Sunday 6th April 3pm Georgian . Duration approx Weekday slots will be a series of short Bards of Grafton Street. Paul 90mins. Start at National Library of poetry-related films featuring the work DUBLIN: ONE CITY, ONE BOOK O’Hanrahan, accompanied by singer Ireland entrance, Kildare St. Tickets of Irish poets including Brendan Mark Wale, will lead a walk delving €10. Numbers limited. Booking Behan, Máire Mhac an tSaoi, Austin www.dublinonecityonebook.ie into the rich heritage of poetry & essential at www.tickets.ie Clarke, & Seamus song surrounding one of Dublin’s Heaney. The weekend slot will present best-loved streets. Duration approx documentary profiles: 90mins. Start at statue of Thomas WALKING APP Moore, College Street. Tickets €10. Saturday 5th April Numbers limited. Booking essential , A Dublin Literary Patrick Kavanagh: No Man’s Fool (dir. at www.tickets.ie Trail gives an insight into the life & Sé Merry Doyle 2004) If Ever work of one of Ireland’s finest poets. Saturday 12th April Tuesday 8th April 2:30pm Walk the trail from the Grand Canal Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill: Taibhsí i mBéal Let’s Walk & Talk. Join historian Pat to Raglan Road & experience his na Gaoithe (dir. Pat Collins 2006) Liddy for a tour focusing on the River poetry, gaining further insights into Saturday 19th April Liffey, its quays & bridges which have his life & presence in the area. The : Dark Schoo l (dir. Alan inspired writers for generations. Gilsenan 2009) You Go free app is available for download on ABOUT LORD MAYOR’S DUBLIN: ONE CITY, Explore local history & enjoy stories http://itunes.apple.com/ie/app/id45 Saturday 26th April along the way before ending at 0226634# Alive Alive O: A Requiem for Dublin Waterways Ireland Visitor Centre for (dir. Sé Merry Doyle 2001 featuring the THE BOOK MESSAGE ONE BOOK A Map of Dublin a poetry & music session. Walk poetry of ) in Poetry and Song duration approx 90mins. Meet at Full details at www.ifi.ie Dublin: One City, One Book is an Meeting House Square, Temple Bar. DUBLIN CITY BIKE TOURS If Ever You Go: A Map of Dublin Since it started in 2006, the award-winning Dublin City Admission free. Booking not in Poetry and Song is a unique Dublin: One City, One Book Explore the streets of Dublin that necessary. www.letswalkandtalk.ie invitation to explore, street by Festival has succeeded in Council initiative, led by Dublin have inspired poetry & song. Meet EXHIBITIONS capturing the imagination of not City Libraries, which encourages outside Isaac’s Hostel, Frenchman’s street, one of the world’s most Saturday 12th April 3pm only Dubliners, but also readers everyone to read a book Lane, off Lower Gardiner Street. NCAD Thomas Street famous literary capitals through Kavanagh Country. Paul O’Hanrahan connected with the capital city Each Friday in April 10am, duration Poems of Dublin 8, from If Ever You the poems and songs it has worldwide. explores the poetry associated with 2.5 hours. Tickets €24. Booking Go, printed on NCAD’s Letterpress & during the month of April every Baggot Street & the Grand Canal on inspired down the ages. www.dublincitybiketours.com accompanied by visual interpretations This is the first year that a book year. Enjoy reading If Ever You this walk through the neighbourhood T: 087 1341866 by college students. This text & image of poetry and songs has been Go: A Map of Dublin in Poetry immortalised by Patrick Kavanagh. A virtual tour of the city and its exhibition will be shown in various and Song and experience some Duration approx 90mins. Starts at suburbs, If Ever You Go takes the chosen. If Ever You Go: A Map locations in the area in A pril. See the Peppercanister Church, Upper of Dublin in Poetry and Song of the wide variety of events One City, One Book website for reader on a journey through Mount Street, ends at Waterloo Pub, LIFFEY CRUISES will take you on a journey all taking place. details. streets broad and narrow, Baggot Street for music & poetry with featuring verse both familiar and around Dublin past and present. John Sheahan & Declan O’Rourke. Cruise