A Further Shore A Journey to Good Friday, 1998 Aistear chuig Aoine an Chéasta, 1998

05.04.18 09.04.18 London | Londain | Béal Feirste A Further Shore A Journey to Good Friday, 1998 Aistear chuig Aoine an Chéasta, 1998

05.04.18 Milton Court Concert Hall, Barbican Centre, London | Londain

09.04.18 Lyric Theatre, Belfast | Béal Feirste Éigse Éireann Foreword Réamhrá

Twenty years ago, the signing of the Good Fiche bliain ó shin, le síniú Chomhaontú No event marking the 20th anniversary of the Ní fhéadfaí aon ócáid a chur ar bun lena Friday / Belfast Agreement marked a new Aoine an Chéasta / Bhéal Feirste, cuireadh Good Friday Agreement would be complete chomóradh go bhfuil 20 bliain imithe beginning in the story of these islands. This tús nua le scéal na n-oileán seo. Anocht, trí without acknowledging and thanking the tharainn ó síníodh Comhaontú Aoine an evening, through poetry, music, image, and mheán na filíochta, an cheoil, an fhocail countless people – politicians, community Chéasta gan aitheantas a thabhairt don iomaí spoken word, we will trace a journey through labhartha agus íomhánna, déanfaimid rianú leaders, peacemakers, ordinary women and duine – polaiteoirí, ceannairí pobail, lucht na the tragic years of the Troubles towards the ar an aistear trí bhlianta tragóideacha na men – who individually and together showed síochánaíochta, fir agus mná an phobail – a great moment of hope and reconciliation dTrioblóidí i dtreo an dóchais agus an athm- great courage and took great risks to achieve léirigh misneach ollmhór, astu féin agus le which the Good Friday Agreement represents. huintearais mhóir a tháinig le Comhaontú peace. Their endeavours are echoed today chéile, agus a chuaigh sa bhearna bhaoil chun Aoine an Chéasta. by all those who still strive to fulfil the an tsíocháin a bhaint amach. Gabhaimid ár Some of the island of Ireland’s finest artists promise of the Agreement and to further mbuíochas leo. Tá macalla a gcuid iarrachtaí and performers will explore the complex Beidh dream de na healaíontóirí is na reconciliation. le sonrú inniu ina measc siúd go léir atá fós history of the years leading to 10th April 1998, taibheoirí is fearr ar oileán na hÉireann ar a míle dícheall ag iarraidh seasamh leis an remembering moments of terrible loss and ag déanamh iniúchadh ar stair chasta na In the words of the Agreement: gComhaontú agus cás an athmhuintearais a tragedy, as well as of hope and joy. mblianta a tháinig roimh an 10 Aibreán 1998, chur chun cinn. agus iad ag cuimhneamh siar ar na básanna “The tragedies of the past have left a A new truth was established in April agus na tragóidí uafásacha a tharla, agus ar deep and profoundly regrettable legacy Mar a dúradh sa Chomhaontú: and May 1998. Together, the peoples and thráthanna an dóchais agus an áthais. of suffering. We must never forget those Governments of Ireland and of the United who have died or been injured and their “D’fhág na tragóidí san am a caitheadh Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Tháinig fírinne úrnua i réim i mí Aibreáin families. But we can best honour them iarmhairt dhomhain fulaingthe ar ábhar Ireland proved that agreement - unlikely, agus mí na Bealtaine 1998. Ag obair as lámha a through a fresh start, in which we firmly mór aiféala í. Ní mór dúinn gan dearmad improbable agreement - was possible. A chéile dóibh, chruthaigh pobail agus Rialtais dedicate ourselves to the achievement of a dhéanamh choíche ar na daoine a fuair “Further Shore” could indeed be reached. na hÉireann agus Ríocht Aontaithe na reconciliation, tolerance, and mutual trust, bás nó a gortaíodh, ná ar a dteaghlaigh. Breataine Móire agus Thuaisceart Éireann and to the protection and vindication of Ach is é an t-ómós is fearr is féidir linn a In twenty years we have travelled a long go bhféadfaí comhaontú a bhaint amach – in the human rights of all.” thabhairt dóibh ná tosach nua a dhéanamh way on that sometimes fraught and fragile ainneoin gur ceapadh nach raibh sé indéanta a [Declaration of Support, ina dtiomnaímid muid féin go daingean path of peace and reconciliation – even if leithéid a dhéanamh. Ina dhiaidh sin agus uile, Good Friday / Belfast Agreement, 1998] d’athmhuintearas, do chaoinfhulaingt the journey is incomplete. Our guiding star bhíomar ag teannadh leis an gCeann Scríbe. agus do chomhiontaoibh a bhaint amach remains the Good Friday Agreement. It is Our thanks to all who have contributed to agus do chearta daonna gach éinne a cho- the cornerstone of the peace process and the Tá fiche bliain imithe tharainn anois agus this event. saint agus a shuíomh.” fundamental framework for relationships táimid tagtha go mór chun cinn ar bhóthar sin [Dearbhú Tacaíochta, Comhaontú Aoine across these islands. na síochána agus an athmhuintearais, bóthar