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Premier of play Don Quixote has been Promoted by Oran Ryan. Scoil Bhride, Oakley Road, Ranelagh The event will begin with a performance of the short play Don Quixote Gets Promoted about Cervantes’ great literary hero. The play has been written by Oran Ryan and will be performed by Noel Ó Briain (Narrator), ... (more)Raven (Rocinante) and Eamonn Lynskey(Dead Corpse). Vulture 1 is Nicola Watson. Sets are by Colm Desmond (www.colmdesmond.ie), Stage management by Craig Kavanagh, Lighting by Mike Donoghue This will last approximately 30 minutes. After a short interval Ross Hattaway, Eamon Lynskey, Noel Ó Briain and Raven will perform a poetry reading also on the theme of Heroes and anti-heroes. This will take approximately 20 minutes. Oran Ryan is a novelist, poet, playwright, screenwriter and literary critic from Portobello in Dublin. His work has been published all over the world, and performed in Ireland and New York. His novels The Death of Finn and Ten Short Novels by Arthur Kruger were published in 2006. Seamus Cashman , (author, poet and founder of one of Ireland’s leading literary and cultural publishing houses, Wolfhound Press ) described Oran as “a new and powerful voice in Irish literature”. He praised The Death of Finn for “the fine detail of the writing, and the clarity and simplicity of expression and phraseology” and described it as “a serious and entertaining and perceptive novel of relationships and ideas and a book which will hold readers enthralled and awakened as they journey through it.” Writer and actor Frank Kelly, who launched Ten Short Novels by Arthur Kruger, described it as a stimulating, enjoyable and challenging novel “that made me chuckle with its wry Beckett-like humour. Noel Ó Briain is a poet, playwright, actor, director and producer, living in Camolin, Co Wexford. Noel was born in Tralee Co Kerry in 1933. He has worked as a civil servant, an actor, a theatre, radio and television producer/director and a designer and was Head of Drama for RTE for a period up to 1988. His first collection of poetry Scattering Day, 21 Sonnets and other Poems, published by Seven Towers. Noel is currently working on a play - She which is a translation and adaptation of Brian Merriman's Cuirt on Mhean Oiche, a film script, with the working title of Mud, and a collection of humorous poems, Closet Poet. He has also completed a short verse play inspired by Synge's Deirdre of The Sorrows, entitled Áinle and Árdán Are Already Dead. Noel has produced and directed many plays in the Damer Hall under the auspices of Gael Linn. Among others these included Gunna Cam agus Slabhra Óir by Seán Ó Tuama and Aggiornamento by Chriostóir Ó Floinn. He also designed the sets for these and many other production. He has directed Ulick O'Connor's Noh Plays at The Project. As a Radio Producer his drama productions have been selected as RTE's entries for the Prix Italia. He has won a National Jacob's Award for his production and adaptation of Seán Ó Tuama's Judas Iscariot agus a Bhean. He has worked as Producer, Director, Series Producer and Script Editor in numerous television one-offs, series and serial drama, often combining several of these skills in one production. These have included The Riordans, Bracken (which launched the career of Gabriel Byrne) Glenroe and Ros na Rún among many others. He also produced and directed the controversial series The Spike until it was withdrawn by RTE itself after complaints from the League of Decency and State interference. He has won the Celtic Film Festival Drama Award for his production of Tom Murphy's screenplay, Brigit. Eamonn Lynskey is a Dublin poet well known as a performance and a political poet. He has had poems published in many magazines. He was nominated for the Sunday Tribune/Hennessy Literary Award for New Irish Poetry in 2006 and one of his poems features in the 2009 OXFAM calendar. His first collection Dispatches and Recollections was published in 1998 and his second will be published by Seven Towers in Winter 2009. As well as writing in English, Eamonn has also translated works of Italian poets Montale and Valeri and written in Italian – he holds, (among other qualifications!) a Diploma in Italian Language and Culture from the Italian Institute, Dublin. Raven hails from San Francisco. A mesmeric live poet at the very top of his game who has shared the stage with the very best, including American poet Saul Williams, he world premier live literature and spoken work artist. Raven is a native Californian and perfected his skill at the seminal Sacred Grounds Poetry, San Francisco immediately prior to relocating to Dublin in May 2005. Ross Hattaway is a New Zealand born Irish poet. Ross’ first collection The Gentle Art of Rotting was published by Seven Towers in 2006. Ross’ work has been published all over the world and translated into Lithuanian. In 2008 he was the first Irish poet to be invited as a featured guest at the International Poetry Spring Festival in Lithuania. He was also the featured guest at the Live Poetry Society in Sydney in July 2009.

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