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SUMMARY:Elsafty\, Armstrong & Browne featuring Róisín Elsafty (Song)\, Siobhán Armstrong (Early Irish Harp) & Ronan Browne (Union Pipes\, Flute & Whistle)
DESCRIPTION:This trio presents the scintillating voice of one of Ireland’s finest Conamara singers\, Róisín Elsafty\, together with the very rare and meltingly beautiful sound of the medieval Irish harp\, played by Ireland’s foremost historical harpist\, Siobhán Armstrong\, woven with the diverse colours of Ronan Browne’s flutes\, whistles and 175-year-old pipes. \nFrom sparkling songs to harp laments and old pipes “pieces”\, we are given a glimpse of the unique sound of early Ireland. Róisín performs evocative unaccompanied songs in the florid Conamara style\, together with achingly beautiful 17th- and 18th-century Irish harpers’ songs with harp and flute accompaniment. \nPlaying a facsimile copy of Ireland’s national emblem – and Europe’s oldest surviving harp\, the medieval Trinity College harp – in the ancient manner\, with fingernails striking brass\, silver and 18-carat gold strings\, Siobhán plays the compositions of the old Irish harper-composers. \nRonan’s low pitch Union pipes\, dating from circa 1850\, have that rich tone which makes you want to curl up and snuggle deep into their rumbling purr as he performs old airs\, marches and jigs. \nThe coming together of these three musical minds with their deep fascination\, love and respect for that past which created our present\, makes for a warm\, informative and joyous evening’s entertainment. \nDoors open at 7pm and the performance runs from 8pm to 9.30pm \nwww.ronanbrownemusic.com \nwww.siobhanarmstrong.com
URL:https://castletown.ie/events/elsafty-armstrong-browne-featuring-roisin-elsafty-song-siobhan-armstrong-early-irish-harp-ronan-browne-union-pipes-flute-whistle/
LOCATION:Castletown House\, Hunting room\, Celbridge\, Kildare\, W23 V9H3\, Ireland
ORGANIZER;CN="Castletown House":MAILTO:castletown@opw.ie
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SUMMARY:A Virtual Walk Through Donaghcumper
DESCRIPTION: An illustrated talk by Sandra M. Murphy on the OPW’s newly-acquired heritage property of Donaghcumper Estate in Celbridge\, Co. Kildare \n  \n  \nThis illustrated talk by Sandra M. Murphy will explore the newly-acquired OPW heritage property of Donaghcumper Estate in Celbridge\, Co. Kildare. Through archival items\, plans and photographs\, this talk will take the visitor on a virtual tour of the estate\, showing buildings\, interiors\, outbuildings and garden features. \nSandra M. Murphy has worked for the Office of Public Works in Castletown since 2016. She is a former Guide and current site manager for Castletown House\, Donaghcumper Estate\, the Casino Marino and the Custom House Visitor Centre. She holds a BA in History and Greek & Roman Civilisation from Maynooth University and has conducted extensive research on the history of the Castletown Estate and the Irish Country House. \nThe 2026 talks’ series at Castletown House is dedicated to the memory of the late Jeanne Meldon and is presented by the Office of Public Works (OPW) in association with The Castletown Foundation.  \nDoors open at 3pm and the talk runs from 3.30pm to 4.30pm. \n Tickets are €5 and are available from www.eventbrite.ie
URL:https://castletown.ie/events/a-virtual-walk-through-donaghcumper/
LOCATION:Castletown House\, Hunting room\, Celbridge\, Kildare\, W23 V9H3\, Ireland
ORGANIZER;CN="Castletown House":MAILTO:castletown@opw.ie
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SUMMARY:Ramelli-Savigni-Leathwood Guitar Trio
