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David Lindsay-Abaire’s Boston play, Good People, starring Imelda Staunton had a great intinal run at Hampsted in London. GOOD PEOPLE transfers into the West End’s Noel Coward Theatre for a strictly limited run.
In South Boston you’re starting on the wrong side of the tracks, so just making ends meet will require all the energy you can muster. And when sharp-tongued single-mother Margie loses yet another job she’ll do anything it takes to pay the bills. Hearing that an old boyfriend who has made good is in town, she decides to corner him – with unexpected results all round.
David Lindsay-Abaire’s funny and tender drama explores how even if you live on the brink, destiny can have a way of surprising you. D Bo won the Pulitzer Prize for his critically acclaimed Rabbit Hole, which also earned several Tony Award nominations – his film adaptation of Rabbit Hole starred Nicole Kidman.
Jonathan Kent makes his Hampstead Theatre debut. His numerous directing credits include Sweeney Todd and Private Lives (Chichester Festival Theatre and West End). Between 1990 and 2002 Jonathan was joint Artistic Director of the Almeida Theatre, which he founded as a full-time producing theatre.
Olivier Award-winning actress Imelda Staunton returns to Hampstead Theatre for the first time
in 20 years. Recent theatre credits include Sweeney Todd (Chichester Festival Theatre/West End) and A Delicate Balance (Almeida Theatre). Film credits include the BAFTA winning Vera Drake, Sense and Sensibility, Shakespeare in Love and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
Lloyd Owen makes a highly anticipated return to Hampstead Theatre following Loyalty in 2011. Recent theatre credits include NT50, Blood & Gifts, and Paul (National Theatre),The Bodyguard (Adelphi). TV and Film credits include Monarch of the Glen (BBC) andApollo 18.
★★★★★ “Imelda Staunton is on sensational form in this smart play” Evening Standard ★★★★★ “Jonathan Kent’s assured and stylish production gives Staunton and Owen a chance to shine, but the supporting characters are on strong form, too” Sunday Telegraph ★★★★ Times, ★★★★ Telegraph, ★★★★ Guardian, ★★★★ FT, ★★★★ Independent, ★★★★ Daily Mail –
WRITER
DAVID LINDSAY-ABAIRE
DIRECTOR
DESIGNER
LIGHTING
MARK HENDERSON
SOUND
PAUL GROOTHUIS
CASTING
ANNE MCNULTY
The 2014 Conference sessions will begin at 9:00 am on Wednesday, 11 June; the final paper will end at 5:00 pm on Saturday, 14 June.
Early check-in will be open on the afternoon of Tuesday, 10 June, for pre-conference workshops.the conference will take place at UCD’s Belfield Campus, situated 4km south of Dublin city centre. The primary venue is the O’Brien Centre for Science (East), with receptions and conference dinner to be held in neighbouring O’Reilly Hall.
The conference theme of Irish Studies in an international context has attracted an exceptionally varied and wide-ranging programme of panels and papers and provides eloquent testimony of a subject that is both consolidating its core strengths and breaking into new areas of enquiry. In any year, the number of contributions on the poetry of Seamus Heaney would be high; but in this year of grievous loss it is even higher; and we know that Seamus will be talked about as much off the platform as on it. The committee wishes to dedicate this conference to Seamus Heaney, to his personal memory and to his great legacy.
ACIS/CAiS are happy to say that the newly appointed Ireland Professor of Poetry, Paula Meehan, will be giving a reading, as will two of Ireland’s greatest writers, Frank McGuinness and Joseph O’Connor. The readings are only one part of the full and varied programme which will take place over the four days as over 500 speakers examine where Ireland fits into wider cultural, socio-economic and historical patterns.
ACIS/CAiS hope for sunny weather in which you can avail of some of UCD’s newer walkways and view some of the more recent state-of-the-art developments, such as the O’Brien Centre for Science and the Sutherland School of Law. The centre of Dublin is only a ten-minute bus ride away, where a series of small-group workshops in Dublin’s libraries and archives will be held.
The conference is drawing not only from across the Atlantic but also from around the island; and provides a rare opportunity for meetings and exchanges. We hope the outcome of the week will be both professionally and personally rewarding, one which in turn will spark fresh developments in the field of Irish Studies in the coming years.
Pre-Conference Events
Annual Conference - 11 to 14 June 2014 University College Dublin
We are delighted to offer pre-conference workshops and visits to libraries and archives.
These events include talks by specialist librarians, archivists and experts and are free for
delegates who have registered for the conference.
Booking: Numbers are limited and pre-booking is essential.
Event times: Apart from the Early Career Workshop and the Irish University Review launch
all other events will begin at 2pm or later. Specific times will be announced soon. The Irish
University Review (Special Issue on Brendan Behan) will be launched at 6 pm.
