Francesca Melandri in conversation with Catherine Dunne
Francesca Melandri in conversation with Catherine Dunne.In English. After a long and successful screenwriting career, Francesca Melandri’s literary debut was in 2010 with Eva Sleeps, a critically acclaimed bestseller translated in most European languages and now published in English by Europa editions.Her second novel Higher Than the Sea confirmed her standing among readers and literary […]
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ADIFF – La ragazza del mondo / Worldly girl
Directed by Marco Danieli Italy-France, 104 mins, 2016, Italian (with English subtitles) Marco Danieli creates a sympathetic and touching coming-of-age story about a character not often seen on screen. Giulia is an academically gifted young woman who belongs to the Jehovah’s Witness faith. Her aspirations and relationships are rigidly determined by her family and […]
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Invitation to book launch
You are invited to the launch of these three books by Umberto Eco (1st anniversary of his death on 19th February), Primo Levi and Alberto Moravia (translated from Italian to Gaeilge by Matt Hussey) and published by Coiscéim. Prof Alan Titley will do the honours. Event in Irish. Déanfaidh an tOllamh Alan Titley […]
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ADIFF – La pazza gioia / Like crazy
Directed by Paolo Virzi Italy-France, 116 mins, 2016, Italian (with English subtitles). Beatrice is a motor-mouthed fantasist, a selfstyled billionaire countess who thinks she’s on intimate terms with world leaders. Donatella is a tattooed introvert, a fragile young woman locked in her own mystery. Both are patients at the Villa Biondi, a progressive but […]
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Madama Butterfly by Puccini
Madama Butterfly returns to the Irish stage at the NCH Fully Staged Irish Opera at the National Concert Hall Breathtakingly beautiful from first love to tragic end – Lyric Opera Productions presents its much acclaimed Madama Butterfly at the National Concert Hall on February 18th, 19th and 21st. Audiences adore Puccini’s much loved dramatic opera […]
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Lunedì al Cinema – Una sconfinata giovinezza
Film in Italian with English subtitles. Directed by Pupi Avati. With Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Francesca Neri, 98’. Una sconfinata giovinezza (Endless Youth) tells the story of Lino Settembre and Chicca, his wife. Lino is a renowned sportswriter and Chicca is professor of Romance philology. They lead a serene married life, after many years of happiness and […]
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Giovedì all’Opera – Matilde di Shabran
Director: Mario Martone. Conductor: Michele Mariotti. With: Olga Peretyatko, Juan Diego Flórez, Paolo Bordogna, 220’. Film in Italian with English subtitles. Matilde:‘Oh! Quanto è mai ridicolo! Amor lo già molesta/Amor il cor gli rosica/Amor gli fa la festa’ ‘Oh how ridiculous he is! / Love is already pestering him. /Love is gnawing at his […]
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Lunedì al Cinema – I Vicerè
Film in Italian with English subtitles Directed by Roberto Faenza. With: Alessandro Preziosi, Lando Buzzanca, Cristiana Capotondi, 120’. I Vicerè is a 2007 Italian historical drama based on the novel with the same title written by Federico De Roberto. The story is set in Sicily in 1800. The Uzeda family fights to remain in […]
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Aspects of intercultural communication between Italy and Asia – with Roberto Bertoni
A book presentation by Roberto Bertoni (TCD).In English.Introduction by Professor Mark Chu (Head of Italian at University College Cork). This book is inspired by an interest in Asia, multiculturalism, globalization, hybridization, and intercultural communication and transmission. Roberto Bertoni (TCD) is an Italianist rather than an Asianist, and therefore the perspective adopted is mostly, but not […]
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Lunedì al Cinema – Gli amici del bar Margherita
Directed by Pupi Avati. With Diego Abatantuono, Laura Chiatti, 90’. Film in Italian with English subtitles. Bologna, 1954. The mythical Bar Margherita and its eccentric, male-only clientele provide the back-drop for the coming of age of the youthful and innocent Taddeo, who manages to secure a job as diver to Al, the mysterious and […]
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