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January 2013
Sunday 1st January 2012 to Thursday 31st January 2013
The Vaughan Bequest of Turner Watercolours
On 25 January 1900, a resolution was passed by the Governors and Guardians of the National Gallery of Ireland which ‘gratefully accepted’ Henry Vaughan’s bequest of 31 watercolours and drawings by J.M.W. Turner RA. Vaughan was a wealthy English collector who died in 1899, aged 90. His valuable art collections were distributed among various public institutions. His prized Turner watercolours were divided between the National Galleries in London, Dublin and Edinburgh.
He was concerned for the long-term safety of the works and stipulated that they should only be shown in January and provided a cabinet for their safe storage when not on display. The Gallery undertook to ‘comply with the conditions laid down by Vaughan’s will for the management and exhibition of the drawings’ and this year’s showing continues what has become tradition much loved by visitors.
The National Gallery of Ireland Thursday 16th February 2012 to Sunday 28th April 2013
Masterpieces from the Collection
Masterpieces from the Collection is a special presentation of some of the finest works in the Gallery’s collection, now open in the Beit Wing and Millennium Wing. It includes a stunning selection of paintings from the European collection, and includes key works by Hugh Douglas Hamilton, James Barry, William Orpen and John Lavery.
National Gallery of Ireland Monday 29th October 2012 to Sunday 20th January 2013
Art Surpassing Nature: Dutch Landscapes in the Age of Rembrandt and Ruisdael
Opening on 29 October is Art Surpassing Nature: Dutch Landscapes in the Age of Rembrandt and Ruisdael, a display of master paintings and drawings by Dutch seventeenth-century artists such as Jacob van Ruisdael, Aelbert Cuyp, Hendrick Avercamp and Rembrandt. The exhibition will continue until 20 January 2013.
Dutch artists were the first to paint naturalistic images of their own countryside. They did not create their works outside on an easel, however. As paints needed to be prepared in the studio, artists produced their landscapes indoors with the help of sketches. They also made use of their imagination to improve on nature. Jacob van Ruisdael, for example, exaggerated the elevation of the hill in The Castle of Bentheim,1653, to make the fortress look more impressive than it is in reality.
Dutch landscapes are notable for their variety. In addition to views of Holland’s green pastures, winter scenes enjoyed considerable popularity. Such paintings allowed artists, such as Hendrick Avercamp, to depict ice skaters having fun. Some painters represented landscapes by night, as exemplified by one of Rembrandt’s nocturnal masterpieces, Landscape with the Rest on the Flight into Egypt, 1647. Others travelled abroad to paint Italy’s countryside, bathed in the golden glow of the Mediterranean sun. A handful of artists even specialised in views of Brazil, a Dutch colony at the time.
In addition to some twenty paintings, this exhibition includes highlights of the National Gallery of Ireland’s collection of seventeenth-century landscape drawings. These masterpieces on paper show the same diversity as the paintings. They range from depictions of cattle grazing near sand dunes to representations of travellers in a mountainous landscape bathed in Italian sunlight. Some of the drawings on view were made in preparation for painting or prints. Other sheets are ‘finished’ drawings, which artists sold as independent works of art.
National Gallery of Ireland Thursday 1st November 2012 to Sunday 24th February 2013
Chester Beatty: the Paintings
Exhibition featuring thirty 19th century landscape French paintings once owned by Sir Alfred Chester Beatty.
For the first time, a selection of thirty paintings that once belonged to Chester Beatty are on display in the Chester Beatty Library. The paintings are among some ninety works presented by Beatty to the Irish nation in 1950, shortly after his move to Ireland from London. Over the following years, he gifted a total of almost 400 paintings, drawings, miniatures and sculptures which today form part of the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Ireland.
Beatty concentrated on purchases of Barbizon School painters (like Corot, Jacque and Millet) and their Realist contemporaries (such as Breton). Unsurprisingly, he was also attracted to the work of Orientalist painters such as Gérôme, Fromentin and Berchère.
To accommodate his growing collection, in 1935 Beatty constructed a purpose built suite of galleries at his London home, Baroda House, as a link corridor connecting the main house to his library in the converted stables.
From Beatty’s Archives, we know how he arranged and hung his paintings in the years before the outbreak of World War II. During the early years of the war, however, Beatty arranged for many of his pictures to be safely stored, while others - generally smaller and easily portable works - were brought to the apartment he occupied while Baroda House was turned into a Red Cross hospital.
The Chester Beatty Library is grateful to the National Gallery of Ireland for their generosity in lending these paintings which will remain on view at the Library for six months.
Event times: From 10.0am Mon-Fri; 11am to 5pm Sat; 1-5pm Sun (closed Mondays 1 Oct to 30 April)
Chester Beatty Library Tuesday 6th November 2012 to Wednesday 3rd April 2013
Below the Surface Presents: A series of maritime stories
Below the Surface is hosting a special series of maritime monthly storytelling aboard the Jeannie Johnson Tall Ship on Custom House Quay, Dublin 1. All talks will take place on the first Wednesday of each month beginning on 7th November at 8pm. Stories of Ireland’s seafaring past will cover a wide variety of historical themes from 11th century Vikings and the Dublin slave trade to 17th century pirates, 18th century emigration and the doomed 19th century polar expedition.
The stories will be delivered by a variety of guest speakers comprising some of the world’s best authorities on their chosen topic. The first talk ‘Searching for Franklin’at 8pm on November 7th will be delivered by Film Producer John Murray and offers
the listener a unique insight into the doomed British voyage of the Arctic exploration led by Captain Sir John Franklin in 1845.
