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Book Launch: Irish Women in the Antipodes
Join us for the launch by Dr Kiera Lindsey, South Australia’s History Advocate, of Irish Women in the Antipodes: Foregrounded, edited by Susan Arthure, Stephanie James, Dymphna Lonergan and Fidelma McCorry.
Following on from the Irish Studies in Australia and New Zealand conference ‘The Antipodes and beyond: foregrounding Irish women’ in 2019, organisors Susan Arthure, Stephanie James, Dymphna Lonergan and Fidelma McCorry set about compiling a book celebrating Irish women’s contributions to life in the Antipodes, stories that have been neglected or insufficiently acknowledged. The sixteen authors have used all available tools to find these women in the archives, public records, newspapers, and family histories, taking them from the proverbial footnotes of history to the foreground.
Registrations are essential for this free event, and can be made here.
Comhaltas Queenscliff Weekend
All ages welcome
Melbourne Comhaltas Wednesday Gatherings
Meets regularly on Wednesday nights of the month for music, dancing and singing at St Philip’s Anglican Church, 146 Hoddle St., Abbotsford. Come to hear two different Adult Ceilidh bands, as well as Ceoltoiri Naarm (a kids’ ensemble) and join Marie and Matt for set-dancing.
They are also running a Set Dance Workshop Weekend on 17-19 May at St Martin de Porres Hall in Avondale Heights, featuring special guest teacher Ultan Mulcahy from Limerick.
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Master Fiddle-Play Gerry O’Connor in Melbourne
On Saturday, April 20th 2024 Gerry O’Connor will be giving a concert & masterclass in Collingwood @ St Philip’s Anglican Church Hall 146 Hoddle St
Masterclass will run from 6-7.30pm
Concert will run from 8pm
Fiddle workshop (incl. Concert Admission) ~ $35
Comhaltas Members ~ $30
These classes are intermediate /advanced
Concert
Adult Comhaltas Members ~ $20
Non-members ~ $25
Children ~ $10
Gerry will also have music books and CDs available.
About Gerry O’Connor
One of the great fiddle players of his generation
Gerry O’Connor grew up in the town of Dundalk, County Louth in a family of musicians, dancers and singers. His mother Rose (née O’Brien) taught Gerry and his siblings the fiddle at home and she continued to teach from there for the next 40 years. Students travelling from Armagh and Dublin as well as closer to home to learn from the doyenne of fiddle teachers. His father Peter was a singer whose seven uncles all played music.
From an early age Gerry was involved Irish music and dance, winning numerous All Ireland titles between 1967 and 1973 in a range of formations including duet, trio and four Céili Band titles.
Playing with Michael Coleman’s contemporary John Joe Gardiner in the 1970’s formed Gerry’s style of music, focussing on the fluid and ornamented lyrical fiddle playing of the great Sligo masters. His own background in step dancing translates into vibrant pulsating dance music for which he is noted; today he is regarded as one of the great fiddle players of his generation.
He has played and recorded with such highly-regarded groups as Lá Lúgh (Eithne Ní Uallacháin, Sony Music) and Skylark (Len Graham, Gary O’Briain & Mairtin O’Connor), recording four CDs on the Claddagh label. Gerry has toured and recorded with members of all the legendary groups including Planxty, Bothy Band, De Dannan, Boys of the Lough and Chieftains. Lá Lugh’s album “Brighid’s Kiss” was voted Album of the Year 1996 by readers of the Irish Music Magazine. His solo album “Journeyman” was counted in the top five Albums of the year 2004 by the Irish Times. This critically acclaimed solo album, co-produced with his son Dónal (Ulaid, At First Light), was heralded as a significant milestone in recording the music of the “Oriel” region of South Ulster.
Gerry is supported by Culture Ireland
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Bloomsday in Melbourne is thrilled to announce our brand new play, Samuel Beckett And The Rainbow Girl, the moving story of James Joyce’s talented daughter Lucia, her desperate passion for dance and her doomed love affair with Samuel Beckett.
Tickets on sale from Saturday 11 April 2024.
| ABOUT THE SHOW It’s late 1920s Paris and Lucia, muse and only daughter of notorious banned novelist James Joyce, is poised to succeed as a daringly original dancer. Into this dysfunctional artistic household arrives alluring young Dubliner Samuel Beckett – enigmatic, hypereducated, a writer seeking his own literary voice. He finds himself drawn into the older writer’s web… and at the same time becomes the reluctant subject of Lucia’s increasingly obsessive amorous gaze. A series of romantic misunderstandings, at first comic but increasingly tragic, strip Lucia of her nascent career and, her family and love interest both lost to her, she spirals into madness. Follow Bloomsday in Melbourne at https://www.bloomsdayinmelbourne.org.au Subscribe at top right corner of website for news and information. |
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