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of Music and Dance, <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face=Verdana><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'>In association
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you to<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=6 color=teal
face=Verdana><span style='font-size:28.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:teal'>Lá
na nAmhrán 2010<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;
font-weight:bold'>Wednesday March 3<sup>rd</sup> </span></font></b><b><font
size=1 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
color:black;font-weight:bold'><o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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face=Verdana><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;
font-weight:bold'>Schedule:<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=4 color=black
face=Verdana><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'>1.15
pm <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Lunchtime Concert,</span></b> <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Bourn</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Vincent</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Gallery</st1:PlaceName>, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Foundation</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Building</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>,
UL with <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><font size=5 color=teal
face=Verdana><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:teal;
font-weight:bold'>Iarla Ó Lionáird, Séamus Begley, Róisín Elsafty, Nell Ní
Chróinín</span></font></b><b><font size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:bold'><o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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face=Verdana><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=4 color=black
face=Verdana><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'>2.30
pm <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Seminar</span></b>, <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Bourn</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Vincent</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Gallery</st1:PlaceName>,
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Foundation</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">Building</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>, UL<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><font size=2 color=black
face=Verdana><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;
font-weight:bold'>Chair:</span></font></b><font size=2 color=black
face=Verdana><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'>
Professor <st1:PersonName w:st="on">Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin</st1:PersonName><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:bold'>Speakers</span></font></b><font
size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
color:black'>: Iarla Ó Lionáird, Seán Ó Chualáin (Series Director), </span></font><font
size=2 face=Verdana><span lang=EN-IE style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>Norah
Twomey and Roxanne Burchartz (animators)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><font size=2 color=black
face=Verdana><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;
font-weight:bold'>Lá na nAmhrán</span></font></b><font size=2 color=black
face=Verdana><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'> </span></font><font
size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
color:black'>is an annual event hosted at the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Irish</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">World</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Academy</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> celebrating Irish
traditional and sean-nós song. This year’s event focuses on the recent
TG4 Series entitled <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>‘Anam an Amhráin</span></b>,
in which award-winning singer Iarla Ó Lionáird journeyed throughout Ireland
facilitating new and creative versions of a number of songs popular in the
Irish tradition. Each performance was enhanced by specially created animations
visualising the story of the featured songs. The series was co-produced for TG4
by <b><i><span style='font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>Sónta Teo</span></i></b>,
an independent production company and by the 2010 Oscar-nominated animation company
cartoon Saloon. The images on this invitation are taken from some of the
animations from the series. Lá na nAmhrán will recreate the series live at the
Irish World Academy, when several of the animators will show their work, accompanied
by the singing of some of Ireland’s best-known traditional singers, </span></font><font
size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
color:black'>Iarla Ó Lionáird, Róisín ElSafty, Séamus</span></font><font
size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
color:black'> </span></font><font size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'>Begley and Nell Ní
Chróinín.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><font size=2 color="#333333"
face=HelveticaNeueLTStd-Hv><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:HelveticaNeueLTStd-Hv;
color:#333333;font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=4 color="#333333"
