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it highly Saturday April 9th 6pm Saturday 16th April Tuesday 26th April 6pm Synge and The National Library Juno and The Paycock (1930) 11am – 2pm Synge for your Supper Synge’s books and manuscripts on display A film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, Keep an eye out for J.M. Synge Poetry, prose and song inspired by at The National Library’s Joly Café. enough’ featuring Molly Allgood/Máire O’Neill J.M. Synge. Mon – Wed: 9.30am - 7pm; Thurs & Fri: (actor, Stephen Holland) reading Ryan Tubridy, RTÉ Radio as Maisie Madigan, Molly’s sister Sara from Ghost Light at bookshops and Abbey Theatre, 26 Lower Abbey Street 9.30am – 4.45pm; Saturday: 9.30am – stars in the title role. on the city streets. Booking essential. Admission €3 4.30pm (Closed April 22nd, 25th & 26th) Irish Film Institute, 6 Eustace Street, (Free for Abbey Theatre members) Admission free. Further information Sunday 17th April 1:30pm Tel: 01 603 0200 or email: [email protected] ‘As I read Ghost Light, I Temple Bar, Dublin 2 Tel: 01 87 87 222 ‘When I think Booking essential Tel: 01 679 3477 John Millington Synge – or online www.abbeytheatre.ie Ghost Light: J.M. Synge and Molly found myself going more or online at www.ifi.ie Art & the West of Ghost Light, the Standard IFI ticket prices apply. Wednesday 27th April to Allgood at Farmleigh House and more slowly, because Dr Eimear O’Connor examines Synge’s Friday 29th April 8pm Farmleigh Guided Tour, see rare Synge words climb over I didn’t want to miss a artistic response to the West of Ireland books and manuscripts from the Benjamin Sunday April 10th 4pm through his own photography and text. Timeless Voices each other to be single sentence. I found Patti Smith: Dream of Life (2008) Dalkey Players present an evening of Iveagh Library. Dublin City Gallery, the Hugh Lane, Thurs to Sun and Bank Holidays first in the queue, myself calling friends and A documentary about the writer, Charlemont House, Parnell Square North excerpts from the plays and poetry of artist, poet, photographer, singer and Synge, O’Casey, Yeats and Lady Gregory. Farmleigh House, Castleknock, Dublin 15. reading passages aloud to Admission free. Admission free. Booking not necessary. brilliant, beautiful, music heroine of Joseph O’Connor. Early arrival is recommended. The Vico, upstairs in The Queens pub, them over the phone. This As Molly was muse and collaborator Dalkey, Co. Dublin Further information Tel: 01 815 5900 exhilarating, Information Tel: 01 222 5550 or online www.farmleigh.ie is a rare experience indeed. to J.M. Synge, so too was Smith’s or email: [email protected] Admission €10 (Concessions €8) inspiration, lover and partner to Robert heartbreaking, It is a rare and wonderful Booking Tel: 087 991 9261 Dramatis Personae: J.M. Synge masterly. It’s that Mapplethorpe. Irish Film Institute, Tuesday 19th April 6pm or email: [email protected] and his fellow-authors at The Dublin book.’ Michael Cunningham, 6 Eustace Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2 The Real Molly Allgood Writers Museum good.’ Pulitzer Prize winning Booking essential Tel: 01 679 3477 Professor Anthony Roche gives an Thursday 28th April 1pm or online at www.ifi.ie insightful account of the real Molly Living in Dublin 100 years ago Books, photographs and other items from Roddy Doyle author of The Hours Standard IFI ticket prices apply. Allgood, muse of J.M. Synge, original James Scannell uncovers the politics and the Dublin Writers Museum collection. Pegeen Mike and celebrated international lifestyles of some of our recent ancestors. Dublin Writers Museum, Monday 11th April – actress of stage and film. Central Library, Ilac Centre, Henry Street, 18 Parnell Square North, Dublin 1 Friday 15th April 11:13pm The Abbey Theatre Bar, Lower Abbey Dublin 1 Mon – Sat: 10am – 5pm; Sun: 11am – 5pm ‘A book so beautifully RTÉ Radio One’s Book on One Street, Dublin 1 Admission free. Booking essential. (April 22nd & 25th 11am – 5pm) € Booking Tel: 01 873 4333 Admission: Adult €7.50 Concession €6.30 features Joseph O’Connor reading Booking essential. Admission 3 € € from Ghost Light. (Free for Abbey Theatre members) or email: [email protected] Children 4.70 Family 21 written I did not want Tel: 01 878 7222 Abbey Theatre Posters at Tuesday 12th April 6pm or online www.abbeytheatre.ie Thursday 28th April 5pm The Language of Synge A Ghost Light Walk: Edwardian The Pearse Museum Irish Times Wednesday 20th, Thursday 21st Dublin The Life and Times of Playboys, Paycocks and Playbills: it to end’ Dr Declan Kiberd discusses Synge, Abbey Theatre poster design from the the Irish language and the use of & Friday 22nd April 1.15pm J.M. Synge and Molly Allgood 1970s and 1980s. Hiberno-English in Joseph O’Connor’s Ghost Light Lunchtime Readings (Duration approx. 