an Chéasta / Bhéal Feirste, 1998] a bhí corrach, suaiteach uaireanta – fiú mura bhfuil an t-aistear sin curtha i gcrích go fóill. Gabhaimid buíochas le gach duine a chuir le Is é Comhaontú Aoine an Chéasta atá fós ina hócáid an lae inniu. threoir dhaingean againn. Is é bunchloch an phróisis síochána é, agus is é atá ina chreat bunúsach le haghaidh an chaidrimh ar fud na n-oileán seo. Preamble to the Good Friday Agreement An Brollach a gabhann le Comhaontú Aoine an Chéasta 10.04.98 declaration of support dearbhú tacaíochta 5. We acknowledge the substantial 5. Aithnímid na difríochtaí substaintiúla atá differences between our continuing, idir ár dtoilmhianta polaitiúla leanúnacha 1. We, the participants in the multi-party 1. Creidimidne, na rannpháirtithe sna and equally legitimate, political agus comhdhlisteanacha. Déanfaimid negotiations, believe that the agreement caibidlí ilpháirtí, go dtugann an aspirations. However, we will endeavour ár ndícheall ar gach slí praiticiúil, we have negotiated offers a truly historic comhaontú atá caibidlithe againn deis to strive in every practical way towards áfach, chun athmhuintearas agus opportunity for a new beginning. fhíorstairiúil chun tús nua a dhéanamh. reconciliation and rapprochement athchaidreamh a bhaint amach laistigh within the framework of democratic and den chreat socruithe daonlathacha 2. The tragedies of the past have left a 2. D’fhág na tragóidí san am a caitheadh agreed arrangements. We pledge that agus comhaontaithe. Geallaimid go deep and profoundly regrettable legacy iarmhairt dhomhain fulaingthe ar ábhar we will, in good faith, work to ensure n-oibreoimid, de mheon macánta, chun of suffering. We must never forget those mór aiféala í. Ní mór dúinn gan dearmad the success of each and every one of the a áirithiú go n-éireoidh le gach uile who have died or been injured, and their a dhéanamh choíche ar na daoine a fuair arrangements to be established under cheann de na socruithe a bhunófar faoin families. But we can best honour them bás nó a gortaíodh, ná ar a dteaghlaigh. this agreement. It is accepted that all gcomhaontú seo. Glactar leis maidir through a fresh start, in which we firmly Ach is é an t-ómós is fearr is féidir linn a of the institutional and constitutional leis na socruithe institiúideacha agus dedicate ourselves to the achievement of thabhairt dóibh ná tosach nua a dhéanamh arrangements – an Assembly in Northern bunreachtúla go léir—Tionól i dTuaisceart reconciliation, tolerance, and mutual trust, ina dtiomnaímid muid féin go daingean Ireland, a North/South Ministerial Éireann, Comhairle Aireachta Thuaidh/ and to the protection and vindication of d’athmhuintearas, do chaoinfhulaingt Council, implementation bodies, a Theas, comhlachtaí forfheidhmithe, the human rights of all. agus do chomhiontaoibh a bhaint amach British-Irish Council and a British-Irish Comhairle na Breataine-na hÉireann agus agus do chearta daonna gach éinne a Intergovernmental Conference and any Comhdháil Idir-Rialtasach na Breataine- 3. We are committed to partnership, chosaint agus a shuíomh. amendments to British Acts of Parliament na hÉireann agus aon leasuithe ar equality and mutual respect as the basis and the Constitution of Ireland – are Achtanna Parlaiminte na Breataine agus of relationships within , 3. Táimid tiomanta don chomhpháirtíocht, interlocking and interdependent and ar Bhunreacht na hÉireann—go bhfuil between North and South, and between don chomhionannas agus don that in particular the functioning of the siad cónasctha agus idirspleách agus go these islands. chomhurraim mar bhonn leis na caidrimh Assembly and the North/South Council háirithe go bhfuil gaol chomh dlúth sin laistigh de Thuaisceart Éireann, idir an are so closely inter-related that the success idir feidhmiú an Tionóil agus feidhmiú na 4. We reaffirm our total and absolute Tuaisceart agus an Deisceart, agus idir na of each depends on that of the other. Comhairle Thuaidh/Theas go bhfuil rath commitment to exclusively democratic and hoileáin seo. ceann acu ag brath ar rath an chinn eile. peaceful means of resolving differences 6. Accordingly, in a spirit of concord, we on political issues, and our opposition to 4. Athdheimhnímid go bhfuilimid tiomanta strongly commend this agreement to 6. Dá réir sin, le meon an chomhcharadra, any use or threat of force by others for any go huile agus go hiomlán do mhodhanna the people, North and South, for their molaimid go láidir an comhaontú seo political purpose, whether in regard to daonlathacha, síochánta amháin chun approval. do na daoine, Thuaidh agus Theas, lena this agreement or otherwise. easaontais ar shaincheisteanna polaitiúla dtoiliú a fháil air. a shocrú, agus go bhfuilimid i gcoinne daoine eile d’úsáid foréigin nó do bhagairt foréigin, in