Á NE PAS MANQUER !
CENTRE CULTUREL IRLANDAIS
5, rue des Irlandais - 75005 Paris
20 and 21 November 09
Junk Ensemble presents Drinking Dust
19.30, 5€,
reservation necessary (space limited),
performance approx. 50 mins Drinking Dust is a haunting dance theatre piece directed and performed by Jessica Kennedy and Megan Kennedy who co-founded Junk Ensemble in 2004. Dedicated to creating works of unconventional and gutsy dance theatre, they are strongly committed to innovation and risk-taking within their work. This latest piece is intended to “pull the cracked memories and forgotten people back into our life. A broken story in a burnt-out building. This is the gritty place that you left behind” “Junk Ensemble have guts and ingenuity” The Irish Times
The CENTRE CULTUREL IRLANDAIS à Paris
6 November - 18 December 09 -
Into Irish Drawing
admission free
Into Irish Drawing showcases the work of twenty-two contemporary artists based in Ireland who specialize in drawing. The curator of the exhibition, Arno Kramer, highlights the fact that the discipline of drawing has realised fascinating new developments in the last ten years. His choice of works is not intended to be an objective summary of present-day Irish drawings; it is a qualitative choice.
The works presented here have been selected for their visual quality and for the original and recognizable style of the artist. Drawings reveal each mark an artist makes, like unfiltered transmissions from head to paper, via the hand; this exhibition displays the final results of testing and experimenting on both large and small scales in one of the oldest art disciplines.
The artists presented are: Stephen Brandes, Claire Carpenter, Gary Coyle, Timothy Emlyn Jones, Brian Fay, Mark Francis, David Godbold, Anita Groener, Katie Holten, Alice Maher, Niamh McCann, Eoin McHugh, Bea McMahon, Nick Miller, Tom Molloy, Isabel Nolan, Eamon O’Kane, Niamh O’Malley, Kathy Prendergast, Jim Savage, Gerda Teljeur and Martin Wedge.
IRISH LITTERATURE
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]
IRELAND
IRISH DIASPORA
TED KENNEDY WAS THE LAST LIBERAL SENATOR IN THE USA...
 A new page in Irish history has been turned with the death on 26th August, of the last of the Kennedy brothers (John, Robert and Edward.). Ted Kennedy was the youngest and had become chief of the clan. With his passing away Barack Obama has lost an important ally in his battle to reform the US health service.
During the funeral service homage was paid attesting to his political courage. According to the editorialist of the Mother Jones revue : "Ted Kennedy was the last liberal senator in the USA, the only one capable of advancing this type of programme.
MUHAMMAD ALI IN IRELAND ...
[Read article]
THE NEWSLETTER : COURANT D'EIRE
The Newsletter - COURANT D'EIRE n°80 - 17 septembre
No recession worries for James Joyce
A signed limited edition copy of Ulysses by James Joyce was sold at the Antiquarian Book Fair,
Olympia, London on the 4th of June 2009 for the record sum of 275,000 pounds sterling.
It was one of four examples of the first edition signed by the author. This was the highest price ever paid for a first edition
by a 20th century author.
OUR PLANET
- New : Environment
Sebastian Barry wins Costa Prize
reviewed by Jean O'Sullivan
Patrick Scott, Meditations by Ann Cremin,
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. |
