In the Shadow of the Glen by J M Synge
The Embassy of Ireland collaborated with Shaw’s Corner to stage a performance of a play by a renowned Irish Playwright, J M Synge, In the Shadow of the Glen, at the India International Centre, Delhi on Friday, 23rd July at 6.30 pm.
JOHN MILLINGTON SYNGE (1871–1909) was an Irish dramatist, author and poet who contributed greatly to the Irish dramatic movement.
In 1908, a performance of his play, The Playboy of the Western World caused riots in Dublin. The audience thought it slanderous to Irish women and that it also implied that it was heroic to kill one’s father. Most of his plays particularly in the shadow of the glen and the playboy of the western world created much furore and even riots.
J M Synge’s play In the Shadow of the Glen is based on an oft-repeated folk tale of an old man married to a young woman. The old man knows of the infidelity of his wife and keeps a stick ready to beat her whenever she is caught red-handed. Synge makes the same story psychologically and dramatically more humane by bringing out the loneliness of the woman who lives in a secluded place where her only company is the old-cold man. The plot takes an interesting turn in Synge’s play.
The play was directed by Maura Sabin. And the talented cast included Vinay Talwar, as the old man Daniel Burke; Sharat Sharma as the tramp; Rati as Nora Burke ; Karan as Michael Dara; and the stage was managed by Akshay.
15TH European Union Film Festival 2010
As part of the 15th European Union Film Festival (PDF 1362kb) , the Irish entry, Small Engine Repair will be screened at the Teen Murti Auditorium at 2 pm on Sunday, the 13th June 2010.
Written and directed by Niall Heery, "Small Engine Repair" stars Iain Glen, Steven Mackintosh and Laurence Kinlan.
From Director Niall Heery...
Small Engine Repair is a comedy drama with a blackly comic tone
and a rites of passage element. It is essentially a story about the
meaning and value of friendship and what happens when the limits of
friendship are tested.
Irish Music
Caoimhín Ó
Raghallaigh
The Embassy of Ireland with suport from Project Arts Centre and Culture Ireland presented tranditional Irish music by on the fiddle Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh and Harry Bradley on the flute playing traditional and contemporary folk music in March with performances in Bangalore, Mumbai and New Delhi.
Harry Bradley
Irish Literature - Interaction with Anne Enright
The Embassy of Ireland in collaboration with Ireland Literature
Exchange and with support from Culture Ireland, organised a book
reading by Booker prize-winning Irish author, Anne Enright and
an interaction with Indian author, Amit Chaudhuri, on the 20th
January 2010 at the India Habitat Centre, New Delhi at 7
pm. Her novel, The Gathering won the Man Booker in
2007.
Anne Enright was in India to speak at the Jaipur Literary Festival
on the 25th January at Diggi Palace in
Jaipur.
The O'Malley Experience performing Irish song and dance
Ambassador Thompson and Tourism Ireland hosted an evening of Irish entertainment with Song and Dance by the O'Malley Experience on 12th November 2009 at the Irish Embassy Residence.
Mr. Michael Longley at Irish Embassy Residence
Poetry from Ireland
On 21st November 2009, at the Irish Embassy
Residence, Ambassador Thompson hosted an evening
of Poetry and Song with renowned Irish poets and literary
critics, Mr. Michael Longley, Ms. Edna Longley, Mr. Ed
Larrissey, Mr. Ciaran Carson, and Ms. Pádraigín Ní Uallacháin.
IRISH JAZZ TRIO PLAY THEIR DEBUT INDIAN CONCERT (PDF
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The Embassy of Ireland and the Project Arts Centre with support
from Culture Ireland presented a performance by renowned Irish Jazz
Trio, 'White Rocket’ at the B.S.Abdur Rehman
Auditorium, at the India Islamic Cultural Centre, at 7.00 p.m on
Thursday, the 5th November 2009.
A shared love of India’s Carnatic music, contemporary classical music, and the compositions of Indo-American Vijay Iyer brought together White Rocket. Dubliners Seán Carpio and Greg Felton met New York trumpeter Jacob Wick at the Banff Centre for Jazz & Creative Music in Canada in 2005, where they were taking a master class with Iyer, the American-born son of Indian immigrants, whose music draws from a wide range of Western and non-Western traditions. The trio hit it off and formed White Rocket, combining piano, trumpet and drums to produce an abundant musical personality.
Both Seán Carpio and Greg Felton have studied Carnatic music in India. For three months in 2004, Seán studied the primary drum of Carnatic music, the Mridangam and the phonetics language of Konacol with the great T.A.S Mani in Bangalore. Seán has since applied several of these rhythmic superimpositions in his compositions for White Rocket. At the end of his stay Seán was privileged to perform with T.A.S Mani and Carnatic College of Percussion at a festival of cultures in Bangalore.
