Literary Gems – Dalkey Dublin
Writers Gallery
@ Dalkey Castle & Heritage Centre
Marvel at Dalkey’s literary connections in the Heritage Centre Writers’ Gallery.
Nobel Prize winners William Butler Yeats, George Bernard Shaw, Samuel Beckett are among the literary gems associated with Dalkey. There are also the much loved favourites Maeve Binchy, James Joyce, Flann O’Brien, Joseph o’Connor (left) & Hugh Leonard.
Other creative souls who live locally and are featured include Bono, The Edge & Neil Jordan.
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Discover Dalkey’s Literary Gems
Performance Show @ Dalkey Castle & Heritage Centre
‘On Yer Bike with Dalkey’s Writers’ is a unique stage performance of the work of famous local writers –Joyce, Beckett, Leonard, Flann O’Brien, Binchy, Synge, Van Morrison and Joseph O’Connor. The show, written by Shay Linehan, has a Flann O’Brien like character, wheeling his bike, who will conjure up characters to play various well known scenes from the work of these writers. Great fun and guaranteed to entertain the audience. The show which lasts 50 mins will be followed by a Trad session at the Magpie Inn down the street.
Enquire with Dalkey Castle & Heritage Centre for times and details.
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Guided Literary Walks
@ Dalkey Castle & Heritage Centre
Guided Literary Walks to settings in the work of James Joyce, George Bernard Shaw, Flann O’Brien and Hugh Leonard. Also covers Maeve Binchy and Joseph O’Connor.
(Must be pre-booked, with a minimum number of six)
For bookings / enquiries please contact
Dalkey Castle & Heritage Centre:
Castle Street
Dalkey,
Co. Dublin
t. (353 1) 285 8366
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e. info@dalkeycastle.com
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Guided Joycean Walk
@ Bloomsday 16th June
Guided Joycean Walk in Dalkey on Bloomsday. See the location where Joyce taught in the spring of 1904. Chapter two of ‘Ulysses’ the Nestor Episode is set in the Dalkey Schoolroom. The Walk will take place after the dramatisation of the Dalkey Schoolroom Scene at Dalkey Castle.
For bookings / enquiries please contact
Dalkey Castle & Heritage Centre:
Castle Street
Dalkey,
Co. Dublin
t. (353 1) 285 8366
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e. info@dalkeycastle.com
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Guided Hugh Leonard Walks
@ Dalkey Castle & Heritage Centre
Home Before Night , Out after Dark and Da …listen to the author’s words and see the settings of some of his funniest passages.
Look across at the Kish Lighthouse where the mother is cooking horny cobblers in DA! At the Bandstand in Sorrento Park Mr Drumm leads Guided Walks in Dalkey just as you can do today.
(Must be pre-booked, with a minimum number of six)
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Guided Flann O’Brien Walks
@ Dalkey Castle & Heritage Centre
‘The Dalkey Archive’, ‘The Third Policeman’ & ‘At Swim–Two-Birds’ all have references in the Dalkey landscape.
Sergeant Fottrell of the Dalkey Police puts forward the famous ‘Mollycule theory’. Mollycules were ‘as lively as twenty punky leprechauns doing a jig on the top of a flat tombstone’. He contends that the vigorous interaction of two solid bodies would result in an exchange of mollycules between the bodies…”you would be surprised at the number of people in country parts who are nearly half people and half bicycles”!
(Must be pre-booked, with a minimum number of six)
| For bookings / enquiries please contact: Dalkey Castle & Heritage Centre Castle Street Dalkey, Co. Dublin |
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