Switch on Culture Night with venues and public spaces across the island of Ireland as they open their doors to host a programme of free late-night entertainment, as part of an all-island celebration of arts, heritage and culture. Now in its thirteenth year, Culture Night returns in 2017 with its biggest programme to date. Just […]
Aspects Festival: 14-24 September
The 26th annual Aspects Festival takes place in Bangor, Co Down from 14-24th September. 7.00pm Wednesday 20 September, Poetry Reading: Peter Fallon North Down Museum Adm: £8.00 Peter Fallon’s poetry confirms Keats’s notion that an intelligence becomes a soul through being schooled in a world of pains and troubles. His poems are soul music of […]
Clifden Arts Festival: 13-24 September
The 40th Clifden Arts Festival kicks off this Wednesday 13th September and runs until the 24th. Among the many events are: 3.00pm Saturday 16th September Reading with Vona Groarke, Bernard O’Donoghue, Michael Longley Venue: Station House Theatre http://bit.ly/2wkr7dd 5.00pm Saturday 16th September Reading with Theo Dorgan, Paula Meehan and Michael Coady. Adm: €10. […]
Fierce Moon Festival: 14-17 September
The Fierce Moon – Celebrating the Work of Dermot Healy takes place from this Thursday 14th September to Sunday 17th September at The Glens Centre, Leitrim. 2.00pm – 3.00pm: Saturday 16th September: A critical discussion of Dermot Healy’s fiction and poetry. Keith Hopper, Peter Fallon, Liza Costello. Chaired by Vincent Woods. Full programme here: http://www.theglenscentre.com/…/…/07/fiercemoonprogramme.pdf
Continuities: A Poetry Reading with Medbh McGuckian, Ciaran Carson, Frank Ormsby & Kevin Young
Continuities: A Poetry Reading with Medbh McGuckian, Ciaran Carson, Frank Ormsby & Kevin Young Seamus Heaney HomePlace, Bellaghy 3pm, Sunday 10th September. For the closing event in the Human Chain weekend at SeamusHeaney HomePlace, Paul Muldoon invites four distinguished poets to read from their work in a moving celebration of continuity and change: Medbh McGuckian, […]
Muldoon at Seamus Heaney HomePlace: 9 September
7.00pm Saturday 9 September Seamus Heaney HomePlace, Bellaghy Muldoon: From the Horse’s Mouth Paul Muldoon has long been fascinated by horses, and horses recur time and again in his works, including the sonnet sequence ‘Horse Latitudes’, which focuses on historical battles in which horses played a central role. In this special event to celebrate his […]
Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh at Ó Bhéal: 4 September
9.30pm 4th September Ó Bhéal, The Long Valley Bar, Winthrop St., Cork Ó Bhéal in association with Foras na Gaeilge presents Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh was born in Kerry and writes in the Irish language. She has read at festivals in New York, Paris, Montréal, Berlin and Ballyferriter. In 2012 her poem Deireadh na Feide won the O’Neill Poetry Prize. Filleadh […]
Book Launch: Dennis O’Driscoll Collected Poems: 31 August
6.00pm 31st August Book launch: Collected Poems of Dennis O’Driscoll Keough Naughton Notre Dame Centre, O’Connell House, 58 Merrion Square South, Dublin 2 With readings from the collection by various people including Peter Jay, Thomas McCarthy, Eileen Battersby, Peter Sirr, John Greening, Mary O’Malley, John F. Deane, Peter Fallon, Hugh O’Donnell and others. The readers […]
The Folk Club, The Central, Navan: 18 August
The Folk Club At The Central Andy Irvine | Donal Lunny | Mystery Guest?? Lisa O’Neill, Thomas Walsh, Saramai & Cormac O’Keeffe, Michael Brunnock, Dave Murphy, Peter Fallon, Oisin Leech & The Bridge Street Band … And DJ Hill (Spinning Vinyl from Across the Decades) Doors open 7.30pm Friday 18 August The Central Trimgate Street, […]
Feis Teamhra/ A Turn at Tara: 27 August
Feis Teamhra/ A Turn at Tara 3.00pm Sunday 27 August Visitors’ Centre Hill of Tara, Co. Meath Tickets: Free The tenth annual Feis Teamhra/A Turn at Tara, which features readings and performances by internationally-recognized Irish writers and musicians, returns to the Visitors’ Centre on the Hill of Tara. This year features singer Moya Brennan, novelist […]