Jeanie Johnston Tall Ship / Famine Museum Thursday 15th November 2012 to Friday 11th January 2013
Archizines
An exhibition that celebrates the resurgence of alternative and independent architectural publishing from around the world. Archizines is an exhibition of over 60 publications curated by Elias Redstone, an independent curator, writer, editor and consultant based in London and Paris, that promotes the recent resurgence of alternative and independent architectural publishing from around the world.
The publications come from all over the world and vary in style and content. The commonality is a shared interest in documenting and discussing the spaces we occupy in printed form. The criteria for inclusion in the collection as set by Redstone is that publications must have been launched after 2000 and are still in production, that architecture and/or urbanism must be intrinsic to the publication and an alternative or independent agenda must be demonstrated. As well as adding to architectural discourse, these publications are lovingly made objects to hold and to keep.
Open 1pm- 5pm Mon-Fri. Exhibition opening view 6-8pm Thursday 15th November 2012.
National College of Art & Design Monday 26th November 2012 to Sunday 31st March 2013
Imagining the Divine: The Holy Family in Art
Frederic William Burton (1816-1900)
The Virgin and Child with Angels
An in-focus exhibition of drawings and paintings spanning the fifteenth to nineteenth centuries which will comprise some 12 colourful and delicate works which illustrate how artists through the ages have imagined and depicted scenes from the early life of Christ. These colourful works will include paintings and drawings from the fifteenth through to the nineteenth centuries.
National Gallery of Ireland Friday 30th November 2012 to Sunday 13th January 2013
Beauty and the Beast
TheatreworX productions presents
Beauty & the Beast
Once upon a time, in faraway panto-land, a young prince lived in a shining castle. Although he had everything his heart desired, the prince was spolit and selfish. To punish him for his unkindness, he was transformed by an enchantress into a hideous beast; the only way the curse could ever be broken was to learn to love another … will Belle be the girl?
The popular team behind Cinderella, Jack and the Beanstalk and Aladdin are back by popular demand this Christmas with their own unique Dublin-twist on the timeless fairytale, Beauty and the Beast. The festive season won’t be complete without a visit to see this show, book early to avoid disappointment and get the performance of your choice.
Mon – Fri : 11.00am (schools) & 7.30pm(public)*
Sat – 2.00pm & 6pm*
Sun – 1.30pm & 5.30pm*
The Helix Wednesday 5th December 2012 to Saturday 19th January 2013
The Dead by James Joyce in a dramatisation by Frank McGuinness
James Joyce’s short story is dramatised for the Abbey stage by Frank McGuinness
Recognised as a master-piece The Dead, the short story from James Joyce’s Dubliners is dramatised for the Abbey stage by one of Ireland’s most important playwrights Frank McGuinness.
The year is 1903 in the city of Dublin. Gretta and Gabriel Conroy attend the Morkan Sisters annual dinner on the Feast of the Epiphany and the last day of Christmas. An evening of laughter, music and dance ends in an epiphany for Gabriel.
Joe Dowling, former Director of the Abbey Theatre, now Artistic Director of the Guthrie Theatre in America returns to the Abbey and Ireland to direct a stellar cast of Irish actors.
Abbey Theatre Wednesday 12th December 2012 to Saturday 12th January 2013
Oliver
The sensational score of OLIVER! is full of Lionel Bart’s irresistible songs including Food Glorious Food, Consider Yourself, You’ve Got to Pick-a-Pocket or Two, I’d Do Anything, Oom Pah Pah and As Long As He Needs Me.
OLIVER! recently completed a two year run at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane in London where it opened to rave reviews, sell-out business and the biggest advance sales of all time for a West End show. Last year, OLIVER! celebrated its 50th birthday, having premiered in the West End in 1960.
Neil Morrissey will play Fagin and other cast to be announced soon!
Bord Gáis Energy Theatre Wednesday 12th December 2012 to Saturday 12th January 2013
Snow White and the Adventures of Sammy Sausages
Starring Alan Hughes as the lovable Sammy Sausages, Brian Dowling as Bridie the Mirror, Niamh Kavanagh as the Good Queen and Niall Sheehy, finalist in ITV’s Superstar, this is one Panto not to be missed!
Tivoli Theatre Wednesday 12th December 2012 to Sunday 20th January 2013
Game: The Future of Play
What happens when you blur the boundaries between the real world and a computer game universe?
How do you create a game that millions of people will become addicted to... and do it all yourself?
What is it that drives us to play, and how will that shape games of the future?
The global video game market is expected to grow from $30 billion in 2004 to $70 billion in 2013, and Ireland is rapidly emerging as a global hub for animation and game development. GAME, the upcoming new exhibition by Science Gallery at Trinity College Dublin, will take a closer look at the future directions for gaming in Ireland by exploring the components of a great game, speculating how we might play in the future, and empowering young people to become game developers themselves.
The Science Gallery, Trinity College Friday 14th December 2012 to Saturday 26th January 2013
The Big House
Running every Friday & Saturday In December & January.
Following the sell out of the Halloween Special at the Leprechaun Museum they now present the Big House, Its the 1920's and the locals are invited up to the big house where things could get out of hand!!
Old Lady Julia is losing her wits and gets the guests to help her in her hour of need.
The show is suitable for ages 16 and over
The National Leprechaun Museum Wednesday 19th December 2012 to Sunday 6th January 2013
JEDWARD & The Magic Lamp
JEDWARD & THE MAGIC LAMP
The Olympia Theatre
Wednesday 19th December 2012 to Sunday 6th January 2013
2 shows a day (a matinee & evening show), no shows on Mon 24th or Tue 25th December 2012. Tickets on sale NOW via Ticketmaster priced from €22 including booking fee.