face=HelveticaNeueLTStd-Roman><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:HelveticaNeueLTStd-Roman;
color:#333333'>Cuireadh duit a bheith i láthair ag<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=6 color=teal
face=HelveticaNeueLTStd-Th><span style='font-size:28.0pt;font-family:HelveticaNeueLTStd-Th;
color:teal'>Lá na nAmhrán 2010<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><font size=3 color="#333333"
face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#333333;
font-weight:bold'>Dé Céadaoin 3ú Márta<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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face=Verdana><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#333333;
font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><font size=4 color="#333333"
face=Verdana><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#333333;
font-weight:bold'>Sceideal: </span></font></b><font size=4 color="#333333"
face=Verdana><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#333333'>1.15
i.n.</span></font><b><font size=4 color="#333333" face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#333333;font-weight:bold'> </span></font></b><font
size=4 color="#333333" face=Verdana><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:
Verdana;color:#333333'>Ceolchoirm Lóin, Dánlann Bourn Vincent Áras na
Fondúireachta le Iarla Ó Lionáird, Séamus Begley, Róisín Elsafty, Nell Ní
Chróinín</span></font><b><font size=4 color="#333333" face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#333333;font-weight:bold'><o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=1 color="#333333"
face=Verdana><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#333333'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><font size=1 color="#333333"
face=Verdana><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#333333;
font-weight:bold'>2.30 i.n. Seimineár Dánlann Bourn Vincent, Áras na
Fondúireachta<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><font size=1 color="#333333"
face=Verdana><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#333333;
font-weight:bold'>Cathaoirleach:</span></font></b><font size=1 color="#333333"
face=Verdana><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#333333'>
An tOllamh <st1:PersonName w:st="on">Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin</st1:PersonName><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=1 color="#333333" face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#333333;font-weight:bold'>Cainteoirí:</span></font></b><font
size=1 color="#333333" face=Verdana><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:
Verdana;color:#333333'> Iarla Ó Lionáird, Seán Ó Cualáin (Stiúrthóir na
Sraithe), </span></font><font size=2 face=Verdana><span lang=EN-IE
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>Norah Twomey and Roxanne Burchartz
(animators)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><font size=2 color=navy
face=Verdana><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:navy;
font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><font size=2 color=navy
face=Verdana><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:navy;
font-weight:bold'>‘Anam An Amhráin’<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 color=navy
face=Verdana><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:navy'>Déantar
an amhránaíocht thraidisiúnta agus an amhránaíocht ar an sean-nós in Éirinn a
cheiliúradh ag </span></font><font size=2 color=navy face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:navy'>Lá na nAmhrán</span></font><font
size=2 color=navy face=Verdana><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
color:navy'>, ócáid bhliantúil ar fhéilire Dhámh Chruinne Éireann. Díreofar i
mbliana ar “Anam an Amhráin” sraith ar craoladh ar TG4 le déanaí,
ina raibh an t-amhránaí aitheanta, Iarla Ó Lionáird ar thuras ar fud na
hÉireann ag iarraidh leaganacha nua cruthaitheacha d’amhráin choitianta i
dtraidisiún na tire a thaifeadadh. Cuireadh go mór le cur i láthair na n-amhrán
seo trí chóiriú físiúil nuálach anamúlachta de scéal gach amhrán a nascadh
leis. An comhlacht léiriúcháin, Sónta Teo, comhlacht léiriúcháin neamhspleách,
a chomhléirigh an tsraith do TG4 leis an gcomhlacht beochana, Cartoon Saloon, a
ainmníodh i gcomhair Oscar. Tógadh íomhánna an chuiridh seo ó chuid de na
gearrthóga beochana sa tsraith. Déanfar an tsraith a athchruthú beo arís ag
Dámh Chruinne Éireann ar Lá na nAmhrán nuair a léireoidh cuid de na beogairí a
saothair I gcomhluadar amhránaithe traidisiúnta aitheanta na hÉireann,</span></font><font
size=2 color="#333333" face=HelveticaNeueLTStd-Lt><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:HelveticaNeueLTStd-Lt;color:#333333'> </span></font><b><font
size=2 color=teal face=HelveticaNeueLTStd-Bd><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:HelveticaNeueLTStd-Bd;color:teal;font-weight:bold'>Iarla Ó</span></font></b><b><font
size=2 color=teal face=HelveticaNeueLTStd-Lt><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:HelveticaNeueLTStd-Lt;color:teal;font-weight:bold'> </span></font></b><b><font
size=2 color=teal face=HelveticaNeueLTStd-Bd><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:HelveticaNeueLTStd-Bd;color:teal;font-weight:bold'>Lionáird, Róisín
ElSafty, Séamus Begley agus Nell Ní Chróinín.</span></font></b><b><font size=2
color=teal face=HelveticaNeueLTStd-Lt><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:
HelveticaNeueLTStd-Lt;color:teal;font-weight:bold'><o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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