Irish Films at the Melbourne Film Festival
Thanks to Isla Sutherland (Celtic Club, Cultural Heritage Sub-Committee), for this short list:
The Melbourne Film Festival runs August 8 – 25
Kneecap
A Belfast hip-hop trio play themselves in this rowdy biopic that tracks their fictionalised origins and their real-life crusade to protect the Gaeilge language.
https://miff.com.au/program/film/kneecap#top
Calf (short)
In this sinister short set at an Irish farm, an accident corners a teenager into making an irreversible choice.
https://miff.com.au/program/film/calf#top
Kid Snow (Ireland/ Australia)
Centring on the titular tent boxer, this is a stunningly shot, epic drama featuring groundbreaking performances from critically acclaimed director Paul Goldman.
https://miff.com.au/program/film/kid-snow#top
The Outrun
Saoirse Ronan produces and stars in this moving adaptation about a recovering addict who returns to her childhood home on Scotland’s Orkney Islands.
More information and tickets:https://miff.com.au/program/films
A Day With James Joyce’s Ulysses (10 August & a repeat on 5 October)
| Always wanted to try it? Tried but got lost? Now’s your chance! |
| Now, Dublin is now unthinkable without Joyce; once, Joyce was unthinkable in Dublin. |
| 3ZZZ, 309 Albert Street, Brunswick, Victoria10:00am – 4:30pm, Saturday 10th August 2024 Cost: $95 / $85 The 10 August course is fully subscribed. A repeat session of it is planned for 5 October. Bookings open. |
| A friendly, entertaining, one-day session, designed especially for beginners, to take the mystery out of reading James Joyce’s Ulysses. No prior knowledge required!This is a fundraiser for Bloomsday in Melbourne’s next theatrical production. Presenters: Associate Professor Frances Devlin-Glass (Ph.D., ANU) has been the Director of Bloomsday since its inception in 1994, and has taught Joyce at university and other levels since 1980. She is a member of the College of Distinguished Deakin Educators. Steve Carey (DPhil, Oxon) wrote his doctoral thesis on the comedy of Ulysses at Jesus College, Oxford, supervised by Joyce’s biographer Prof. Richard Ellmann. |
Lunch at the Celtic Club: Features the Recent Northern Irish Election
Speakers: Dr Sarah Howe and Dr. Charles Richardson
Please note: Dr Charles Richardwon blogs at The World is Not Enough.
The next Celtic Conversation Talk in September: Janet MacCalman: ‘The Irish in Melbourne, from Richmond to Kew’.
Janet McCalman AC is a social historian who has written about the Irish in Melbourne amidst her wider histories of working-class Richmond (Struggletown 1984), the middle-class world of the 69 tram (Journeyings1993) and most recently as former convicts in Vandemonians (2021). She has seen them making their way in a settler colony, coping with discrimination, rising through education, and wading into politics. The history of the Irish in Australia is far more complex than the legends would have it, and even more interesting.
Details to come.
Melbourne Irish Studies Seminars
| August 21st 4.30pm (Melbourne time) Jabiru Room, Newman College, University of Melbourne and on Zoom (see below)Jeremy George PhD Candidate, University of Melbourne “Settling for Less: Elizabeth Bowen’s World” ABSTRACT: This paper draws on concepts from the recent scholarship in settler colonial studies and “British World” history by John Darwin, James Belich, Priya Satia, Lachlan McNamee, and others, to reassess Elizabeth Bowen’s short story “Her Table Spread” first published in 1930. One of Bowen’s most famous and anthologised stories, “Her Table Spread” has often been received as an example of the Anglo-Irish gothic tradition pioneered by Sheridan Le Fanu and analysed most prominently by Roy Foster. Taking heed of existing criticism, I nonetheless propose to broaden the coordinates. By treating “Her Table Spread” as a case study alongside refence to Bowen’s other writings, I argue that what she called her “fiction with the texture of history” is not just marked by the disintegration of the historical Protestant Ascendancy in the face of popular Irish nationalism. Her fiction is also finely attuned to the tense and often paradoxical dynamics which marked the modern sea-spanning Anglophone world system discussed in the aforementioned studies. Bowen’s literary modernism is uniquely capable of articulating the relation between progressivism and violence, expansion and isolation, privilege and marginalisation. Reading Bowen’s work in an expanded scholarly field, then, provides a new perspective on the vexed opportunities, limits, and consequences which structured the lifeways of the twentieth century “British World”. http://isaanz.org/events/miss-seminars/As always this is a free public seminar open to every one. It starts at 4.30pm, Melbourne time. IN person Jabiru Room at Newman College, Swanston St, Carlton.AND Zoom Join Zoom Meetinghttps://victoriauniversity.zoom.us/j/88238516078?pwd=3J9KqS5MfoxGZNhatXUNWe4SippYrZ.1Meeting ID: 882 3851 6078 Passcode: 249504After the seminar, the speaker usually joins any interested audience members for dinner at a local cafe or hotel. MISS co-convenors: Philip Bull (La Trobe University) Frances Devlin-Glass (Deakin University) Dianne Hall (Victoria University) Ronan McDonald, (University of Melbourne)Elizabeth Malcolm (University of Melbourne) |
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The Substation/ Rawcus/Interior
An Adaptation of James Joyce’s ‘The Dead’
20-24 August 24
A dark night. Through an open window you spy a house party. A house party going terribly, awkwardly wrong.
Interior takes you into our struggles to connect with the people around us; our ecstatic, desperate attempts. A collision of text, movement and design, Interior is a visual and aural unravelling, a unique spectacular about the parts of us that we can’t see.