Pop sensations JEDWARD are back for another Panto Season at The Olympia Theatre this December 2012! Jedward will be delighting audiences this Christmas at The Olympia Theatre, Dublin when they star in JEDWARD AND THE MAGIC LAMP.
Following on from the record breaking sell-out success of 2010's Cinderalla featuring Jedward, and 2011's Jedward & The Beanstalk, JEDWARD will once again be joined by the wonderful Linda Martin, the outrageous Alan Kavanagh and a hundred strong cast.
Appearing at The Olympia Theatre for a very limited run from Dec 19th 2012 until Jan 6th 2013.
JEDWARD AND THE MAGIC LAMP is promoted by Pat Egan and Brian Hand, produced and choreographed by Stuart O'Connor and Ciara Armstrong of Spotlight Productions, and directed by Christine Scarry. The show promises to be a spectacular action packed Christmas Panto for all the family.
JEDWARD AND THE MAGIC LAMP will feature an all singing, all dancing cast of over a 100! The script will be written by the hugely successful scriptwriter, broadcaster and journalist Fiona Looney.
Olympia Theatre Wednesday 26th December 2012 to Sunday 13th January 2013
Funderland Dublin
Its that time of the year again when we look forward to Funderland making its return to the RDS. This year's event kicks off on Wednesday 26th Dec. 2012 until Sunday, 13th Jan. 2013 open 12 noon to 10.00pm daily
Use the traditional Pay-As-You-Go option by paying for the individual attractions - subject to a €2.00 admission charge or purchase our Unlimited Ride Wristband which can be used repeatedly for any 3 consecutive hours from the time of purchase. The pop Wristband is the real deal - incredible value for money - unlimited rides for any 3 consecutive hours and is only subject to the usual height and safety restrictions that would apply to any other paying customer. Our wristband prices depend on a persons height - not their age. You can purchase Wristbands at the entrance but by booking online you get better value and an extra hour too!
A Regular Wristband for people over 1.2 meters can be used for unlimited rides for 3 consecutive hours.
Priced at €22.95. Get it cheaper by booking online with a extra hour free! A Junior Wristband for people under 1.2 meters can be used for unlimited rides for 3 consecutive hours. Priced at €16.95. Get it cheaper by booking online with an extra hour free!
We also do a Family Wristband offer which is limited to parents with children (either 2 Adults & 2 Children or 1 Adult and 3 Children). Priced at €74.95. Get it cheaper by booking online with an extra hour free!
The individual height of family members is not an issue. Please be aware that this option does not preclude a family member form any height or other safety restrictions. If you book wristbands online you save money AND get an extra hour unlimited use free!
Take bus number 4, 7 or 8 to the RDS, Bus stop is just 2 minutes walk from the Castle Hotel.
RDS Dublin Thursday 27th December 2012 to Thursday 3rd January 2013
The Sound of Music
Thursday 27th December, 6pm
Friday 28th December, 2pm and 6pm
Saturday 29th December, 2pm and 6pm
Sunday 30th December, 2pm and 6pm
Wednesday 2nd January, 2pm and 6pm
Thursday 3rd January, 2pm
PRINCIPAL CAST TBC
The Festival Orchestra, chorus and dancers
Tony Finnegan, director
Aidan Faughey, conductor
Siobhan McQuillan, choreographer
John O’Donoghue, Set Designer
Alistair Kerr, Lighting Designer
For a very limited run, this year Festival Productions brings you an extravaganza to the National Concert Hall for the Christmas Season. Rogers and Hammerstein’s musical masterpiece, The Sound of Music, returns this Christmas with a star-studded cast, guaranteed to have a new generation of theatre- goers going home humming the many memorable tunes from this well loved musical. The Sound of Music is back in full glory, lovingly mounted with brilliant sets, costumes and lighting to delight our audiences. If it’s a family musical you are after this Christmas, then book today for this magical treat for ALL the family. Ideal for Christmas presents and New Year treats. Family tickets available.
This lavish production will make your family Christmas even more special.
For the child in us all!
National Concert Hall Tuesday 1st January 2013 to Thursday 31st January 2013
The Vaughan Bequest of Turner Watercolours
Free Entry.
On 25 January 1900, a resolution was passed by the Governors and Guardians of the National Gallery of Ireland which ‘gratefully accepted’ Henry Vaughan’s bequest of 31 watercolours and drawings by J.M.W. Turner RA. Vaughan was a wealthy English collector who died in 1899, aged 90. His valuable art collections were distributed among various public institutions. His prized Turner watercolours were divided between the National Galleries in London, Dublin and Edinburgh.
He was concerned for the long-term safety of the works and stipulated that they should only be shown in January and provided a cabinet for their safe storage when not on display. The Gallery undertook to ‘comply with the conditions laid down by Vaughan’s will for the management and exhibition of the drawings’ and this year’s showing continues what has become tradition much loved by visitors.
National Gallery of Ireland Thursday 3rd January 2013 to Saturday 5th January 2013
Vibe for Philo Dublin
The Vibe for Philo is an annual celebration of Thin Lizzy frontman Phil Lynott. The festival takes place over 3 days (3rd, 4th and 5th January) in a number of venues around the city, featuring several tribute bands including The Thin Lizzy Experience and The Low Riders among others.
PRE VIBE :
3rd Jan @The Grand Social - 8pm
- public dress rehersals for the Main Event
MAIN EVENT:
4th Jan @The Button Factory - 8pm
- 4/5 of the main acts including Faither Jack with a DJ set
YOUNG ROCKERS MATINEE:
5th Jan. 2013 @The Button Factory - 2pm
Some of the best bands from the main event.
AFTERVIBEPARTY:
5th Jan. 2013 @The Button Factory - 8.30pm
Wind down from the Main Event.