aon slí, chun aon chríche polaitiúla, cibé acu maidir leis an gcomhaontú seo nó ar shlí eile. Neither an Elegy Programme Performances will include | Áireofar leis na léirithe: nor a Manifesto Clár • Instrumental Neil Martin • Progress by Alan Gillis • Welcome from Olivia O’Leary • The Coasters by • The Nod by • The Clock on a Wall of Farringdon Gardens, August 1971 by • The British Connection by So I say only: Bear in mind • Be Careful Not to Patronise the Irish by Arthur Riordan and Bell Helicopter Those men and lads killed in the streets; • The Toome Road by Seamus Heaney But do not differentiate between • Ladies’ Night by Gráinne Tobin Those deliberately gunned down • Patrol by Gearóid Mac Lochlainn • From the Frontier of Writing by Seamus Heaney And those caught by unaddressed bullets: • Reels Ciarán Tourish Such distinctions are not relevant. • Casualty by Seamus Heaney • Amhrán na Mhúinse performed by Ceara Conway Bear in mind the skipping child hit • The Ballad of Claudy by James Simmons By the anonymous ricochet… • Anseo by And the garrulous neighbours at the bar • Rambling Irishman by Kevin Doherty and the Telegraph Band When the bomb exploded near them; • Patrol by Siobhán Campbell The gesticulating deaf-mute stilled • And They Call It Lovely by Colette Bryce by the soldier’s rifle in the town square • Fireguards by Adrian Rice And the policeman dismembered • Is this the Summer performed by Kevin Doherty and the Telegraph Band by the booby trap in the car. • Bobby, Wilfred and Seán by Pól Ó Muirí • Child of Our Time by • Swings and Roundabouts performed by the Telegraph Band . . . • All of these People by • Last Orders by Patriotism has to do with keeping • Tremors by Janet Shepperson the country in good heart, the community • Instrumental with Neil Martin, Ellen Cranitch and Ciarán Tourish ordered by justice and mercy; • Excerpt from Derry by Colette Bryce these will enlist loyalty and courage often, • H-Block Shuttle by and sacrifice, sometimes even martyrdom. • From Pentecost by Stewart Parker Bear these eventualities in mind also; • The Island by they will concern you forever: performed by Leslie Dowdall (London) and Maria Doyle Kennedy (Belfast) but, at this moment, bear in mind these dead. • Out to Tender by Jean Bleakney • Hats by Paula Cunningham • 16th August 1998 by Dermot Healy with music by Bill Campbell • Bad News from Home by Gráinne Tobin • Postcard by Jean Bleakney • Stones by Nigel McLoughlin • When all this is over by Siobhán Campbell • Remaindermen by Nick Laird John Hewitt • Ulster Says No by Moyra Donaldson • The Surprise by Siobhán Campbell Excerpt from ‘Neither an Elegy nor a Manifesto’ • Leaving Belfast by Leontia Flynn From The Selected John Hewitt (Blackstaff Press, 1981) • Deep Ulster by Please note that • Excerpt from The Cure at Troy by Seamus Heaney the programme • Neither an Elegy nor a Manifesto by John Hewitt is subject to change • And Played On performed by Kevin Doherty and the Telegraph Band Contributors’ Biographies

cathy belton the West End. Upcoming work includes Cathy Belton is a well known stage and lighting Franky and Johnny for Northern screen actress. Her most recent TV roles Stage as well as projects with Pan Pan film and television, orchestral and chamber leslie dowdall include Mrs Hartwright in BBC 1’s period Theatre and Dante or Die. music. She has written music for Rough Leslie Dowdall was the singer in trad/rock drama The Woman in White, the acclaimed Magic, The Abbey Theatre, Coiscéim Dance group In Tua Nua in the 1980s and released comedy Nowhere Fast for BBC and RTÉ, bríd brennan Theatre, Performance Corporation, and her several solo albums in the late 1990s. Her and Patricia Hennessy in TV3 and BBC’s Bríd Brennan was born and brought up operatic version of ’s The Dead, musical albums include No Guilt No Guile police drama Red Rock, for which she was in Belfast. She graduated from Queen’s which recently won a New York Festivals and Out There. In 1999 Leslie featured in nominated for Best Actress at the 2015 University with a degree in French and Award. She presents the late night weekend a series of Beatles celebration concerts at IFTA Television Awards. Her films include English. She began her acting career in programme, Vespertine, on RTÉ lyric fm, the National Concert Hall. The concerts Philomena, A Little Chaos and The Tiger’s Tale. Dublin at the Project Arts Centre and has made several arts documentaries for were conducted by the Beatles producer Sir Recent stage work includes the one woman went on to work at the Gate, Abbey and RTÉ Radio, and is Artistic Director of The George Martin. Then renewing a previously show The Match Box by Frank McGuinness Gaiety theatres. She moved to London over Galway Jazz Festival. successful partnership, she