Meeting, Reading and Remembering Seamus Heaney at the IIC Dublin
Two books on Seamus Heaney have recently been published in Italy: Paolo Febbraro’s essay Leggere Seamus Heaney and Marco Sonzogni’s translation into Italian of Death of a Naturalist. Both Paolo Febbraro and Marco Sonzogni treasure their encounter with Seamus Heaney as a turning point in their lives. So does poet and Rai journalist Luigia Sorrentino. […]
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A Dante Quartet – IV Daragh O’Connell – Dante’s Disco Inferno: Popolar Culture and the Commedia
a lecture by Dr Daragh O’Connell Dante’s text still exerts a powerful hold on the western imagination today. This lecture will examine how this influence is manifest in decidedly popular forms of culture: from comic books, computer games, crime novels, tv shows to Hollywood blockbusters – Dante is re-appropriated, adapted, refashioned and in many ways […]
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A Dante Quartet – III Cormac O Cuilleanain – Rivers of Dante (On the Banks of my Own Lovely Styx)
a lecture by Professor Cormac O Cuilleanain Dante leaves us with many haunting images of this world and the next. With the aid of some PowerPoint slides, tonight’s lecture will explore a significant “family” of water imagery that flows through the Comedy, in both real and metaphorical forms. From the classical rivers of the underworld […]
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A Dante Quartet – II John Barnes – “Guerre convien surgere”: Dante and War
a lecture by John Barnes This lecture will first consider Dante’s views on war as a principle and then move on to his direct experience of warfare. Its main purpose, however, will be to explore ways in which those views and that experience are reflected in his literary works, particularly in the imagery of the […]
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A Dante Quartet – I Corinna Salvadori Lonergan – Dante, Florence and the Florin
“Bewitched by greed and blinded ‘neath its sway” a lecture by Professor Corinna Salvadori Lonergan From the opening of Dante’s Commedia, with the pilgrim’s ascent towards light blocked by a she-wolf, symbol of insatiable greed, the entire work can be read as one great condemnation of this powerful motivation of human action. In opposition to […]
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Spoglia di Sillabe
by Aurora Coppola The collection comprises poems from all the stages of Aurora’s life but it’s also an introspection of the life she lived in Ireland since she came to stay in Dublin back in 2006. The poems are inspired from memories, dreams, nightmares but are also take from existing poems made by Aurora’s favourite […]
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Qui, Ora
Compagnia Claudia Catarzi “The work is divided into three parts, dialectically marked by auditorystimuli that dictate the proxemics ad hoc. The extended time, thesilence, the rustle of a grey raincoat – which she slowly puts on – markthe rhythm of the micro scores of the actions: the impromptu brokengestures evoke a metaphysical puppet led by […]
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Ex-designer
As part of Irish Design 2015’s programme of events leading designers from Britain, Germany, Italy and Spain will give public lectures and hold masterclasses throughout 2015 organised by EUNIC Ireland. Instituto Cervantes Dublin and ID2015 are pleased to be presenting Spanish designer Martí Guixé in the second event in the EUNIC series.Ex-designer is a conference […]
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Love, Italian Style
Changing Customs and Ideas and Love and Marriage in Italy between 1945 and 1974 The idea of the ‘Latin lover’ is one of the most familiar images of Italians and Italian culture. This exhibition, curated by Dr Niamh Cullen (University College Dublin) aims to uncover the reality behind the stereotype, exploring how ideas about courtship, […]
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Year of Irish Design, jeweller designer Gisella Bianco
YEAR OF IRISH DESIGNEUNIC @ Irish Design 2015 European Contributions to the Year of Irish DesignAs part of the programme of the Year of Irish Design (ID2015) leading designers from Britain, German, Italy and Spain will give public lectures and hold masterclasses throughout 2015 organised by EUNIC Ireland. EUNIC, the network of European Union national […]
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