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The two writers settled upon the idea of setting a story amid The Troubles in Belfast. [ 2 ] The world premiere of The Beautiful Game opened on 26 September 2000 at the Cambridge Theatre in London and closed 1 September 2001, after a total run of slightly more than 11 months.
The Northern Ireland Music Archive is a digital archive of materials related to music from Northern Ireland. It is based on a publicly accessible computer system situated in the Music Library at Belfast Central Library, Belfast, County Antrim. The archive has been funded and developed by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland. [1]
A General Collection of the Ancient Irish Music (1796), 66 tunes; A General Collection of the Ancient Music of Ireland (1809) The Ancient Music of Ireland (1840), 165 airs; Collections reissued. Waltons in 2002 as The Irish Music Manuscripts of Edward Bunting (1773–1843) (ISBN 1-85720-139-6). This itself is a paperback reprint of a 1969 hardback.
The literary work is said to be set, or adapted, to music. Musical settings include choral music and other vocal music. [1] A musical setting is made to particular words, such as poems. [2] By contrast, a musical arrangement is a musical reconceptualization of a previously composed work, rather than a brand new piece of music. An arrangement ...
Féile an Phobail claims to be Belfast's largest festival and further claims to be one of the biggest community festivals in Europe. [9] It hosts an annual Summer-time festival of Irish and International culture that takes place in and around the Falls Road in Belfast as well as smaller festivals throughout the year, such as Féile an Earraigh, the Spring festival.
A 1685 plan of Belfast by the military engineer Thomas Phillips, showing the town's ramparts and Lord Chichester's castle, which was destroyed in a fire in 1708. The name Belfast derives from the Irish Béal Feirste (Irish pronunciation: [bʲeːlˠ ˈfʲɛɾˠ(ə)ʃtʲə]), [4] "Mouth of the Farset" [6] a river whose name in the Irish, Feirste, refers to a sandbar or tidal ford. [7]
Belfast's name is the anglicised version of the old Irish Beal Feirste meaning "mouth of the Farset". Belfast was part of the kingdom of Dál Riata from around 500 AD to the late 700s. [ 4 ] The Ford of Belfast existed as early as 665 AD, [ 5 ] when a battle was recorded as being fought at the site. [ 6 ]
This is an image of the main entrance to the Lyric Theatre, Belfast 54°34′38″N 5°55′51″W / 54.5773°N 5.9309°W / 54.5773; -5.9309 The Lyric Theatre , or simply The Lyric , is the principal, full-time producing theatre in Belfast , Northern Ireland