Free Admission with Main Event Ticket.
The Button Factory Friday 4th January 2013 to Saturday 19th January 2013
Tommy Tiernan: Stray Sod
In Celtic mythology a 'Stray Sod' or 'Foidin Mara' was an enchanted piece of grass whereby if a person steps on one they will become disorientated and lost, even in familiar surroundings. It is said that wearing an item of clothing inside-out breaks the enchantment allowing the person to find their way again.
'Stray Sod' is also the title of Celtic comedy warrior Tommy Tiernan's latest show. Uplifting, joyous, inspirational and with the light touch of an eejit, Tommy is a man who leaves nothing in the dressing room.
To be at a Tommy Tiernan Vicar Street show is to be part of a movement, where the only authority is yourself, and by the time this supremely gifted and selfless comic almost literally self immolates with exertion at the end of his show, having given you his all, you know you have been in the hands of a comic genius. This latest show doesn’t have all the answers but one thing for sure is that no one will have to leave the gig with their jacket on back-to-front.
Vicar Street Friday 4th January 2013 to Friday 4th January 2013
RTE National Symphony Orchestra- Miriam Murphy
RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra
Miriam Murphy soprano
Matthias Bamert conductor
Wagner
Rienzi Overture [12’]
Wesendonck Lieder [21’]
Ride of the Valkyries [5’]
Tannhäuser Overture [14’]
Prelude and Liebestod (Tristan and Isolde) [17’]
Prelude to Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg [9’]
THE LORD OF THE RING
Hailed as a soprano ‘born to sing Wagner’ (The Irish Times), Tralee-born Miriam Murphy received a standing ovation on her last appearance with the RTÉ NSO. She returns to mark the 200th anniversary of Wagner’s birth as we celebrate his towering genius with some of his greatest music. Wallow in Tristan’s swooning Prelude and soaring Liebestod, indulge in the magnificence of the Tannhäuser and Meistersinger Overtures, thrill to the vertiginous Ride of the Valkyries (popularised in the film Apocalypse Now), and melt with the Wesendonck Lieder, ravishing expressions of love at its most infatuated and intense, about which the composer declared: ‘I have done nothing better than these songs’.
Soundings, 7pm
In Conversation
Former director of the National Concert Hall Judith Woodworth with Matthias Bamert on Wagner and his music.
Presented by the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra
Prices: €35, €30, €24, €18, €10
Concessions €32, €27, €22, €16, €9
10% discount for Groups of 10 or more
5% discount for Groups of 5 or more and RTÉ NSO Season Subscribers
National Concert Hall Saturday 5th January 2013 to Saturday 5th January 2013
National Youth Orchestra of Ireland: New Year Gala
National Youth Orchestra of Ireland
Gearóid Grant, conductor
Nadene Fiorentini. piano
John Williams The Raider’s March
John Williams Theme from Jurassic Park
Grieg Piano Concerto
Borodin Symphony No. 2
The 100-strong National Youth Orchestra of Ireland, conducted by Gearóid Grant, presents Borodin’s second symphony to you in a spectacular New Year celebration!
Multiple prizewinning Irish pianist Nadene Fiorentini joins the orchestra as soloist for Grieg’s Piano Concerto in A minor, while the audience can also look forward to soundtrack favourites from composer John Williams. Raise your January spirits with The National Youth Orchestra of Ireland -this is a concert not be missed!
Presented by the National Youth Orchestra of Ireland
Prices: €18 (Concessions: €12)
National College of Art & Design Sunday 6th January 2013 to Sunday 6th January 2013
Glenn Miller: Greatest Hits
Chris Dean & The Fabulous Syd Lawrence Orchestra
Take a trip down memory lane with Glenn Miller's greatest hits.
“Everything Glenn Miller played lives on” say Chris Dean, musical director of the fabulous Syd Lawrence Orchestra (recently voted “Best Big Band in the Land” for the 13th consecutive year by Big Band International). This is a perfect night out for all big band aficionados. The reason for the staying power of Glenn's musical heritage lies with the unique arrangements coupled with the mesmerising Miller sax sound that captivated the fans in the 1940's and still captivates the new fans today. Hear In The Mood, American Patrol, String of Pearls, Pennsylvania 6 – 5000, Moonlight Serenade, Little Brown Jug, Tuxedo Junction and many more Miller classics.
Also featured within this show is the wonderful close harmony singing of The Serenaders.
Enjoy a superb Sunday afternoon and evening performance of Glenn Miller's greatest hits.
Presented by Popular Music
National Concert Hall Monday 7th January 2013 to Monday 7th January 2013
Gary Barlow
Following his two critically acclaimed solo shows at the Royal Albert Hall in London last year; Gary Barlow has announced a full UK and Ireland tour starting in November including two hometown Manchester shows and intimate Irish shows at Dublin’s Olympia Theatre and the Waterfront, Belfast.
“I’m really excited about these dates. Playing live is my favourite thing and I haven't played a solo show for over a year now. Last year playing two London shows was brilliant, we all had such a good time, so I thought right let's get out and see the rest of the country!” said Gary Barlow.
After 20 years in the business, over 50 million records sold, eight No.1 albums, fourteen No.1 singles, seven million concert tickets sold and six Ivor Novello Awards, Gary Barlow is regarded as one of Britain’s most successful singer songwriters. Together with Howard Donald, Jason Orange, Mark Owen and Robbie Williams he is also a member of one of the biggest British bands of all time - Take That.
