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Children's Book Festival 2007

Start Date: Wednesday, October 03, 2007
End Date: Friday, October 26, 2007


The 2007 Children's Book Festival promises to be an action-packed affair in Dublin City Libraries. The programme features an exciting mix of children's authors, performances and workshop activities in branch libraries throughout the month of October.

Author visits include Gordon Snell, Herbie Brennan, Áine Ní Ghlinn, Conor Kostick, Judi Curtin, Joe O'Brien, Fiona Tierney, Una Healy and Enda Wyley. Michael Moylan of 'Irish History Live' will bring his interactive history shows to several libraries across the city.

Booking essential!

For bookings and enquiries visit
http://www.dublincitypubliclibraries.ie

Art in Ink Exhibition

Start Date: Friday, September 28, 2007
End Date: Sunday, October 21, 2007
Venue: Chester Beatty Library


This exhibition of contemporary calligraphy will display recent work by members of Peannairí and fellow calligraphers. Peannairí – derived from an Irish word meaning 'penners' (peann = pen) – was founded in Dublin 20 years ago and is the only organisation in the Republic of Ireland dedicated to the advancement of calligraphy as an art form. Please see http://www.calligraphy.ie for more information on Peannairí.

The Irish House Party

Start Date: Wednesday, September 26, 2007
End Date: Friday, September 26, 2008
Venue: Entertainment Hat - The Irish House Party
Time: 6pm-9.30pm
Price: Free under 16

The Irish House Party combines all the singing and dancing of a traditional Irish house party with a real learning experience where house guests learn about Irish music, dance and culture in a fun way.

This is an activity suitable for kids:

Join us every Thursday, Friday and Saturday for an evening of family fun! On arrival you are welcomed by the Fear an Tí for an evening suitable for all the family that will both entertain and educate! Admission to the show is free for children under 16. Reservation is essential.

The Sea Stallion Exhibition at the National Museum of Ireland - Decorative Arts & History

Start Date: Monday, August 20, 2007
End Date: Monday, June 30, 2008

Musical Reflections at the National Library of Ireland

Autumn Series devoted to Irish composers and historic musical figures.

Musical Reflections provides a rare opportunity to explore our heritage in a uniquely informative and entertaining way. The series also gives a new focus to the music collections of the National Library of Ireland. Each concert aims to feature rarely performed Irish works along with better-known repertoire. In order to illuminate the background of the featured composers, programmes will be presented, making the music very accessible to all audience members.

As seats are limited booking is essential.

To reserve your place please telephone: 01 603 0229.

For further information, please call 01 603 0277 or www.nli.ie for more.

From Symbolism to Modern Art (1880-1939): Two Generations of Polish Paintings- An Exhibition from the National Museum, Warsaw
(Millennium Wing)

Start Date: Wednesday, October 17, 2007
End Date: Sunday, January 27, 2008

The exhibition will present selected aspects of Polish painting by two generations of artists with special focus on the significance of turn-of-the-century Symbolism.

More details contact : http://http://www.nationalgallery.ie

Alice Maher, The Night Garden

Start Date: Friday, September 14, 2007
End Date: Sunday, October 28, 2007
Venue: Royal Hibernian Academy

Alice Maher is one of Ireland's foremost contemporary artists. She has produced some of the most iconic images in Irish art working in sculpture, photography installation and drawing. The Night Garden at the RHA is an exhibition of new charcoal and pencil drawings inspired by Bosch's painting The Garden of Earthly Delights.

Check out http://www.royalhibernianacademy.ie

Salla Tykkä

Start Date: Friday, September 14, 2007
End Date: Sunday, October 28, 2007
Venue: Royal Hibernian Academy

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Catching a likeness: Portraits on Paper (working title)

Start Date: Monday, September 03, 2007
End Date: Sunday, December 09, 2007
Venue: National Library of Ireland

The ways in which portraitists represent, identify and the role of the portrait down through the ages is explored in this exhibition. The complexity of portraiture is revealed in its diversity of forms and functions as well as in its vast rangwe of postures, facila expressions, dress and settings. The exhibition reveals how portraits from the 15th through to the 20th centuries have varied depending on the prevailing artistic fashions, favoured styled, techniques and media. Idealised heads feature alongside self-portraits, literary likenesses and caricatures. Modern portraiture, displaying the experimental, more personal response of the artist to his subject is shown. The exhibition comprises portraits from the collection with a complementary selection of works from galleries in the UK.

Eyewitness: Ireland through the lens of Colman Doyle

Start Date: Thursday, July 19, 2007
End Date: Monday, November 05, 2007
Venue: National Photographic Archive, Temple Bar, Dublin 2.

Eyewitness: Ireland through the lens of Colman Doyle
An exhibition representing almost 60 years of Colman Doyle's career as a photographer, National Photographic Archive 19 July to 5 November 2007.

Masquerade and Spectacle' The Circus and the Travelling Fair in the work of Jack B.Yeats In association with Pioneer Investments

Start Date: Wednesday, July 18, 2007
End Date: Sunday, November 11, 2007
Venue: National Gallery of Ireland

Masquerade and Spectacle commemorates the 50th anniversary of the death of Jack B. Yeats (1871-1957); one of Ireland's most loved artists. Featuring 26 paintings and watercolours drawn mainly from private collections, the exhibition focuses on the theme of the circus and the travelling fair in the work of the artist. It will show how certain motifs such as the clown and the circus horse recurred in Yeats's work over many decades in his compositions: Crystal Palace (1903); Double Jockey Act (1916), They Come, They Come (1936), and This Grand Conversation was Under the Rose (1943). From his earliest years Yeats had a fascination with such theatrical spectacles as is evident from his sketchbooks, examples of which will also be on view.

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Life and Death in the Roman World

Start Date: Friday, June 22, 2007
End Date: Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Venue: National Museum of Ireland - Decorative Arts & History

Life and Death in the Roman World
The exhibition features objects that have been in storage in the Museum for a long time. The objects were collected primarily in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries not just for public display but also to assist scholars in the study of classical art and architecture.

1916 Rising Commemorative Exhibition

Start Date: Wednesday, April 12, 2006
End Date: Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Venue: National Museum of Ireland - Decorative Arts & History


1916 Rising Commemorative Exhibition
The National Museum of Ireland intends to host an Easter Rising commemorative exhibition in The National Museum of Ireland – Decorative Arts & History (Collins Barracks) opening 12 April 2006 – the 90th anniversary of the Rising. This exhibition will examine the 'decade of disturbance' between 1913 and 1923, in other words from the Lockout to the ending of the Civil War. It will concentrate on the political dimension and the personalities involved and the principal medium of conveying the story will be objects from the collections of the National Museum.

Yeats Exhibition - Life and Works

Start Date: Sunday, May 01, 2005
End Date: Thursday, May 01, 2008
Venue: National Library of Ireland

The National Library of Ireland has the largest collection of Yeats manuscripts in the world and, in addition, holds other fascinating Yeats material generously donated by Mrs George Yeats, wife of the poet, and Michael Yeats, the poet's son, over several years.

The Yeats Collection at the Library includes more than 2000 items, stored in 100 archival boxes, occupying 24 metres of shelf space.