stuff Stephen. I could hear influences from Bob, Damo and Enda in that but ultimately you made it your own 👌👌👌

  • @dayspeacemusic1553
    @dayspeacemusic1553 3 роки тому

    Nothing better than listening to someone sing a song that they love. Thanks for feeling the fear Stephen. If you're open to requests play Solid Air by John Martyn next!

  • @EndaReilly
    @EndaReilly 3 роки тому

    Maith thú Stiofán! It's a jam!

  • @robertflanagan1364
    @robertflanagan1364 3 роки тому

    I would love to see you and glen do a song together. Well done on getting out of your comfort zone. Respect.

  • @neddunn7384
    @neddunn7384 3 роки тому

    Lethal stuff Steve!

  • @tribacioustee2846
    @tribacioustee2846 3 роки тому

    Very soothing, thank you

    • @sjswords
      @sjswords 3 роки тому

      Thanks for listening!

  • @1911613
    @1911613 3 роки тому

    Lovely stuff Stephen, you meant every word of that. Looking forward to more. Cheers Seán

    • @sjswords
      @sjswords 3 роки тому

      Thanks Seán, sure we have to scare ourselves now and again. I wouldn't say I'm much of a singer, but I do love this song.

  • @projet.kitsune
    @projet.kitsune 3 роки тому

    <3 <3 <3 Magical

  • @frckasti2148
    @frckasti2148 3 роки тому

    A man goes to the coast of an island to be alone. He has gone as far as he can, for now. It’s called retreat. A great distance is not always far enough, when the mind is as restless as the ocean you’re sleeping beside. This man in seeking solitude and in doing so has brought the loneliness into his own heart. Sure he knew this would be the way of it, but he still put one foot in front of the other. You’ve to face it sometimes learn... The barren landscape has seen worse, he reminds himself of the continued struggle and erosion that is life. He thinks that's a cliched metaphor, a famine village is deserving of more. He looks out at the ocean all too often, The primal part in him wanting to rage in the deep blue. Yesterday was Valentine’s Day and around the table he was told a tragic love story of a man, who after he buried his love, climbed to the top of Bolus Head and through himself to the depths. After this story, the man made the same trek. It would be so easy to climb the rock walls, pass by the sheep in the fields, and dive never submitting, but knowing it's a fight never to be won once submerged. There’s something honest in that though he thinks, is there? Never submitting. Those rocks are patient hunters, how much violence have they caused by simple stillness. Then birdsong called through the air, like so many times, it has called him away from a dark edge, like so many times, it is the simple things in his life that save him; fond memories, curiosity, he could have sworn he saw the Fibonacci Sequence in a spider web earlier, this reminded him. Those rocks can wait for now. Instead he’ll walk into the wind, which numbed his face yesterday, while a warm heart pounds on beneath all the layers. You can go so far and it’s never enough. You can learn to be still and it’ll come to you. You can think of moving rocks, battling nature, or arranging words in some fashion aiming for legacy. This is redundant. You fucking know this. Leave your ego at this pagan peninsula, echoes of trauma are just that, time for silence. You are here. It’s sunny outside. The man notices the bruise on his knee is fading, the salted air is already healing. Later he’ll eat eggs and light a fire. Later good things will come to pass. He remembers this right now, as he sit still, warming his feet, ready to wander...

    • @sjswords
      @sjswords 3 роки тому

      Glad it resonated with you!

    • @frckasti2148
      @frckasti2148 3 роки тому

      @@sjswords One of my videos ... :-) ua-cam.com/video/lcfFyTicVvw/v-deo.html

  • @michealcuddihy7008
    @michealcuddihy7008 3 роки тому

    Is there a full version of the song at the end ?

    • @sjswords
      @sjswords 3 роки тому

      It's on Brendan Begley's album 'Fé Scáth / In the Shadow'. Hope that helps.

    • @michealcuddihy7008
      @michealcuddihy7008 3 роки тому

      @@sjswords thank you !

  • @dayspeacemusic1553
    @dayspeacemusic1553 3 роки тому

    Beautiful Stephen. Having watched all of your incredible pieces on more than one occasion. I love to see youtube tell me a SJS is premiering at. It gives me the space to anticipate and then enjoy your incredible words.

    • @sjswords
      @sjswords 3 роки тому

      I really appreciate that. It's good to hear my ramblings resonate with someone!

  • @boscono2
    @boscono2 3 роки тому

    Awesomeness compiled in a few minutes beautiful words spoken ❤️😱😱😱😱

  • @ruckusridgenc
    @ruckusridgenc 3 роки тому

    Beautifully done, uplifting, inspiring !!

  • @kaladin7487
    @kaladin7487 3 роки тому

    This is so good