Gary was recently named in the Queen’s birthday honours list and was awarded an OBE for his huge contribution to British music as well as his significant charitable endeavours. Gary recently organised the hugely successful Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Concert outside Buckingham Palace, gathering together some of the biggest names from the last 60 years to perform including: Paul McCartney, Elton John, Robbie Williams, Stevie Wonder, Tom Jones, Kylie Minogue, Shirley Bassey, and Grace Jones. Gary currently sits as head judge on the UK's No 1 show The X Factor for the second year running
Olympia Theatre Tuesday 8th January 2013 to Monday 18th February 2013
Dublin Chinese New Year Festival & Celebrations
The snake is coming...
Whether it's time for rabbits, pigs or tigers the Chinese community of Dublin always throws a good party to welcome in the New Year. As well as the eye-popping extravaganza that is the carnival, there's also a lecture series, crafts workshops, films, Chinese opera and a whole host of other events that celebrate the vibrant Sino-Irish melting pot that is Dublin. Unleash your inner dragon and immerse yourself into the Chinese Irish community in a way fitting for the year ahead.
Chinese Film, Art, Theatre, Literature, Spectacle, Circus and Architecture will feature throughout the Festival in a multiple of venues throughout the capital.
Dublin City Centre Thursday 10th January 2013 to Saturday 12th January 2013
Silent
Homeless Tino McGoldrig once had splendid things. But he has lost it all - including his mind. He now dives into the wonderful wounds of his past through the romantic world of Rudolph Valentino, in this brave, bold, beautiful production.
Winner of the Fringe First and Herald Angel Awards at Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2011 and Argus Angel at Brighton Festival 2012, Pat Kinevane’s internationally acclaimed one-man production, produced by Fishamble: The New Play Company, has wowed audiences across the world a multi -faceted insight into homelessness and the stigma surrounding mental health problems.
Join us for a post-show discussion on January 10 on the issues faced by people living with a mental health di?culty on the margins of society. With: Pat Kinevane, writer and actor of ‘Silent’; Orla Barry, director at Mental Health Reform; Sister Stanislaus Kennedy, Social Innovator.
Smock Alley Theatre Friday 11th January 2013 to Friday 11th January 2013
Piano Trio Gerbera
Ann Phelan violin
Sokol Koka cello
Svetlana Rudenko piano
Tchaikovsky Trio op.50
Musicians of different nationalities and music backgrounds(Ireland, Albania, Ukraine) got together in Trio Gerbera to perform Tchaikovaky’s great A-minor Trio, subtitled ‘’In memory of great artist’’. The artist was the pianist and conductor Nickolay Rubinstein, the raffish and disorganized bon vivant who taught Tchaikovsky at the St. Petersburg Conservatory and had more influence on the composer’s life than anyone else.
Presented by Piano Trio Gerbera
National Concert Hall Saturday 12th January 2013 to Saturday 12th January 2013
Dropkick Murphy's
Following last February's barnstorming sell-out show at Vicar Street, Boston’s hard-working Celtic-punks return with a new album Signed and Sealed in Blood.
The album is due for release in January 2013 on the band's Born & Bred Records label. The album's title comes from the lyrics of the first single, "Rose Tattoo".
On August 31, 2012, the band announced the album's title and first single through their Facebook page. The band has been soliciting fans to tattoo themselves with the new logo from the album's cover and send photos and videos to their web site by September 19, 2012. The images will be used in the packaging for the CD and vinyl album.
Where Going Out in Style told the story of a fictional character named Cornelius Larkin -- complete with an obituary written by Michael Patrick MacDonald for the liner notes -- Signed... has no such constraints. "This is just the opposite of that," bassist Ken Casey explains, "just us having fun and making the most catchy, singalong kind of songs we can. It's not that the last album wasn't fun. It was. Going Out in Style is one of the records I'm most proud of, of anything we've done. But it gave me a couple migraines along the way, getting through that because everything was so connected. This time we cut loose." But he does feel that Signed... is also "almost a continuation of (Going Out in Style), in a musical sense. There's an upbeat, party vibe to it. A lot of these songs, we were having such a good time writing them and just enjoying the writing process. It's the quickest we've released an album, ever, after another."
Vicar Street Sunday 13th January 2013 to Sunday 13th January 2013
Reeling in The Showband Years
Dickie Rock, The Legend
RTÉ’s Ronan Collins
Gloria, One Day At A Time
DJ Curtin The Kerry Blues / The Big Eight
Ronan sings Joe Dolan and more
Lorraine McDonald sings The Showband Ladies
Eurovision Stars, Tommy and Jimmy Swarbrigg
The Conquerors Showband
The Smash Hit show from last year is back! With the legendry Dickie Rock plus RTÉ’s Ronan Collins, Singing Star, Gloria and a Galaxy of showband stars. Concluding with a spectacular all cast finale salute to the never to be forgotten showband era!
Presented by Tommy Swarbrigg Productions
National Concert Hall Monday 14th January 2013 to Saturday 26th January 2013
The Life and Sort of Death of Eric Argyle
Oak Productions present The Life and Sort of Death of Eric Argyle.
Eric Argyle is having a bad Sunday. It’s late. He’s still in his pyjamas. A room full of people are staring at him. And he died at 11.42am, two days ago. An issue that people don’t seem all that receptive to.
After it’s critically acclaimed run at the 2012 Edinburgh and Dublin Fringe Festival’s and their huge success in 2011 with their debut production Minute After Midday (2011 Edinburgh Fringe First Winner) 15th Oak productions bring you this story, equal parts comic and equal parts tragic, about life, death and regret. About late night funerals, about a five-year old girl who can’t get to sleep, and about a delivery of 5,307 letters at one in the morning.
But mostly about Eric Argyle, who has just died at the age of 58 years old, but barely lived enough to have any regrets.