DESCRIPTION:A concert of classical and contemporary guitar music by Marco Ramelli\, Enrica Savigini and Jonathan Leathwood \n  \nJonathan Leathwood has performed in venues throughout Europe and both American continents. He has recorded with the legendary flautist William Bennett and collaborated on works for six- and ten-string guitar from composers such as Param Vir\, Stephen Goss\, Robert Keeley\, Chris Malloy\, Harrison Birtwistle and Roxanna Panufnik. He gave the Julian Bream Trust’s inaugural concert at London’s Wigmore Hall\, at the personal invitation of Bream. As an educator\, Jonathan is passionate about integrating different types of skill\, knowledge and understanding. He has a PhD from the University of Surrey and a bachelor of music from King’s College London\, and he is an internationally certified teacher of the Alexander Technique. He teaches guitar\, music theory and the Alexander Technique at the University of Denver’s Lamont School of Music\, where he is chair of guitar. He is the editor of the Guitar Foundation of America’s peer-reviewed journal of guitar studies\, Soundboard Scholar. \nMarco Ramelli is a lecturer at TU Dublin Conservatoire who approaches music with curiosity and the spirit of research. As a guitarist\, he has performed internationally as a soloist and chamber musician in repertoire ranging from contemporary music to historical performance on period instruments. He investigates the relationship between instrument and interpretation\, particularly by developing projects aimed at enhancing tactile sensitivity. His research interests span performance practice\, music cognition and organology\, with a recent focus on trauma and disability and their impact on creativity. In 2022\, he contributed ‘The Influence of the Spanish Civil War on Roberto Gerhard’s Guitar Music’ to Oxford University Press’s recent volume on the composer. His latest research examines the contributions of blind musicians to the evolution of the guitar. A strong believer in the role of community in musical creativity\, he has been involved in the creation of Festival Corde d’Autunno and Residenze Erranti\, artistic initiatives aimed at fostering a young research-oriented guitar community. Marco holds a doctorate in performing arts from the University of St Andrews and a master’s in performance (APEL) with distinction at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. He completed a postgraduate course in organology at the University of Edinburgh and he has collaborated with many luthiers. Additionally\, he holds a degree in computer science with a focus on mathematical methods for computing. \nEnrica Savigni is a guitarist and researcher with a wide range of experiences and interests. A specialist in nineteenth-century performance practice\, she performs on historical instruments with a particular focus on the repertoire for guitar and fortepiano. In 2021\, she completed her Master of Arts in Music Performance at the Early Music Department of the Koninklijk Conservatorium\, Brussels. She performs regularly with fortepianist Laura Savigni as Duo Savigni\, exploring the guitar–fortepiano repertoire through historical works\, transcriptions and contemporary compositions. Their recordings include Für Beethoven: Music for Guitar and Fortepiano Inspired by Ludwig van Beethoven (MP\, 2020)\, Unruhe: New Transcriptions for Guitar and Fortepiano (TouchTheSound Project\, 2024) and J. N. Hummel: Music for Piano and Guitar (NovAntiqua Records\, 2025). Together with Marco Ramelli and Giacomo Susani\, she is a co-founder of Residenze Erranti\, an innovative programme of artistic residencies for young guitarists that supports their creative projects and fosters a strong artistic community. Enrica is currently pursuing a doctorate in music at TU Dublin Conservatoire. She is active as a freelance performer and serves as a guitar tutor at Maynooth University.  \nwww.marcoramelli.com \nwww.duosavigni.it \nwww.castletown.ie \nDoors open at 7.30pm and the performance runs from 8pm to 9.30pm. \n Tickets are €20\, including booking fee\, and are available from www.eventbrite.ie \nhttps://www.eventbrite.ie/e/ramelli-savigni-leathwood-guitar-trio-tickets-1991353794806?aff=oddtdtcreator \n 
URL:https://castletown.ie/events/ramelli-savigni-leathwood-guitar-trio/
LOCATION:Castletown House\, Hunting room\, Celbridge\, Kildare\, W23 V9H3\, Ireland
ORGANIZER;CN="Castletown House":MAILTO:castletown@opw.ie
