Cork Midsummer: Amanda Feery - Nest

NEST is a Mass for the Tenant. A powerful live performance honouring our deep, often sacred connection to home - even when those in power treat it as disposable.

Critically responding to Éamon de Valera’s 1943 speech 'On Language and the Irish Nation' and composed for electronics and the majestic organ of St. Fin Barre’s Cathedral, NEST responds to themes of home, land, and belonging.

With a charged libretto by Eimear Walshe, the haunting refrain “they come to make a ruin” echoes like a congregational call, spanning centuries of displacement and destruction.

Created by acclaimed composer Amanda Feery with collaborator Declan Synnott, NEST explores dual meanings of sanctuary and seizure - a refuge, and a site of power struggle.

It is both intimate and monumental, reverent and radical.

Creative Team

Composition, Organ, and Electronics - Amanda Feery
Guitar and Electronics - Declan Synnott
Libretto - Eimear Walshe
Choral Recordings - 4 in a Bar
Design - Emma Conway

Tickets

€15 / €13. Booking at Cork Midsummer.