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.
Film Artist, Erin McCuskey, and poetic film installations, Melbourne and Ballarat
| A Chuisle mo Chroí Erin McCuskey presents a film research project titled A Chuisle mo Chroí (Pulse of My Heart). It has resulted in a 3-Channel suiteán scannán (film installation) that contends poetically that diasporic cultural expression is constructed through the body, divined from a haunted and fragmented cultural memory. The installation aims to make it possible to experience those apparitions within a cinematic context. With a duration of 25 minutes, the work is screening on the hour, each hour in Naarm (North Melbourne) on Wednesday May 21st (3pm-7pm) and Thursday May 22nd (11am-3pm). Preview screenings are by invitation only, consider this yours, you can RSVP to yum@yumstudio.com.au with your preferred session day and time. This screenings are possible due to support from Yum Studio and my fabulous university ACU. A Chuisle mo Chroí Dates: Wednesday May 21st (3pm–7pm) & Thursday May 22nd (11am–3pm) Location: Naarm By invitation only → RSVP to yum@yumstudio.com.au |
| Hidden A new work about fabulous hags and the stones that bind us to the earth. Secret and winding pathways are my favourites, while projections are where my works love to live, darkness is full of possibility, and so this new adventure is perfection, from the heart of a creative city. Hidden is a micro projection festival along a ceilte (hidden) circuit through Ballarat’s heritage buildings, created by artists – Annelise Belladonna, Spencer Harrison, Erin M McCuskey, Christine McFetridge, Diana Paez, Stefanie Petrik, Kirrily Urquhart and Daniel Williams, mentored by the fabulous Yandell Watson from the Centre for Projection Art. One night only, various times from 5.30pm, duration 90 mins, Friday May 16th in Ballaarat (Wadawurrung Country). Hidden Date: Friday May 16th (various times) Location: Ballaarat Tickets → Eventbrite |
| Intangible It is said dancing is conversing with the invisible, and a sprid (ghost) is the essence of intangible. Inscannán(film) it is a percentage of transparency. In the case of this event you can listen to creatives who deal in non-physical at a PetchaKutcha (Japanese word meaning quick talk) titled Intangible, Presented by the Australian Centre for Rare Arts and Forgotten Trades the theme delves into the skills, scéala, and practices passed down through generations, enriching and inspiring contemporary creativity. Hear from creatives Anzara Clark, Erin M McCuskey, Hap Hayward, Jude Craig and Mick Nunn as we talk about the intangible on Friday May 23rd 6pm to 8pm at the centre in Ballaarat. Intangible Date: Friday May 23rd, 6pm–8pm Location: Ballaarat Tickets → Rare Trades |
BOOKINGS FOR ALL THREE EVENTS ESSENTIAL:
https://yumcreative.yumstudio.com.au/contact/#signup
and/or RSVP with session day/time to Erin at yum@yumstudio.com.au
Irish Films in Australian Cinemas
‘Small Things Like These’ finally hits Australian cinemas
Cinema lovers around Australia have impatiently been waiting for Cillian Murphy’s new film ‘Small Things Like These’ to make it’s way into our cinemas. The great news is that it will hit cinemas April 10! Check out your local cinema for showtimes as many have advance screenings, some cinemas have already started their screenings. The film is based on the prize winning novella by Claire Keegan. The story follows Bill Furlong, a coal and timber merchant, in the weeks leading up to Christmas in 1985. Furlong faces his busiest season and as he does the rounds, he feels the past rising up to meet him – and encounters the complicit silences of a small community controlled by the Church.
Thanks to the Irish Film Festival, Enda Murray and team, for these notices.
Comhaltas Set Dance Workshop Weekend – 16 -18 May
Queenscliff will no sooner be over when our Set Dance Workshop Weekend will be upon us! We’re so excited to welcome internationally-renowned dance master Pat Murphy to lead the workshops. This jam-packed weekend of workshops and live music ceilis is all happening at St.Martin de Porres Parish Hall in Avondale Heights. Do as much or as little as you’d like, with pricing from $20 for just the Sunday afternoon ceili to $95 for the full weekend.
Online booking preferred: https://forms.gle/5gsfdU4Vm67XJhUB9
For more details, e-mail: comhaltasmelbournedance@gmail.com or contact Mary at 94354435.
