The RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra with David Brophy, conductor
David Brophy conducts the world premieres of two new RTÉ NSO commissions by Anne-Marie O Farrell and Irene Buckley. The programme will also include the Irish premiere of Caroline Shaw s
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Irene Buckley s
Awakening reflects the wondrous transition from the stasis of winter to the rebirth of spring. Humanity experienced a heightened sense of stasis during this past winter, where our daily lives became quite fixed and unchanging, almost suspended in time… We held our breath and waited. This work evokes the sense of transformation and unveiling using dense layered textures to convey the vast expanse of the natural world; the opening up and revealing of new growth, the springing forth of new life. Darkness emerging into light.
Jane Austen was not a colonialist – this reinterpretation is absurd
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Trener Tysiąclecia – pisane na wyprostowanych kolanach
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Irish Hunger Memorial Groundbreaking in New York City
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My family left Ireland for America seven generations ago. To the best of our knowledge, Patrick Keenan left Cork sometime in the 1770s. He was counted in the first American census. His son, Peter Keenan, was born in America. On my motherâs side, John McThomas left Dublin around the same time, fought for America in the Revolution, and was buried in a national cemetery in Ohio.
As far as I know, I was the first in my family, on either side, to return. My first visit was with my best friend back in 2005. We were broke, relied on the kindness of strangers and camped wherever we could â a town park in Kinsale, a beach outside Galway, a farm in Dingle.