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SUMMARY:Conolly Family Connections: The Social Networking of Power
DESCRIPTION:An illustrated lecture by Dr. Suzanne Pegley on the power and influence of the Conolly family of Castletown House \n  \nThis illustrated lecture will look at the social network of the Conolly family and how significant this was for their high middle-class verging on aristocratic status in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In past centuries\, without patronage and connection one could not achieve access to individuals who would enable one to rise in the power structures of the time. This talk shows how family connections allowed the Conollys to rise from humble beginnings to great heights. \nDr. Suzanne Pegley\, a Canadian\, has lived in Ireland for 46 years and was employed at Castletown between 2000 and 2008 as guide and head guide. She undertook her PhD at Maynooth University using Castletown and its owner as a case study considering the social networking of the power elite in mid-Victorian Ireland. Between 2008 and her retirement in 2021\, Suzanne tutored and lectured in the geography department at the University of Maynooth. \nDr. Pegley’s publications include The Land Commission and the Making of Rath Cairn: the first Gaeltacht Colony (2011) and co-wrote Aspects of Leixlip (2001) and Aspects of Lucan (2009). In 2022\, her Thomas Conolly (1823-76) of Castletown House and the Social Networking of Power was published by the Four Courts Press as part of the Maynooth Studies in Local History series. \nThe 2026 talks’ series at Castletown House is dedicated to the memory of the late Jeanne Meldon and is presented by the Office of Public Works (OPW) in association with The Castletown Foundation. \n Doors open at 3pm and the talk runs from 3.30pm to 4.30pm.  \nTickets are €5 and are available from www.eventbrite.ie \nhttps://www.eventbrite.ie/e/conolly-family-connections-the-social-networking-of-power-tickets-1991354819872?aff=oddtdtcreator \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://castletown.ie/events/conolly-family-connections-the-social-networking-of-power/
LOCATION:Castletown House\, Hunting room\, Celbridge\, Kildare\, W23 V9H3\, Ireland
ORGANIZER;CN="Castletown House":MAILTO:castletown@opw.ie
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SUMMARY:John Walsh (Flamenco guitar)\, David Power (uilleann pipes) & Marja Gaynor (Baroque violin)
DESCRIPTION:John Walsh\, Ireland’s leading Flamenco guitarist\, joins uilleann piper David Power and Baroque violin player Marja Gaynor for a night of unique music and arrangements. They perform a programme featuring their own arrangements of traditional Irish tunes Flamenco and contemporary music\, as well as music from the Baroque period and the 19th century \n  \n  \nJohn Walsh (Flamenco guitar) \nFor over a decade\, John Walsh has been at the forefront of Flamenco music in Ireland\, as a performer\, composer and educator. Having studied with Flamenco masters in Andalucía\, John returned to Ireland to bring his passion for Flamenco music to the stage. \nAs a performer he has being invited as the International Artist to The 2015 Paco de Lucia Guitar Festival in Algeciras\, Spain & The 2014 International Flamenco Festival in Consuegra\, Spain. John also performed for 2 consecutive nights in 2014 in the famous Flamenco venue ‘El Candela’ in Madrid\, Spain. \nIn his home country of Ireland he has given concerts in the National Concert Hall on a number of occasions and appeared in the Guitar Festival of Ireland\, the City of Derry Guitar Festival\, Ards Guitar Festival and many more. He has been commissioned to compose music for Ballet Ireland\, Riverdance and Michael Rooney’s De Cuellar Suite\, amongst others. He has performed live on national radio and television and has appeared on the soundtrack of ‘Riverdance – The Animated Adventure’ motion picture. \nIn 2020 he released his critically-acclaimed debut album ‘Irlandalucía’\, the first album of Flamenco ever written & recorded by an Irish artist. \nJohn has performed onstage