Inspired by the world of James Joyce’s infamous short story ‘The Dead’, Interior explores choreographies of the internal and external, revealing and concealing, authentic and pretend with the award-winning Rawcus Ensemble.
Provocative, poetic, and absurd, Interior is an anarchic gathering where the only thing the party guests are afraid of is being left alone together.
More Information and bookings: https://thesubstation.org.au/program/interior?mc_cid=0180edf346&mc_eid=9746165fee
Talks at the Celtic Club at the Wild Geese
Celtic Conversations Monthly Lunch Series
Sarah Howe & Charles Richardson – for Wednesday 28 August
Dr. Sarah Howe & Dr. Charles Richardson who spoke earlier in the year at MISS in Newman College. They will report on a study of the latest NI election and the recent Northern Ireland election for the UK House of Commons from a Psephologist and a political scientist.
For more information about this series and to book: https://www.celticclub.com.au/whats-on/celtic-conversations-monthly-lunch-series
Comhaltas Lughnasa
| Comhaltas Bacon & CabbageNight–NEWDATE–Saturday 7 September. Mark your calendars and work up your appetites! Their very popular Lughnasa Bacon & Cabbage Night will be held on Saturday7thSeptemberatSt.Philip’s. Details to follow. |
Book Launch of Sister Liguori by Jeff Kildea
on 17 September 24
For the diary: MISS Seminar for 11 September2024
September 11th, 4.30pm Elizabeth Pearce, University of Melbourne, “Between Ireland and France. Ireland’s First Chair of Poetry: John Montague in French translation”
More details will sent out closer to the seminar.
http://isaanz.org/events/miss-seminars/
Roisin O (Mary Black’s daughter) at Jimmy O’Neill’s
13 September 2024
154-156 Acland St., St Kilda and in Brisbane, Sydney and Perth.
More information on Jimmy O’Neill’s on Facebook
Riverdance Returns on 6 Oct.
Riverdance at Melbourne, Margaret Court Arena
Riverdance 25th Anniversary Show is Riverdance, as you’ve never seen it before! A powerful and stirring reinvention of this beloved favourite, celebrated the world over for its Grammy Award-winning score and the thrilling energy and passion of its Irish and international dance. Composer Bill Whelan has rerecorded his mesmerising soundtrack while producer Moya Doherty and director John McColgan have completely reimagined the ground-breaking show with innovative and spectacular lighting, video, stage and costume designs.
In 1997, the spectacle known as Riverdance first swept across Australia, leaving an indelible mark on the nation’s cultural landscape. From the moment it first graced our stages, this mesmerising fusion of Irish and international dancing, music, and breathtaking visuals captured the hearts of audiences. The explosive energy and unparalleled precision of the dancers and musicians left audiences in awe and established Riverdance as a cultural sensation. Riverdance went on to achieve extraordinary success in Australia touring five times between 1997 to 2012 and selling a phenomenal 830,000 tickets!
This new critically acclaimed 25th Anniversary show has been touring the world since 2020 with sold out seasons in the US, UK, Dubai and in 2022 and 2023 Riverdance returned home to Dublin, Ireland for record breaking runs.
Immerse yourself in the extraordinary power and grace of its music and dance–beloved by fans of all ages. Fall in love with the magic of Riverdance all over again.
More information at AllEventsMelbourne
Save the date: Irish Film Festival Australia 2024
Cinemas
17-20 Oct: Sydney
24-27 Oct: Melbourne
1-3 Nov: Perth
15-17 Nov: Brisbane
22-24 Nov: Canberra
Online
5-15 Oct: Across Australia
LAKE SCHOOL KOROIT January 2-7, 2025
THE HISTORIC IRISH OF TOWN OF KOROIT
Lake school is held in the town of Koroit – outstanding musicians, singers and dancers from Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, Geelong, Ballarat and Warrnambool! Learn to play Irish flute, fiddle, tin whistle, uilleann pipes, bodhran (Irish drum), guitar, banjo, harp and song writing. Play in a ceilidh band. Join a hot young Celtic band! Play, session and sing with hundreds of musicians from all around Australia. Other activities include Irish language classes, and crafts such as bread making and reed making. Early Bird discount ends August 31, 2024.
Celtic Illusion
at the Palais (3 Oct) and at The Round Nunawading (4 Oct.)
Diary note: Irish language immersion week/ weekend
Australian School of Celtic Learning Scoil Samhraidh 2025 Early bird registrations are open until Sunday 13 Oct
Monday 20 – Monday 27 January 2025 Mt Carmel Retreat Centre, New South Wales Dates: For week long attendees 20-27 January For long weekend attendees 24-27 January Venue: Carmel House 246 St Andrews Road, Varroville, NSW We will be offering lifts from the train station (Minto) to the venue Booking: All registrations must be made.
Booking:
All registrations must be made by Sunday 5 Jan 2025
Early bird registrations are open until Sunday 13 Oct
Arrival, Registration & Orientation:
Arrival and registration opens at 4pm on Monday 20 Jan and there will be a school meeting/orientation at 5pm on Monday 20 Jan. For those attending for the weekend arrivals start at 4pm on Friday 24 Jan and we will do the orientation at the same time as registration.
Accommodation & Meals:
This is a residential event where all accommodation and meals are provided as part of the cost.
Class Levels:
Level 1 (beginners) People with no prior knowledge of Irish or who have been studying for less than one year.
Level 2 (continuing) Students who have now completed level 1 or who have studied Irish at some earlier stage in the past, for example at school.
Level 3 (intermediate) Students who have been studying for at least two years and who are now approaching the conversation stage.
Level 4 (advanced) Generally, those who are comfortable for the entire lesson to be conducted in Irish.
Level 5 (fluent) Cainteorí líofa
Tinteán 