Coming Up
GCN Town Hall Talk: At Swim, Two Boys
Sunday 19th May 2018 @ 7pm
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Belvedere House
Praised as “a work of wild, vaulting ambition and achievement”, Jamie O’Neill’s first novel At Swim, Two Boys, first published in 2001, invited comparison to such literary greats as James Joyce, Samuel Beckett and Charles Dickens.
Powerful and artful, and ten years in the writing, At Swim, Two Boys is a tender, tragic love story and a brilliant depiction of people caught in the tide of history. The book’s enduring popularity led to a reissue in 2017, with a foreword by John Boyne.
Get Tickets HERE
Belvedere House
Praised as “a work of wild, vaulting ambition and achievement”, Jamie O’Neill’s first novel At Swim, Two Boys, first published in 2001, invited comparison to such literary greats as James Joyce, Samuel Beckett and Charles Dickens.
Powerful and artful, and ten years in the writing, At Swim, Two Boys is a tender, tragic love story and a brilliant depiction of people caught in the tide of history. The book’s enduring popularity led to a reissue in 2017, with a foreword by John Boyne.
International Literature Festival:
Oliver Jeffers
Tuesday 22nd May 2018 @ 7pm
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€12 / €10 (12+)
Explore what makes the world and how we live in it through Oliver Jeffers’ eyes. His new book Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth journeys around our planet introducing land and sky, space and time, animals and humans with beautifully detailed images, created with his trademark wit and intelligence. His work has been exhibited internationally. His picture books have sold over 10 million copies, been translated into 40 languages and won multiple awards. Working in collaboration with Studio AKA, Lost and Found was developed into an animated short film that won a BAFTA for Best Animated Short Film.
Presented in association with Tall Tales, however this event is suitable for adults and over 12s only.
Get Tickets HERE
€12 / €10 (12+)
Explore what makes the world and how we live in it through Oliver Jeffers’ eyes. His new book Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth journeys around our planet introducing land and sky, space and time, animals and humans with beautifully detailed images, created with his trademark wit and intelligence. His work has been exhibited internationally. His picture books have sold over 10 million copies, been translated into 40 languages and won multiple awards. Working in collaboration with Studio AKA, Lost and Found was developed into an animated short film that won a BAFTA for Best Animated Short Film.
Presented in association with Tall Tales, however this event is suitable for adults and over 12s only.
ILF: Ruby Wax
Wednesday 23rd May 2018 @ 6pm
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She’s back! Sassy and smart U.S.-born comedy-actorwriter Ruby Wax returns to ILFDublin with her new book, How to Be Human: The Manual. Last year’s show Frazzled was a tour of the mind and how to use it, not lose it. As engaging a champion of mental health as ever, Ruby Wax is a powerful model for the destigmatisation of psychological illness. Honest, and funny, How to Be Human: The Manual is a fascinating, intriguing and informative look at bodies, brains and mindfulness.
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She’s back! Sassy and smart U.S.-born comedy-actorwriter Ruby Wax returns to ILFDublin with her new book, How to Be Human: The Manual. Last year’s show Frazzled was a tour of the mind and how to use it, not lose it. As engaging a champion of mental health as ever, Ruby Wax is a powerful model for the destigmatisation of psychological illness. Honest, and funny, How to Be Human: The Manual is a fascinating, intriguing and informative look at bodies, brains and mindfulness.
ILF: Celebrating William Trevor: John Banville, Dermot Bolger, Roy Foster, Yiyun Li & Danielle McLaughlin
Thursday 24th May 2018 @ 6pm
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Award-winning writer John Banville; writer and editor of literary magazine A Public Space Yiyun Li; celebrated poet, playwright, novelist and publisher Dermot Bolger; short story writer Danielle McLaughlin and Roy Foster, leading historian and scholar of Irish literature, are among his legions of fans, and they all join ILFDublin to share their memories of William Trevor.
With live readings of his work and archive material, this very special event promises to a fitting tribute to a much-loved, much-missed writer.
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Award-winning writer John Banville; writer and editor of literary magazine A Public Space Yiyun Li; celebrated poet, playwright, novelist and publisher Dermot Bolger; short story writer Danielle McLaughlin and Roy Foster, leading historian and scholar of Irish literature, are among his legions of fans, and they all join ILFDublin to share their memories of William Trevor.
With live readings of his work and archive material, this very special event promises to a fitting tribute to a much-loved, much-missed writer.
Tales of Hoffmann
Friday 14th & Saturday 15th September 2018 @ 7.30pm
Irish National Opera
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One narrator. Drunk. The story of the women in his life. The complications of his current love and his current rival. And an evil shadow that follows him everywhere.
Offenbach was dubbed “the Mozart of the Champs-Élysées” by Rossini. His lyrical, effervescent final opera, left unfinished at his death, with its plot of strange, outrageous loves, an ever-present evil genius, not to mention the famous Barcarolle (borrowed from an earlier work) and an aria for a wind-up mechanical doll, is a treasure-trove for an imaginative director.
“I warn others solemnly that Offenbach's music is wicked. It is abandoned stuff: every accent in it is a snap of the fingers in the face of moral responsibility: every ripple and sparkle on its surface twits me for my teetotalism, and mocks at the early rising of which I fully intend to make a habit some day.” — George Bernard Shaw, 1889
Irish National Opera
Buy tickets HERE
One narrator. Drunk. The story of the women in his life. The complications of his current love and his current rival. And an evil shadow that follows him everywhere.
Offenbach was dubbed “the Mozart of the Champs-Élysées” by Rossini. His lyrical, effervescent final opera, left unfinished at his death, with its plot of strange, outrageous loves, an ever-present evil genius, not to mention the famous Barcarolle (borrowed from an earlier work) and an aria for a wind-up mechanical doll, is a treasure-trove for an imaginative director.
“I warn others solemnly that Offenbach's music is wicked. It is abandoned stuff: every accent in it is a snap of the fingers in the face of moral responsibility: every ripple and sparkle on its surface twits me for my teetotalism, and mocks at the early rising of which I fully intend to make a habit some day.” — George Bernard Shaw, 1889