appeared as and Tom Murphy’s The House. She most thirty years ago where she has appeared in guest vocalist on Ronan Hardiman’s second recently appeared in Mark O’Rowe’s acclaimed many productions at the National, RSC, james delaney solo album Anthem released in 2000. Leslie new play The Approach playing Cora. She is a Shakespeare’s Globe, Royal Court, Donmar James played in the blues and rock scene in was the featured vocalist in the musical regular reader for Poetry Ireland. and West End theatres; as well as working in Dublin in the eighties with Red Peters, Rob production The Flight of the Earls composed film, television and radio, both in England Strong, Freddie White, Stagalee, Mick Hanly and written by Mary Ronayne-Keane. In conor brady and in Ireland. She played Agnes in the and Clannad with whom he wrote some of 2001 Leslie was involved in Paul Brady’s A guitar player, he has performed with many original production of ’s Dancing the music for the TV series Robin of Sherwood. epic 23 date run in Vicar Street, with other local and international artists and producers, at Lughnasa for which she won a Tony Award He went on to play with Moving Hearts, guests such as Bonnie Raitt, Van Morrison, and is currently based at Camden Recording on Broadway. Recently, she was seen in the Davy Spillane, Mary Coughlan, Chuck Berry, Sinead O’Connor and many more. Studios. Conor began playing with Dublin filmsBrooklyn and Florence Foster Jenkins and Van Morrison, Stockton’s Wing, Máirtín O’ band The Blades and is currently working theatre including Beckett’s All That Fall at Connor, Four Men and a Dog, and Kevin maria doyle kennedy with The Drays, The Wilton’s Music Hall and The Ferryman at the Doherty whose music he performed in the Maria Doyle Kennedy is an acclaimed Band and Telegraph. In addition to Royal Court and in the West End, for which Abbey Theatre for the Frank McGuinness singer and actor. She has spent the past production and recording work he teaches she is nominated for an Olivier Award. Bríd play Donegal. years travelling the world with her family guitar techniques at BIMM Music College. is currently working on Unforgotten for ITV. preparing songs for her latest album entitled kevin doherty Maria Doyle Kennedy, gigging constantly zia bergin holly ceara conway Kevin Doherty was born in Buncrana, and filming Series 4 of the hit Zia Bergin Holly is a lighting and set Ceara Conway is an Irish visual artist and Co Donegal. He came to music through series Outlander. Other recent acting credits designer. She designs for theatre, dance, singer working in performance, song and records and radio rather than a handed down include , , The opera and live music events. She works traditional folk practices. She has a track tradition. In his teens he began playing Conjuring 2 and Sing Street. Maria’s album internationally and has a base in both the record in producing experiential performance with a number of successful local bands, as Sing was released in 2012 and featured duets UK and Ireland. She recently won the works that utilise elements such as live they packed out hotels and halls. Bluegrass, with , Paul Brady and John 2017 Irish Times Theatre Award for Best singing, appropriated texts, testimonies and country, folk, rock, blues, jazz, swing and trad Prine. Ireland’s leading music magazine Hot Lighting Design for her design of Pan Pan visual art to explore social experiences of all combined on those nights. It was there Press described Sing as ‘Maria’s masterpiece.’ Theatre Company’s 2016 production of The power and loss in response to issues such as that Kevin learnt to love the ritual of ‘the Maria has recently collaborated with Feist Importance of Nothing. Her work has included cultural colonialism, exile and migration. She is dance’. Kevin’s songs have been recorded by, and on a video for the song designs for performances as part of the currently undertaking an artist’s residency with among others, and / ‘Century’ from Feist’s new album. Maria Dublin and Belfast Theatre Festivals, The Ormston House Cultural Centre, Limerick. The Band. He has worked with other writers writes and performs with husband Kieran Dublin Fringe, Edinburgh Fringe, IPAY, On including Aaron Hurwitz and Paul Brady. Kennedy and along with the new album, they The Edge, Kilkenny Arts Festival, Baboró ellen cranitch In 2016, Kevin wrote the music for the play have also completed their first short filmA and 10 Days In Dublin festivals, as well as Ellen is a musician, composer and broadcaster, Donegal written by Frank McGuinness, which Different Kind of Day, written and directed assistant design credits for performances on who has worked extensively in theatre, dance, premiered at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin. by