The 32nd Gerard Manley Hopkins International Festival

A highlight of this year's Gerard Manley Hopkins International Festival will be a performance by the famous Swedish pianist Hans Palsson, on Saturday 20 July when he plays sonatas by Beethoven, Schubert and Mozart, writes Brian Byrne.

The performance will take place Saturday 20 July in the Newbridge College Theatre, starting at 8pm.

It is the 32nd running of the Festival, established by Des Egan of Newbridge, and this year runs from Friday 19 July to Sunday 25 July.

The Festival will be based in the Newbridge College Theatre, and will once more celebrate the wide interests of Hopkins — poetry, painting, music, philosophy, and conservation — and also his mentor, John Henry Newman.

The event will also be a memoriam to Richard Dunne, Sheila McGinley, Fr John Cummins, and Patricia Mollin.

The Festival will be opened at a reception on Friday 19 July at 7pm, in the presence of the Italian Ambassador to Ireland, H.E. Paolo Serpi; Senator Tom Brewer (Nebraska); Koji Katsurayama (Hopkins Society of Japan); Seán Ó’Fearghail TD; The Mayor of Kildare, Cllr Suzanne Doyle; John Hunter (Washburn University, USA); Senator Justin Wayne (Nebraska); Martin Hayden TD; Shizue Ogawa (Japan); with music by Senan Moran.

The full programme will shortly be available at the geragrdmanleyhopkins.org website, and where details of Poetry Readings, Field trips, Visual Art Exhibitions, Workshops and a parallel Youth Programme may be found. Further details from Viv at 085 2732568 and 045 433613

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