the Liffey aboard the Spirit of Thanks to our partners Dedalus National Library of Ireland new, historical and contemporary, See the city and county through Tickets €10. Numbers limited. Docklands & immerse yourself in the Press, , DublinTown Celebrate the work of WB Yeats by by writers whose work adds up to the eyes of poets and Booking essential at www.tickets.ie poetry & history of Dublin’s principal visiting the NLI exhibition Yeats: the songwriters. Walk, cycle or take and especially to all the river. an intimate and revealing portrait Life and Works of William Butler Yeats. a boat trip through the city organisations, venues, speakers Thursday 17th April 2pm Dates: 5th, 6th, 12th,13th, 20th, of a place and its people. Info & opening hours at www.nli.ie and performers involved in this 26th, April at 11:30am and 19th which has inspired them. Many of the poems in If Ever You Go year’s programme. are reflections on O’Connell Street & April at 10:30am. Tickets €14 Contributors include those Trinity College Old Library and Book the surrounding streets. Join Pat (concessions available). Booking From walks to talks, workshops of Kells Exhibition . Reduced already synonymous with the city Liddy on a walk that will discover essential. T: 01 4730000 or visit to music recitals, there is an Borrow If Ever You Go: A Map of admission price of €6.50 on — Swift, Yeats, Joyce, Beckett, their stories, & enjoy extracts from www.liffeyrivercruises.com event for everyone and I Dublin in Poetry and Song from production of the One City, One Book Clarke and Kavanagh among the relevant poems before ending at any branch of Dublin City, Dún programme during the month of April. them — as well as a host of wholeheartedly encourage you The Church Café & Bar, Mary Street others, including Kinsella, to embrace poetry this April by Laoghaire-Rathdown, Fingal, for complimentary tea & coffee. FILM SCREENINGS Heaney, Boland, Bolger and taking part in the Dublin: One South Dublin Libraries, or buy it Duration approx 90mins. Meet at from your favourite bookshop. PODCASTS/BROADCASTS Meehan who have made some City, One Book Festival in an the Spire (opposite The GPO). Wednesday 9th April 6:30pm array of venues including Dublin Tickets €10 (€8 concession). Words Upon the Window Pane. An part of it their own. Numbers limited. Booking elegant period piece film (dir Mary A series of podcasts by leading poets Castle, public libraries, pubs essential. T: 01 8329406. McGuckian 1994) based on a one-act and critics to accompany If Ever You Groundbreaking in reach, and museums. www.walkingtours.ie play by WB Yeats. IFI , 6 Eustace Go is available for free download at celebratory in outlook, If Ever You Street, Temple Bar. Booking www.ucd.ie/scholarcast from 1 April Go is a record of the epiphanies Saturday 19th April 3pm essential. T: 01 6793477 or online 2014. Speakers include Lucy Collins, and disappointments, the Micheal O’Siadhail, Peter Denman & www.dublinonecityonebook.ie Yeats and Company. Paul at www.ifi.ie Standard IFI ticket morning visions and the late- O’Hanrahan with singer Mark Wale prices apply Peter Sirr. brought to you by Dublin City Council recalls the poetry & writers night wanderings that, between associated with Stephen’s Green & From the Archives at the IFI. Free Tune in to RTÉ Radio 1 during the them, make up the map of a city Merrion Square on this strolling lunchtime screenings on Mondays, month of April and hear a poem a day where poetry truly matters. recital through the grandeur of Wednesdays & Saturdays. from the anthology. for a tea dance at 3:30pm. Booking Gallery, The Hugh Lane). , actor Fergus Cronin & allocated by lottery. Closing date other Dublin songs. Upstairs in The Stag’s Head pub, 1 PROGRAMME 2014 essential. Tickets €10. National Library of Ireland, Kildare musicians on a non-stop return to apply for tickets 2nd April at Club na Múinteoirí / The Teachers’ Dame Court. Admission €5. Booking E: fi[email protected] Street. Admission free. Booking not journey of music & poetry from 10am. Info www.farmleigh.ie. Club , 36 Parnell