Maria, produced and scored by Kieran. jason duffy charlie foley has worked with the Royal Shakespeare television, radio, concert hall, stage and Jason Duffy comes from the Irish Duffy circus Charlie Foley is a native of Galway City, Company, the National Theatre, the Abbey studio. He has collaborated with many family. He has been playing drums from the where he began playing bass on the local Theatre, Project Arts Centre, Druid Theatre leading artists, including Liam O’Flynn, age of twelve. Over the last twenty five years scene. This led to recording work, including and Glasgow’s Citizens Theatre, where he Bryn Terfel, Sam Shepard, Stephen Rea, he has gone on to tour and record with such being a regular bassist in the house band began his career. His extensive film work Christy Moore and The Dubliners. Jean artists as Michael Flatley, The Corrs, Shane on TG4’s popular TV show Síbín. Meeting includes Red Sparrow, Last Days in the Butler and Neil premiered their duet this is an MacGowan, The Waterboys, Paul Brady, the guest artists there led to offers of work Desert, In Bruges, The Eclipse, Life during to a sold-out run in New York in Sharon Shannon, Imelda May, Jeff Beck and further afield and soon he relocated to Dublin, Wartime, Silence, Woman Walks Ahead, Agent November, 2015. Currently writing an opera, many more. In 1991 he was asked to join where – when not touring – he studied for 47, Driftless Area, The Woman in Black, Closed he has scored music for plays on Broadway traditional group Four Men and a Dog. He his London Guildhall Diploma in Jazz Circuit, The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby. and in the West End. His ground-breaking has also produced four albums of original Theory & Performance. Over the years he has He is currently nominated for an Olivier work with the West Ocean String Quartet material with a fifth pencilled in for 2018. performed and toured with many artists in Award for his role in Girl from the North has been lauded globally. Most recently, his various musical styles, including Peter Corry, Country by Conor McPherson. composition Sweeney, a new song cycle based adrian dunbar Hazel O’Connor, Michelle Shocked, Declan on Seamus Heaney’s , was Actor and director Adrian Dunbar is best O’Rourke, Camille O’Sullivan, Finbar Furey, darragh kelly performed at the National Concert Hall. known for his television and theatre work. and Tommy Fleming. He has also worked Darragh Kelly is a founder member of Rough Dunbar co-wrote and starred in the 1991 with various orchestras including the Ulster Magic and his many roles with the company eleanor methven film,Hear My Song, nominated for Best Orchestra, and the RTÉ Concert Orchestra. include Improbable Frequency, Words of Advice Eleanor Methven is one of Ireland’s foremost Original Screenplay at the BAFTA awards. He is a regular player in the music theatre for Young People, Three Days of Rain, Digging actresses. She co-founded the award-winning More recently, he is better known for his scene, and was recently in the house band for I, for Fire, The Way of the World. Most recently, Charabanc Theatre Company, with whom role of Superintendent Ted Hastings in the Keano in the Olympia Theatre. he appeared in he company’s productions of she toured internationally and was Co- BBC One thriller Line of Duty, a role he has The Train and Northern Star by Stewart Parker. Artistic Director until 1995. She has worked portrayed since 2012. He has also appeared peter hanly with all the major Irish theatre companies, as Alan Cox in , Martin Summers Peter has been an actor for 30 years, working fergal mcelherron and received an E.M.A. and three Irish in Ashes to Ashes, Plantagenet in The Hollow mostly in theatre, in Ireland. He appeared in Fergal has worked for over twenty years Times Theatre Awards for her stage work. Crown, and as Father Flaherty in Broken. His Rough Magic’s Improbable Frequency by Arthur in theatre in Shakespeare’s Globe, Park She recently received the Irish Times Irish other film credits includeDeath in Paradise, Riordan and Bell Helicopter in the Dublin Theatre, The Tricycle, Abbey Theatre, Lyric Theatre Awards Special Tribute Award. She Eye of the Dolphin, Mickybo and Me, The Theatre Festival, on the Abbey stage, at the Belfast, and with Rough Magic, Druid, has also been nominated for an Irish Film Crying Game, The Dawning, Sky Bandits, My Edinburgh Fringe Festival and in New York. Corn Exchange, Prime Cut, Kabosh, Second and Television Award and is a regular on Left Foot, A World Apart, Children of the North His best-known film and TV appearances Age, and Performance Corporation. Fergal both media. and many more. are in Mel Gibson’s Braveheart, and BBC’s has recently finished a run ofThe Ferryman Ballykissangel. More recently