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DEAF 2009 (Dublin Electronic Arts Festival)
22 - 31 Oct 2009. Now in its 8th year, the Dublin Electronic Arts Festival (DEAF) presents an annual public platform for the electronic arts in Dublin, promoting this musical art form to new and ever-...
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29 Sept-21 Nov 2009. Written and directed by acclaimed playwright Conor McPherson, The Birds is adapted from the claustrophobic and terrifying short story by Daphne Du Maurier. Described by The Irish...
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Excavation of the Mound of the Hostages
Until 31 Dec 2009. The Hill of Tara is Ireland's best known complex of archaeological monuments. Because of its important associations with the High Kings of Ireland, excavations at Tara in the 1950s...
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19 September - 6 December 2009. The Norwegian artist Edvard Munch (1863-1944) first achieved international recognition in 1886 when he painted "The Sick Child". For over 100 years he has been to the f...
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MANI - The Lost Religion of Light
9 September - 1 November 2009. This fascinating exhibition is a world first. It tells the story of a lost religion which was rediscovered in the 1920s when a small box was found in the Egyptian desert...
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7 May - 29 August 2009. Temporarily housed in the Museum of Decorative Arts & History in Collins Barracks, the collection of the Natural History Museum is once again accessible to visitors after the c...
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Titled 'Blaze Away' after the phrase used to start a duel, this exhibition examines the history of duelling in Ireland and the work of two Dublin families who made guns and swords in the 19th century....
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Until 23 August 2009. With the nostalgiac title of 'Come Back to Erin', this exhibition features a selection of colourful tourism posters from 1908 up to the 1970s. Produced during a period when mass...
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14 July - 5 Sept 2009. 'Present Laughter' follows a few hectic days in the life of self-obsessed actor Garry Essendine who is faced with a series of farcical and frenetic events including having to pl...
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The Collection Revealed: Cubism: Mainie Jellett and Evie Hone
11 June - 20 September 2009. The Cubist-inspired works of Mainie Jellett, Evie Hone and May Guinness feature in the second part of The Collection Revealed series. As artists they are considered to be...
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Terry Winters: Signal to Noise.
12 June - 27 Sept 2009. 'Signal to Noise' is an exhibition of painting and drawing by American artist Terry Winters which charts his evolving relationship with abstract imagery over the last ten years...
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9 - 12 July 2009. Temple Bar offers a fun-for-all-the-family event in the form of a giant four day street circus. International street performers flock to join their Irish counterparts in this transfo...
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The Last Days of a Reluctant Tyrant at the Abbey Theatre
27 May - 11 July 2009. Leading Irish dramatist Tom Murphy's world premiere of 'The Last Days of a Reluctant Tyrant' is inspired by 'The Golovlyov Family' by Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin. Murphy has coll...
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Anderson's Fairy Tales by Harry Clarke
16 May - 23 August 2009. In 2008 ten treasures in the form of watercolour illustrations by Harry Clarke were donated to Ireland's National Gallery. Clarke was a Dublin-born master of illustration and...
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"Paintings" by Elizabeth Cope.
7 - 21 May 2009. Elizabeth Cope is well known for her dynamic and spontaneous approach to painting. As an artist she is uncompromising and brave and can be relied upon for being a breath of fresh air...
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Thomas Roberts at The National Gallery.
28 March - 28 June 2009. Waterford-born artist Thomas Roberts (1748-1777) is rated amongst the finest Irish landscape painters of the eighteenth century. Visitors to the National Gallery are offered...
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On Thursday 30 April 2009 between 18.00 and 21.00 Andy Devane's latest exhibition "Roman Paintings" will open in Callan Art Gallery, Narrow West Street, Drogheda, Co. Louth. Further details plus galle...
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17 - 23 April 2009. Supported by Dublin's Italian Cultural Institute, the 16th Italian Film Festival takes place in the IFI in Temple Bar. The programme features the very best of contemporary Italian...
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All My Sons at The Gate Theatre.
7 April - 6 June 2009. All My Sons, by the great American playwright Arthur Miller, is based on a true story he read in a newspaper, describing how a woman informed on her father who had sold faulty p...
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2 - 23 April 2009: Sheila Rennick's latest solo exhibition "Dodgy Heaven" takes place in The Royal Hibernian Academy's Ashford Gallery on 2 April. Her pastel-coloured paintings of animals and people a...
