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THE IRELAND FUNDS WORLDWIDE CONFERENCE 2004
KICKS OFF WITH CELEBRATION OF IRISH THEATRE
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The Worldwide Ireland
Funds Conference 2004 was officially opened by An
Taoiseach, Mr Bertie Ahern TD on Sunday, 20th June
2004 and marked by a special
celebration of Irish Theatre at the Abbey Theatre.
The Conference was attended by over 250 delegates
from all over the world and ran until Wednesday
23rd June.
2004
Worldwide Conference > Highlights of the Conference, included a visit
to Belfast to review key projects funded by The Ireland
Funds; the presentation of The 33rd AWB Vincent American
Ireland Fund Literary Award to Paul Muldoon, poet;
and a Gala Dinner that marked
the completion of the five year ‘Hope & History
Campaign’.
This special evening performance was a tribute to
100 years of theatre at the National Theatre and
included an adaptation from the critically acclaimed
The Shaughran.
Among the guests who attended were Senator Maurice
Hayes, Chairman of The Ireland Funds, Billy Vincent,
Kingsley Aikins, Hugo MacNeill, Liam and Eithne Healy
and actor Colm Wilkinson.
Photos:
1. President Mary McAleese,
Mr AWB Vincent, Ireland Fund of Monaco, Loretta
Brennan Glucksman and Literary Award winner Paul
Muldoon
2.
Audrey & Dennis Durkin and Larry Powell at
National Gallery
3.
Mike Corboy, John Ryan & Ken Gorman
4. Dennis Durkin meets President McAleese at
US Ambassador’s Residence
5.
Dennis Whelan “tinkling the ivories” at
the Shelbourne Hotel
6.
Lou Ann Corboy, Senator Maurice Hayes and Mike
Corboy
7.
John Sharkey meets with President McAleese
8.
Charles & Maureen King & John Curran
9.
John Curran & Ken Gorman
10.
Maureen King & guest
11.
Michael Houlihan, Annabel Buchner & Deborah
Lynch
12.
Tom & Claudia Corcoran & Robert & Dr
Simone McDonough
13.
Mike Corboy, Annabel Buchner & Margaret Hayhurst
14.
Toni & Peter Ryan & Ted Johnson
15.
John & Kathy Duffy
16.Lou Anne Tierney, Lou Ann Corboy & Bob
Dunfey
17.
The National Gallery of Ireland |
The Northern Ireland poet Paul Muldoon was announced
as the winner of the AWB Vincent American Ireland
Fund Literary Award last night at a gala dinner attended
by the President, Mary McAleese.
It was held in the
residence of the US ambassador to Ireland, Mr. James
C. Kenny, on the Phoenix Park,
Dublin. The President, Mrs. McAleese, said five years
ago when she officially launched the Ireland Funds'
$100 million "Hope and History" fund-raising
campaign, she thought the ambition was well on the
far side of extraordinary. "And it was, but
importantly you proved that it was possible, not
easily, but with the most relentless commitment" she
said. The President said the fundraisers had known
that after the Belfast Agreement the most important
job was only just beginning in the resources and
support needed to carry it on. She also mentioned
the Special Olympics and said the funds' considerable
contribution would long be remembered.
Paul Muldoon was born in Portadown, County Armagh,
in 1951. He read English at Queen's University, Belfast,
where he was taught by Seamus Heaney.
His first collection
of poems, New Weather, was published in 1973, while
he was still at university. He worked for the BBC
in Belfast until 1986, before taking up a writer's
residency at Cambridge University. He moved to
the USA shortly afterwards to teach at Columbia and
Princeton
universities. He is Howard G.B. Clark Professor
of the Humanities and Creative Writing at Princeton
University. He became Professor of Poetry at Oxford
in 1999, succeeding James Fenton, and is President
of the Poetry Society in London. |
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