Peter has been in the West End. TV and Film work includes carol moore linda ervine devoting his time to writing, including a Cold Feet, Resistance [Rebellion 2] (RTÉ), Carol Moore has worked as an actor, Linda Ervine is the feature screenplay which is in development. Guy Ritchie’s King Arthur: The Legend of the theatre director, filmmaker and drama Development Officer for East Belfast based Sword, Shane Meadows’ This is England’90, facilitator since the 1980s. Carol co-founded at the Skainos Centre. Until five years ago, ciarán hinds The Rack Pack (BBC), Charlie (RTÉ), Charabanc Theatre Company in 1983 and when she started learning Irish as part of a Ciarán Hinds has featured in films such The Truth Commissioner (BBC), The Clinic remained a co-Artistic Director and actress cross-community project with women from as Road to Perdition, Munich, There Will Be (RTÉ), Holy Cross (BBC), Omagh (BBC), with the company until 1995. Acting theatre the nearby nationalist Short Strand, Linda Blood, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows H3, Eureka Street (BBC), and The Secret of credits include: Macbeth, Pentecost and Can’t didn’t know a word of the language. Now – Part 2, and Justice League in which he Roan Inish. He has a stage play currently in Forget About You (Lyric Theatre); Those You she manages an Irish language project which played the main antagonist Steppenwolf. His development with Rough Magic. Pass on the Street, Belfast by Moonlight, Titans, provides eleven classes of various ability levels television roles include Gaius Julius Caesar 1 in 5, Two Roads West, and Henry & Harriet per week to over 150 language learners, as in the series Rome, DCI James Langton neil martin (Kabosh). Acting film/TV credits include well as and set dancing classes and in Above Suspicion, and Mance Rayder in Neil Martin is a composer and musician Come Home, Mercy, Guard, The Lodge, and a once a month traditional music session. Game of Thrones. As a stage actor Hinds whose work spans dance, theatre, film, The Truth Commissioner. Film directing credits include: Short Drama Film Gort an lynne parker in theatres throughout the UK and Ireland about Poetry Ireland gCnámh (Best First Time Director at the Lynne Parker is Artistic Director and co- including with the RSC, National Theatre, Celtic Film Festival and Foyle Film Festival), founder of Rough Magic. Productions for Royal Exchange, Manchester and the Abbey Poetry Ireland connects people and poetry. Feature Film Pumpgirl by Abbie Spallen Rough Magic include: the world premiere Theatre. Tomelty’s roles in recent years The organisation is committed to achieving and Nesta Fellowship films,The Farther, The of Melt by Shane Mac an Bhaird, The Train, include the drama series Spooks, Casualty, The excellence in the reading, writing and Dearer, This Belfast Thing, Crack the Pavement The Housekeeper (Irish Times Best New Amazing Mrs Pritchard, , Law & performance of poetry throughout the island and History Unfinished (Northern Ireland Play 2012), Don Carlos (Irish Times Best Order: UK, The Royal, Waking the Dead, Silent of Ireland. regional winner of the BAFTA 60 SEC Production 2007), The Taming of the Shrew Witness, Unforgotten, Catastrophe, and most 2008). Writing credits include Shrieking (Best Production 2006), Improbable Frequency recently in Peaky Blinders and Apple Tree Yard. Poetry Ireland receives support from The Sisters, co-written with Maggie Cronin (Best Production, Best Director, 2004), Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon about the Ulster Suffrage militant campaign. Copenhagen (Best Production, 2002), Sodome, ciarán tourish and The Arts Council of Northern Ireland Carol has been writing and developing a my love, Three Days of Rain, The Sugar Wife, Ciarán Tourish hails from Buncrana in and enjoys rewarding partnerships with one-woman play about ageing titled The Northern Star, Spokesong, Pentecost, Hidden East Co. Donegal. Although Ciarán started arts centres, festivals, schools, colleges and Experience of Being. Charges, Down Onto Blue, Lady Windermere’s playing the tin whistle at an early age, he bookshops at home and abroad. Fan, Digging for Fire, Love and a Bottle (Bank soon took up the under the guidance olivia o’leary of Ireland/Arts Show Award), Danti-Dan, of local legendary fiddler and teacher, Dinny Its commitment to creating performance Olivia O’Leary is one of Ireland’s best The Country Wife, Decadence, Top Girls. McLaughlin. In addition to his mastery and publication opportunities for poets at known broadcasters and journalists. Her Other theatre includes: Heavenly Bodies, of the dance music tradition, and his all stages of their careers helps ensure that award-winning work in this field has seen her (Best Director, 2004); The