Major arts event for historic castle in Offaly - Charleville Castle

Join Anne Haverty and Donal Lunny for this atmospheric and moving event, “Reflected Light - Grief Songs”, with Anne reading her poems about grief and consolation, and Zoe Conway singing a selection of Anne's poems to music composed by Donal and accompanied by Graham Henderson.?

Taking place in one of Ireland’s hidden gems, Charleville Castle, Tullamore, County Offally, this unique and poignant event is on Friday, September 15 from 8pm.

‘Reflected Light - Grief Songs’ is part of a series of concerts taking place across Ireland and is funded by the Arts Council.

Tickets are €20 and are now available: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/reflected-light-grief-songs-tickets-706845924187

Donal Lunny was born in Tullamore before moving to Newbridge, County Kildare had an implicit awareness of Irish music from an early age due to the influence of his parents Francis and Mary, and from summers spent in Donegal

As one of the founding members of the group ‘Planxty’, he joined the ‘Bothy Band’, producing four albums in four years including ‘Out of the Wind and in to the Sun’ and ‘After Hours’. In 1980, ‘Planxty’ reformed and he produced the three resulting albums before finally forming ‘Moving Hearts’ with some of his former Planxty band-mates. ‘Moving Hearts’, who were responsible for such albums as ‘Dark End of the Street’ and ‘The Storm,’ were a hybrid, incorporating contemporary folk music, jazz and other influences with elements of rock.

Anne Haverty was born in Holycross Co. Tipperary and was educated at Trinity College Dublin and the Sorbonne. Her first novel,?One Day As A Tiger, a rural tragic-comedy won the Rooney Prize and was shortlisted for the Whitbread.

The Far Side Of A Kiss, set in Hazlitt’s London of the 1820’s, was long listed for the Booker Prize.?The Free And Easy, a novel about Celtic Tiger era Ireland, appeared in 2006. Her poetry collections are?The Beauty of the Moon?(a Poetry Book Society Recommendation) and?A Break In The Journey?(2018). Her biography of Constance Markievicz,?An Independent Life?was first published in 1989 and re-issued as?Irish Revolutionary?in a new edition in 2016.

She has written literary criticism and journalism for publications such as the TLS and The Irish Times, scripts for film and radio and co-directed the C4/RTE documentary,?The Whole World In His Hands.