We have just published a catalogue of plays available from The Gallery Press – almost seventy-five in all – by Irish playwrights. We hope it might be an encouragement and facilitate choices for drama/theatre companies and schools/colleges productions/courses. We’d be delighted to send a copy to you. If you’d be happy to receive one please […]
John Banville at Manchester Literature Festival: 10 October
Literature Live: John Banville and Mike McCormack 8.oopm 10 October 2017 Literature Live Martin Harris Centre, The University of Manchester John Banville and Mike McCormack, two of Ireland’s most accomplished prose stylists come together for an evening of reading and conversation. The event will be hosted by Ian McGuire, novelist and honorary lecturer at […]
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 […]
Poetry Ireland Table Quiz: 3 April
Monday 3 April, 8.00pm Café en Seine, Dawson Street, Dublin 2 Tickets: €50 for a table of 4 Join Quirke-y quizmaster John Banville and resident Quiz Queen from RTÉ, Marian Richardson, for a night of fun, facts and je ne sais quoi in the chic Parisian ambience of Café en Seine. Expect the usual puzzled looks, team squabbles […]
Mountains to Sea – Poetry Now Festival 22-26 March
The much-loved Poetry Now festival takes place at the same time as the Mountains to Sea festival and includes a strong line-up of poets including Michael Longley, Fanny Howe, Paula Meehan, Vona Groarke, Harry Clifton and Nick Laird. 6.30pm Thursday 23 March Heroes: Irish writers including Sarah Maria Griffin, Vona Groarke, Declan Hughes and John Kelly […]
Origin Irish Theatre Festival: 6 September – 22 October
New York’s annual 1st Irish Theatre Festival: a celebration of the best of Irish theatre, brought to you by Origin Theatre Company. Throughout September/October they highlight performances from playwrights new and old throughout the city. Since its inception in 2002, Origin Theatre Company has remained focused on bringing new European playwrights to the New York Stage […]
Imagining Home: The Literary Imagination – 1 April
Imagining Home: The Literary Imagination Friday 1st April, 8pm National Concert Hall, Dublin Prices: €39.50, €29.50, €22.50 John Banville, Anne Enright, Colm Tóibín, Eavan Boland, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, John Montague, Marina Carr, Kevin Barry and Paul Muldoon. A celebration of the country’s literary heritage, its present and its future, with some of Ireland’s greatest living writers […]
Yeats Autumn Gathering: 25-27 September 2015
JOHN BANVILLE TO OPEN THE LADY GREGORY YEATS AUTUMN GATHERING September 25 – September 27 2015 Described as “one of the most imaginative literary novelists writing in the English language today,”John Banville will open The Lady Gregory – Yeats Autumn Gathering! It is fitting that Banville, whose stated ambition is to give his prose […]
Beautiful Lofty Things – Yeats in Dublin – 12 September
Yeats in Dublin John Banville, Eavan Boland and John Montague are among the line-up for a Yeats 150th anniversary event at the National Concert Hall next month. Written and hosted by historian Roy Foster, “Beautiful Lofty Things: An evening with WB Yeats” will take place on Saturday, September 12th at 8pm. Directed by Alan Gilsenan, […]
Banville’s ‘Love in the Wars’ at Bard College — 12-20 July
World Premiere of Love in the Wars A version of Heinrich von Kleist’s Penthesilea by John Banville Directed by Ken Rus Schmoll “I stood there, blinded by the sight of you, And when you’d gone the form of you remained, Emblazoned on my eyes.” — Love in the Wars Penthesilea, Queen of the Amazons, […]
