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13 Facts About Gerry Smyth

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Gerry Smyth was born on 14 September 1961 and is an academic, musician, actor and playwright born in Dublin, Ireland.

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Gerry Smyth has lectured throughout Europe and the United States on various aspects of Irish culture; most recently he was a keynote speaker at IASIL 2017, held in Singapore.

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Gerry Smyth was appointed Visiting Professor of Irish Studies at the University of Vienna between October 2010 and February 2011.

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4.

In 2016, Gerry Smyth published Celtic Tiger Blues: Music and Modern Irish Identity, which included analyses of work by James Joyce, the Pogues, Bernard MacLaverty, The Waterboys, Tim Robinson, and Augusta Holmes.

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In January 2021, Gerry Smyth released a co-edited volume entitled The Lost Letters of Flann O'Brien, a collection of 107 imaginary letters written to O'Brien by a range of contemporary figures including Roddy Doyle, John Banville, Anne Enright, Paul Muldoon, Frank Cottrell Boyce, and many more.

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Gerry Smyth is a founder member of the Liverpool-Irish Literary Theatre, specialising in the writing and production of plays on Irish literary themes.

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In 2011 Gerry Smyth wrote a two-man show entitled The Brother which he adapted from the work of Flann O'Brien.

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Gerry Smyth performed the play at an international Flann O'Brien conference in Vienna in July 2011, and at another international conference in Trieste in May 2012.

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9.

Gerry Smyth wrote a companion piece entitled Will the Real Flann O'Brien.

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Gerry Smyth performed at the Flann O'Brien Conference in Dublin in July 2019.

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11.

In 2012, Gerry Smyth recorded and released an album entitled James Joyce's Chamber Music: this was a folk musical version of the thirty-six lyric suite published by James Joyce in 1907.

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In 2013 and 2014, Gerry Smyth performed concerts of selected material from this album at concerts in Nijmegen, Brussels, Kortrijk, Paris, Rennes, Reykjavik, Trieste, Kristiansand, Gothenburg, Sassari, and Florence.

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In July 2019, Smyth released Words for Music, Perhaps: Fifteen Songs Adapted from the Poetry of W B Yeats.

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