90mins) The Pearse Museum, St. Enda’s Park, Grange Ghost Light.The Abbey Theatre Bar, at the Irish Writers’ Centre Guided by Pat Liddy, this walk will focus Road, Rathfarnham, Co. Dublin. A Novel Break Lower Abbey Street, Dublin 1 Enjoy a lunchtime treat with readings on the places and characters of Ghost € Mon – Sat: 9.30am – 5:30pm; Sun & Bank Win an opportunity for you and your book club, co-workers, neighbours, Booking essential. Admission 3 from Ghost Light. Light. Tour begins at Abbey Theatre Holidays: 10.00am – 5:30pm. (Free for Abbey Theatre members) and concludes at St. Patrick’s Cathedral. friends or family to meet Joseph O’Connor, author of Ghost Light! Irish Writers’ Centre, Admission free. Booking Tel: 01 878 7222 19 Parnell Square North, Dublin 1 Join us afterwards for Curtain Call in Further information Tel: 01 493 4208 Dates available: 6th, 13th, 20th and 27th of April. Post or email your or online www.abbeytheatre.ie Admission: €5. Booking Tel: 01 872 1302 St Patrick’s Cathedral. Admission free. or email: [email protected] or email: [email protected] Booking not necessary name, proposed location of meeting, group size and preferred time of Thursday 14th April 1pm Teach Synge Dress in the Edwardian Era Discounted lunch at Chapterhouse Café, Thursday 28th April 7pm meeting to [email protected] or Catherine Duffy, Dublin One Dublin Writers’ Museum, 17 Parnell Square, The playwright’s love of the Aran Islands has Alex Ward traces the evolution of Dublin 1 for ticket holders. Curtain Call in St. Patrick’s been acknowledged with the opening of the City One Book, Dublin City Library & Archive, 138-144 Pearse Street, costume in the early 21st Century. Cathedral beautifully restored Synge Museum on Inis Dublin 2. Closing date: 31st March 2011 The National Library of Ireland, Wednesday 20th April 7pm The love affair between Abbey actress, Meáin – a must for all Synge fans. Kildare Street, Dublin 2 Ireland’s Greatest Woman – Molly Allgood and playwright J.M. Synge Open from June – September Admission free. Booking not necessary. Scenes from the life of Lady is captured in the letters of Molly Allgood. Further information Further information: 01 603 0200 Dramatised readings and music with www.islandsofireland.com or e-mail: [email protected] Augusta Gregory Ronnie O’Gorman, (Director of Lady Joseph O’Connor, Kathy Rose O’Brien and musicians of RIAM. St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Synge Summer School 30 June Short Story Competition Thursday 14th, Friday 15th & Gregory of Coole – An Autumn Gathering), – 3 July 2011 To celebrate the choice of Joseph O’Connor’s Ghost Light for Dublin: will discuss Lady Gregory and St. Patrick’s Close, Dublin 8 Saturday 16th April 1.15pm Admission free. Booking not necessary Rathdrum, Co. Wicklow One City, One Book Festival 2011, Dublin City Public Libraries, in Synge’s Changeling Abbey Theatre. This year’s summer school will include A performance of love, loss, music, The National Library of Ireland, a seminar on Ghost Light. association with Dublin UNESCO City of Literature are running a drama and passion highlighting the life Kildare Street, Dublin 2 Booking: www.syngesummerschool.org Admission free. Further information Exhibitions short story competition for previously unpublished authors, which of Molly Allgood (Máire O’Neill) – Facebook must incorporate this Ghost Light quote “He was the sort of man J.M. Synge’s ‘Changeling’. Tel: 01 603 0200 or email: [email protected] Trinity College Long Room/ St. Ann’s Church, Dawson St, Dublin 2 www.facebook.com/pages/Dublin- DUBLIN: Monday 25th April 2 – 4pm who makes you think the movement of foliage might be causing the € The Book of Kells One-City-One-Book Admission 5. Tickets available at door. Dance to the Tune of See the typewriter and camera used breeze.” Entries no more than 1,000 words should be submitted by Thursday 14th April 6:30pm J.M. Synge and Molly Allgood’s by J.M. Synge, early editions of Synge’s Twitter email to [email protected]. Closing date: 31st March 2011. Synge and The Poetry of Dublin work will also be on display. www.twitter.com/1city1book