Marian Keyes and Colm Tóibín attending Sydney Writers Festival
Irish authors will be in attendance at this years Sydney Writers Festival (19-27 May). Tóibín, known for writing Brooklyn will be at his own event and participating in the panel ‘Making a Writer‘. Keyes will be unpacking her latest novel My Favourite Mistake in her own event.
Their visit is supported by the Irish Consulate and Culture Ireland.
Keep an eye out on socials for news of any side gigs that the writers might do while in Sydney as this has happened in the past.
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National Celtic Festival, Portarlington – 6 -9 June
Tickets are now on sale for the National Celtic Festival, running from 6 – 9 June in Portarlington.
See their website for more details: https://www.nationalcelticfestival.com
Irish Language School Sydney Daonscoil at Stanmore House, Stanmore, NSW, long weekend June 6-9
Bookings by May 28
Scoil Gheimhridh Sydney 2025
The Scoil Gheimhridh Sydney 2025 is a long weekend of Irish language and craic. Come and improve your Irish language skills. The key activity of the weekend is Irish language classes. Other
Irish activities provide a break in a convivial environment. These may include the official opening, table quiz, guest speaker, concert and classes in singing, tin whistle, boardgames or dance. Informal
sessions continue every night. Come and join the fun.
The school is open to adults from across Australia:
- complete newcomers to the Irish language
- those who want to improve their Irish, for example those
who learnt it at school - fluent people who want to meet to converse in Irish and to
help others learn.
There are classes at four or five levels to suit the Irish language
skills of the participants.
Dates: 6 – 9 June 2025
Venue: Stanmore House,
51-53 Harrow Road, Stanmore NSW 2048 - full weekend and one day rates and non accommodatuon available; single and shared accommodation
The Scoil Gheimhridh begins on the evening of Friday 6 June. Registration: from 4 pm
Dinner: 6 pm. Opening ceremony: 7:15 for 7:30 pm
Our heartfelt thanks to all of our supporters, particularly to the
Government of Ireland through the assistance of the
Government of Ireland – Emigrant Support Programme.
We would also like to acknowledge Muiris Ó Súilleabháin for his
long-standing financial support of the Scoil.
Booking: by 28 May 2025
Inquiries:
Greg
info@IrishLanguageSchoolSydney.com
BLOOMSDAY in MELBOURNE 2025, 11-22 June 2025
THREE EVENTS:
CIRCE’S CARNIVAL OF VICE, DIRECTED BY WAYNE PEARN at fortyfivedownstairs, 45 Flinders Lane
This original adaptation for the stage of James Joyce’s infamous Circe episode of Ulysses will take you deep into Nighttown, the red-light district of Dublin. It’s a foray into the most down-at-heel and the most heavily surveiled quarter of Dublin, eradicated by the new Free State exactly 100 years ago this past March. Meet the Madames and the working girls, who were reputed to have done more damage to the British Army than the Rebels.
It is wild and surreal journey into the darker sexual energies of Bloom who is aware he has been cruelly cuckolded by his dominatrix wife, Molly, that very afternoon and is struggling to know how to behave towards her and her seducer Blazes Boylan. It’s a rambunctious roller-coaster for Bloom as his fears, neuroses and anxieties are displayed to a cast of thousands who love and revile him equally.
Joyce uses the episode to explore sexual censorship and the rise of the New Sexology and to interrogate the authority the medical authorities were asserting against the Church moralists. Does this writer know no limits? How does he turn pathologies into comic performances?
For more information about the play, and as well the annual Bloomsday Seminar and Lunch, this year being held on 14 June from 10.30 am – 2.15 pm, see the website:
Booking information for 3 events: http://www.bloomsdayinmelbourne.org.au
CALLING CLAN O’SULLIVAN
L to R: The Crests of O’Sullivan -Beare and O’Sullivan Mór (reproduced from the Clan website with permission)
Jim O’Sullivan advises that all O’Sullivans are welcome to join a clan gathering.
This is a unique opportunity for Sullivans and O’Sullivans all over the world to visit their ancestral home in one celebration of the clan’s heritage.
They are hosting a World Record event on the Beara peninsula, in the Cork/Kerry area, from 30th May to 2nd June 2026.
The event will be hosted by the Chieftain of the O’Sullivan Clan, Kelly Sullivan, who was presented with the chain of office by the Cork and Kerry County Mayors on the steps of City Hall in Boston in 2023.
This is a family event, and we hope you can fill in the Google form (see website below) so we can book you in for the event.
Email Jim at: clanossullivan1602@gmail.com
Website for more information: https://osullivanclan.org
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