Square West. not necessary. Sunday 30th March 7:30pm Rathmines Library, 157 Lwr T: 087 9737401 necessary. Connolly station to Bray. Board the Admission €3. Booking not A Song for the Green Crow. The Clé Rathmines Road. Admission free. www.fivelampsarts.ie train at Connolly Station. Wednesday 16th April 8pm necessary. Info: www.goilin.com or WORKSHOPS Club remembers Seán O’Casey, Booking essential. E: Wednesday 9th April 7:30pm Admission free. Booking essential. If Ever You Go to Dublin Town. The T: 086 2940652 Dublin’s leading playwright, with an [email protected] Monday 7th April 7pm Dublin’s Fair City. Enjoy the poetry & E: cityofl[email protected] Clé Club, in association with the Poetry Matters – Introduction to the evening of music & poetry introduced T: 01 4973539 Transient Passages: Pádraig J Daly & songs of Dublin’s fair city with T: 01 6744862 NUJ, hosts an evening of songs, Saturday 26th & Sun. 27th April 3pm power & range of poetry with Niall by his daughter Shivauny. With Peter Tony Bardon celebrate If Ever You Go. broadcaster Sean Rocks, DJ Rick poetry & music with Gerard Smyth, A Dublin Saunter encompassing MacMonagle. Admission free. Sheridan, Liam O’Connor, Sally Corr, Thursday 3rd, Friday 4th & A mosaic of poetry & music echoing O’Shea, actors Phelim Drew & Tom Monday 14th April 7:30 – 9pm & other special guests. Dublin’s poetry, songs & stories Booking essential with venues. Noel O’Grady, Noel Pocock, Eimear Saturday 5th April 7pm Róisín de Buitléar’s ‘Transcience’ art Vaughan Lawlor, musicians Lisa Music from If Ever You Go: A Map of Fear a’Tí Séamus Dooley. presented by Centre Stage Players. Simms, Jimmy Kelly & Pat Goode. Café Chantant: Songs of Dubliners. installation based on Sailing to Hannigan & John Sheahan & poets Dublin in Poetry and Song. Liberty Hall, Eden Quay. Admission The Pearse Museum, St Enda’s Park, Tuesday 1st April 6:30pm Main Theatre, Liberty Hall, Eden Sinead Murphy & Darina Gallagher Byzantium by WB Yeats. Róisín will Pat Boran, , Gabriel The Church Café & Bar, junction of €5. Booking not necessary, doors Grange Road, Rathfarnham. Booking Ballymun Library, Main Street, Quay. Admission €15. Booking perform the airs & ballads of Joyce’s talk about the process & meaning of Rosenstock, Melissa Kavanagh & Mary Street & Jervis Street. open 7.30pm, early arrival advised. T: 01 4934208 Admission: €5. Ballymun. essential. Dubliners, in its centenary year. her artwork. Enda Wyley. Admission free. Booking not T: 01 8421890 T: 0818 205205 or www.ctb.ie The Centre, 35 North Ballyroan Library, Orchardstown George’s Hall, Dublin Castle, Dame necessary. Thursday 17th April 6:30pm Sunday 27th April 2-5pm E: [email protected] Great George’s Street. Tickets €10 Avenue, Rathfarnham. Admission St, (Cork Hill Gate entrance, beside Poet, novelist & biographer Anthony Special Letterpress Event. The Tuesday 1st April 10:30am (€8 conc). Booking essential. free. Booking essential. City Hall). Tickets €5. Booking Tuesday 15th April 6:30pm Cronin in conversation with Vincent museum hosts a special letterpress Thursday 3rd April 1pm Editors Pat Boran & Gerard Smyth T: 01 8788547. www.jamesjoyce.ie T: 01 4941900 essential at www.tickets.ie or Where are you now? Poems about Woods. event to celebrate the festival. Visit Central Library, Ilac Centre , Henry talk about the selection of poems in T: 01 8719435 Dublin. Poet Gerald Dawe (Prof. of National Library of Ireland, Kildare www.nationalprintmuseum.ie for Street. T: 01 8734333 If Ever You Go: A Map of Dublin in Friday 4th April 1pm Monday 7th April 7:30 – 9pm English, TCD) explores his relation - Street. Admission free. Booking not more information closer to the date. E: [email protected] Poetry and Song. Musical Tales. A concert featuring Music from If Ever You Go: A Map of Thursday 10th April 6:45pm ship with Dublin, city & county. necessary. National Print Museum , Garrison National Gallery of Ireland, Clare music by Irish composers inspired by Dublin in Poetry and Song. Poets, Buddhas and Bicycles. An Rathmines Library , 157 Lwr Chapel, Beggar’s Bush Barracks, Monday 