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DUBLIN’S ST PATRICK’S Day festivities will carry the theme “Imagine If…” this year.
The full schedule will see a three-year programme of past, present and future-themed parades come to a close.
The entire festival will take place in the city centre from 17-20 March, with the parade on the big day kicking things off.
This year, as part of the I Love My City programme, the festival presents a schedule including The Moth StorySlam; an open mic storytelling competition where storytellers put their names in a hat are selected at random to tell a story on the spot on the night’s chosen theme. The event will take place in the Teelings Distillery, New Market Square, Dublin 8 on Thursday 17 March. Tickets are €8 each.
There will also be look-see Run, a teen-centred project that offers an alternative tour of Dublin, The Children’s Soapbox; in which children explore their hopes and dreams for Ireland in soapbox-style performances using spoken word, stories and poetry. Tours on look-see Run will take place at 6.30pm and 8.00pm on both Friday 18 and Saturday 19 March meeting at Hugh Lane Gallery. Tickets are priced at €5. The Children’s Soapbox will take place on Friday, 18 March in The Ark Children’s Cultural Centre. Tickets are free and available from 7 March.
There will be screenings of the landmark documentary Older than Ireland, which tells the story of a hundred years of a life as seen through the eyes of thirty Irish centenarians. A special screening and interview with some of the stars will take place at 2pm on Saturday 19 March at The National Gallery of Ireland.
People are also invited to get their dancing shoes on and join the Festival Céilí taking place on Friday 18 March to dance their way into the night at Ireland’s largest outdoor celebration of traditional Irish dancing.
Sunday 20 March brings the Festival Big Day Out at the heart of Georgian Dublin with Merrion Square providing the setting for a day-long street carnival. It will feature performances, open-air shows, music, fun zones, workshops, arts and craft, Irish language events and more.
Susan Kirby, CEO of St. Patrick’s Festival says:
This year’s St Patrick’s Parade creative theme, Imagine If, is looking to the future, and over the past months we have been collaborating with children, young adults and some fantastic leading Irish pageant companies to bring this vision, that marks this seminal year for Ireland, to life, in a creative and artistic way.
“Now in the final year of the three year theme, we are very excited to see the final instalment unfold in front of an audience of thousands lining the streets of Dublin, in a celebration of creativity and artistry.”
Picture a world were Kanye West replaces Donald Trump as US president.
*where
Does it involve electrolytes???
And lots OF LSD?
idiocracy the movie
Don’t forget Kim would be the First Lady!
Seriously deluded. West is the next MC Hammer.
Oh Dear God.
If Kanye loves America like Kanye loves Kanye, they’ll be sorted
God help America, imagine what the founding fathers would think of it now
I don’t think they would really dig it.
The founding fathers be like yo, what’s up muhphuqqaz?
nothing to see here lads..him and his have exhausted mtv by now, its about time they brought on a new family mess. Cheaper and less damage to the whole economic universe. Oh and we dont have to widen doors to get bog heads in.
I meant to say big heads..
Yo Bro, we will build a bigger White House. We’s will call the mother fuc*er black house. We’s will make rap sh*t and sing about it. My wife will not be First Lady, she’s like only lady bro. The North wing was named after my first born. My second born will be called West. We won’t like downsizing but we’ll do it cuz we love you all. America needs the Wests, the world needs the West’s
I think that MTV has forgotten what the “M” stands for…
I’m pretty sure the “we hate Kanye ” era hasn’t passed and I don’t think it will for some time.
I’m not convinced by Kanye, he’d take my money when I’m in need…..
Would be worth him winning just for Donald Trump to interupt the inauguration by grabbing the mic and saying Jayz would be the best politician of all time.
His grandfather, seven times removed, was from Clonakilty. You heard it here first. He’ll drink a pint American President in De’Barras yet I’m telling ya.
They’ve always been good a producing black ‘puddings’ down there…….. I’m gonna hell for that joke.
Absolute f*cking bell end he is, if he was ever voted in now that would say a lot about Americans
If Trump can be a contender why not this clown?
Jedward for the Áras!
Don’t encourage em
Don’t encourage em
Don’t encourage em
I heard you the first time.
If ever a bloke suffered from Up Syndrome.
Does he like fish sticks?
Great …Not the first lady will have been in playboy,have a sex tape been married three times. Totes hillarious
The West Wing….
“I think we can”
who ?
“Never heard of her! ‘….. Lemmy
Bo’Selecta! Proper Bo’
A candidate with an ego and intellect Donald Trump
*with the ego and intellect of Donald Trump
Clown
And we think we’re bad with Enda Kenny
At last, an African American candidate.
I’m sorry Paul but I have to say I find a large amount of your comments to be utterly nauseating. You have nothing interesting about you.
who would struggle to spell candidate
And struggle to spell American
Soz.
kanye’s unscripted rant about George Bush says it all
That was TV gold!
Well it may not be a joke to him but to everyone else…
Kanye West has left the building…
Hopefully he got lost
Dick
The thoughts of that fxxkin eejit being president of America just cracks me up
He’s just so dislikable
Is he that arrogant or does he need an exorcist?
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