Deirdre Purcell's novel, Love Like Hate Adore (Town House) has been shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction in Britain. The prize is for a novel written by a woman in English . . . Gael Force, the series of live Irish music produced by Tyrone Productions for PBS America and RTE has won the Bronze D'Or at the Golden Rose Festival in Montreux, Europe's biggest TV entertainment festival . . . The celebrated Russian poet, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, makes his Irish debut at a reading with Maire Mhac an tSaoi next Monday in the Dingle Skellig Hotel at 2 p.m. Organised as part of Feile na Bealtaine, the reading is one of many events which include an evening of Indian food, music and dance on Sunday and a political symposium entitled "Conflict, Diversity, Resolution" on Monday at 10.30 a.m. which will be attended by Conor Cruise O'Brien and Brid Rodgers (SDLP), Tel: 066-52218 . . . Our Lady's Choral Society will perform Francis Poulenc's Stabat Mater and Charles Gounod's Messe Solennelle de Sainte Cecile at the NCH next Wednesday at 8 p.m. . . .

The Millenarium is a new dance show by the acclaimed British contemporary dance company Random Dance which will be performed at the Firkin Crane in Shandon, Cork on Friday and Saturday, May 8th and 9th, at 8.15 p.m.