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  • Christmas Closing Times © Goethe-Institut Irland

    Christmas Closing Times

    Please note our Christmas closing times!

    Language Department: 21/12/2018 - 04/01/2019
    Library/Administration: 22/12/2018 – 01/01/2019
     

  • Bibliothek Räume © Donal Murphy

    NAMES FOR ROOMS OF THE LIBRARY IN THE GOETHE-INSTITUT

    We would like to use names in order to refer to the two rooms of our library instead of saying „room 1“ and „room 2“.
    Your suggestions for names are welcome! Tell us what names you find suitable and why!

  • Dr Gisela Holfter (c) IRCHSS

    Book launch: “An Irish Sanctuary – German-speaking Refugees in Ireland 1933-1945”

    Wed, 12.12.2018
    4:00 PM

    Goethe-Institut Irland
    37 Merrion Square
    Dublin 2

  • Liam Gillick: Denominator Plattform, 2018 (Ausschnitt) (c) Louis Hough

    Exhibition: Make Haste, Slowly

    Fri, 30.11.2018 -
    Sat, 12.01.2019

    Goethe-Institut Irland
    37 Merrion Square
    Dublin 2

  • Wolfgang Tillmans © Matthias Willi

    Exhibition: Wolfgang Tillmans: Rebuilding the Future

    Wolfgang Tillmans has shown his work in previous group exhibitions at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA), but this will be his first solo exhibition at the museum, and his first solo project in Ireland. The exhibition includes new works from the artist who had a major show at Tate Modern in London last year.

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LaBrassBanda, pioneers of brass pop Photo © Stefan Bausewein

Brass Pop
 Brass is beautiful

Looking at the figures, eighteen per cent of music listeners in Germany feel comfortable with brass music, while about twice the number can’t do anything with it. Nevertheless, brass bands performing pop pieces have long been filling big halls. Because it doesn’t always have be traditional.

War scenery Photo: © AbdukadirSavas/iStockphoto

Women Writers and War
 Close to the horror

War is no longer the exclusive domain of male authors – three books by German-speaking women writers about guilt, repression and omnipresent fear.

Hofer Filmtage: Heinz Badewitz and Wim Wenders are testing the new ceiling cinema Weisse Wand Photo (detail): © Evelyn Kutschera

Top Ten German Film Festivals
 Beyond the mainstream

Germany prides itself in having film festivals dedicated to almost every genre and region in the world. The scene is unique worldwide – and so diverse that one tends to almost lose track of them all. Film critic, Michael Kohler, presents his ten favorite festivals.

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Picture Politics - Illustration by Lars Jakobsen © Lars Jakobsen

Picture Politics

A joint project of several Goethe-Instituts bringing together comic artists and illustrators dealing with topics like immigration, stereotypes and prejudices, about foreignness.

Freiraum Dublin © Goethe-Institut Irland

Freiraum

Freiraum setzt sich mit dem Begriff von Freiheit auseinander, der spätestens seit der Aufklärung für die europäische Kulturgeschichte und das europäische Selbstverständnis grundlegende Relevanz hat.
 

Irish National War Memorial Gardens Goethe-Institut / Eugene Langan

Voices of Memory

Voices of Memory. A Riverside Sound Art Installation at the Irish National War Memorial Gardens by Christina Kubisch is a contemporary remembrance of the more than 49,000 Irish people who died in the First World War.

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