Sanctuary Lamp, acclaimed work with Altan, Ciarán’s quick the best work is made available to the widest take on a diverse range of roles, from being The Shape of Metal (Abbey Theatre); and ear and love of harmony and counterpoint possible audience, securing a future for Irish RTÉ’s Belfast correspondent in 1975-1976 Lovers (Druid). She was an Associate Artist have led to his talent being in demand as a poetry that is as celebrated as its past. to presenting a number of flagship current of Charabanc Theatre Company. Lynne was valued collaborator on non-Altan and even affairs programmes on both television and awarded the Irish Times Special Tribute non-Irish music projects with a wide range In September 2016 Poetry Ireland moved radio. She presents The Poetry Programme on Award in 2008 and an Honorary Doctorate by of musicians and singers including Paul into its beautiful new home in Dublin’s RTÉ Radio 1. Trinity College Dublin in 2010. Brady, Matt Molloy, Mary Black, Maura Parnell Square. The organisation is now O’Connell, Máirtín O’Connor, Dolores embarked on ambitious and innovative plans tara lynne o’neill stephen sexton Keane, Dé Danann and American musicians, for the redevelopment of this expansive Tara Lynne appeared as Ma Mary in the Stephen Sexton lives in Belfast. Poems Jerry Douglas and Tim O’Brien. He released Georgian townhouse as an all-island highly successful Derry Girls directed by have appeared in Granta, Poetry Ireland his first solo recordingDown the Line in 2005 institution dedicated to poetry in all its Michael Lennox. Born and based in Belfast, Review, and Best British Poetry 2015. His featuring guest musicians Arty McGlynn, forms. When complete, this development will Tara Lynne appeared in Planet Belfast directed pamphlet, Oils, published by The Emma Paul Brady, Maura O’Connell, Mick Hanly, house the Seamus Heaney Working Poetry by Michael Duke and as Geri Sue in Lally Press, was the Poetry Book Society’s Winter Tim O’Brien, Alison Krauss and Jerry Library, elegant performance and workshop the Scut for Tinderbox Theatre Company at Pamphlet Choice. He was the winner of the Douglas among others. spaces and a poetry café and garden. The MAC Theatre, Belfast. Most recently 2016 National Poetry Competition and the Tara Lynne appeared in the Lyric’s production recipient of an ACES award from the Arts of The Nativity: What the Donkey Saw. Council of Northern Ireland. Her film credits include:Full Circle (dir. Simon Fitzmaurice for which she won the frances tomelty Best Actress Award at the Cherbourg Film Belfast actress Frances Tomelty has featured Festival), Omagh (dir. Pete Travis), The Roman in series including Bergerac, Inspector Morse, Spring of Mrs. Stone (dir. Robert Ackerman) Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married, Strangers, as well as Wild About Harry and The Most Midsomer Murders, , and Fertile Man in Ireland. As a writer, Tara Cracker, as well as many films including Lynne has recently had her play Rough Girls Bellman and True, Monk Dawson, Bullshot and commissioned by the Lyric Theatre, Belfast. The Field. She has performed in leading roles Credits Bibliography Buíochas Leabharliosta

Presented by the Government of Ireland ‘Child of Our Time’ by Eavan Boland ‘Postcard’ by Jean Bleakney (May, 1974) by kind permission of the author from The Ripple Tank Experiment (1999) by kind Produced by Poetry Ireland and The Irish Times permission of the author and Lagan Press, Belfast. Devised by Eleanor Methven Directed by Lynne Parker ‘All of these People’ by Michael Longley ‘Stones’ by Nigel McLoughlin, Hosted by Olivia O’Leary from The Weather in Japan (2000) from At the Waters’ Clearing (2001), by kind by kind permission of the author and Wake permission of the author and Flambard Press. Forest University Press, North Carolina. Performed in London by We are grateful to the Heaney Family, Joseph ‘When All this is Over’ by Siobhán Campbell, Cathy Belton, Bríd Brennan, Ceara Conway, Littlewood, Barbican, Jimmy Fay and Bronagh ‘Last Orders’ by Ciaran Carson from That Water Speaks In Tongues (2008) by Ellen Cranitch, Kevin Doherty and the McFeely, Lyric Theatre, Irish Rail, Alan from (1989) kind permission of the author and Templar by kind permission of the author and The Gallery Poetry. Telegraph Band (Conor Brady, James Delaney, Farqhuarson, Rough Magic, Paula Tierney, Press, Loughcrew, Oldcastle, Co. Meath. Jason Duffy, Charlie Foley, Ciarán Tourish), John Galvin, and all the contributing poets, ‘Remaindermen’ by Nick Laird Leslie Dowdall, Adrian Dunbar, Peter Hanly, musicians, artists and actors. ‘Tremors’ by Janet Shepperson from To a Fault: Poems (2005) by kind Ciarán Hinds, Darragh Kelly, from The Aphrodite Stone (1995) permission of the author and Faber & Faber Fergal