Mon – Sat 9:30am – 5:00pm; ONE CITY, Gerard Dawe An informal dance workshop featuring The winning entry* will be published on Dublin: One City, One Book the music of Edwardian Dublin. Ballroom, Sun 12:00pm – 4:30pm. Gerard Dawe discusses Synge’s work (April 22nd & 25th 12pm – 4:30pm) www.dublinonecityonebook.ie and Dublin UNESCO City of Literature through his own poetry. Farmleigh House, Castleknock, Dublin 15. Admission Reduced fee of €6.50 with www.dublincityofliterature.ie and the winner will receive a€ 100 Dundrum Library, Upper Churchtown Admission free. Further information Road, Dundrum, Dublin 14 Tel: 01 815 5981 Dublin One City One Book Programme ONE BOOK book token. *Please note: The judge’s decision will be final and no Admission free. Booking essential. or email: [email protected] correspondence will be entered into. Booking Tel: 01 298 5000 or email: [email protected] APRIL 2011 www.vintage-books.co.uk www.dublinonecityonebook.ie

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Since its inception Friday 1st April 7pm Tuesday 5th April 7pm JOSEPH O’CONNOR Joseph O’Connor The Poetry of J.M. Synge in 2006, the award- was born in Dublin. He is the on Lyric FM My Music Dr P.J. Matthews discusses the poetry author of the novels Cowboys Joseph O’Connor is Aedín Gormley’s of J.M. Synge in Rush’s recently restored guest on My Music. His music choices library. Rush Library, Chapel Green, winning Dublin: and Indians (short-listed for the link to his novel Ghost Light and include Rush, Co. Dublin Admission free. Booking Whitbread Prize), Desperadoes, The Last Rose of Summer sung by Nina essential.Tel: 01 870 8414 or email: One City, One Simone. Ronnie Drew and The Dubliners rushlibrary@fi ngalcoco.ie The Salesman, Inishowen, Star version of The Twangman also features. Tuesday 5th April 8pm Book Festival of the Sea and Redemption Saturday 2nd April 11am – 2pm Deirdre of the sorrows Falls, as well as a number of Keep an eye out for J.M. Synge by J.M. Synge has succeeded (actor, Stephen Holland) reading from A public reading of Synge’s last play, bestselling works of non-fi ction. Ghost Light at bookshops and on the unfi nished at the time of his death. in capturing the He has also written fi lm scripts city streets. Abbey Theatre Rehearsal Room, and stage plays including the Lower Abbey Street, Dublin 1 imagination of not Booking essential. Admission €6 award-winning Red Roses and SUNDAY 3RD APRIL 7:30PM (€4 for Abbey Theatre members) only Dubliners, ThE MUSIC OF GhOsT LiGhT: Tel: 01 878 7222 or online Petrol. His novel Star of the Sea www.abbeytheatre.ie was an international bestseller, AN EVENING WITh JOSEPh but also readers O’CONNOR AND FRIENDS Wednesday 6th April 3pm selling more than a million FEATURING LIVE Writers and Rebels worldwide. copies and being published in Learn what it was like to be a rebel writer PERFORMANCES FROM in Ireland with Michael Moylan’s children’s Dublin, 1907. A young actress begins 38 languages. It won France’s Prix Millepages, Italy’s Premio Acerbi, SINÉAD O’CONNOR, workshop. Using antiques, costumes and This year’s choice of Joseph O’Connor’s Ghost Light is really exciting, the Irish Post Award for Fiction, the Neilsen Bookscan Golden Book CAMILLE O’SULLIVAN, STEVE games become a rebel writer for a day – discover what food they ate, what games featuring as it does, a contemporary take on one of our most iconic an affair with a damaged older man, the Award, an American Library Association Award, the Hennessy/ COONEY, EIMEAR qUINN, children played etc. CIARA SIDINE, FIShAMBLE: dramatists, John Millington Synge – and his relationship with noted Sunday Tribune Hall of Fame Award, and the Prix Litteraire Zepter for Raheny Library, Howth Road, Dublin 5. leading playwright at the theatre where ThE NEW PLAY COMPANY, Admission free. Booking essential. Abbey Theatre actress, Molly Allgood. European Novel of the Year. ROBBIE OVERSON, CONOR Tel: 01 831 5521 or she works. BRADY AND SURPRISE email: [email protected] In a city which now proudly boasts designation as a UNESCO City of He was recently voted ‘Irish Writer of the Decade’ by the readers of MUSICAL GUESTS. GUEST Wednesday 6th April 7pm PRESENTER AND MUSICAL Gallous Stories and Dirty Deeds Literature, Dublin: One City One Book provides a unique opportunity Outspoken and fl irtatious, Molly Allgood is a Catholic girl from Hot Press magazine. He broadcasts a popular weekly radio diary on Talk on Synge and Irish