What’s On at the Celtic Club Melbourne
The Celtic Club is an organization that celebrates and supports pride in Irish heritage and culture, as well as the broader Celtic community. We provide opportunities for our members and guests to benefit from, learn about, and enjoy Gaelic language, Irish music, art, culture, and more.
For further information please visit us here:https://www.celticclub.com.au/whats-on
Seniors Week Festival Lunch at The Wild Geese
11 Oct. 2024 at noon
Members will enjoy a discounted lunch in the Bistro and Carmel McEvoy of the Genealogical Society of Victoria will offer a talk.
A Celebratory Tenth Irish Film Festival in Australia, 2024
There is an exciting range of new films screening this year in many cities around Australia: in CINEMAS 17 – 20 Oct in Sydney; 24-27 October in Melbourne; 1-3 November in Perth; 15-17 November in Brisban; 22-24 November in Canberra, and ONLINE from 17-October – 3 November, wherever you are in Australia.
The Opening Night film in Melbourne is the film, That They May Face the Rising Sun, based on the novel by John McGahern and directed by Pat Collins. An Australian Premiere.
For more details about the films and screening times and for online and in-cinema programme, go to IFF website: https://irishfilmfestival.com.au Bookings now open .
IRISH FAMINE ORPHAN GIRLS COMMEMORATION 2024
RADIO PROGRAMME on SUNDAY 27 OCTOBER 2024 – 6PM-7PM
RADIO 3ZZZ 92.3 MHz FM
On Sunday 27 October 2024, the Irish Famine Orphan Girls Commemoration Melbourne will host the Irish program on radio 3ZZZ 92.3MHz FM Melbourne.
The program will feature a interview with awarded Irish singer-songwriter, Ryan Kelly (Byrne and Kelly, Celtic Thunder) from his home in Co Tyrone. We’ll chat about the importance of sharing the history of the Great Hunger, the writing of his Famine-emigration song ‘Land of a Thousand Dreams’, and the orphan girls from his native Co Tyrone.
In the program, we will also highlight some of the stories of the 94 Tyrone orphan girls who were sent to Melbourne, Sydney and Adelaide.
The program airs on Sunday 27 October 2024, between 6pm-7pm, 3ZZZ 92.3MHz FM.
Samhain (Halloween) at Comhaltas
Celtic Conversations: Lunch at the Celtic Club with Steve Carey
Wed. 30 October at 12 noon
‘Is James Joyce Dead’
Long, challenging books by dead white men are not the drawcard they once were. Is there any point in reading Joyce anymore? Steve makes the case why those who haven’t read Ulysses (yet) might want to have another crack at it.
Dr Steve Carey wrote his doctorate on ‘Comedy in James Joyce’s Ulysses’ at Oxford University, supervised by Joyce’s biographer Richard Ellmann. Steve is now Treasurer of Bloomsday in Melbourne and wrote this year’s play for Bloomsday, Samuel Beckett and The Rainbow Girl.
For more information and to book: https://www.celticclub.com.au/whats-on/celtic-conversations-monthly-lunch-series
This group of very young and very talented musicians are worth supporting.
And in Sydney, something special.
IRISH FAMINE GIRLS COMMEMORATION
WILLIAMSTOWN, MELBOURNE.
SUNDAY 17 NOVEMBER 2024 – 2PM-4PM
FAMINE ROCK, BURGOYNE RESERVE, THE STRAND (NEAR STEVEDORE STREET), WILLIAMSTOWN
The annual commemoration of the Irish Famine Orphan Girls is a free event, open to everyone, featuring music and special presentations. There is also the traditional Laying of the Flowers ceremony; a touching tribute to the brave Irish Famine orphan girls who arrived in Hobson’s Bay with the Earl Grey Scheme 1848-1850. Descendants traditionally engage in the wreath-laying.
This year is the 175th anniversary of the arrival of the ships New Liverpool and Pemberton in 1849.
All welcome.
Updates will be posted on our FB page Irish Famine Orphan Girls Commemoration.
2025 DATES for your Diary
LAKE SCHOOL KOROIT January 2-7, 2025
THE HISTORIC IRISH 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 songwriting. 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.
https://www.lakeschool.com.au/
Irish language immersion week/ weekend January 2025 (early bird registration by October 13)
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. The centre has shared rooms and shared bathrooms.
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
March 16, 2025 Sydney The Domain New Initiative
Dermot Kennedy’s St Patrick’s Day Global Festival Misneach
Irish festivals March 2025 in Boston and Sydney
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