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Collection name Charles Acton Collection: Box 22 (1960-1985)
Unique identifier Acton Gift 22
Description Collection of programmes from concerts by primarily Italian performers (or local performers of Italian works) presented by the Istituto Italiano Di Cultura, (11 Fitzwilliam Square) Dublino. Concerts were held in the Ely Hall, 7 Ely Place; Aberdeen Hall, Gresham Hotel; Shelbourne Hotel; St. Francis Xavier Hall; the Municipal Gallery of Modern Art; the Hibernian Hotel; the Examination Hall, Trinity College; the Irish Life Building, Mespil Road; St. Anthony's Hall, Merchant's Quay; the Royal Hibernian Hotel; the Erin Foods Theatre; Dagg Hall, Royal Irish Academy of Music; Castletown House, Celbridge; Jury's Hotel; the Player Wills Theatre; Gleeson Hall, College of Technology, Kevin Street; the National Gallery of Ireland. The collection includes tickets, invitations, programmes and printouts of lectures (including one by Dallapiccilo), an advertisment booklet for Marcella Crudeli and an tourist booklet entitled 'Italy Welcomes You'.

Unassociated programmes in the collection originate from the Royal Irish Acadmey of Music Summer School Recitals (3 programmes), the Feis Ceoil Prize Fund Recitals on 3/6/71 and 16/11/71 and a Song Recital by Bernadette Greevy and Jeannie Reddin presented by the German Cultural [Goethe] Institute on 31/1/62.
Date range 1960 - 1985
Associated People and Organisations Acton, Charles - Crudeli, Marcella - Dallapiccola, Luigi - Feis Ceoil (later Siemens [Nixdorf] Feis Ceoil) - Goethe Institute (German Institute for Cultural Relations) - Greevy, Bernadette 1940 - Istituto Italiano di Cultura - Reddin, Jeannie - Royal Irish Academy of Music -
Associated Places Gresham Hotel: Aberdeen Hall Castletown House, Celbridge, Co. Kildare Dagg Hall, Royal Irish Academy of Music Ely Hall, 7 Ely Place, Dublin Erin Foods Theatre, Dublin Examination Hall, Trinity College Dublin Gleeson Hall, Kevin Street Hibernian Hotel, Dublin Irish Life (Assurance) Building, Mespil Road, Dublin Istituto Italiano di Cultura, 11 Fitzwilliam Place, Dublin Jury's Hotel, Dublin Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Parnell Square, Dublin National Gallery, Merrion Square, Dublin Player Wills Theatre, South Circular Road Royal Hibernian Hotel, Dublin Shelbourne Hotel, Dublin St. Anthony's Hall, Merchant's Quay, Dublin St. Francis Xavier Hall, Upper Sherrard Street Dublin
Associated Times 20th century - late 1971-1999 20th century - mid 1931-1970
Associated Content Correspondence Tickets
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Collections Overview The National Library of Ireland has two collections consisting mainly of printed sheet music from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century. These include much material from the mainsteam western classical music tradition, but also material relating to little known Irish composers. The names of the two collections are the Joly Music Collection and the Additional Music collection. In addition the Library has a small but significant collection of music manuscripts. The general printed collections include some Irish ballad, folk-music and popular song collections.
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