Seven things to do this week
TODAY The scribes are gathered in Dún Laoghaire over the weekend for the international Poetry Now festival - PN05. This afternoon at 3.30pm, Claude Esteban and Celia de Freine will give readings; Simon Armitage and Conor O'Callaghan will be introduced by Colm Toibin at 6pm, with Margaret Atwood and Maire Mhac an tSaoi at 8pm at the Pavilion Theatre.
TOMORROW On with the top hat and tails for Opera Ireland's spring programme of Puccini and Zemlinsky at the Gaiety Theatre in Dublin tonight. Book on 01-6771717.
MONDAY There's a Slim Your Bin workshop today at 10am in Deansgrange Library, Co Dublin. Interest in such events has apparently shot up since pay-by-weight came in, and this is the first of six days of eco-nappy lectures, composting talks and wormery workshops organised as part of Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council's "Eco Week". You don't have to live in the DLCC area to attend. See www.dlrcoco.ie/env or call 01-2054817.
TUESDAY First meeting between Liverpool and Juventus since the Heysel Stadium tragedy in 1985 when 39 fans died. Coverage at 7.45pm on TV 3.
WEDNESDAY Today is your last chance to see the movie 5x2, François Ozon's powerful examination of marital breakdown, at the Irish Film Institute, Temple Bar, Dublin. And it's your first chance to immerse yourself in the Japanese cult film of the 1960s and 1970s through the IFI's Wild Japan season, which kicks off today with the horror thriller Onibaba. See www.ifi.ie.
THURSDAY Snap up a first edition of Finnegans Wake (London 1939) among other curiosities at the 16th annual second-hand book sale at Trinity College, Dublin, which ends on Saturday. It opens this evening in the exam hall at 5.30. Inquiries 01-6082276 or booksale@tcd.ie. Also today, Andrea Corr has another stab at acting in The Boys and Girls from County Clare, which premieres tonight at the Belfast Film Festival. Shot in Cushendal, Co Antrim, La Corr is cast as a fiddler and Colm Meaney and Bernard Hill appear as rivalrous siblings with cameos from Patrick Bergin and Charlotte Bradley. (Village Cinema, Odyssey, 7.15pm).
FRIDAY Head for the bookies. It's the day for office lotteries and cagey syndicates to tag a nag for tomorrow's Grand National at Aintree.
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