McElherron, Neil Martin, by kind permission of the author and Salmon Ltd., London. Poetry, Co. Clare. Eleanor Methven, Tara Lynne O’Neill, We are grateful to the following artists, ‘Ulster Says No’ by Moyra Donaldson, Frances Tomelty galleries and estates for permission to use ‘And they call it lovely Derry’ by Colette Bryce from Selected Poems (2012), by kind permission of images for the performance. from Selected Poems (2017) by kind permission of the author and Liberties Press. Performed in Belfast by Rita Duffy the author and Picador, Pan MacMillan, London. Cathy Belton, Richard Clements, Ellen Cranitch, Colin Davidson ‘Casualty’ by Seamus Heaney Excerpt from ‘Derry’ by Colette Bryce from from Opened Ground Poems 1966-1996 (1998) Niall Cusack, Kevin Doherty and the Telegraph John Keane Selected Poems (2017) by kind permission of the by kind permission of Faber & Faber Ltd., Band (Conor Brady, James Delaney, Jason Duffy, Victor Sloan author and Picador, Pan MacMillan, London. London. Charlie Foley, Ciarán Tourish), Linda Ervine, Catherine McWilliams Maria Doyle Kennedy, Peter Hanly, Darragh The Ulster Museum ‘H-Block Shuttle’ by Rita Ann Higgins from ‘The Surprise’ by Siobhán Campbell from Kelly, Frankie McCafferty, Abigail McGibbon, Martin Forker Witch in the Bushes (1988) by kind permission of Cross-Talk (2009) by kind permission of the the author and Salmon Poetry, Co. Clare. author and Seren Books, Bridgend, Wales. Neil Martin, Eleanor Methven, Carol Moore, F.E. McWilliams

Tara Lynne O’Neill, Stephen Sexton, Frances From ‘Pentecost’ by Stewart Parker ‘Leaving Belfast’ by Leontia Flynn from Drives Tomelt y from Stewart Parker: Plays 2 (2000), by kind (2008) by kind permission of the author and Front cover image permission of Methuen Drama. Cape Poetry, Random House, London. Lighting Zia Bergin Holly ‘Errigal’ by Paul Henry ‘Out to Tender’ by Jean Bleakney ‘The Cure at Troy’ (1991) by Seamus Heaney, Visuals Gary Maguire © Copyright Estate of Paul Henry/IVARO 2018 from The Ripple Tank Experiment (1999) by kind by kind permission of Faber & Faber Ltd., London. Stage management permission of the author and Lagan Press, Belfast. Justin Murphy, Sally McKenna, ‘Neither an Elegy nor a Manifesto’ Kate Miller, Paula Tierney ‘16th August 1998’ by Dermot Healy from by John Hewitt, by kind permission of Production management Collected Poems (2018) by kind permission of Blackstaff Press, Belfast, Northern Ireland. Marty Moore and Rob Furey the author and The Gallery Press, Loughcrew, Oldcastle, Co. Meath. ‘Progress’ by Alan Gillis from Somebody, Marketing Somewhere (2004) by kind permission of the Muireann Sheahan for Poetry Ireland ‘Bad News from Home’ by Gráinne Tobin, author and The Gallery Press, Loughcrew, Nora Delaney for the Embassy of Ireland from Banjaxed (2002) by kind permission of the Oldcastle, Co. Meath. Graphic design Margaret Lonergan author and Summer Palace Press. Administration Elizabeth Mohen ‘The Coasters’ by John Hewitt ‘Hats’ by Paula Cunningham from John Hewitt: Selected Poems (2007) by kind from Heimlich’s Manoeuvre (2013) permission of Blackstaff Press, Belfast. by kind permission of the author and Smith/Doorstop Books. ‘The Nod’ by Seamus Heaney from District and Circle (2006) by kind ‘Patrol’ by Gearóid Mac Lochlainn, permission of Faber & Faber Ltd., London. translated by Gearóid Mac Lochlainn and Frankie Sewell, from Sruth Teangacha / Stream ‘The Clock on a Wall of Farringdon Gardens, of Tongues (2002) by kind permission of the August 1971’ by Gerald Dawe author and Cló Iar Chonnachta. from Selected Poems (2012) by kind permission of the author and The Gallery Press, ‘Anseo’ by Paul Muldoon Loughcrew, Oldcastle, Co. Meath. from Why Brownlee Left (1980) by kind permission of the author and ‘The British Connection’ by Padraic Fiacc Faber & Faber Ltd., London. (© Copyright: Padraig Fiacc, 1977) ‘Patrol’ by Siobhán Campbell ‘Be Careful Not to Patronise the Irish’ from That Other Island (2010) by kind by Arthur Riordan and Bell Helicopter, permission of the author and Seren Books, by kind permission of the author and composer. Bridgend, Wales.

‘The Toome Road’ by Seamus Heaney ‘Bobby, Wilfred and Seán’ by Pól Ó Muirí from Opened Ground Poems 1966-1996 (1998) by kind permission of the author. by kind permission of Faber & Faber Ltd., London. ‘Ballad of Claudy’ by James Simmons from Poems 1956-1986 with kind permission ‘Ladies’ Night’ by Gráinne Tobin from The Gallery Press, Loughcrew, Oldcastle, from Banjaxed (2002), by kind permission Co. Meath. of the author and Summer Palace Press. ‘Deep Ulster’ by Harry Clifton from The Winter Sleep of Captain Lemass (2012), by kind permission of Bloodaxe Books, Northumberland, UK declaration of support

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