TEANGA AN GHRÁ: 1000 YEARS OF IRISH LOVE

Dipping into the treasure trove of Irish declarations of love through song and verse, this show dramatically brings to life the raw emotions at their core. Placing ancient songs into a modern context, this bilingual performance opens up that trove and opens our eyes and ears to the ecstasy and agony endured by dreamers and songsmiths throughout the ages. The audience is brought on an exhilarating journey which combines singing, recitation, and music on saxophone, harp, uilleann pipes and flute. Teang an Ghrá - the Language of Love - makes these timeless verses and sean-nós songs, some of them a thousand years old, bang up to date, with Gabriel Rosenstock's expert translations, as relevant to today as when they were first written.

Guthanna Binne Síoraí presents a wonderful blend of

Irish poetry performed by Artistic Director Cathal Quinn (Voice and Speech teacher, at The Lir Trinity College).
Sean-nós singing by leading exponents Síle Denvir and Aodán Ó Ceallaigh.
Instrumental performances on harp, uillean pipes, saxophone, wooden flute and more featuring Síle Denvir and multi-instrumentalist Eamon Galldubh.
Artistic Director Cathal Quinn said: ‘Teanga an Ghrá' is for people with any level of Irish all the way down to none, and for all ages. It is romantic and moving; the music and singing transport the audience out of the theatre into a world of love: unrequited, forsaken, sensuous and humorous…'

‘Éamonn Galldubh plays eight instruments in all, from saxophones to a shruti box, and Síle Denvir's mastery on the harp accompanies us throughout. Aodán Ó Ceallaigh's brilliant, award winning voice reverberates around the theatre'

After the wonderful reception given to Everlasting Voices last year in Belfast, we are very much looking forward to bringing Teanga an Ghrá to the Crescent Arts Centre in November.



Guthanna Binne Síoraí gratefully acknowledges the support of Foras na Gaeilge and Dublin City Council.

It sold out the National Concert Hall with their previous show Everlasting Voices/ Guthanna Síoraí, which also played at the Hyderabad Literary Festival in India to 500 people, as well as Samuel Beckett Centre, Trinity College, Dublin, The Crescent Arts Centre, Belfast, and Theater XCai in Tokyo as part of the Yeats 150th celebrations in June 2015.