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An Evening with Seamus Heaney Tue 2 June 8.00pm
As part of the Dublin Writers Festival from 2nd to 7th June 2009, this
Main Auditorium
event marks Seamus Heaney’s 70th and Faber & Faber’s 80th Birthday.
Tickets: €15, €20, €25
Seamus Heaney who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995 is
Concessions available
one of the most recognizable figures in Ireland and beyond as an Irish Group discount available
poet, writer and lecturer. Heaney's first poetry collection, Death of a
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Naturalist, appeared forty years ago. Since then he has published poetry,
National Concert Hall
Presented by Dublin Writers
criticism, and translations that have established him as one of the leading
Festival in association with
poets of his generation. This is an opportunity to spend an evening with Faber & Faber
Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney and to join in the birthday celebrations of
one of the most remarkable and revered figures in Irish culture.
YES High Achievers Performance
Wed 3 June 8.00pm
Two hundred years of Music from the Austro-Hungarian Empire
John Field Room
Winners of International and National Music Competitions, preview the Tickets: €8
Viennese tour of the YES Chamber Orchestra conducted by Ronald Masin Presented by Young European
and the Junior and Intermediate Orchestra of YES School of Music con-
Strings School of Music
ducted by Maria Kelemen and many of the yet unknown budding stars of
the future. Showcasing students from the age of five to nineteen.
Introducing the public to a string teaching method with a difference.
Nobody Does It Like Me
Fri 5 June 1.05pm
John Field Room
Liz Ryan, mezzo-soprano • Deborah Kelleher, piano Tickets: €15
In her new show, eclectic mezzo Liz Ryan combines the wonderful world
(Concessions: €12)
of popular opera, with its frequently batty story lines, favourite songs, and
Presented by Liz Ryan
comedy songs a la Joyce Grenfell. With a warm vibrant voice, a devilish
charm and an eye for the ridiculous, Liz presents a versatile program for
all lovers of the voice and its myriad talents.
One Small Step For Man - A 40th
Fri 5 June 8.00pm
Main Auditorium
Anniversary Celebration of 1969 and
Tickets: €11, €22,
The Lunar Landing
€27, €33, €38
(Concessions: €10,
Rachel Weston and Gary Williams, vocalists • RTÉ Concert Orchestra €19, €23, €28, €34)
Benjamin Pope, conductor Presented by RTÉ Performing
Groups
The year 1969 saw Neil Armstrong set foot on the Moon, David Bowie’s
Space Oddity become a huge hit and Frank Sinatra release My Way. John
Wayne scooped an Oscar and Golden Globe for True Grit. TV favourites
included Hawaii Five-O, The Brady Bunch, The Pink Panther and Star Trek.
Tonight the RTÉ Concert Orchestra celebrates 1969, movies, television
and all things lunar. Programme includes Raindrops Keep Fallin’ On My
Head, Everybody's Talkin’, My Cherie Amour and more.
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