Cathedral News
Concert: Waterbury Chorale
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The Waterbury Chorale, from Connecticut in the USA, gives a concert in the Cathedral on Friday 1 July 2016 at 8:00pm. The choir is directed by Joseph Jacovino Jr, and accompanied on the organ by Jenny Li.
Admission is free, and all are welcome.
Summer Concerts 2016
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The 2016 series of summer concerts takes place in the Cathedral from 7 July until 11 August, on Thursdays at 8:00pm. Highlights of this year's series include a performance by Audivi Chamber Choir of Herbert Howells' Requiem on 21 July.
Concert: Esker Festival Orchestra
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The Esker Festival Orchstra, conducted by Peter Joyce, gives a concert in the Cathedral on Thursday 30 June at 8:00pm. The programme includes Mozart's flute concerto in G, Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade, and a specially-commissioned work, Elus, by young Irish composer Luke Duffy.
Saint of the Month: St Columba
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St Columba, born in Gartan, Co. Donegal, in the sixth century, and founder of a monastic settlement on the island of Iona, off the west coast of Scotland; credited with the revitalisation of monasticism in Scotland.
Concert: Dagilėlis' Boys Choir
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The Dagilėlis Boys' Choir, from Lithuania, gives a concert in the Cathedral on Sunday 26 June 2016 at 19:00. The programme includes music by Bach, Handel, Fauré, Victoria, Elgar and others.
Admission is free, and the concert will last about an hour.
Saint of the Month: May 2016
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Julian of Norwich, fourteenth-century English recluse and visionary. She is remembered on 14 May each year.
Saint of the Month: April 2016
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St Bernadette Soubirous, to whom Our Lady appeared at Lourdes.
Follow the Icon
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A copy of the original icon of Our Lady of Perpetual Help visits Galway Cathedral on Tuesday 19 April 2016, as part of a nationwide pilgrimage marking the 150th anniversary of the presentation of the icon to the Redemptorist order by Pope Pius IX in 1865.
Concert: Stabat Mater (Pergolesi)
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Maynooth University String Ensemble, directed by Sébastian Petiet, is joined by sopranos Erin Dollard and Nicola Lahert for a performance of Pergolesi's wonderful Stabat Mater Dolorosa. The concert takes place in the Cathedral at 20:00 on Saturday 16 April 2016.
Lá Fhéile Pádraig - St Patrick's Day: 17 March
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Mass in the Cathedral for St Patrick's Day is celebrated on Wednesday 16 March at 18:00, and on Thursday 17 March at 09:00, 11:00 (Gaeilge) and 18:00.