Smock Alley Theatre Tuesday 15th January 2013 to Wednesday 16th January 2013
Christy Moore Live with Declan Sinnott
National treasure and Irish music icon Christy Moore has announced extra live dates for 2013.
Christy began 2012 with 3 sell out shows at Dublin’s Grand Canal Theatre, followed by a televised performance at the BBC Folk Awards in February, where his rendering of Morecambe Bay, Kevin Littlewood’s description of Chinese cockle pickers caught unawares by the rising tide, was nominated for Best Original Song.
In the spring, Christy and Declan appeared in a series of dates around Ireland, before embarking on a 10 day tour of the UK which included two sell out shows at London’s Royal Festival Hall.
Bord Gais Energy Theatre Wednesday 16th January 2013 to Wednesday 16th January 2013
Gilbert & Sullivan's The Gondoliers
Prices: €38, €33, €27, €22, €11 (Choir Balcony)
Concessions: €35, €30, €25, €20, €10 (Choir Balcony)
10% discount for Groups of 10 or more
RTÉ Concert Orchestra
Guest Vocalists and Chorus
Following a stunning performance of The Pirates of Penzance in August, the RTÉ Concert Orchestra return with a top-notch production of Gilbert & Sullivan’s last great success, The Gondoliers.
The tale concerns the confusion of the heir to the throne of Barataria for the son of a drunken gondolier. In lieu of a leaderless kingdom, it is decided that both the young prince and the gondolier’s son jointly rule until such time as the prince’s nurse arrives to distinguish the boys.
This is only the beginning of the twists and turns of this Gilbert & Sullivan favourite. Featuring songs like Rake a Pair of Sparkling Eyes, Dance a Cachucha and I Stole the Prince.
Presented by the RTÉ Concert Orchestra
National Concert Hall Wednesday 16th January 2013 to Wednesday 16th January 2013
Christine Tobin's Sailing to Byzantium
Christine Tobin - vocals
Phil Robson - guitar
Francesco Turissi - piano
Mick Coady - bass
Lioba Petri - cello
An unqualified masterpiece. – Jazzwise
A revelatory interpreter of Yeats. – Paul Muldoon
London based Irish chanteuse Christine Tobin returns to the John Field Room following last year's capacity show for Tapestry Unravelled, her exquisite reading of Carole King’s landmark album. Here she brings us Sailing to Byzantium, newly minted settings of Yeats poems that UK critics have been hailing as her most mature and revealing work yet. Long time collaborator and leading guitarist Phil Robson joins her in a quintet that also features leading Irish jazz and classical musicians.
Presented by Improvised Music Company
National Concert Hall Friday 18th January 2013 to Friday 18th January 2013
RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra Celestial Fields
Finghin Collins piano/director
Mozart Piano Concerto No. 14 in E flat, K449 [21’]
Mozart Piano Concerto No. 16 in D, K451 [21’]
Mozart Piano Concerto No. 17 in G, K453 [30’]
CELESTIAL FIELDS
FINGHIN COLLINS CONTINUES HIS JOURNEY INTO THE VERY HEART OF MOZART’S SENSE
OF HIMSELF as a composer with three of the six piano concertos he composed in 1784. Operatically intense, the dark and melancholic 14th ushered in a period of astonishing maturity and innovation,
Mozart describing the 16th, which echoes Haydn and revels in ingenuity of the most entertaining kind, as a work ‘to make the performer sweat’. The 17th, one of the wittiest and richest of all his piano concertos, delightfully evokes ‘celestial fields where the flocks of gods go grazing’.
Soundings, 7pm
Guest Talk
UCD Choral Scholar Director Desmond Earley on Mozart and his travels
Presented by the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra
National Concert Hall Saturday 19th January 2013 to Saturday 19th January 2013
Swing's Greatest Hits
James Langton's Big Band Orchestra
World renowned clarinettist, Mark Crooks, makes a welcome return to the hall following the sell out Benny Goodman & Artie Shaw concert series in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and last year.
Celebrate and cherish the golden all-time swing classics, reminiscing the greatest timeless hits of Glenn Miller, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, Billie Holiday, Tommy Dorsey, Harry James, Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, Judy Garland, Charlie Barnet, Les Brown & Doris Day, Count Basie, Woody Herman, Bunny Berigan & Jimmie Lunceford to name but a few.
Enjoy the world – renowned melodies with the James Langton's Big Band Swing Orchestra.
National Concert Hall Saturday 19th January 2013 to Saturday 19th January 2013
Two Door Cinema Club
Two Door Cinema Club have announced Jape and The Cast of Cheers as special guests for their highly anticipated O2, Dublin on January 19th.
The band will perform at the Reading and Leeds Festival this year, co-headlining the NME/Radio 1 Stage, before hitting the road for four intimate album launch shows throughout the first week of September in Birmingham, Manchester, London and Dublin.
It was a busy August for the Northern Irish trio after selling out their album launch mini-tour in 3 minutes which includes a date at The Academy in Dublin, gracing the cover of NME magazine for the first time and with lead singer Alex Trimble performing at the climax of the Olympic Opening Ceremony.
The O2 Dublin Sunday 20th January 2013 to Wednesday 23rd January 2013
Showcase Ireland
Showcase, Ireland's Creative Expo is now the foremost place to discover unique, design-led fashion and knitwear, jewellery, craft, gift and interiors, finds you won't unearth at any other international show.
Now in its 36th year, the show has gone back to its roots - celebrating the essence of Ireland. Inspired by our landscape and heritage 350 of the country's leading designers, manufacturers and craftspeople pay homage to our heritage. Visit Creative Island to meet the artisans exhibiting at the show.