In 2006 Greg studied with Dr. K.S. Subrmaniam and Trichur Narendren in Chennai where he studied rarer Thaalams, also through Konacol and has since applied many of these systems to his various compositions for White Rocket. Greg is now teaching a rhythm studies class at the Newpark Music Centre where he specialises in Carnatic systems and their application to composition.
Since its formation White Rocket has performed regularly in Ireland as well as touring to the US and Mexico.
"...a dazzling and promising debut." - Downbeat Magazine - June 09
“the players excel at locating the groove within even the most complex figures." - Time Out, New York - Feb 09
Celebration of the anniversary of the birth of Irish
playwright and Nobel Prize winner George Bernard Shaw by
Embassy of Ireland and Shaw's Corner India
The Embassy of Ireland and Shaw's Corner India celebrated the anniversary of the birth of renowned Irish playwright, George Bernard Shaw at the India Habitat Centre on Sunday, the 26th July 2009 with a performance of Shaw's 'The Man of Destiny'.
The anniversary was also marked by a three-day photo exhibition from the 24th - 26th July, 2009 in the Foyer of India Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road, New Delhi.
European Union Film Festival 2009 in India
Ireland's entry in the European Union Film Festival 2009 in India was 'The Frontline'.
'A hard-hitting emotional thriller by director David Gleeson and set in Dublin'
For information on the schedule of screenings in India click on EU Film Festival 2009 (PDF 1118kb).
Reflected Light for St. Patrick’s Day
Irish filmmaker and visual artist Marc-Ivan O’Gorman brought a retrospective of 10 years of non-narrative film & video work to the Mint Gallery, Defence Colony, New Delhi, on Thursday, 19th March to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day as supported by Culture Ireland and The Embassy of Ireland, India. The event, entitled 'Reflected Light', also featured 'Dublin: 4daymovie', a sampler of the best of new Irish filmmaking.
Marc-Ivan's films have won various national and international awards including; Student BAFTAs, Fuji film Award, MTV European Eye, Filmbase/RTE Short film Award and several Arts Council of Ireland Film Bursaries. His films have been screened at festivals throughout Europe including, Graz, Dublin, Hamburg and Manchester.
Since 2003, he has divided his time between Ireland and India, working as a consultant for broadcasters such as TV Today, TV3 and RTE. He has produced several audio and video works in India during this time, some of which are included in this show. In 2008, he presented, 'Long Shots & Cutaways', an exhibition of photographs of urban phenomena from Dublin and Delhi.
For more information on Reflected Light Exhibition please click on the link Reflected Light Exhibit or contact at the telephone +91 9911743388.
The 2008 St Patrick’s Day celebrations in Mumbai (15th March) and Delhi (17th March) were enlivened by performances of traditional Irish music, song and dance by ‘Irish Passion’.
Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs of Ireland, Mr Éamon Ó Cuív visited Delhi’s Éamon de Valera road in March 2008. Éamon de Valera road was inaugurated on St Patrick’s Day 2007 to commemorate Éamon de Valera and the flowering of the political friendship that developed in the first half of the 20th century as Irish and Indian leaders supported each others efforts as both countries moved towards political freedom.
Photographer Marc-Ivan O’Gorman discusses his work at an exhibition entitled “long shots & cutaways”. Marc-Ivan O’Gorman’s exhibited work drew comparisons between urban life in Ireland and India. The exhibition was held at the Mint Gallery in New Delhi in February 2008.
Poet Derek Mahon at the Irish Literary Festival which took place in New Delhi throughout January 2008. The Embassy and Ireland Literature Exchange with support from Culture Ireland organised the first ever Irish literary festival in India to highlight contemporary Irish literature.
Fiction writers Glenn Patterson, John Boyne and Claire Kilroy discuss their work with renowned Indian writer, Ira Pande who moderated the event, during the Irish Literary Festival.
Deputy Chief of Mission, Pat Bourne with novelists Gerard Donovan and Dermot Bolger at the Irish Literary Festival in New Delhi.
Fantasy writers Oisin McGann and Conor Kostick with publisher Jaya Bhattacharji at the Irish Literary Festival in January 2008.
Ireland Literature Exchange Director, Sinéad MacAodha at the Delhi World Book Fair. Ireland Literature Exchange participated for the first time in the New Delhi book fair in 2008.
Renowned Irish actor Eamon Morrissey gave a stellar performance of Gulliver’s Dublin in Delhi on 29 November 2007, as part of the EU Cultural Weeks series which coincided with the EU-India Summit in New Delhi on 30 November 2007.
