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PRESENT IMMEMORIAL THE SOUND OF AFTERLIFE Tuesday 7 October, 6pm, The National Wednesday 8 October, 8pm, The National Library of Ireland, Kildare Street, Dublin 2 Concert Hall, Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin 2

Acclaimed poet Ioan Es.Pop and travel As the opening event of the Romanian writer and cultural animator Peter Hurley Cultural Days in Dublin, Irish composer read excerpts from their latest books and Shaun Davey presents his haunting discuss the inexhaustible, mysterious exploration of one of Europe’s eeriest appeal of Transylvania’s ancient ways in places, the Merry Cemetery of Săpânţa, a conversation moderated by Stephen Maramureş, located in one of the most Collins of The Irish Times. Preceded by the unspoiled and archaic corners of . screening of Dieter Auner’s documentary A presentation of RTÉ Concert Orchestra. Off the Beaten Track, an elegiac homage Special guest: The Male Voice Choir of to the old rite of transhumance. University. Also featuring: , Free entry. Liam O’Flynn and Noel Eccles. Tickets: www.nch.ie World War I and ends in the corridors of COMMUNISM AS Brussels. Chaired by Dr Graeme Murdock, CURRICULUM VITAE Director of The Centre for European Studies. Friday 10 October, 6.30pm, Irish Film Documentary screening: A Century for Institute, 6 Eustace Street, Temple Bar, Romania by Adrian Cioroianu (TVR, 2013). Dublin 2 Free entry.

Special screening of I’m an Old Communist Hag, a bittersweet tale of survival and PLAY IONESCO redemption in the most adverse times, Saturday 25 October, 8pm, starring legendary actress Luminiţa Project Arts Centre, 39 East Essex Street, Gheorghiu (Death of Mr Lăzărescu, Child’s Temple Bar, Dublin 2 Pose). Followed by a Q&A with veteran director Stere Gulea. Tickets: www.ifi.ie An ingenuous and multi-prized production of Eugène Ionesco’s famous play, The Chairs, with a star-studded ensemble THE BLOUSE THAT directed by stage virtuoso Felix Alexa. With: CHANGED THE WORLD Oana Pellea, Răzvan Vasilescu and Gabriel Spahiu. A production of Bulandra Theatre Tuesday 14 October, 6pm, European Union Bucharest. In Romanian with English House, 18 Dawson Street, Dublin 2 surtitles. Tickets: projectartscentre.ie Made famous by Matisse and a global fashion item by the hippie generation, the traditional Romanian blouse is the VAMPIROLOGY seductive conclusion of centuries of Saturday 25 October, 9pm, craftsmanship and chromatic imagination. The Mercantile, 28 Dame Street, Dublin 2 The Măiastra – The Untold Story of the Romanian Blouse exhibition, produced by As expected from a nation that knows how Galateca Gallery from Bucharest, exposes to party, The Romanian Cultural Days in the sartorial, symbolical, and artistic Dublin conclude with an extravaganza of connections of this iconic artifact. Until 24 music, imagery and delicious food & drink October. Free entry. sampling, featuring the inexhaustible diva of Balkan electro, DJ Nico de Transilvania. Part of the Bram Stoker Festival. Free entry. ROMANIA REVEALED Thursday 23 October, 6pm, Trinity Long More info: www.icr-london.co.uk/dublin Room Hub, Fellows Square, .mae.ro

Historian and TV personality Adrian Cioroianu, former Minister of Foreign Organisers: Affairs, examines the last 100 remarkable years of Romania’s past in a roller-coaster EMBASSY OF ROMANIA in Ireland journey that starts in the trenches of the

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