RDS Dublin Sunday 20th January 2013 to Sunday 20th January 2013
Mick O Brien and Family at the Steeple Sessions - As part of The Gathering Ireland 2013
The O'Brien Family are one of the few accomplished traditional musical families in Ireland that bridge the genres of Irish Traditional and Classical music impressively and seamlessly. Mick O'Brien is one of our best-loved uilleann pipers, performing regularly as a solo artist, with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra, and with the Norwegian groups Vamp, Hanne Krogh, and Secret Garden. His first solo album 'The May Morning Dew' (1996) was received with great critical acclaim, and his duo album with Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh 'Kitty Lie Over' (2003) has since become a classic. He comes from a great Dublin musical family, and now his own children are fine performers in their own right. His daughter Aoife is lead fiddler with River Dance and is studying music in Leipzig in Germany. She has won almost every traditional and classical violin award in Ireland and various International awards. His son Cormac is an Uilleann Piper and Cellist and plays with the National Youth Orchestra as does his other daughter Ciara, a fine fiddler, harpist and classical violinist. Individually, they are in demand as performers in both classical and traditional circles and it is a very special and rare occasion to present them performing together as a family.
Unitarian Church, St Stephen's Green Monday 21st January 2013 to Saturday 2nd February 2013
The Rat Pack
Take a trip back in time to the glamorous, glitzy nights of Las Vegas in the late 1950s and early 60s where, in the company of three of the world’s most popular entertainers, the fabulous Burrelli Sisters and The Rat Pack Big Band, you will experience Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr & Dean Martin performing at the famous Sands hotel. Hit follows hit, including: Witchcraft, The Lady is a Tramp, Mr Bojangles, I’ve Got You Under My Skin, That’s Amore, Everybody Loves Somebody Sometime, New York, New York, My Kinda Town, Fly Me to the Moon, Sway, Volare, Me And My Shadow, My Way, Memories Are Made Of This and many more.
The Sands hotel was the very height of Las Vegas sophistication. It was there in 1960, during the filming of “Ocean's Eleven”, when for the first time Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr, Joey Bishop, and Peter Lawford performed together on stage. From then on, they were forever known as the Rat Pack. Las Vegas was their playground and everywhere else was known, in Rat Pack vocabulary, as ‘Dullsville, Ohio’. Frank, Sammy & Dean were a force to be reckoned with, an inexhaustible energy that is as apparent in their music today as it ever was. This spectacular production celebrates the incredible singing talent of three world-famous entertainers and performers and some of the finest music and song that has ever been recorded.
If you wish you’d swung with the hardest partying pack in town, now’s your chance!
Frank, Sammy & Dean – The Rat Pack Live From Las Vegas is still the coolest party in town!
Gaiety Theate Monday 21st January 2013 to Monday 21st January 2013
Paloma Faith
Paloma wrote and recorded ‘Fall To Grace’ in London in 2011/2012. The album is produced by Nellee Hooper (Bjork, No Doubt, Massive Attack, Madonna) along with Jake Gosling (Ed Sheeran). ‘Fall To Grace’ is the follow up Paloma’s debut album ‘Do You Want The Truth Or Something Beautiful?’ which was released in 2009. The album sold over half a million copies and spawned the hit singles "Stone Cold Sober", "New York", "Do You Want the Truth Or Something Beautiful?" and "Upside Down".
On ‘Fall To Grace’, Paloma has chosen to strip herself emotionally bare. “At the beginning I wanted to do something that was more of a performance, and I still have that element because it is part of me,” she explains, “but I feel like where I’ve been most successful is when I’ve just relaxed and been myself. I feel totally, wholeheartedly behind this album. I feel like it belongs to me and I belong to it.”
Musically, ‘Fall To Grace’ moves away from the reference points that characterised Paloma’s first record such as Etta James and Billie Holiday, guiding her compositions into a new, contemporary realm. Collaborating with songwriters such as Ed Harcourt, Matt Hales (Lianne La Havas), Dan Wilson (Adele), Wayne Hector (Britney, Westlife), and even film score composer David Arnold (countless James Bond films,Independence Day,Narnia), ‘Fall To Grace’ is sonically varied, but completely cohesive. From the disco throb of ‘Blood, Sweat and Tears’ and the giddy dance-pulse that runs through ‘Agony’, to ‘Freedom’ (produced and co written by Al Shuckburgh), with its shuffled beats and soaring peaks, Faith’s vocals offer bluesy power and reveal husky emotion.
Vicar Street Monday 21st January 2013 to Saturday 26th January 2013
9 To 5 - The Musical
9 TO 5 THE MUSICAL is the hilarious new musical comedy based on the hit movie, that centres on three office workers who turn the tables on their sexist boss.
Outrageous, thought provoking and even a little romantic, 9 TO 5 THE MUSICAL is about teaming up and taking care of business. Featuring original numbers from Dolly Parton’s Oscar, Tony® and Grammy Award nominated score including Backwoods Barbie, Shine Like the Sun and the original hit song 9 TO 5.
Bord Gais Energy Theatre Tuesday 22nd January 2013 to Saturday 26th January 2013
Temple Bar Trad Fest
Dublin’s biggest and best festival of Irish Music and Culture. The Temple Bar TradFest is back for its 8th year.
In 2013 the festival will be bigger than ever with 6 days and 6 nights of trad, music, dance and craic. The festival features over 200 free events, an outdoor stages, family programme, children’s club, street performers, pipe bands, music trail and much more. Experience Irish and International music talent in some of Dublin’s most iconic venues like Christ Church Cathedral and the glorious rotunda of City Hall. Enjoy intimate performances for as little as €10 with lunchtime and evening concerts on offer.