7th April 6:30pm Street. Admission free. Booking not poetry – Contemporary Music Centre. The Church Café & Bar, junction of evening with poet Tony Curtis. Rathmines Road. Admission free. Monday 21st April 7:30 – 9pm Haddington Road. Admission free. Walkinstown Library, Percy French necessary. Central Library, Ilac Centre. Mary Street & Jervis Street. Admission Blanchardstown Library, Civic Booking essential. T: 01 4973539 Music from If Ever You Go: A Map of Booking not necessary. Road. T: 01 4558159 Admission free. Booking essential. free. Booking not necessary. Centre, Blanchardstown Centre. E: [email protected] Dublin in Poetry and Song. E: [email protected] Tuesday 1st April 2:30pm E: [email protected] Admission free. Booking essential. The Church Café & Bar, junction of Monday 28th April 7:30 – 9pm Tuesday Tea & Tour. Discover the T: 01 8734333 Tuesday 8th April 4:15pm E: blanchardstownlibrary@fingal.ie Tuesday 15th April 6:30pm Mary Street & Jervis Street. Music from If Ever You Go: A Map of Tuesday 8th April 6:30pm award-winning exhibition Yeats: The All Along the Banks… The lyrics of T: 01 8905563 Bringing It All Back Home: Poets Admission free. Booking not Dublin in Poetry and Song. Rathmines Library, 157 Lwr Life and Work of William Butler Yeats Saturday 5th April 1pm Dublin’s canals. PJ Mathews explores Dermot Bolger & Michael necessary. The Church Café & Bar , junction of Rathmines Road. T: 01 4973539 followed by afternoon tea in the Joly Joyce’s Chamber Music: New Folkish a selection of poems & songs inspired Thursday 10th April 6:45pm O’Loughlin reflect on their Dublin Mary Street & Jervis Street. E: [email protected] Café (10% discount in the café). Settings . The James Joyce Centre & by Dublin’s canals & environs. Poets Eileen Casey & Declan Collinge childhoods along with readings from Wednesday 23rd April 8pm Admission free. Booking not National Library of Ireland, Kildare Dublin City Gallery, The Hugh Lane Waterways Ireland Visitor Centre, read poetry that traces their unique their contributions to If Ever You Go. Celebrating . Dublin necessary. Thursday 10th April 6:30pm Street. Admission free. Booking welcome Gerry & Esther Smyth for a Grand Canal Quay. Admission free. literary connections to the city. Drumcondra Library, Millmount city’s tribute to Seamus Heaney with Cabra Library , Navan Road. essential. E: [email protected] one-off performance of the 36 Booking not necessary. Musician/songwriter Tony Bardon Avenue. Admission free. Booking Paul Brady, Theo Dorgan, Peter Tuesday 29th April 7:30pm T: 01 8691414 poems of Joyce’s Chamber Music. will perform a musical essential. Fallon, , Donal If Ever You Need, a very good read. E: [email protected] Tuesday 1st April 7:30pm Dublin City Gallery, the Hugh Lane Tuesday 8th April at 7:30pm accompaniment to a selection of E: [email protected] Lunny, Paula Meehan, , 20 titles you simply must read with Between the Mountains & the Sea: (Sculpture Gallery), Parnell Square From Sweet Dunleary to Dalkey Hill. lyrics by WB Yeats. T: 01 8377206 Liam O’Flynn, the RTÉ Concert Kate Bateman & Niall MacMonagle. Wednesday 2nd & 16th April 3:30pm Poems & the County. A reading by North. Admission free. Booking not An evening of ballad & song with County Library, Tallaght. Orchestra & many more in an Assembly Hall, County Hall, Dún A Two-Day Creative Writing poet Gerald Dawe (Prof. of necessary. Info www.jamesjoyce.ie Luke Cheevers, Niamh Parsons & Admission free. Booking essential. Wednesday 16th April 6:45pm evening of poetry & music. A Dublin Laoghaire. Admission free. Booking Workshop for Teenagers 13-16 yrs English,TCD) Fergus Russell. T: 01 4620073 Poets, Buddhas and Bicycles. An City Council & Poetry Ireland event. essential. T: 01 2147970 with Dave Lordan. Assembly Hall, County Hall, Dún Saturday 5th April 3 – 5pm Assembly Hall, County Hall, Dún evening with poet Tony Curtis. National Concert Hall, Earlsfort E: [email protected] Finglas Library , Main Shopping Laoghaire. Admission free. Booking If Ever You Go … Live . Live recitals Laoghaire. Admission free. Saturday 