President reads the first Canto of Dante’s ‘Inferno’

Sat 28th Nov, 2015 | 11:00
location: National Gallery of Ireland

National Gallery of Ireland

Saturday, 28th November, 2015

President reads the first Canto of Dante’s ‘Inferno’

President Higgins and Sabina took part in an event marking the 750th anniversary of Dante Alighieri.

The event, hosted in the National Gallery, featured a reading of Dante’s entire poem: ‘Inferno’, with the first canto delivered in Irish by President Higgins, and Sabina Higgins reading from the canto ‘Inferno VI’.