Sharon Shanon, Martin Hayes and Dennis Cahill, Maura O'Connell, and T with the Maggies are just some of the stellar lineup you can expect to enjoy.
Dublin's popular Temple Bar Tuesday 22nd January 2013 to Tuesday 22nd January 2013
A Stór Mo Chroí- A Musical Gathering
This collective of Singers and Musicians is made up of members of the most progressive and influential traditional groups of the past fifteen years.
They have performed all over the world and taken part in the award winning series ‘The Transatlantic Sessions’. They have come together to perform a shared repertoire that celebrates their love of storytelling. Through a collection of beautiful love songs, which cover the range from heartfelt loss to unbridled joy, these performers illustrate their importance in the tradition. Each voice and accompaniment captures the essence of the song.
To have a supergroup of both musicians and vocalists performing together will prove a rare treat for fans of both Traditional and Folk music.
Christ Church Cathedral Thursday 24th January 2013 to Saturday 26th January 2013
Holiday World Show
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RDS Dublin Friday 25th January 2013 to Friday 25th January 2013
RTE National Symphony Orchestra
RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra
Isabelle van Keulen violin
Katherine Broderick soprano
Claudia Huckle alto
Robin Tritschler tenor
Andrew Foster-Williams bass
RTÉ Philharmonic Choir (chorus master Mark Hindley)
Gerhard Markson conductor
Berg Violin Concerto [22’]
Beethoven Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 ‘Choral’ [65’]
THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY
A HEART-WRENCHING REQUIEM, A GARGANTUAN SYMPHONIC HYMN. Alban Berg’s Violin Concerto – a heart-wrenching requiem for the death of a young child, dedicated to ‘the memory of an angel’ – and Beethoven’s gargantuan symphonic hymn, with its ecstatic choral setting of Schiller’s Ode to Joy, are two monumental musical milestones whose astonishing intensity and awesome scale are without compare. Former Principal Conductor Gerhard Markson returns to lead virtuoso Dutch violinist Isabelle van Keulen, the RTÉ Philharmonic Choir, and a quartet of vocal talents in what is sure to be a night to remember.
Soundings, 7pm
National Concert Hall Friday 25th January 2013 to Sunday 27th January 2013
Bride Of The Year Show
Step into the Wedding Event of the Year “The Bride of the Year Show” at the RDS, 26th/27th January, 2013.
The Bride of the Year Show is Irelands longest established Wedding Show – established in 1989; and is the glamorous event that all engaged couples, their family and friends wish to visit, as there will be something of interest for everyone. It will take place over the weekend of Saturday 26th & Sunday 27th January, 2013 from 11.30am-5.30pm when the RDS becomes a haven for all planning their wedding & honeymoon.
Enjoy meeting up to 200 leading wedding specialists showcasing many inspirational ideas and trends for your wedding and romantic honeymoon destinations. From venues to menus, flowers, cakes, video, limousines, honeymoon travel agents etc., In a few hours a couple can book their entire wedding & honeymoon having met face to face with their professional service providers who will cater for their special day and romantic honeymoon destinations.
As many show exhibitors offer special discounts and offers, the show can save time, money and is stress free. It is a great wedding shopping day out for al
RDS Dublin Friday 25th January 2013 to Friday 25th January 2013
Mick and Michelle Mulcahy at The Steeple Sessions - As part of The Gathering Ireland 2013
Mick and his daughter Michelle Mulcahy of Abbeyfeale, West Limerick play a dazzling array of instruments between them including harp, concertina, accordion, fiddle and piano but it's the sweetness and tunefulness of their ensemble playing that is most striking. Their latest album 'Reelin' in Tradition' which also features Michelle's sister Louise, has received worldwide acclaim, an album full of soulful traditional music rooted in the West Limerick, Sliabh Luachra and Clare tradition. Mick Mulcahy is a living legend in Irish accordion and melodeon playing, with a rare repertoire of old tunes which he plays in a highly distinctive style, a style of personal touch which distinguishes the work of the true traditional musician, a touch which has been passed down to his daughters. In 2006 Michelle was awarded the prestigious TG4 Young Musician of the Year award and has recently released her debut solo harp album 'Suaimhneas' which is already receiving worldwide acclaim at home and abroad and has topped the recent best new releases chart this year.
Unitarian Church, St Stephen's Green Monday 28th January 2013 to Saturday 2nd February 2013
Body and Forgetting
Body and Forgetting brings together the work of choreographer Liz Roche, film maker Alan Gilsenan and composer Denis Roche to create a powerful dance performance.
Inspired by the writings of Milan Kundera, Liz Roche Company’s remarkable dancers find their way through delicately woven circumstances of disappearance, loss, relationship and hope. Their attempts to hold fast to memories and objects of meaning is at the heart of this work.
Abbey Theatre Wednesday 30th January 2013 to Wednesday 30th January 2013
Nikolai Lugansky, piano
As part of the Piano Masters Series in The International Concert Series 2012/2013
Janácek In the Mists
Liszt/Wagner Isolde’s Liebestod
Liszt Les jeux d’eau de la Villa d’Este
Liszt Vallée d’Obermann
Rachmaninov Sonata No. 1 in D minor, Op. 28
Nikolai Lugansky was born in Moscow on the 26th April, 1972. At the age of seven, Nikolai entered the Central School of Music in Moscow and studied with Tatiana Kestner and then with Tatiana Nikolaeva. During the '80s and early '90s, Lugansky won prizes at numerous piano competitions including First Prize, All-Union Competition in Tbilisi & Silver Medal at the 8th International Bach Competition in Leipzig in 1988; Second Prize in the Rachmaninov Competition in Moscow in 1990 and Silver Medal in 10th International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow in 1994.
National Concert Hall
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