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Fishamble: The New Play Company presents Guaranteed! A documentary play on the bank guarantee A documentary play about the bank guarantee.
On the night of September 29, 2008, the Taoiseach and Minister for Finance decided to guarantee Ireland’s banks – to the tune of €440 billion.
Guaranteed! tells the story of that night, and how they got there.
Written by journalist and documentary-maker Colin Murphy, and based on official documents and off-the-record interviews, Guaranteed! reconstructs Ireland’s banking boom and bust – as it was seen from inside the corridors of power.
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€10 / 100mins(no interval) Mon 24th Jun 8pm Book tickets online » |
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Hot for Theatre presents I ♥ Alice ♥ I By Amy Conroy Alice and Alice are coming out. Finally.
Two exceptional, opinionated women were spotted winking at each other in Crumlin Shopping Centre.
Now they’re in a show…reluctantly. Defying stereotype, they’re here to share with you something they’ve never dared to before.
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€18/€16 Tue 25th Jun 8pm Book tickets online » |
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Riverbank Arts Centre & Curragh Racecourse present An Audience with Tracy Piggott & her legendary jockey father Lester Piggott Proceeds to The Irish Injured Jockeys An audience with Tracey Piggott….. An exciting evening is planned for anyone interested in racing and the history of The Irish Derby. The evening will be a warm up to The Dubai Duty Free Irish Derby race will take place in 2013 on Saturday evening 29th June. The contest with €1.25m in total prize money will feature an eight race programme.
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€15 Thu 27th Jun 8pm Book tickets online » |
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Crooked House EU Project This is who we are A performance created over 5 days with 40 young people from Norway, Ireland and France, and directed by theatre artists from Rogaland Teater (Norway), Le Grand Bleu (France) and Crooked House).
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Admission is free but booking is essential. Sat 29th Jun 8pm Book tickets online » |
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Benbo Productions presents Ailliliú Fionnuala written and performed by Donal O’Kelly Ambrose Keogh works for Shell. When the Tunnel Boring Machine he named Fionnuala sinks into the bog in Erris Co. Mayo, he is magically confronted by Fionnuala of the Children of Lir. Fionnuala puts a geas on him – he’s bound to tell the truth about Shell’s operations, such as mysterious attacks on local opponents of the gas project.
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€12/€10 (60 mins/No Interval) Thu 4th Jul 8pm Book tickets online » |
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John B Keane The Love Hungry Farmer Adapted and Performed by Des Keogh DES KEOGH, one of Ireland’s foremost actors and entertainers, returns with his hugely successful and award winning show THE LOVE HUNGRY FARMER by JOHN B KEANE.
It tells the story of John Bosco McLane, a bachelor of ‘indeterminate’ age and according to his own assessment, ‘past his best’ and evidently still a virgin. McLane’s amourous adventures range from the hilarious to the pitiful.
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€16/€14 Thu 11th Jul 8pm Book tickets online » |
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Happenstance Theatre Company presents The Boat Factory by Dan Gordon Belfast 1947. The sun shines down on a post-war world. A 16 year-old boy walks through the gates of Harland & Wolff’s Titanic Shipyard. 1700 ships built between here and the Clyde, 67 different trades, 300 acres of land and 35,000 men employed at its height. Regarded as the biggest and best there is, if you can dream it - they can build it. This is history - this is his story - this is THE BOAT FACTORY.
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€15/€12 Fri 19th Jul 8pm Book tickets online » |
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Hopkins Poetry Festival INTERNATIONAL POETRY: A TASTE! The 26th Gerard Manley Hopkins Festival of International Poetryfeatures the following: Krip Yuson (The Phillipines), Richard Murphy (U.S.A.), Shizue Ogawa (Japan), Philip Brady (Ireland), Robert Simonisek (Slovenia), Donald Gardner (Netherlands), Neil Donnelly (Ireland)
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€10 (Hopkins delegates go free) Thu 25th Jul 7:30pm Book tickets online » |
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Hopkins Poetry Festival When we were married A Yorkshire Farcical Comedy, By J.B. Priestley The action takes place in the sitting-room of Alderman Joseph Hallowell’s house in Clecklewyke, a town in the West Riding, on an evening in Sept 1910. Three couples celebrate their silver wedding anniversary with a small get-together to reminisce on their joint wedding, twenty five years previously.
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€12/€10 26th Jul-27th Jul 8pm Book tickets online » |
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Big House Festival Big House is the summer festival you've been waiting for - A Cultural Carnival of arts, music, film and entertainment in the magical surroundings of Castletown House and Parklands, Celbridge. Get excited at www.bighouse.ie
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Call box office 045 448327 3rd Aug-5th Aug |
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Griese Youth Theatre Presents On Track Griese Youth Theatre and Youth Arts Centre Isle of Man collaborate in a production of On Track written by Ursula de Brun a NAYD New Stage Writings 2012 script. This production comes at the end of the Youth In Action (Leargas) funded exchanges between both countries which included cultural activities and workshops using non formal methods of learning.
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€10/€8 Sat 17th Aug 8pm Book tickets online » |
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Aidan Dooley’s one man show O‘Sullivan Beara, the last Gaelic chieftain a forgotten‘great’ in Irish history! We have heard the name, now let this show bring him to life!
The last Chieftain left standing after Kinsale against Queen Elizabeth!
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€15/€12 Sat 21st Sep 8pm Book tickets online » |