Conference Programme
unfortunately, the conference dinner has been cancelled.The 2014 Joint Conference of the American Conference for Irish Studies and the Canadian Association for Irish Studies/L’Association Canadienne d’Études Irlandaises is organised by Professor Mary E. Daly, Professor Máire Ní Annracháin, Professor Anthony Roche, Dr Malcolm Sen, and Dr Marc Caball. for up up to date infomation about the conference vist http://www.acis-cais2014conference.ie or email acis.cais@ucd.ie.
An interesting preconference event
National Library of Ireland
2:00 pm – 3:30 pm: Master Class on the Joseph Holloway Collection with
Professor Charles Barr (Royal Irish Academy Library). Venue: Seminar Room,
National Library of Ireland.
The diaries of Joseph Holloway, held in over 200 volumes, constitute a remarkable
resource for students of Dublin life and culture; more than diaries, they incorporate
letters, press cuttings, and other ephemera. A professional architect who designed
the Abbey Theatre, Holloway was for many years also a film censor, a National
Gallery Board member, a lifelong theatregoer and a gossipy networker. The
workshop will give access to a selection of Holloway’s pages, including material on
his culturally sensitive role as a film censors in the early days of the Irish Free State.
To register for this event please email acis.cais@ucd.ie with the code NLI-JHC in
the subject field.
professor John Carey is a British literary critic whose passionate views have sometimes proved controversial. He came to Dublin to talk about The Unexpected Professor – a warm and funny memoir of the events that formed him, such as an escape from the London blitz to an idyllic rural village, army service in Egypt, an open scholarship to Oxford and an academic career that saw him elected, age 40, to Oxford’s oldest English Literature professorship. The event was chaired by Selina Guinness.
A few poety events at the Dublin Writers Festival
Posted: May 21, 2014 in Dublin Writers Festival., UncategorizedSimon Armitage
Date: Thu 22nd May at 6pm Venue: Smock Alley Theatre Price: €12 / €10
Few poets can count a BAFTA, a CBE and an Ivor Novella among their awards, but Simon Armitage is one. His astonishingly varied body of work includes ten collections of poetry, two novels, a bestselling memoir, translations from the classics and plays for radio, TV and stage.
In 2011, he walked the 256-mile Pennie Way as a kind of modern troubadour, giving poetry readings in return for bed and board, a feat described in the bestseller Walking Home.
He comes to Dublin Writers Festival to talk about The Last Days of Troy, his new dramatisation of Homer’s Iliad, currently on stage at the Royal Exchange in London, and to read from a selection of his work over the last 25 years
translations from the classics include Homer’s Odyssey (2006), Sir Gawain and The Green Knight (2007), The Death of King Arthur (2011)
Ciaran Berry & Tess Gallagher
Date: Fri 23rd May at 6pm Venue: Smock Alley Theatre Price: €10/€8
Ciaran Berry’s first collection, The Sphere of Birds, was one of the most praised debuts of recent years, winning numerous awards. His new collection, The Dead Zoo, which takes its name from the nickname for Dublin’s Natural History Museum, confirms his reputation as a leading Irish poet of his generation.
Tess Gallagher will discuss Midnight Lantern, a collection of poems from her forty-year career that has included several books of short stories, a dozen poetry collections and numerous awards.
Poetry Workshop with Ciaran Berry
Date: Sat 24th May at 2.30pm Venue: Irish Writers’ Centre Price: €25
After reading with Tess Gallagher on Friday, Ciaran Berry leads an advanced workshop for published and aspiring poets, exploring some key techniques in depth.
This workshop runs from 2.30 – 4.30pm.
ublin Writers Festival runs in various venues around the city until Sunday, May 25th. For ticket information and the full list of events, see http://www.dublinwritersfestival.com
a Music event at a writers festival ! Faber Social: Words & music with Vic Albertine, Bob Stanley, DJ Jim Carroll & music by Idiot/Songs
Posted: May 21, 2014 in Uncategorized.Faber Social: Words & music with Vic Albertine, Bob Stanley, DJ Jim Carroll & music by Idiot/Songs
Date: Thu 22nd May at 8pm Venue: Button Factory Price: €12 / €10
Following it’s sold out Irish debut at last years festival, the Faber Socials brings its laid-back vibe to The Button Factory with another eclectic line-up of musicians, writers and DJ’s.
The theme is ‘Words and Music’. Words will be provided by Viv Albertine, legendary guitarist with punk band The Slit who chats to Sinéad Gleeson about the heady days of punk. The conversation continues with Bob Stanley, DJ, songwriter and keyboardist with St Etienne, who joins Jim Carroll to talk about Yeah Yeah Yeah, his acclaimed new biography of pop. Music comes from songwriters Pearse McGloughlin and Justin Grounds, whose acclaimed album Idiot/Songs mixes haunting vocals with electronic beats. Jim Carroll also DJ’s through the evening.
The View from The DJ booth 