Here is the program for Summer 2010:
concerts and music festivals in France and in Europe. The following are the ones we like.

During The Absolut Fringe : 11-26 september - 16 day festival of Theatre, Comedy, Music, Dance & Spectacle in Dublin...

LiffeyTown

Irish contemporary artist Fergal McCarthy’s visionary new project LiffeyTown will have its world premiere at this year’s Festival. A public art installation of floating red and green houses, LiffeyTown will be moored on the River Liffey for the duration of the Festival. Do the houses mirror the shaky foundation of Ireland’s housing obsession? Are they drawing our attention to the river,...

30 September 2010, 19.30

JOHN CONNOLLY
admission free, reservation recommended,
in English
Centre Culturel Irlandais

John Connolly is a successful thriller author. French translation of The Book of Lost Things has obtained Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire 2010. Here at the CCI he will present his last novel The Gates translated as Les Portes published by l’Archipel. An evolution from thriller to a strange novel, for strange young people and adults. John Connolly is based in Dublin but divides his time between his native city and the United States, where each of his novels has been set.

Six Irish designers (Paul Costelloe, Orla Kiely, Louise Kennedy, Lainey Keogh, John Rocha and Philip Treacy) "à la mode".

This summer writing becomes fashionable !

The Museum des Beaux-Arts in Lyon is an extremely active one. The curator Sylvie Ramond manages to provide very different exhibitions, all put of them put together with a painstaking research and a real “eye” as to the hanging.

by Anne Cremin [lire l'article]

Sur Culture Box : l'exposition

As you know we were very positive about the film Brendan and the Secret of Kells when it was first shown here in 2009. We encouraged all children parents and grandparents, to allow themselves to be carried away by the magic animation in the film. The calligraphy, the Irish illuminated manuscripts and the wonderfully poetic treatment truly deserved the Oscar nomination.

The author Colum McCann recently travelled through Europe to publicize his latest novel « Let the Great World Spin ». On the French leg of his tour he was awarded the Chevalier des arts et lettres from the French government as well as picking up the prix littéraire de Deauville. Jean O’Sullivan spoke to him him on the phone somewhere between Grenoble and Paris, over the rattle of the train and the loud chatter of his entourage.[read]

- Toibin and McCann : the Minimalist and the Maximalist...

[Read article by Jean O'Sullivan]
Colm Toibin: “Brooklyn”, Colum McCann: “Let the Great World Spin”

The two writers have the same names (give or take a “u”) and cover the same terrain in their latest novels (give or take a borough). But in every other respect, the recent transatlantic novels from those giants of Irish fiction, Colm Toibin and Colum McCann, couldn”t be more different. 

- Goodbye FRANK McCOURT , [Read article]

Sebastian Barry wins Costa Prize reviewed by Jean O'Sullivan

GREAT WAR : 1914-1918
Impossible victory : To kill and die for freedom in an army of the traditional ‘enemy’.

One Irishman's War by Jean O'Sullivan
Let us remember all those who died in the conflict.

Also read the articles from our usual contributors to The Irish Eyes Magazine : Alison Benney, Declan McCavana, Ann Cremin, Louise Cunningham, R.J. Doyle, Allen Harbinson, Ciaran MacGuill, Jean O'Sullivan, Gael Staunton, Mick Walsh...

MUHAMMAD ALI IN IRELAND ...[Read article]

Farewell Kathleen Fitzpatrick-Bernard
by Jean O'Sullivan

30 November 1917 - 14 July 2009
Kathleen (Kitty) Bernard, née Fitzpatrick paid her last visit to 5 rue des irlandais, Paris on 20 July 2009, when a moving funeral mass was held for her in the chapel of the Irish College.