1983 in Ireland - Arts and Literature

Arts and Literature

  • Shaun Davey's orchestral suite for uilleann pipes The Pilgrim is first performed and recorded.
  • Tom Murphy's The Gigli Concert is performed at the Abbey Theatre.
  • Brendan Kennelly's poem sequence Cromwell is published.
  • Dorothy Nelson is awarded the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature for her novel In Night's City.

Read more about this topic:  1983 In Ireland

Famous quotes containing the words arts and, arts and/or literature:

    “As far as the arts and the sciences are concerned, the German mind appreciates most highly that which it does not understand of the latter, and that which it does not enjoy of the former.”
    —Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)

    “The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure—if you don’t like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don’t like it, you don’t understand and you ought to find out.”
    —John Drummond (b. 1934)

    “In talking with scholars, I observe that they lost on ruder companions those years of boyhood which alone could give imaginative literature a religious and infinite quality in their esteem.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)