Sydney St Patrick’s Day Organisation
https://www.sydneystpatricksday.com
Perth St. Patrick’s Day
MOre information at : https://www.stpatricksfestivalwa.com.au
Adelaide Irish Club
Monday March 17, the St Patrick’s Day parade will begin at the Pioneer Women’s Gardens at 11am and proceed down King William Street to the Irish Clubrooms at 11 Carrington Street. Participants in the parade are asked to be at the starting point by 10.30am.
The day’s entertainment includes Irish dancing displays, live music and appearances by the Adelaide Irish Pipe Band. Food trucks will be on site and the Saracen’s Head Hotel is open for meals also.
See below for other activities at the Clubrooms.
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
Ceoltóirí Naarm
This group of very young and very talented musicians are worth supporting.
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
https://www.frontiertouring.com/misneach
Melbourne Comhaltas
St Patrick’s Day Hooley
Queenscliff Weekend April 2025
Save the date flyer, more details to follow
A Day With James Joyce’s Ulysses:
The Infamous Circe Episode
| 3ZZZ, 309 Albert Street, Brunswick, Victoria,10:00am – 4:30pm Sunday 6th April 2025 Cost: $95 / $85 |
| Presented by Associate Professor Frances Devlin-Glass (Ph.D., ANU), Artistic Director of Bloomsday in Melbourne and Dr Steve Carey Ph.D. This event is a fundraiser for Bloomsday in Melbourne, enabling us to pay our Director, actors and staff for our Bloomsday theatrical productions. Every cent is going straight to them! And the Circe episode of Ulysses is the subject of Bloomsday in Melbourne’s 2025 theatrical production, Circe’s Carnival of Vice, at fortyfivedownstairs in Melbourne, opening on Thursday 12th june. For this day together we’re focusing on the most infamous and, frankly, astonishing episode of Ulysses, Circe (episode 15). Why all the ruckus? This chapter, twice as long as some novels, is Joyce’s most sustained treatment of the nature of sexuality itself. He takes on the new discipline of sexology – but don’t be alarmed, as he’s in a playful mode! So, there’s lots of cross-dressing, and because Joyce may be drinking too much (absinthe?), it’s trippy and isn’t afraid of taking the reader on a ride that feels positively trans. Because Leopold Bloom is magically transformed by an oversized Madame into a woman (she becomes a bloke), he takes one into the subaltern world of cruel beauty regimes and the drudgery of female domesticity. And the episode is full of soulful intimacy, too. We get to experience grief at close quarters: Stephen’s desperate need to unburden his guilt for his mother’s death; and Bloom’s more mature longing for a dead son who would be making his barmitzvah had he lived; Molly’s anger with her husband who is not sexually upstanding is also palpable. And there’s a cast of lightly but deftly sketched (sex-)working women. There’s even more: the community’s ambivalence about Bloom has him riding the wild and unpredictable beast of public opinion, and getting summarily CANCELLED! He has more enemies than friends… but you may regard yourself as among the exceptions! This daylong workshop will be interactive, a mix of presentation and discussion of text. But always remember the Bloomsday promise: you’ll never be put on the spot! If you prefer to sit quietly and absorb, that’s absolutely fine. We assume absolutely no prior knowledge of Ulysses – although if you do already have some experience of Ulysses, and have even read Episode 15, Circe, that’d certainly enrich your experience, of course. Our intention for the day is to confront directly the obstacles to reading this most challenging and also most rewarding of chapters, to put Joyce in a rich literary and historical context, and to make clearer his innovations as a writer and thinker. And then afterwards, we’ll head to Hotel Railway for a chat and a drink of whatever takes your fancy. Supported by the Irish Government Emigrant Support Scheme |
CALLING CLAN O’SULLIVAN
L to R: The Crests of O’Sullivan -Beare and O’Sullivan Mór (reproduced from the Clan website with permission)
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