with many acclaimed Flamenco artists including Salvador Andrades\, Jose Manuel Leon\, Maria Delgado\, Alicia Carrasco\, Karen Lugo\, Luis de Luis\, Antonio Sanchez\, Juan Ignacio Gonzalez\, Gines Pozas\, Remedios Heredia\, Carmen Cervantes\, Jaime Salazar Losada\, Jaime Nadal Perez\, Jose Torres\, David Avila\, Olayo Jimenez\, Lucas Gonzalez\, Mercedes Garcia Lopez and Pepe de Algeciras. \nIn crossover & collaborative projects he has performed with The Irish Chamber Orchestra\, Redmond O’Toole\, Hugh Buckley\, Darragh O’Neill\, David Power\, Marja Gaynor\, Peter Browne and Robbie Harris. \nDavid Power (Uileann Pipes) \nDavid Power’s show credits include off-Broadway ‘Love’s Pure Light’\, the Irish Rep. Theatre’s ‘The Field’ and Eugene O’Neill’s ‘A Touch of the Poet’ on Broadway. Regularly appearing with poets including Kerry Hardie\, Thomas McCarthy\, Clodagh Beresford-Dunne\, he has also worked with Tony MacMahon\, Dermot Bolger\, Eamonn Hunt and John Comisky on ‘The Frost is All Over’ and with Kerry Hardie and Olivia O’Leary on ‘To Find a Heathen Place and Sound a Bell’ (Kilkenny Arts Festival). \nOther collaborations include Music Network commissioned ‘Edges of Light’ with Maeve Gilchrist\, Tola Custy and Colin Dunne (IAC New York)\, ‘Antarctica’ with composer Linda Buckley (Kilkenny Arts Festival)\, ‘Buile Shuibhne’ by composer Dana Lyn with the ConTempo Quartet and the ‘Gol na mBan san Ár’ concerto for orchestra and uilleann pipes by Kevin Volans with the National Symphony Orchestra. \nWith three solo recordings – ‘My Love is in America’\, ‘Cuachín Ghleann Neifin’ and ‘The Eighteen Moloney’ – and a duet recording with fiddle player Willie Kelly\, Power regularly performs with Willie Kelly and Martin Hayes\, harpist Tríona Marshall\, baroque violinist Marja Gaynor and flamenco guitarist John Walsh. He presents recitals with organist Malcolm Proud and performs with baroque group Camerata Kilkenny in ‘The Piper and the Faerie Queen’ (RTE Lyric FM release 2018). \n“The unifying theme\, as the title suggests\, is dawn\, Irish dawn in particular\, and the music evokes both the hush and the brilliance of early morning” (New York Times on ‘Edges of Light’). \n“The opening wail of uilleann pipes\, played by David Power\, which shifts into swirling music of military glory\, beautifully establishes the central opposition of inner pain and public fantasy” (New York Times on ‘A Touch of the Poet’). \n“David Power brings a breath-taking freshness to the set\, his fluid\, fluent playing as light as a feather” (Irish Times on ‘The Frost is All Over’) \nMarja Gaynor (Baroque violin) \nOriginally from Finland\, Marja Gaynor is a Cork-based violinist and viola player. She specialises in Baroque music and plays with various Irish and European ensembles\, including the Irish Baroque Orchestra and Camerata Kilkenny\, but is also known as a versatile musician at home in many different styles\, a fluent improviser\, as well as arranger and curator. \nMarja has performed and recorded with various Irish bands and artists including Interference\, Adrian Crowley\, Paul Tiernan and her own world music band The Polskadots. She also arranged and played the strings for Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova’s Oscar winning song “Falling Slowly”. She teaches violin and chamber music in MTU Cork School of Music. \nThis concert is presented by the OPW as part of the 2026 Cultural Programme at Castletown House. \nDoors open at 7.30pm and the performance runs from 8pm to 9.30pm. \nTickets are €20\, including booking fee\, and are available from www.eventbrite.ie \nhttps://www.eventbrite.ie/e/john-walsh-flamenco-guitar-david-power-uilleann-pipes-marja-gaynor-tickets-1991355660386?aff=oddtdtcreator \n  \n 
URL:https://castletown.ie/events/john-walsh-flamenco-guitar-david-power-uilleann-pipes-marja-gaynor-baroque-violin/
LOCATION:Castletown House\, Hunting room\, Celbridge\, Kildare\, W23 V9H3\, Ireland
ORGANIZER;CN="Castletown House":MAILTO:castletown@opw.ie
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