12th April 2 – 3:30pm Rush Library , Chapel Green, Rush . Terrace. Booking essential. Centre, Jamestown Road, Finglas. essential. E: [email protected] of poetry & songs from If Ever You Booking essential. Dublin: A City Made of Stories. Admission free. Booking essential. Admission: €25, €20 (Conc. Wednesday 30th April 7pm Admission free. Booking essential. T: 01 2147970 Go. With An Góilín Traditional E: [email protected] Poems, songs, stories & history E: rushlibrary@fingal.ie available) Tel: 01 417 0000 or A Dublin Saunter encompassing T: 01 8344906. Singers Club, Catherine Ann Cullen, T: 01 2147970 create our sense of Dublin as a city. T: 01 8708414 online www.nch.ie Dublin’s poetry, songs & stories E: fi[email protected] Wednesday 2nd April 7pm Hugh McFadden, Paul Murray, Discussion with poets, historians & presented by Centre Stage Players. Reading & discussion about If Ever Michael O’Loughlin, Gabriel Wednesday 9th April 6:45pm city geographers. Wednesday 16th April 8pm Thursday 24th April 6:30pm National Library of Ireland, Kildare WALKING TOURS You Go with editors Pat Boran & Rosenstock & many more. Poets, Buddhas and Bicycles. An National Library of Ireland , Kildare Bee-Loud Glade Cabaret – a rocking A reading by Sinéad Morrissey, Street. Booking not necessary. Gerard Smyth, poets Eiléan Ní Dublin City Gallery, the Hugh Lane evening with poet Tony Curtis. St. Admission free. Booking not evening of electrifying entertainment recent winner of the TS Eliot Prize for Admission €5. Sundays 6th & 13th April 1pm Chuilleanáin & Julie O’Callaghan, (Sculpture Gallery), Parnell Square Balbriggan Library, George’s necessary. with selections from If Ever You Go & poetry, as part of the RDS Library Literary Tour of Glasnevin Cemetery. Chris Morash (Seamus Heaney, North. Admission free. Event will Square, Balbriggan. Admission free. other outrageous things. Speaker Series. Wednesday 30th April 7pm From Gerard Manley Hopkins to Professor of Irish Writing, TCD) & Dr be broadcast live by Near FM 90.3 Booking essential. Saturday 12th April 5 – 6pm Clifton Court Hotel Bar, 11 Eden RDS Library, Ballsbridge . Poems of Dublin 8 with Harry Clifton, Brendan Behan, via Joyce & Zozimus, Philip Coleman (TCD). E: balbrigganlibrary@fingal.ie Poetry & songs inspired by If Ever Quay. Admission €5, tickets at door. Admission free. Booking essential Padraig J Daly, Peter Sirr, Gerard come to Glasnevin Cemetery & visit Thomas Davis Theatre, Arts Sunday 6th April 1pm T: 01 8704401 You Go with musicians John Sheahan E: [email protected] Smyth & Enda Wyley. the graves of the poets & writers who Building, TCD. Admission free. If Ever You Go … One City One () & Declan O’Rourke. Wednesday 16th April 8pm T: 01 2407254 or Arthur’s Pub, Thomas Street. have told Dublin’s story through the Booking not necessary. Book. Join the Five Lamps Arts Wednesday 9th April 7pm The Waterloo Pub, Baggot Street . Lighting Up The Park in Poetry & www.rds.ie/speakerseries Admission free. Booking not past 200 years. Festival, for a poetry & song bus tour The Municipal Gallery Revisited by Admission free. Booking not Song with Dermot Bolger, Theo necessary. Admission €8 (includes guided tour Thursday 3rd April 6:30pm around the streets of Dublin. Meet WB Yeats. A Meditation on the Past necessary. Dorgan, Paula Meehan, Peter Friday 25th April 9:30pm of the cemetery & admission to the Musical Tales. A concert featuring the bus at Charleville Mall Library , – Portraits from the Collection of the Sheridan & others. An Góilín Traditional Singers’ Club Wednesday 30th April 8:30pm museum). Booking essential. music by Irish composers inspired by North Strand. Tour finishes at Hugh Lane Gallery. A lecture by Dr Sunday 13th April 11am Ballroom, Farmleigh, Castleknock. celebrates If Ever You Go with songs Music, spoken word & comedy with E: [email protected] poetry – Contemporary Music Centre. O’Shea’s The Merchant, Talbot Street Margarita Cappock (Dublin City DART Along the Bay. Join poet Tickets free of charge but & poems from the book as well as The Brownbread Mixtape. T: 01 8826550