Tag:Literature
Blanchardstown Library
Fingal County Council will celebrate Culture Night at Blanchardstown Library on Friday 23rd September from 7.00-10pm. At 7.00pm, 6-12 year olds can hunt for clues and treasure at The Phantom Tollbooth storytelling & activity quest. (must be booked in advance at 8905563). At 7.30pm, adults and teenagers are invited to celebrate classic horror fiction from [...]
American College Dublin
A celebration of Oscar Wilde, his circle and Dublin through words, video and music. Conducted in the childhood home of Oscar Wilde. From 5pm – 11pm American College Dublin 1 Merrion Square Dublin 2 01 676 8939 www.acd.ie
Connolly Books and The New Theatre
Come and have a look around The New Theatre from 5pm – 7.30pm. Experience Connolly Books, the oldest Socialist bookshop in Ireland. All welcome. From 5pm – 10pm.
James Joyce Centre
Come discover Joyce’s Dublin! Located in a beautifully restored Georgian townhouse, video documentaries, touch-screen computer installations and more will bring you closer to one of Ireland’s greatest modern writers. At 6.30pm and again at 8pm renowned lyric tenor Noel O’Grady will perform musical classics from the Joycean repertoire. Not to be missed! Booking essential. From [...]
Irish Writers’ Centre
Guest writers will kick off the evening with poetry and prose readings; this will be followed by an open mic segment where the floor will be opened to singers, writers and other performers. From 5pm – 11pm Irish Writers’ Centre 19 Parnell Square Dublin 1 0 1 872 1302 www.writerscentre.ie
Trinity Long Room Hub
Multilingual Literary Soiree: Staff, students and friends of the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies (TCD) will read their favourite poems and prose extracts in French, German, Italian, Irish, Polish, Russian, Spanish and in translation. Some may even sing! If you have a request, please do not hesitate to contact Sarah Smyth (ssmyth@tcd.ie), who [...]
Dublin Writers Museum
Is it Love: A one man performance on the various observations on the subject of Love by different writers such as Oscar Wilde, W B Yeats, John Millington Synge, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Charles Dickens, Noel Coward, Micheal Jagger, and more. Performance will commence at 7pm in the Gallery of Writers and last approx 45 minutes. [...]
Dublin City Library & Archive
Celebrate Family History on Culture Night! Talk to experts – try out sources – look at exhibitions – get new ideas! From 6pm – 9pm Dublin City Library & Archive 138 – 144 Pearse Street Dublin 2 01 674 4806 / 4873 dublinpubliclibraries@dublincity.ie
National Library of Ireland
Guided tours of our magnificant reading room at 6pm, 8pm and 10pm. Guided tours of our Yeats exhibition at 7pm and 9pm. Visit tour children’s exhibition Tall Tales and Deadly Drawings and explore Library treasures in our Discover exhibition. Guided tours of our exhibition Yeats: the life and works of William Butler Yeats at 7.00pm [...]
The Gutter Bookshop
We are delighted to announce our first ever art installation for Culture Night 2011 – White Wolf Projects presents ‘One Rainy Twilight’ by Nicole Tilley! Drawing inspiration from children’s literature, illustration and magic realism, Nicole Tilley explores our secret inner worlds and inbetween states of being. Working with a diverse range of media including etching [...]
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