Theatre by DIRECTOR, PhILIP KING. to promote the work of a successful modern writer whilst at the same the slums of Dublin, dreaming of stardom in America. Her lover, RTÉ’s Drivetime With Mary Wilson and writes regularly for the Dr Patrick Lonergan The Abbey Theatre, National Library of Ireland, Kildare Street, time celebrating one of the most productive periods of creativity in John Synge, is a troubled genius, whose life is hampered by Guardian Review and the Sunday Independent. In 2009 he was the Lower Abbey Street, Dublin 1 Dublin 2 Dublin’s literary past. convention and by the austere and God-fearing mother with Harman Visiting Professor of Creative Writing at Baruch College, the Booking essential. Admission €25 Admission free. Booking not necessary. (Concessions €20) Tel: 01 878 7222 Further information Tel: 01 603 0200 or whom he lives. Their affair, sternly opposed by friends and family, City University of New York. His most recent novel Ghost Light was or online www.abbeytheatre.ie email: [email protected] The Dublin: One City, One Book Festival is the result of collaboration is quarrelsome, affectionate and tender. published in June 2010 to rave reviews internationally and spent nine Each Thursday in April amongst a range of partners and I would like to thank everybody for weeks as a number one Irish bestseller. 2:30pm – 5pm their wholehearted participation in keeping the city’s great literary Many years later, Molly, now a poverty-stricken old woman, makes Monday 4th April 6pm Dublin By Bike Tours guides you through www.josephoconnorauthor.com The Poetry of John Millington Dublin’s literary heritage. Meet in front of tradition alive and well. her way through London’s bomb-scarred city streets, alone but for Synge with Dr P.J. Mathews the National Gallery, Merrion a snowdrift of memories. Her once dazzling career has faded but P.J. Mathews lectures at The School of Square West, Dublin 2 English, Drama and Film, UCD. His main Charge €25 Booking Tel: 086 837 5955 her unquenchable passion for life has kept her afl oat. ‘ O’CONNOR’S CROSS-CUTTING research interest is in the literature and or online www.dublinbybike.ie culture of the Irish Revival, including Thursday 7th April 6:30pm Abbey Theatre and J.M. Synge. To fi nd out more about Joseph O’Connor’s novels visit BETWEEN PAST AND PRESENT Dublin City Library & Archive, Living in Dublin 100 years ago James Scannell uncovers the politics and www.josephoconnorauthor.com 138–144 Pearse Street, Dublin 2 IS CONFIDENT AND ASSURED... Admission free. Booking essential. lifestyles of some of our recent ancestors. Lord Mayor of Dublin Tel: 01 674 4806/4873 or email: Raheny Library, Howth Road, Dublin 5 [email protected] Admission free. Booking essential. (hE) REVELS IN ThE POLYPhONY Tel: 01 831 5521 Dublin: One City, One Book is an award-winning Dublin City Tuesday 5th April 3pm or email: [email protected] Council initiative, led by Dublin City Libraries. The idea is a ‘ A TOUR DE FORCE... OF LANGUAGE. GhOsT LiGhT IS Writers and Rebels Each Friday in April at 10am Learn what it was like to be a rebel Dublin City Bike Tours’ special focus on simple one. We want to encourage everyone to read a book writer in Ireland with Michael Moylan’s connected with the capital city, either by subject or by author, Dublin’s literary heritage. Meet in the A TENDER AND COMPASSIONATE children’s workshop. Using antiques, lobby of Isaac’s Hostel, 2-5 Frenchman’s during the month of April every year. This initiative presents A LOVE STORY ThAT costumes and games become a rebel Lane, off Lower Gardiner Street, Dublin 1 the opportunity to: writer for a day – discover what food € they ate, what games children Charge from 20 Booking online LOVE STORY, AND A FINE www.dublincitybiketours.com · promote reading for entertainment and educational purposes played etc. IS AS COMPLEx AS STEPPING STONE TO ThE Ballyfermot Library, Ballyfermot Civic Saturday April 9th 11am – 2pm · encourage people to use their local libraries and book clubs Centre, Ballyfermot Road, Dublin 10 Keep an eye out for J.M. Synge Admisssion free. Booking essential. · promote a city which boasts one of the world’s greatest (actor, Stephen Holland) reading from IT IS BEAUTIFUL’ MAJESTY OF SYNGE.’ Tel: 01 626 9324/01 626 9325 Ghost Light at bookshops and on the literary heritages including four Nobel Laureates or email: [email protected] city streets. www.dublinonecityonebook.ie suNDAY BusiNess POsT Times LiTeRARY suPPLemeNT