‘ DEAR DIRTY
DUBLIN’
The Dublin Lockout
1913
The Contemporary Music Centre, The Royal Irish Academy of Music and
Dublin City Gallery ,The Hugh Lane present ‘ Dear Dirty Dublin’ , a special
concert commemorating the Dublin Lockout 1913. The event will take place
in Dublin City Gallery,The Hugh Lane Gallery, Parnell Square
on Saturday 1st February 2014 at 3 pm. Admission is
free.
The concert will feature music by the composers Vincent
Kennedy and Michael Holohan inspired by the city of Dublin and its
history. The music will be complemented by readings from the writings of
Yeats,Clarke, Kavanagh, Behan, Larkin and Connolly. Donal O’ Kelly actor
and playwright will read September 1913 by W.B.Yeats.This poem has a
resonant connection with the Lockout and the early turbulent history of The Hugh
Lane Gallery.
The compositions will include:
Tommy Donnybrook, s-Trumpet City and Soliloquy to a City by Vincent
Kennedy. Dublin Street Cries, All In , All In, James Connolly and Jim
Larkin ripby Michael Holohan.
Performers will include The R.I.A.M. singers,
conductor Margaret Bridge, Gerry Cullen, (Voice Squad)
singer , Vincent Kennedy,trumpet , Brian
Dunning, flute,Niamh Mc Donough , piano, Breifne
Holohan guitar, The Drogheda String Ensemble, Donal
O’Kelly, actor.
Dear Dirty Dublin is an expansion of the
musical project Musical Tales which toured The Dublin City Libraries in April 2013. It was devised by The
Contemporary Music Centre in association with One City One Book (Dublin City Council).This
concert is the final artistic event associated with Dublin Divided: September
1913 exhibition which was curated by Dr Margarita
Cappock.
In association with the Sundays at Noon, The
Contemporary Music Centre’s Musical Tales/ One City One Book Project and
Dublin Divided: September 1913 exhibition at the Dublin City Gallery , The Hugh
Lane.
With
the support of Dublin City Council, The Contemporary Music Centre, Sundays
at Noon ,
Create Louth, ICTU Lockout Centenary 1913-2013 and SIPTU.
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