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The 10th annual Feile Filiochta of poetry, music and dance runs for a week from November 30th in the Dun Laoghaire area - phone 01-2781788 for information . . . A major exhibition of Irish art, When Time Began To Rant and Rage: Figurative Painting from 20th Century Ireland, has just opened at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool, and includes works by artists such as Walter Osborne, John Lavery, Sean Keating, Jack B. Yeats and Louis le Brocquy . . . Belfast's Sonorities Festival of contemporary music has won a cash award from the UK's Britten Pears Foundation - this will enable it to host the London Sinfonietta next year and the Arditti String Quartet in 2000 . . . The Douglas Gunn Ensemble will celebrate St. Cecilia's Day on Sunday, November 22nd, with a special concert in Trinity College Chapel of the works of Monteverdi, Peerson, Morley, Campion and Dowland, as well as a Christmas Cantata by Bonifatio Gratiani and arias from operas by Agostino Steffani - contact 0505-23093 for information . . .