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The President, Mrs McAleese, was there, as was the US Secretary of State, Ms Madeleine Albright, the Minister for Arts and Heritage, Ms de Valera, the Northern Ireland Minister, Mr George Howarth, and former US ambassador to Ireland Mrs Jean Kennedy Smith, who dreamed up the project in the first place. | The President, Mrs McAleese, was there, as was the US Secretary of State, Ms Madeleine Albright, the Minister for Arts and Heritage, Ms de Valera, the Northern Ireland Minister, Mr George Howarth, and former US ambassador to Ireland Mrs Jean Kennedy Smith, who dreamed up the project in the first place. | ||
"Island: Arts from Ireland" will run for two weeks at the Kennedy Centre, and aims to embrace all aspects of Irish cultural life from literature — with readings by Seamus Heaney, John McGahern, Paul Durcan and Frank McCourt — to film. There will be showings of movies as diverse as Cathal Black's Korea and Neil Jordan's The Butcher Boy. In visual arts, Tony O'Malley's An Irish Vision will be shown at The Phillips Collection on Q Street until July, while visitors to the Kennedy Centre can see the private collection of US lawyer Mr Brian P. Burns, with works by William John Leech, Sir John Lavery, Jack B. Yeats and Roderic O'Conor. | "Island: Arts from Ireland" will run for two weeks at the Kennedy Centre, and aims to embrace all aspects of Irish cultural life from literature — with readings by Seamus Heaney, John McGahern, Paul Durcan and Frank McCourt — to film. There will be showings of movies as diverse as Cathal Black's'' Korea'' and Neil Jordan's ''The Butcher Boy''. In visual arts, Tony O'Malley's ''An Irish Vision'' will be shown at The Phillips Collection on Q Street until July, while visitors to the Kennedy Centre can see the private collection of US lawyer Mr Brian P. Burns, with works by William John Leech, Sir John Lavery, Jack B. Yeats and Roderic O'Conor. | ||
Theatre will be represented by Stewart Parker's Pentecost, Marina Carr's On Raftery's Hill and Donal Kelly's Catalpa, while the Irish Chamber Orchestra will give the world premiere of Riverdance composer Bill Whelan's new work, Inishlaken. | Theatre will be represented by Stewart Parker's Pentecost, Marina Carr's On Raftery's Hill and Donal Kelly's Catalpa, while the Irish Chamber Orchestra will give the world premiere of Riverdance composer Bill Whelan's new work, Inishlaken. |
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