Listen Now Again Live Concerts

To celebrate the first hugely successful year of Seamus Heaney: Listen Now Again at the Bank of Ireland Cultural and Heritage Centre in Dublin, a series of free lunchtime concerts takes place at 1pm every Thursday from now until the end of September.

Theo Dorgan and Aoife Ni Bhriain at the second of the Listen Now Again Live series of concerts in Bank of Ireland, College Green, on Thursday 18 July 2019.

Theo Dorgan and Aoife Ni Bhriain at the second of the Listen Now Again Live series of concerts in Bank of Ireland, College Green, on Thursday 18 July 2019.

Each event will feature a reading of Seamus Heaney’s poems by poets, actors and friends, accompanied by some of Ireland’s finest musicians. The series has been programmed by Lorelei Harris (who wrote a lovely piece for this website back in December - read it here).

See below for a list of dates and performers. They’ve been booking up fast but some tickets are still available through Eventbrite - click here - but there is some standing room, and all promise to be memorable, moving events.

1st August: Paddy Glackin and Bríd Ní Neachtain -Seats booked out – standing room only
8th August:
David Power, Tríona Marshall and Olivia O’Leary -Seats booked out – standing room only
15th August: Nick Roth and Adrian Dunbar - Seats booked out – standing room only
22nd August: Laoise Kelly and Mary O’Malley
29th August: Paul Roe, Shayan Cooke, Shahab Cooke, Ultan O’Brien and Jim Lucey
5th September: Neil Martin and Stephen Rea - Seats booked out – standing room only
12th September: Ellen Cranitch and Vincent Woods
19th September: Paul Roe, Mick O'Brien & Paula Meehan - Seats booked out – standing room only
26th September: Kate Ellis and Marian Richardson

For further information on Listen Now Again, including map and visiting hours, click here.